Jensen Huang signs GTX 1080 Founders Edition
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been spotted in Taiwan signing an older GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics card. Huang can be heard calling the card one of his favorites before adding that it “changed everything.”
I have seen some reports which identified the card as a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, but that does not appear to be correct. The video does not show a clear model label (we can only see GTX 1080). However, there is an easy way to separate the two Founders Edition cards from the rear I/O layout.
The GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition had three DisplayPort outputs, one HDMI port and one Dual-Link DVI-D connector . The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition dropped DVI and used three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI port.
Jensen signs a GeForce GTX 1080 and says it is one of his favorites.
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GTX 1080 is now 10 years old
NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1080 on May 27, 2016. It was the first gaming graphics card based on the Pascal architecture and shipped with 2560 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR5X memory, a 256-bit memory bus and a 180W board power rating. NVIDIA priced the Founders Edition at $699, while partner cards started at $599.
At the time, GTX 1080 offered a strong performance-per-dollar uplift over the previous Maxwell generation. It also introduced the Founders Edition branding, which replaced NVIDIA’s older reference card naming for GeForce products.
Source: NVIDIA
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti arrived later in March 2017 and made the Pascal generation even more attractive for high-end gaming. That card used a larger GP102 GPU with 3584 CUDA cores, 11GB of GDDR5X memory and a 352-bit memory bus. It launched at $699, the same price as the GTX 1080 Founders Edition at launch.
Source: Xfastest
