Introduction

GeForce GTX 1080 Market Segment Analysis GeForce

GTX 1060 GeForce

GTX 980 Ti Radeon R9

Fury X GeForce

GTX 1070 GeForce

GTX 1080 Zotac GTX

1080 Mini GeForce

GTX 1080 Ti GeForce

Titan X Pascal GeForce

Titan Xp Shader Units 1280 2816 4096 1920 2560 2560 3584 3584 3840 ROPs 48 96 64 64 64 64 88 96 96 Graphics Processor GP106 GM200 Fiji GP104 GP104 GP104 GP102 GP102 GP102 Transistors 4400M 8000M 8900M 7200M 7200M 7200M 12000M 12000M 12000M Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 8 GB 11 GB 12 GB 12 GB Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5 HBM GDDR5 GDDR5X GDDR5X GDDR5X GDDR5X GDDR5X Memory Bus Width 192 bit 384 bit 4096 bit 256 bit 256 bit 256 bit 352 bit 384 bit 384 bit Core Clock 1506 MHz+ 1000 MHz+ 1050 MHz 1506 MHz+ 1607 MHz+ 1620 MHz+ 1481 MHz+ 1418 MHz+ 1480 MHz+ Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1750 MHz 500 MHz 2002 MHz 1251 MHz 1251 MHz 1376 MHz 1251 MHz 1426 MHz Price $230 $390 $380 $350 $500 $515 $700 $1200 $1200

The GeForce GTX 1080 is based on NVIDIA's "Pascal" architecture. This architecture sees the streaming multiprocessors (SMs), the indivisible subunits of an NVIDIA GPU, get even more dedicated components, which increases their performance. NVIDIA claims to have "meticulously" designed the GPU architecture to be as energy efficient as possible given the silicon fab node and is leveraging the 16 nm FinFET node at TSMC for "Pascal."The GTX 1080 features more CUDA cores than its predecessor – 2560 vs. 2048. It features even more TMUs (160 vs. 128) and, at 8 GB, double the memory. Memory technology sees a major update with NVIDIA's adoption of the GDDR5X memory standard. The memory is clocked at a staggering 10 GHz effective, which gives the GPU 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth over a 256-bit wide memory interface.Today, we are reviewing the Zotac GTX 1080 Mini, which is a compact custom-design GTX 1080 variant. It comes with a dual-fan, metal cooler and a small overclock out of the box. Zotac's GTX 1080 Mini is currently listed online for $515.