By Joe Osborne
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
The future of PC gaming has arrived. You’ve heard a line like that almost annually as the new graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD are released. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, the chip maker’s first consumer product to run its new Pascal chip architecture, is not necessarily the future of PC gaming.
But, it sure as hell could be the vessel to take us there. Even if not, it’s still a remarkable upgrade.
I can tell you this much from running the card through a scant few benchmarks against one of Nvidia’s flagship graphics cards of last year: the GTX 980 Ti. That is, not to mention looking at the thing. I mean, what else can I say – it’s a chip that powers graphics.
[Editor’s Note: For an exhaustive critique, watch this space for a full review later this week.]
Design
The shroud in which Nvidia’s mighty chip resides in isn’t terribly different from last year’s stock cards. Though, the new gunmetal-colored, die-cast aluminum body sports even more “extreme” angles than, say, the rounded edges on the reference GTX 980 Ti.
This is the kind of gadget you’d expect to see the villain of a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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