A Closer Look

ASUS is using a cooler with six heatpipes. This looks to be the same heatsink as on the ASUS GTX 1080 Ti Strix OC.


After removing the main heatsink, a secondary baseplate becomes visible; it provides cooling for the memory chips.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during handling and installation.


Unlike other custom designs, ASUS has kept the single 8-pin power input of the reference design, which is the best choice in my opinion.


Near the back of the card, you'll find various points for voltage measurements.


With Pascal, NVIDIA made some changes to how SLI works. In a nutshell, for 4K at 60 Hz and above, NVIDIA recommends new high-bandwidth SLI bridges it dubbed "SLI HB." These bridges occupy both SLI fingers. Traditional triple- and quad-SLI setups are gone as well. Only certain benchmarks can run more than the dual-SLI setup to which all games are limited.