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11.7.2016

Hello all who are looking to buy!I bought this Founders Edition card because PNY is sort of one of the only smaller-name brands which I have yet to try. I've tried Asus, Gigabyte, EVGA, Zotac etc. but PNY? Not yet. Would I ever again? No, no I wouldn't. That is because the packaging in which the card came in was poorly made and too small and insecure for the card contained within. This is a £600 GPU! I know I may have just gotten lucky but all other brand-name cards are packaged appropriately and I, for one, will not be entrusting my time, money and concern over luck. It's better to buy from a more reputable brand such as Asus or EVGA, just for the peace of mind, alone.As a result of the bad packaging the backplate, side and top of the cooler was scratched and damaged. Small, cosmetic and minor, but it should not have happened all the same.That being said, how does the card actually fair? This is the script I used for my YouTube review.Greetings everyone and welcome to my review of the GTX 1080. For about 10 months prior to now, I've had the pleasure of having the GTX 980Ti G1 Gaming in my PC. It drove games amazingly well and it was my first dive into high end PC gamingas it drove my Acer XB270HU, a 1440p 144Hz monitor, with great ease. However, the 980Ti was not able to achieve 144fps at 1440p in every game while still maintaining ultra settings. The card, although was a brilliant pairing with my shinynew monitor, did not take FULL advantage of the monitor's capabilities. And for this reason, I decided to invest in the brand new GTX 1080. In another video I'll be putting this card up to battle my goals of 1440p 144fps but this video ismore focussed on the card itself and not one area in which it performs. No, in this video I'll be going over the positives and negatives of the new GPU and what it means for PC enthusiasts similar to myself.First up, what's inside the card? Now you would've heard this many times before so I'll just make this bit brief. The card boasts the new GP104 16nm finfet Pascal architecture. This shrink in die size should, in theory, mean an increase inGPU efficiency, less heat output and also a decrease in overall energy output. Now this card features a 180w TDP with a 5+1 power phase and so recommends you have at least a 500W powersupply. Inside the 1080 are 2560 CUDA cores and 8GB ofthe new GDDR5X, or G5X, VRAM which runs on a 256-bit memory bus at 10Gbps and with a 320GB/sec memory bandwidth. Crazy, right? Not quite as fast as HBM which we saw on the R9 Fury X GPU but still very fast nonetheless. At stock, the FoundersEdition GTX 1080 pumps out a core clock of 1607MHz, a boost clock 1733, although mine went higher up to 1860 due to GPU boost 3.0, and an effective memory clock of 10'000MHz all of which gives a nice ol' 9 teraflops of performance! I don'tknow about you, but so far so good, right?Now let's move onto the aesthetics of the card. The industrial, sharp-edged design gives this card a much needed refinement in the cooler design which has been the same since 2012, although they have still kept that nice, green, illuminatedGeforce GTX logo which we all know and love. The GTX 1080 features a vapour chamber cooling techniquewhich should keep temperatures at bay while you squander through your daily gaming sessions, be it Squad, Battlefield 1 or Star Citizen. Although I don't have a sound recording kit to tell you exact noise levels of the cooler, I can say thefans were inaudible until they got to around 70% fan speed. I have this card insalled in the NZXT H440 by the way, which does have some sound dampening. As for temperatures of the cooler, the card did get up to a maximum of 87'c but I willmake note that it is Summer and my room, being small and at the top of my house, does get rather hot with what I can assume would be around 25-26'c, maybe more, if I were to guess. At idle the temperature averaged around 55'c and if youare thinking this is a bit high then you'd be right. The reason for the high idle temps are the fact that I have a dual monitor setup. It forces the card to run at it's base clock of 1607MHz and not at the lowered 600MHz if you had a singlemonitor setup. I realised this and once remedied, the card idled at around 36'c. This also lowered the load temperatures from 87'c to around 84'c so I thought it was worth mentioning. There is a fix for this issue forcing a low power stateeven with multi-monitor setups but I would like to see an implementation of the fix in one of Nvidia's later driver updates as a lot of people run multi-monitor setups, not just those who are into editing and enthusiast gaming. It seems strangeNvidia include multiple outputs on the back of the card for multiple displays to be connected yet does not have a fix in place to decrease heat and thus increase longevity of the card. And, talking of the outputs on the back, the card hassupport for 1 HDMI 2.0, a DVI-D and 3 Display port 1.4 which are capable of displaying 4K at 120Hz or 8K at 60Hz. Another fantastic feature of this card. The final thing to this card, other than the simple but welcomed backplate for addedsecurity and rogidity, is the single 8 pin power connector which will supply the card with adequate sustenance.And so, that's all the boring stuff out the way, how does it game? Good question but before I get into showing you a bunch of numbers to tickle your winky, I would like to make another note on the fact that I did do a tutorial on how toincrease fps in all games and that video brought my fps up a fair bit. For the video's purposes, I will not be showing results affected by those tips, if you wish to see this card at it's full potential, click on this video and go to theresults. This video will be about stock performance. That being said, let's get into the benchmarks. All these games tested are at ultra settings, 1440p. If you would like to know the performance of a certain game, do tell me in the commentsbelow.: Show benchmarks :So the card performs very well, but what about Overclocking? Overclocking was good on this card... if it wasn't for GPU boost 3.0 and the massive throttling that occurs after just a few minutes of use. I managed to add 188MHz to the corewhich brought the clock speed up to 2088MHz and an extra 300MHz to the memory which brought the memory clock up to 10'600MHz effective. I also brought the power limit up to 120%, which mostly fixed the throttling issues at stock speedswhich were so bad that they literally dropped down to the base clock frequency after a mere 15 minutes of playing. Anymore than 2088MHz on the core and the card outright refused to run any games and they crashed immediately, but2088MHz was as stable as a hammered in doornail. I don't know why, I just couldn't achieve 2100MHz. And even this overclock had problems. After about 10 minutes the card's core dropped down to around 1830MHz at which it would hang there.Honestly, you may achieve better performance by adding just 50MHz to the core clock, pushing the memory as high as it can, some people have easily added a further 500MHz onto that, and then increasing the power limit to 120% and introducinga custom fan curve to minimise or remove that infernal throttling that seems to plague this card.As a final verdict I would recommend against the GTX 1080 Founders Edition unless you are going for an SLI rig, hate waiting for the aftermarket cards (like myself) or REALLY like the design of the card which is, admittedly, very striking.I recommend you instead go and buy yourself an aftermarket version which we should be seeing more supply for within the next month. These cards are cheaper, cooler, quieter and, in many cases, faster. On top of that, they may have more roomfor overclocking although at the moment it seems to be the same story with all the 1080's, regardless of whether or not it's a 3rd party design. That being said, I can whole heartedly recommend the GTX 1080 as an overall GPU. The added 20fpsor so over the 980Ti is pleasant and would be even more so if you're upgrading from a mid-range card like a GTX 960 or R9 380. If you can afford it, go for it because it is the fastest single card on the market to date.But that brings our review to a close. If you did like it, then do show your appreciation by tappin' that like button. I love your face and I'll see you guys, in the next one. Terrar!