Gigabyte unleashes the smallest GTX 1080 ever to battle Radeon Vega Nano
from PC world 05 September indexed on 06 September 2017 4:01Bigger is usually better in the world of graphics cards, but these days, plenty of people want plus-sized power in fun-sized packages. Enter Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G, the smallest GTX 1080 yet—and an early strike against AMD's incoming Radeon RX Vega Nano. At 169mm in length, Gigabyte's graphics card is the perfect fit for mini-ITX motherboards, which measure 170mm. The GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G offers the same 1607MHz base clock and 1733MHz boost speeds as a GTX 1080 Founders Edition and manages to do so in a package that's nearly 100mm shorter. That makes you wonder how hot and loud the card will run under load, but Gigabyte augmented the single semi-passive 90mm fan with a densely stacked heat sink and three copper heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU, as Tech Report first noted. The GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G also packs a 5+2 power phase design, a step up over the 5+1 design in the Founders Edition. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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