A Closer Look

Just like on the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition, the EVGA backplate consists of two pieces. It is ok to break the sticker, EVGA will not void the warranty for card disassembly and even thermal paste replacement. The sticker is only there to track if someone disassembled the card or not - warranty won't be affected. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of a bunch of thermal pads on the backplate, which will provide a little bit of extra cooling.


The EVGA cooler uses two fans and four heatpipes to keep the card cool. Here again, we see a ton of thermal pads which provide cooling for VRM circuitry and memory chips.


EVGA is using the NVIDIA FE power input configuration, which is 6+8. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 watts of power draw.


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.