PNY Unveils The GTX 1080 XLR8 OC Graphics Card

PNY’s XLR8 range revolves around the highest quality of components and factory overclocks in the company’s repertoire. Previous models such as the PNY GTX 960 XLR8 OC performed admirably and featured a really attractive shroud design. The latest product is towards the higher-end and based on the GTX 1080. The PNY GTX 1080 XLR8 OC combines a reference PCB with a custom cooling solution. Additionally, the graphics card has a factory overclocked 1708MHz core, 1848MHz boost and 8GB GDDR5X memory running at 10,000MHz.

The product’s cooling apparatus has a split aluminium fin-stack heatsink and 8mm thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes which effectively manage the thermal loads. Also, the heatsink is ventilated by three 80mm fans with superb airflow. As expected, the fans switch off during scenarios when the GPU isn’t doing much. In terms of power requirements, the GPU has a single 8-pin PCI-E which should be more than enough to leverage maximum performance. Connectivity-wise, the PNY GTX 1080 XLR8 OC comes with three DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and a dual-link DVI-D. According to PNY, the graphics card will retail for a price of $659.99 in the USA. This is a reasonable price given the factory overclock and I’m hoping to get hold of a review sample in the next week.