EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID graphics card

Hybrid cooling for the GTX 1080

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID pairs an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU with a factory-fitted all-in-one liquid cooler. It targets enthusiasts who want the thermal headroom of water cooling without assembling a custom loop. Eight gigabytes of GDDR5X memory and 2560 CUDA cores handle 4K gaming and compute workloads.

PCI Express 3.0 bandwidth ceiling

The card communicates over a PCI Express 3.0 slot, which tops out at roughly 320 GB/s of theoretical bandwidth. That limit caps how fast textures and geometry can stream from system memory, so the 256-bit frame buffer and 10000 MHz effective memory clock run at their fullest only when the bus is not saturated by other devices.

8 GB GDDR5X frame buffer decides fit

With 8 GB of GDDR5X on a 256-bit bus the card delivers 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth. That single figure determines whether the board can hold the texture sets and render targets your target resolution and quality preset demand.