ZOTAC's Poweful GeForce GTX 1080 PGF Edition Teased - Custom PCB, Massive Cooler and Dual 8-Pin Power Supply

ZOTAC'south insanely powerful GeForce GTX 1080 PGF edition graphics carte has been teased. Being one of the many custom models which will be available after launch after this month, the GeForce GTX 1080 PGF edition graphics card will come with a serious cooling design built to handle the bulky PCB under its hood. This carte du jour will exist clock in at higher frequencies compared to the reference variants which will be available at $699 United states of america.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 PGF is a custom build graphics bill of fare with a beefy design!

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 PGF Custom Graphics Card Teased - Non-Reference PCB, Beefy Cooler

While the GeForce GTX 1080 reference edition graphics carte du jour (at present known equally the Founders Edition) volition hit store shelves on May 27th, NVIDIA partners volition too accept some custom models available. GALAX, Gigabyte and many others have already teased their upcoming custom models so Computex is definitely going to exist interesting. All cards will characteristic new cooling designs and custom-built PCBs to ensure best products for enthusiasts.

The latest card to practise the rounds today is from ZOTAC. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 will be function of the new PGF series where PGF stands for Prime Gamer Force. It sounds like a new serial since we haven't seen ZOTAC apply such naming schemes on their cards before. The GeForce GTX 1080 PGF looks similar a beefy card and comes with some insane features. The internals of the reference GeForce GTX 1080 were covered in detail yesterday.

ZOTAC's latest PGF brand is geared at the GeForce 10 series cards such as the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.

Get-go of all, the specifications. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 features the GP104 GPU (GP104-400-A1) core which comprises of 2560 CUDA cores. NVIDIA'south FinFET architecture allows significant increase in clock frequency increase. We don't know the verbal clock speeds for ZOTAC's model simply they are said to be much college than the reference variants which run at 1607 MHz base of operations and 1733 MHz boost clocks. The card features 8 GB of GDDR5X (side by side-gen) retentiveness featured beyond a 256-bit bus. The memory is slightly overclocked so we will see total ring width exceeding that of a GTX 980 Ti (336 GB/s).

The cooler on this card looks to be the a slightly modified version of the current AMP! Extreme edition that is offered by ZOTAC. There's a big aluminum heatsink which incorporates five massive heatpipes. The backplate on this card is an attraction which is fully LED lit on its borders. ZOTAC's Firestorm utility volition permit you to adjust colors to your preferences. You tin learn more well-nigh the Firestorm utility and its features at Videocardz.

ZOTAC'southward Firestorm utility will let yous to change colors on the GeForce PGF series cards (Via Videocardz)

We can meet that the PCB uses high quality components such equally the Power Heave 2.0 capacitors which allow stable supply to the core when running under overclocked weather. There are also a few overclocking friendly features such as a USB connector that allows you to control some functions of GPU.

The card uses a dual slot design and will exist powered by dual viii-Pin connectors which means that overclockers will get total freedom in utilizing the maximum power of this board. The card sticks to the reference brandish out put scheme. Overall, the menu looks great only we can't wait to see more of it. The ZOTAC GTX 1080 PGF being a custom design will hit retail at a price close to the $699 price point due to its non-reference build.