Thursday, June 16th 2016

ASUS Announces the GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo

ASUS announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo graphics card (model: TURBO-GTX1080-8G). Positioned below its ROG GTX 1080 STRIX, the card is expected to be priced somewhere between the $599 baseline NVIDIA set for this SKU, and the $679 price at which the company sells the STRIX. Much like the reference-design (Founders Edition) card, the GTX 1080 Turbo features a lateral-flow cooling solution, which pushes hot air out of the case.

The other two things this card has in common with the reference board is clock speeds - 1607 MHz core, 1733 MHz GPU Boost, 10 GHz (GDDR5X-effective) memory; and the need for just a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The card features an RGB LED lit "ASUS" logo along its top. You also get one 4-pin PWM case-fan header, with which you can drive at least one case fan in sync with the GPU temperatures (the GTX 1080 STRIX features two such headers). The display output layout is similar to the GTX 1080 STRIX, with two each of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0b ports.
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29 Comments on ASUS Announces the GeForce GTX 1080 Turbo

#26
Ja.KooLit


Maybe thats why? and also only air inlet is thru fan? I wonder how is compared to FE
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#27
Lauen
newtekie1I think it is odd that there is a cut out in the cooler shroud for an extra power connector, but there isn't a connector there. So you can see right into the shroud. Pretty ugly looking, IMO.

I know that is where the fan header thing is, but I'd rather they put that at the back of the card, and avoid that ugly hole in the side of the shroud.
There's actually a fan header next to the 8-pin. ASUS has done something similar on their new Strix cards as well I think, two fan headers on the end of the card, that are PWM controller just like the fans on the card. So the hole isn't just an empty hole.
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#28
R-T-B
LauenThere's actually a fan header next to the 8-pin. ASUS has done something similar on their new Strix cards as well I think, two fan headers on the end of the card, that are PWM controller just like the fans on the card. So the hole isn't just an empty hole.
Yep. It even says it in the opening post:
You also get one 4-pin PWM case-fan header, with which you can drive at least one case fan in sync with the GPU temperatures (the GTX 1080 STRIX features two such headers).
Probably a way to help with this cards likely sub-FE style of cooler (I doubt this even has a vapor chamber).
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#29
emily_blake
N3M35154x longer lifespan than what?
4x longer lifespan compared to normal fan :)
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