Last night, Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia’s CEO announced the 1070 and 1080 GPU lines to a crowded room in Austin Texas and to many others streaming the event live online. Today, Zotac have become the first AIB partner to announce a GTX1080 release based on Nvidias reference board design.

The specs for the card are in line with the details provided by Nvidia during their live stream yesterday, so the ZOTAC GTX 1080 will feature Nvidias new 16nm FinFET-based GP104 GPU, 8GB of GDDR5X VRAM clocked to 10GHz, 2560 CUDA cores and GPU clocks of 1607MHz base and 1733MHz boost.

Zotac GTX1080
GPU GeForceĀ® GTX 1080
CUDA Cores 2560
Video Memory 8GB GDDR5X
Memory Bus 256-bit
Engine Clock Base: 1607 MHz
Boost: 1733 MHz
Memory Clock 10000 Mhz
PCI Express 3.0
Display Outputs 3 x DisplayPort 1.4
HDMI 2.0b
DL-DVI
HDCP Support Yes
Multi Display Compatability Quad Display
Recommended PSU 500W
Power Consumption 180W
Power Input 8-pin
DirectX 12 API feature level 12_1
OpenGL 4.5
Cooling Blower
Slot Size Dual Slot
SLI Yes
Supported OS Windows 8/10/Vista
Card Length 266.7mm x 111.15mm
Accessories Dual 6 pin to 8 Pin PCIe Adaptor
Driver Disk
User Manual

Zotac are expected to release the card to retail on May 27.

Zotac GTX1080