Monday, November 28th 2016
Colorful Unveils the iGame GTX 1080 KUDAN
In what is surely the biggest GTX 1080 announcement this year (pun intended), Colorful, at their Colorful CGU (Colorful Games Union) event, has taken the lids of their KUDAN version of the GTX 1080 - a monstrous, 4-slot graphics card sure to vie for most of your rig's interior space. A hybrid design is used to keep the Pascal graphics processor cooled - it actually features a triple-slot, triple-fan over an aluminum heatsink array on top of the GPU and circuitry, as well as a water cooling-powered backplate, that can be used in conjunction with the card's own air cooling or your custom water-loop.
The rest is business as usual: 2560 CUDA cores and 8 GB GDDR5X VRAM, with the core being clocked at 1936 MHz. The memory is clocked at reference speeds of 10 GHz but the addition of an overclocking BIOS should help alleviate that fact. Power to the card is fed through dual 8-Pin connectors which should be enough to power the electrical circuitry on the PCB, which Colorful touts as having been fully re-engineered so as to deliver the KUDAN's required power characteristics. Display outputs on the card include 1x DVI, 1x HDMI and 3x DisplayPort.
No details on pricing, but expect this one to come in near the top of overall GTX 1080 offerings. The GTX 1080 KUDAN is expected to launch somewhere along December or January.
The rest is business as usual: 2560 CUDA cores and 8 GB GDDR5X VRAM, with the core being clocked at 1936 MHz. The memory is clocked at reference speeds of 10 GHz but the addition of an overclocking BIOS should help alleviate that fact. Power to the card is fed through dual 8-Pin connectors which should be enough to power the electrical circuitry on the PCB, which Colorful touts as having been fully re-engineered so as to deliver the KUDAN's required power characteristics. Display outputs on the card include 1x DVI, 1x HDMI and 3x DisplayPort.
No details on pricing, but expect this one to come in near the top of overall GTX 1080 offerings. The GTX 1080 KUDAN is expected to launch somewhere along December or January.
37 Comments on Colorful Unveils the iGame GTX 1080 KUDAN
also if you want the best wait for a MSI Lightning there is nothing better.
Didn't they release a gtx a couple gens back that was cooled using a slew of 40mm fans or was that another mfg?
some pics of things odd from the rest
did some quick transforming and cropping but probably best quality image of this gpu atm, if anyone can find better post it
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3643/gigabyte-gtx-1080-xtreme-gaming
highest clocked 1080 is this
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3843/galax-gtx-1080-hof-limited-edition
NVIDIA has strict clocking rules and manufacturers have to abide by them
This is the Gigabyte card I was thinking of when you said that.
Colorful is crazy, love them for that though!
Anyways that 1080 is the most ridiculous thing I've seen....who the hell thought a watercooled backplate was a good idea.
which is not a bad idea since... if you don't plan to sli/crossfire gpu that space could be used as a backpack scenario
Basically, you can plug this card in and go with no issues what so ever or you can hook up the water cooling and have both the fans and the water loop cool the card as well. The design is just a bit different than normal for this idea which is why it looks confusing (Unless I am misunderstanding something).