miniature but high performance graphics cards have been around for a while but
earlier models compromised performance for their petite size not to mention
that they really really ran hot it wasn't until the gtx970 minis in late
2014 and the Epic Radeon R9 Nano the
following year that these pint siiz pixel pushers became viable options for
really high performance mini computers
you can see our reviews of these cards by looking up here but what I have for
you today is an entirely new Beast Zotac
offering for 2017 is the world smallest
GTX 1080 but how does it perform and who
or what is it even for Zotac doesn't
really seem to know they they say it fits in 99% of cases then show things
ranging from what looks like a mid Tower up to Giant server cabinets then Show an
example of it installed in a case that could have totally fit an average size
graphics card with no other compromises what so come with me and
we'll cover both the performance of this unique card and a really cool use case
that actually benefits from its
compactness the be quiet! pure Bas 600 features a versatile design noise
isolation and is optimized for different liquid radiator configurations learn
more at the link below first things first let's check out their thermal
solution there's no point in putting a better GPU in a small package if it's
just going to Thermal throttle anyways it starts with a copper block directly
above the GPU with 5 6 mm copper heat pipes extending away into the aluminum
heat sink above that are two very different fans the one on the left is a
90 mm static pressure optimized fan while the one on the right is a 100 mm
airflow optimized fan they claim this combination produces ideal mixture for
maintaining strong air flow over key components the neutral colored shroud
and back plate are both made out of metal and it features a basic white
lighting setup RGB fiends will be disappointed but at least it shouldn't
conflict too much with anything in your system as it's all black gray or white
for I/O it features a standard Pascal setup three DisplayPort 1.4 ports one
HDMI 2.0b port and one dual link DVI
port and this is actually kind of cool I
guess it received a little bump of 26 MHz in terms of clock speed as well
although as you probably know your mileage may vary here due to GPU boost
3.0 which will automatically apply minor overclocks to your card based on spare
overhead in terms of thermals and power or throttle it down as needed when I
benchmarked the card against an EVGA superclock 1080 and an NVIDIA Founders
Edition 1080 I found that it performed pretty much right as expected slightly
better than the founders Edition slightly worse than the superclocked
card those results were true in DSX
mankind divided rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of the singularity so it
performs well for its size but why is it
its size well I'm going to pass over to Luke version 2 for that answer hey guys
Luke version 2 here I somehow got roped
into doing an upgrade to Linus' personal Media Center rig how did that happen
well it's a fascinating story involving a couple jet planes a well-trained
monkey and a pink and green car but we all know that's not what you want to
hear about so well let's skip right to it however it happened today my task is
to remove Linus' GTX 980 TI and replace
it with the Zotac 1080 mini theoretically thanks to efficiency
improvements since last generation's 900 series this will allow us to maintain
the same performance or probably better while consuming less power and while
freeing up space in the Silverstone sg-13 for an all-in-one water cooler in
this case the T series super slim from
Silverstone the 1080 mini runs a little bit colder than the 980 tii did which
makes sense because it's a pascal card and it does have a lot of room to
breathe through the side the CPU didn't do like that much better because it is
an all-in-one but there isn't a ton of radiator space it's a slim and it had a
slim fan as well but it's a little bit better and it does seem to be slightly
quieter as well which is good and there you have it it worked we were able to
fit an Allin one in this tiny ITX case
because of this graphics card it had enough room right at the end there to
make clearance between the radiator and the graphics card everything was fine
that's the use case being able to fit more things in your computer is the use
case if you're wondering what this is for there you go that's pretty much it
it's a good card it's slightly better than a Founders Edition and it's
slightly smaller it might look a little bit weird in certain systems if you have
a system where it has a very defined space for your graphics card you want to
fill that space this card might not be for you if you're going for maybe
something that doesn't have a window and you're not necessarily that worried about what it looks like and you want
the capability to do something interesting with it later on maybe this
card is for you or if you're trying to build something small and compact like
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