Palit GTX 1080 GameRock Premium 8 GB

[ViperXTR]

Jetstream looks better in the looks department imo, but Palit is also the cheapest and most reliable brand in our region for now and its already arriving in our shores
(Note: palit as in cheaper than other 1070 and 1080s but still way above MSRP)

 

[Krahl]

I'm not in contact with Gainward at all

Here I thought Palit and Gainward was basicly the same card/manufacturer. The sure do look extremely similar

I bought the Gainward 1070 GLH last week. It's a very solid card to say the least. Same lack of insane overclock as all the other Pascals

Any chance you might contact Gainward? Or do companies approach you?

 

[basco]

i wonder why i cant find any review that explains the solder points?
would be interested in how the card behaves with OCP disabled against enabled.
or what is oc unlock- it seems there is a resistor with 0-ohm?
and if i solder a variable resistor to gpu can i put more volts then on other cards?

thx for the review

 

[WithoutWeakness]

And the poor overclocking potential of pascal continues...

Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming vs Reference GTX 980 Ti
Performance diff: 23% (out of the box) --- 34% when overclocked
Price diff: $70
Palit GTX 1080 GameRock Premium vs Reference GTX 1080
Performance diff: 10% (out of the box) --- 17% when overclocked
Price diff: $140

The current Pascal cards (1080, 1070) use the smaller GP104 silicon and have much higher stock base/boost clock speeds than we've seen in the past. Nvidia clearly did an amazing job with performance-per-watt but they've also gone ahead and ramped clockspeeds way up in order to get the most performance they can out of the cards within their power envelope. Unfortunately this means that the cards don't have as much overlcocking headroom as previous generations because they're already clocked pretty darn high. Nvidia's big Pascal chips (GP 102 and GP100) will have much higher transistor and core counts that will likely be offset by lower stock clockspeeds to balance power consumption. Those big chips on aftermarket boards with beefier power delivery will likely deliver much better OC headroom.

 

[okidna]

Palit and Xenon same company? Cause I saw here in korean market same cooler + color but no G-panel

http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/Item/det...GoodsSale=Y&jaehuid=200002657&service_id=pcdn

It seems that Palit didn't have the permit to use their own brand in Korean market so they have to sell the card as a different brand (or some OEM just simply buy Palit card and resell them as Xenon brand).

The same thing happen here in my country, there's no Palit cards available locally, instead you can just buy a Digital Alliance brand which sourced their cards from Palit.

 

[qubit]

@W1zzard FYI My Palit GTX 1080 GameRock failed after three months (video signal present, but no content) and its replacement was dead on arrival. Also, weirdly, the replacement's serial number was just one away from the original, so perhaps it was a bad batch. Because of this, I'm getting a refund and my next brand will be anything but Palit, despite the superb noise performance which I loved.

Given the above and the general opinion in the forum that this isn't a reliable brand, I'm just thinking that you might like to research Palit reliability when you next review one of their products and say a word about it in your review.