HWM Singapore — May 2017

MAY 2017 | HWM 75

NVIDIA has put AMD

on the defensive

once again. Expectations

were high for the GeForce

GTX 1080 Ti, particularly

after NVIDIA announced

tantalizingly that it would

be faster than the 2016

Titan X, and the good news

is that it more than lives up

to those lofty standards.

To handle the additional

power, it boasts an

upgraded 7-phase 2x

dual-FET power design for

cleaner power and less

heat. The card relies on a

copper vapor chamber and

large dual-slot aluminum

heatsink for cooling, and

the design has actually

been tweaked to run

quieter and cooler than the

GeForce GTX 1080.

This is a 250 watt TDP

card, and power is supplied

to it via 8-pin and 6-pin

PCIe power connectors. In

comparison, the GeForce

GTX 1080 is a 180 watt card

that requires just a single

AT A GLANCE

GPU

GP102

CLOCK SPEEDS

Base clock: 1,480MHz

Boostclock: 1,582MHz

TDP

250W

MEMORY

11GB GDDR5X

PRICE

$1,188

CONCLUSION

The card to get

for 4K gaming,

at only the

price of the

previous

ȵagship.

The DVI connector has been

removed to create a larger exhaust

for hot air.

8-pin connector.

It is designed with the

same GP102 as the Pascal-

based Titan X and features

28 SMs and 3,584 CUDA

cores, so the GPU has still

not been fully

enabled (that

honor has

been reserved

for the just-

announced

Titan Xp).

The 11GB

of GDDR5X

memory is

clocked at

11,000MHz,

and combined

with the 352-bit memory

bus gives you a total

bandwidth of 484GB/s,

which is marginally higher

than the Titan X’s 480GB/s.

If you’re still disappointed

that NVIDIA has skipped

over including High

Bandwidth Memory this

time, you’ll be pleased

to see that thisȴgure is

actually really close to

the 512GB/s o΍ ered by

the HBM-equipped AMD

Radeon R9 Fury X.

On the performance

front, the GeForce GTX

1080 Ti impresses with its

4K gaming

performance.

It managed

to push out

more or less

playable frame

rates – over

30fps – on

Ultra settings

and a 4K

resolution

in Deus Ex:

Mankind

Divided. We should point

out that Mankind Divided is

one of the most demanding

games you can run right

now, so if the card can

handle it at 4K, it should be

comfortable handling pretty

much anything else.

Overall, NVIDIA’s new

ȵagship is around 30

per cent quicker than

the GeForce GTX 1080,

9.0/10

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a nice jump in the same

generation of cards. It also

overclocks very well, and

was able to hit boost clocks

of as high as 2,050MHz.