Review: Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Edition — Graphics
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti remains the preferred choice for ultra-high-end PC gaming and Nvidia’s partners are understandably eager to put forth an assortment of custom cards designed to tempt the deep–pocketed enthusiast.
Inno3D, Asus, Aorus, MSI and EVGA have already sent in their favoured designs for review purposes and today Palit is getting in on the action with the range-topping GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Edition.
While many competitors have set out to over-engineer at every available opportunity, Palit plays it relatively safe by taking an old-school approach with only a few modern twists. The end result is a card that isn’t the best looker, but delivers the might of a factory overclocked GTX 1080 Ti for £690 — that’s £60 less than, say, the Aorus Xtreme, and pricing isn’t a million miles from a regular Founders Edition board.
Those demanding a certain level of finesse at this price point may be left wanting, as the GameRock Premium Edition is a chunky solution measuring 285mm x 133mm x 58mm, weighing 1,320g and occupying the best part of three slots. It has the look and feel of a previous-generation beastie, and though build quality is decent throughout, the GameRock shroud isn’t particularly sleek and the black-and-blue colour scheme is an acquired taste.
If you’re of the opinion that graphics card aesthetics are irrelevant — or you happen to like to GameRock design — there’s good news as Palit doesn’t skimp in the areas that matter. The PCB is lined with a full-size backplate, giving the card good rigidity throughout, while power is upgraded to two eight-pin connectors serving a custom 12+2-phase design.
Although Palit has five GTX 1080 Ti models in its stable, the GameRock Premium Edition is the pick of the bunch in terms of shipping frequencies. Out-the-box base and boost clocks register at 1,595MHz and 1,709MHz, respectively, while the 11GB GDDR5X frame buffer hums along at a default 11Gbps. It is interesting to note that Palit sets the card to use an ‘OC’ profile by default, though users can switch to ‘Gaming’ mode using the dual-BIOS to activate reduced frequencies of 1,556MHz base and 1,670MHz boost.
Taming the GPU shouldn’t be a problem for a card of this size as Palit takes a bigger-is-better approach. The large size allows for a 22 per cent increase in aluminium fins and though the pictures are deceiving there are actually four fans sandwiched into the cooler. Look close enough and you’ll notice the card features a pair of stacked fans — Palit calls it ‘TurboJET4’ and the theory is for the top and bottom fans to spin in the opposite direction to deliver an ‘anti-vortex’ solution.
No high-end card would be complete without the customary selection of RGB lights and the GameRock Premium Edition has a fair few lining the top edge of the PCB and shroud. Illumination colour can be customised using the free-to-download ThunderMaster utility or be set to change based on GPU temperature, but Palit’s implementation isn’t as elegant as we’d hoped. The backlit logo illuminates nicely, however there aren’t enough LEDs across the top of the PCB to create a seamless finish — the six illumination spots stick out like a sore thumb.
Elsewhere, the features you’d expect on a custom GTX 1080 Ti are present and accounted for. SLI fingers allow for multi-GPU configurations, the fans all switch off at low load, and the standard array of display outputs — dual-link DVI, HDMI 2.0 and a trio of DisplayPort 1.4 — make it easy to drive multiple high-res monitors.
We don’t anticipate any major surprises in the performance department as very little separates the various overclocked GTX 1080 Tis, but we are interested in seeing how the GameRock Premium Editions fares with regards to temperature, noise and overclocking. Let’s get to it.
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Review | Up Close | GPU & Displays
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Published: 28th May 2017 | Source: Palit | Price: | Author: Tom Logan
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Although we’ve said how nice it is for Palit to come to us with something that doesn’t just replicate the type of card and packaging that we’ve seen dozens of times before, we’re still unsure of the decision to clone the Guitar Hero font for the box.
It just looks a bit like all those dodgy chinese copies of things that swamp eBay. Fortunately boxes exist to be opened and stuffed in a cupboard so it’s not really an issue.
The cooler follows the design of the GameRock GTX 1070 we’ve previously looked at. Dual fans move the air across one of the thickest heatsinks we’ve seen recently. Well, we say dual fans but actually the Palit has four fans, with two fans back to back to eliminate any vortices. Four fans are louder than two though so we hope that this setup has all the cooling you would expect to find from four fans without the requisite noise increase.
This is a 2 1/2 slot cooler so it is important to take that into account if you want to go with an SLI setup. The blue will probably be the part which splits the audience, particularly as we’ve so quickly become accustomed to neutral colouring with RGB lighting. On the plus side, once the card is installed you almost never see the shroud, and certainly behind a smoked window you don’t.
You get a real feel for the robust nature of the heatsink in the side on shot. Beefy heatpipes, plenty of fins giving a huge surface area, and enough space in the middle to ensure good airflow. This has the potential to be the coolest twin fan cooler that we’ve seen on a GTX 1080 Ti. The backplate, now a feature of all high end GPUs, has a big GameRock logo which has the benefit of facing the correct way, something which isn’t always true.
Elsewhere the GameRock follows the hallmarks of a GTX 1080 Ti with 8+8 PCIe power inputs, HDMI, DVI-D and three DisplayPort outputs. The plate has as many holes as any we’ve seen which should assist dispersing the hot air generated by your frenetic gaming efforts. Lastly the logo is RGB as we have come to expect from pretty much all modern hardware, although we wouldn’t recommend using green as shown here, it clashes with the blue somewhat.
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Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Top specifications and features
- Passmark score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics test score
- 3DMark Ice Storm GPU benchmark score
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU benchmark score
Passmark
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium test score:
17693
Best score:
29325
Performance
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium:
2340
Best score:
Memory
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium:
1011
Best score:
General Information
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium:
92
Best score:
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium features:
682
Best score:
Description
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium video card based on Pascal architecture has 11800 million transistors, tech.
process 16 nm. The frequency of the graphics core is 1595 MHz. In terms of memory, 11 GB is installed here. DDR5, clocked at 1376 MHz and with a maximum throughput of 484.4 Gb/s. The texture size is 382.6 GTexels/s. FLOPS is 12.7.
In tests, the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium video card performed as follows — according to the Passmark benchmark, the model scored 17693 points. At the same time, the maximum number of points for today is 260261 points. According to the 3DMark benchmark, the video card scored 27013 points out of 49575 possible.
Directx version — 12. OpenGL version — 4.6.
In terms of compatibility, the video card is connected via the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Regarding cooling, the heat dissipation requirements here are 250 watts.
In our tests, the video card scores 922134 points.
Why Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium is better than others
- Passmark score 17693 . This parameter is higher than that of 31% of goods
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score 19224 .
This parameter is higher than that of 15% of goods - 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics test score 27013 . This parameter is higher than that of 25% of goods
- 3DMark Ice Storm GPU 386800 benchmark score. This parameter is higher than that of 7% of goods
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU test score 139640 . This parameter is higher than that of 16% of goods
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU score 36919 . This parameter is higher than that of 18% of goods
- GPU base clock speed 1595 MHz. This parameter is higher than that of 84% of goods
- RAM 11 GB. This parameter is higher than that of 42% of goods
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Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Review
Performance
Memory
general information
Functions
Ports
Tests in benchmarks
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Review: 9 Highlights0004
GPU base clock
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has a high clock speed.
1595MHz
max 2459
Average: 1124.9 MHz
2459MHz
GPU memory frequency
This is an important aspect calculating memory bandwidth
1376MHz
max 16000
Average: 1468 MHz
16000 MHz
FLOPS
A measure of the processing power of a processor is called FLOPS.
12.7TFLOPS
max 1142.32
Average: 53 TFLOPS
1142.32TFLOPS
RAM
11GB
max 128
Average: 4.6 GB
128GB
Turbo GPU
If the speed of the GPU drops below its limit, it can switch to a high clock speed to improve performance.
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1708 MHz
max 2903
Average: 1514 MHz
2903MHz
Texture size
A certain number of textured pixels are displayed on the screen every second.
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382.6 GTexels/s
max 756.8
Average: 145.4 GTexels/s
756.8 GTexels/s
Architecture name
Pascal
GPU name
GP102
Shared memory
No
Memory bandwidth
This is the speed at which the device stores or reads information.
484.4GB/s
max 2656
Average: 257.8 GB/s
2656GB/s
Effective memory speed
The effective memory clock speed is calculated from the size and information transfer rate of the memory.
The performance of the device in applications depends on the clock frequency. The higher it is, the better.
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11008MHz
max 19500
Average: 6984.5 MHz
19500MHz
RAM
11GB
max 128
Average: 4.6 GB
128GB
GDDR Memory Versions
Latest GDDR memory versions provide high data transfer rates for improved overall performance
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5
Mean: 4.9
6
Memory bus width
A wide memory bus indicates that it can transfer more information in one cycle. This property affects the performance of the memory as well as the overall performance of the device’s graphics card.
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352bit
max 8192
Average: 283.9bit
8192bit
Thermal Dissipation (TDP)
Heat dissipation requirement (TDP) is the maximum amount of energy that can be dissipated by the cooling system. The lower the TDP, the less power will be consumed.
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250W
Average value: 160 W
2W
Process technology
The small size of the semiconductor means it is a new generation chip.
16 nm
Average: 34.7 nm
4 nm
Number of transistors
11800 million
max 80000
Average: 7150 million
80000 million
PCIe version
Considerable speed is provided for an expansion card used to connect a computer to peripherals.
The updated versions have impressive throughput and provide high performance.
Show all
3
Average: 3
5
Width
285mm
max 421.7
Average: 192.1mm
421.7 mm
Height
133mm
max 619
Average: 89.6mm
619 mm
DirectX
Used in demanding games, providing enhanced graphics
12
max 12.2
Mean: 11.4
12.2
OpenCL version
Used by some applications to enable GPU power for non-graphical calculations.
The newer the version, the more functional it will be
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3
max 4.6
Average: 2.2
4.6
opengl version
Later versions provide better game graphics
4.6
max 4.6
Average: 4.2
4.6
Shader model version
6.4
max 6.6
Average: 5.9
6.6
Version Vulkan
1.3
CUDA version
6.1
Has HDMI output
HDMI output allows you to connect devices with HDMI or mini HDMI ports. They can transmit video and audio to the display.
Full text
Yes
HDMI version
The latest version provides a wide signal transmission channel due to the increased number of audio channels, frames per second, etc.
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2
max 2.1
Mean: 1.9
2.1
DisplayPort
Allows you to connect to a display using DisplayPort
3
Average: 2.2
4
DVI outputs
Allows connection to a display using DVI
1
Mean: 1.4
3
Number of HDMI connectors
The more there are, the more devices can be connected at the same time (for example, game/TV type consoles)
Show all
1
Average: 1.1
4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
HDMI
Yes
Passmark test score
17693
max 29325
Average: 7628.
6
29325
3DMark Cloud Gate benchmark score GPU
139640
max 191204
Average: 80042.3
191204
3DMark Fire Strike Score
19224
max 38276
Average: 12463
38276
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics test score
27013
max 49575
Average: 11859.1
49575
3DMark 11 Performance GPU Score
36919
max 57937
Average: 18799.9
57937
3DMark Ice Storm GPU score
386800
max 533357
Average: 372425.
7
533357
SPECviewperf 12 test score — Solidworks
67
max 202
Average: 62.4
202
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 sw-03
67
max 202
Average: 64
202
SPECviewperf 12 test evaluation — Siemens NX
10
max 212
Average: 14
212
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 showcase-01
146
max 232
Average: 121.3
232
SPECviewperf 12 — Showcase 9 test score0022
146
max 175
Average: 108.
4
175
SPECviewperf 12 test evaluation — Medical
57
max 107
Average: 39.6
107
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 mediacal-01
57
max 107
Average: 39
107
SPECviewperf 12 test score — Maya
172
max 177
Average: 129.8
177
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 maya-04
172
max 180
Average: 132.8
180
SPECviewperf 12 test score — Creo
59
max 153
Average: 49.
5
153
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 creo-01
59
max 153
Average: 52.5
153
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 catia-04
103
max 189
Average: 91.5
189
SPECviewperf 12 test score — Catia
103
max 189
Average: 88.6
189
SPECviewperf 12 test score — specvp12 3dsmax-05
145
max 316
Average: 189.5
316
SPECviewperf 12 test score — 3ds Max
145
max 269
Average: 169.
8
269
FAQ
How much RAM does the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium have
The Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium has 11 GB.
What version of RAM does Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium 9 have?0814
Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium supports GDDR5.
What is the architecture of the video card Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Pascal.
Watts of Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
250 Watts.
How the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium performs in the benchmarks
The card scored 17693 points in the Passmark benchmark.
FLOPS of Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
12.7 TFLOPs.
What version of PCIe does it support?
PCIe version 3.
Which DirectX version does the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium support
DirectX 12.
How many HDMI ports does the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium have
1 HDMI ports.
Does the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium DVI support
1 DVI ports.
How many display Ports does Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium have
3 DisplayPorts.
Does the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium CUDA support?
6.1.
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Why is the Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium better than others?
- GPU clock speed?
1595MHz vs 1353.14MHz - Flop?
12.24 TFLOPS vs 11.49 TFLOPS - Pixel speed?
150.3 GPixel/s vs 96.88 GPixel/s - VRAM?
11GB vs 7.65GB - Texture size?
382.6 GTexels/s vs 254.66 GTexels/s - Maximum memory bandwidth?
484.4GB/s vs 371.02GB/s - Memory bus width?
352bit vs 252.
57bit - Hatch patterns?
3584 vs 3270.87
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Classes
9000 frequency.
turbo GPU
1708MHz
When the GPU is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance.
pixel rate
150.3 GPixel/s
The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.
FLOPS
12.24 TFLOPS
FLOPS is a measure of GPU processing power.
texture size
382.6 GTexels/s
Number of textured pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.
GPU memory speed
1376MHz
Memory speed is one aspect that determines memory bandwidth.
Shading patterns
Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors in a graphics card that are responsible for processing various aspects of an image.
texture units (TMUs)
TMUs take texture units and map them to the geometric layout of the 3D scene.
More TMUs generally means texture information is processed faster.
ROPs
ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, such as writing the final pixel data to memory and for performing other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the appearance of graphics.
Memory
effective memory speed
11008MHz
The effective memory clock is calculated from the size and data transfer rate of the memory. A higher clock speed can give better performance in games and other applications.
maximum memory bandwidth
484.4GB/s
This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.
VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of the graphics card. More VRAM usually allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.
GDDR versions of
Later versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher data transfer rates, which improves performance.
memory bus width
352bit
A wider memory bus means it can carry more data per cycle. This is an important factor in memory performance, and therefore the overall performance of the graphics card.
Supports memory recovery code
✖Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Memory error recovery code can detect and repair data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server.
Features
DirectX version
DirectX is used in games with a new version that supports better graphics.
OpenGL version
The newer the OpenGL version, the better graphics quality in games.
OpenCL version
Some applications use OpenCL to use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing.
Newer versions are more functional and better quality.
Supports multi-monitor technology
✔Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
The video card is capable of connecting multiple displays. This allows you to set up multiple monitors at the same time to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as a wider field of view.
GPU boot temperature
Lower boot temperature means the card generates less heat and the cooling system works better.
supports ray tracing
✔Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections in games.
Supports 3D
✔Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D screen and glasses).
supports DLSS
✖Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI based scaling technology.
This allows the graphics card to render games at lower resolutions and upscale them to higher resolutions with near-native visual quality and improved performance. DLSS is only available in some games.
PassMark (G3D) result
This test measures the graphics performance of a graphics card. Source: Pass Mark.
Ports
has HDMI output
✔Palit GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium
Devices with HDMI or mini HDMI ports can stream HD video and audio to a connected display.
HDMI connectors
More HDMI connectors allow you to connect multiple devices such as game consoles and TVs at the same time.
HDMI version
HDMI 2.0
Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, resulting in higher resolutions and frame rates.
DisplayPort outputs
Allows connection to a display using DisplayPort.