Asus gtx 1080 ti strix looks in pictures

The first images of the new Asus GTX 1080 Ti Strix with 11 GB of GDDR5X memory and one of the best heatsink designs on the market are listed from the Asus official website. Its design is completely traced to the Asus GTX 1080 Strix that we analyzed in June last year.

The first images of the Asus GTX 1080 Ti Strix are listed

As we already showed you in the reference model of the new Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti it is 35% faster than the best-selling GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X. It will incorporate the new Pascal GP102 chip manufactured in a 16nm FinFet lithograph from TSMC, it will incorporate a total of 3584 CUDA Cores and a total of 11 GB of GDDR5X memory. For the moment do not We know the base or turbo frequencies that this graphics card will have, but as previous generations it will be much higher than the reference model and it will not be very difficult to reach 2.1 GHz.

Update with frequency table:

	GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition	ASUS GTX 1080 Ti Strix OC
Architecture.	Pascal	Pascal
Fabrication process	16nm	16nm
SMU.	56	56
Cores by SM	64	64
CUDA Core	3584	3584
ROPs	88	88
VRAM type	GDDR5X	GDDR5X
Clock frequency.	11008MHz	11100MHz
VRAM Amount	11GB	11GB
Bus size	352-bit	352-bit
Bandwidth.	484 GB / s	484 GB / s
Base speed.	1480MHz	1594MHz
Frequency with Boost.	1582MHz	1708MHz
Power connections.	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
PCI Express	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0

As expected, it is equipped with an ALA-Blade triple fan Strix heatsink with 5 resistance levels via PWM control and operating mode at 0DB. And a fantastic rear backplate that will cover the entire graphics card PCB and light up the ROG logo.

And as the colored lights is already a hallmark in the Gaming world. You can not miss the famous AURA lighting system with a palette of 16.8 million colors and the possibility of customizing a wide variety of effects with your system. All this together with Super Alloy Power II components that offer higher quality and reliability in the system. A complete graphics card luxury!

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Finally to highlight, its "friendly" HDMI VR ports technology that on paper allow you to magnify virtual reality experiences at any time without having to change cables. We will have to test it with our HTC Vive.

Availability and price

In online stores like Aussar the ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING is already listed with a price of 839 euros. It would not be unusual for us to see it in stock in the coming weeks. And let's look at quite a few GTX 1080s on the thrift market.

Will you upgrade to a GTX 1080 Ti? Do you prefer the reference model? Or are you waiting for the new Asus GTX 1080 Ti Strix with its custom design?

Table source: overclock3d