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Nvidia introduced something a bit different this year with the launch of the GTX 1080- ‘Founders Edition' cards, which use reference coolers and start at £619.99 here in the UK. This led to some concern about the pricing of GTX 1080s using after market coolers but as it turns out, the situation isn't bad at all, with GTX 1080s from board partners starting as low as £524.99.
The GTX 1080 went on sale about an hour ago at the time of writing and while there are plenty of ‘Founders Edition' cards to choose from, there are also plenty of cards from board partners. Right now KFA2 and MSI have two ‘blower style' cooled GTX 1080s up for £524.99 and £533.99 respectively but if you can spare an extra £25, you start to hit the cards with bigger cooler designs on them.
Right now on Overclockers UK, you can grab the Inno3D Herculez GTX 1080, or the KFA2 EX OC model which features a dual-fan cooler. Starting at £569.99 you can grab MSI GTX 1080 Armour Edition, which uses a similar cooler to the Gaming series cards but in black and white. Or alternatively, Inno3D have the GTX 1080 iChill Air Boss X3 which uses a monstrous triple fan cooler design.
If you're after an EVGA model, then you can grab the GTX 1080 ACX 3.0 starting at £578.99 or £609.99 for the FTW Edition. The Gigabyte G1 GTX 1080 starts at £608.99 meanwhile the Asus DCU III Strix and Zotac AMP! cards start at £619.99. In all, these prices are very encouraging with a lot of attractive options below the founders edition price.
You can find all of these cards over at Overclockers UK, who have managed to put together quite an extensive selection of cards for pre-order.
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KitGuru Says: Personally, I was expecting most third-party GTX 1080s to match or exceed Founders Edition pricing but I am very happy to find that is not the case. Are any of you shopping around for a GTX 1080? Are any of you surprised by some of the prices?
So far it looks like ROG Strix will be my weapon of choice at £620, highest core clocked so far though some other cards are still unannounced in terms of speed
What are the clocks of the custom ones though?
Most seem to be stock clocked at 1607MHz 1733MHz Boost but as they get into the price range of around £580+ there are boosted clocks from anywhere around +80MHz to +180MHz. overclockers has it all listed but as I mentioned below some are still TBD
You have to consider that these custom ones will more than likely keep their boost clocks compared to the reference card.
Many of the custom cards come factory overclocked and with an extra power connector to add more juice when overclocking. These will in way be reference cards.
the problem is that this is NOT the top end Nvidia video card expected.
if this is 700 EURO then how much will the HBM2 be ? 1000 EURO maybe !
Nvidia GTX 1080 CANNOT run most new games with the highest settings on a 1440p monitor at over 60 FPS
The zotac gtx 1080 extreme will be faster when the rog strix, trust me. You must only look at the past (GTX 980 ti, GTX 980, 970) and you will see that the extreme was everytime faster then the strix edition from asus. By the way, zotac overclocks the Memory Clock at the extreme edition. Simple to say: Higher core clock and memory clock at the zotac 😉
a single card running crysis 3 at over 70 fps and NEVER dipping below 60 at 1440p is pretty impressive, you’re asking too much from a card that’s 3 times as efficient as the titan X and performance BETTER.
no card can do that
Crysis 3 – REALEASE DATE: 2013
makes no difference – no card can do that. titan X and 980ti cant run CRYSIS 3 on 1440p monitors at 100 FPS. this card can’t either. 1080 is still the best card for gaming despite it not having high performance in that game. CRYSIS was either made with rlly intense graphics or was badly coded but either way no card can run it how you want.