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hello everyone I'm Dimitri with hairy Canucks welcome to another video the wait is over for the GTA X 1080 here's our full review I promise you you won't be disappointed and if you want to check out our unboxing video it will be linked in description below along with our GT X 1080 explain to give you some reference and context as to what this card is all about plus our full written review is linked in the description below ton more information there make sure to check it out the z9 neo buys all the right features on a budget with a large window side panel 5 included fans and the excellent interior layout with super simple cable management get it now link in the description below so let's begin with specifications on paper the new card is seeing a decrease in CUDA cores texture units and arrow keys compared to a 980ti but have no fear the Pascal architecture with TSM C's 16 F infant process and much improved 8 gigabytes of gddr5 X memory all play in harmony to deliver a freakishly fast card with the TDP of 180 watts so almost doubling the performance of a GTX 980 while only increasing power consumption by 10% the clock speeds here are quite high and NVIDIA hints that most GTX 1080s will pass the two gigahertz mark when overclocked giving us an efficient GP 104 core and we think it will only be a matter of time until we see Pascal architecture GPU oh no force or some derivative of that in the notebook space considering the GTX 980 s implementation for gaming notebooks the only thing that's still unknown to us is full specifications of the gtx 1070 everybody's super excited about that it will most likely be like a cut-down version of the GTX 980 but it will still somewhat compete with the tight necks or the higher-end maxwell cards so next is pricing which has been a topic of confusion since we have MSRP of $5.99 and then we have the founders Edition at $6.99 which Nvidia is treating as the premium card since features an exclusive power distribution system improving efficiency between the power supply and the core now many are wondering how and when we'll be able to buy the 599 dollar cheaper GTX 1080 and come launched May 27th the truth is you may not have a choice as custom board partners rollout for their you know custom coolers perhaps extra for clock ability somewhere built into the card that may be a higher price premium than the 6 $99 price point so it would be interesting to see what type of compromises are we to expect for the cheaper GTX 1080 at $5.99 and until we see a 599 dollar GTX 980 we will treat this card as a 6 $99 card because that's exactly what it is but moving on from the price point the redesign in most eyes is seen as a positive move as the reference shroud hasn't seen anything new since 700 series I personally love the angular variation of the shroud it's still a fairly short card at 10 1/2 inches in length so case compatibility is standard even for small form-factor pcs we have a back plate with the this linear engravings which looks awesome and a pretty discreet model number sticker would just so appreciate it because it isn't slapped in the middle of the back plate to ruin the aesthetic it's almost hidden but in the age of RGB lighting why isn't the illuminated text RGB this would have been a pretty sweet touch from Nvidia now it only requires a single 18 for power which is one of the many wow factors that we saw during launch and perhaps we'll see this expanded with custom board partners for you know marketing that extra overclock the i/o consists of three DisplayPort 1.4 HDMI 2.0 B and dual link DVI with 4k HDR support it we still have two sli fingers and users will be able to run two-way SLI configuration with Pascal cards as adding more cards will not result in scaling improvements and actually in the video is shifting focus away from 3 & 4 Way SLI on these Pascal cards and more on the SLI conversation what nvidia is doing with pascal a deeper dive into the Pascal architecture with its a synchronous compute dx12 and many other features make sure to check out our article down description below so much information there awesome stuff but now let's get to the benchmarks so first-come 2560 by 1440 gaming results and our speculations initially we're totally on point with this giant leap in performance compared to the high end maxwell cards the minimum frame rate on the GTX 980 is higher than the average on the 980 with performance increase not just by a few percentage points but up to 30-plus frames in Star Wars Battlefront and the minimum increase of 11 frames in far cry 4 verses and 980ti stepping into 4k now and the trend continues with the 1080 performing consistently across the board with fantastic minimum frame rate at this resolution that a gigabytes of vram surely is helping and notice where the few reacts sits in comparison so there's just no chance it can compete aside from hitman with similar results getting into DX twelve testing while you can see that red bar is not moving anywhere from the top slot even at 4k resolutions the GTX 1080 is the most powerful single GPU graphics processor ever created and check out this power consumption it's well below the 980ti and with such efficiency we think that two-way SLI will be an extremely popular configuration for you know those diehard enthusiasts acoustics are next and the card is quiet like previous designs without coil whine so that's awesome and that load temperatures reach 82 degrees Celsius which seems to be the ceiling and the card does in fact throttle when hitting those low temperatures frequency staying below 1800 megahertz which could be the cause of the fan not kicking in until it's a little bit too late so we can fully expect consistent frequencies with water cooling or just custom coolers and also just custom fan curves with precision software which brings us to overclocking and remember that two gigahertz mark that we mentioned earlier well we achieved that our founders edition card hit 2120 six megahertz overclock on the core where the decent memory overclocked is well fan speed was just set at 55% and we were below sixty degrees Celsius now are you ready to see the result because we were mind blown to see the performance increase I mean look at that minimum in the rise of the Tomb Raider while gaining almost ten extra frames in the division which approaches the performance of two gtx 980ti is in sli which brings us into conclusion the gtx 280 on the performance front is a massive lead compared to high in maximal cards and it looks like nvidia has put much-needed architectural improvements into pascal for asynchronous compute for DX 12 and vr applications moving forward it's a fantastic card and we're giving it the Huracan acts damn good and a damn good value award now we're very eager to see how this new pricing strategy will impact the sales and the distribution of GTX 10 80s and 10 70s especially since we don't know when the 599 dollar card will hit the market but despite that the graphics card market as we know it has really changed with this launch you gotta appreciate what NVIDIA has done here what they've accomplished with Pascal and the roadmap for Pascal looks to be in really good hands and that would be it for this review I hope you guys enjoyed it what do you think of the GTX 980 I'm sure everybody's super excited to see what the performance would be like on a GTX 970 so make sure to subscribe to be notified when that will be released somewhere in June and also I'll be testing the GTX 980 in a video production environment or anybody who's interested so give this video a thumbs up if you want to see that but I'm Dimitri with Iraq Knox thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video you