Manufacturers announce GTX 1080 cards with proprietary coolers

By admin On May 27, 2016

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Nvidia’s various partners have announced their own designs of the GeForce GTX 1080. The Founder’s Editions of that card with stock coolers were already announced, but now the versions with their own coolers are also appearing.

Asus kicks off with its ROG Strix GTX 1080 and ROG Strix GTX 1080 OC Edition. Present is the DirectCU III cooler with three fans and the core clock speed is 1898MHz in gaming mode and 1936MHz in OC mode. The standard version of the ROG Strix GTX 1080 has the same clock speed as the Founder’s Edition: 1607MHz base and 1733MHz boost. This variant is currently not yet available on the manufacturer’s website. Asus provides the cards with two HDMI and two displayport. The ROG Strix GTX 1080 will be available in the Benelux from next week, but Asus did not yet know for what price and in what quantities.

MSI comes with four versions: the Gaming X, the Sea Hawk, the Armor and the Aero. Two of those four versions also have an overclocked variant: the Aero OC and the Armor OC. The Gaming X has a Twin Frozr VI cooler with two fans, double ball bearings and copper 8mm heatpipes that are coupled to a hefty cooling block. This card has a 12-phase power supply and 8+6pin connectors. MSI has equipped the Sea Hawk with a Corsair Hydro for liquid cooling and the Armor has a fifth-generation Twin Frozr cooler. MSI provides these cards with three displayport, hdmi and dvi. The Aero is a more traditional single cooler model.

Zotac divides its offer into an AMP and an AMP Extreme version. The AMP Edition is a dual-slot model with IceStorm cooler that consists of two fans. The AMP Extreme also features the IceStorm cooler but with three fans. Both cards have the adjustable Spectral lighting and more details will be announced during Computex.

Inno3D is launching its iChiLL version of the GTX 1080 in an X3 and an X4 version. The iChill X3 has three fans in a relatively traditional arrangement. The X4 version adds a fourth 50mm fan to the three 92mm fans. Two heat pipes transport the heat to the fourth fan on the side, which takes care of further dissipation. LEDs on the side indicate which mode the card is operating in: red is for full gear gaming, green for economical game mode and blue for low power application mode.

Gainward sticks to three versions of the map, each with a new Phoenix cooler with two fans. The most powerful card has a core clock speed of 1708MHz and boost to 1857MHz, the slowest at 1607MHz and 1733MHz respectively. The latter therefore has a tdp of 180W instead of 200W. All cards have three display ports, HDMI and DVI.

Palit sticks the names GameRock and Super JetStream on its GTX 1080 cards, both equipped with a cooling system with two fans. The GameRock has RGB LEDs for adjustable lighting and a clock speed of 1645MHz with Boost Clock of 1784MHz. With the JetStream these clock speeds are successively 1607MHz and 1733MHz, but there is also a Super version where this is 1645MHz and 1784MHz respectively.

In addition to the manufacturers mentioned above, EVGA is coming with four different versions of the GTX 1080. Gigabyte is coming with a single one, called the GTX 1080 G1 Gaming, which is not yet on its site. Galax finally comes with three versions: the iGame, the Hall of Fame and the Gamer. They are also not yet listed on the official site.