Introduction

Galax, or Galaxytech as it was called before, was founded 23 years ago and they have been working for over 16 years producing gaming performance products.

Just have a look at this big and heavy graphics card! It’s a real white beast: an elephant or a whale.

Galax presented its new GTX 1080 Ti Hall of Fame (HOF) graphics card and claims that the HOF logo is: to manufacture a series of graphics cards with the best components available. Is it true? And does the power of this card justify its enormous size?



Main characteristics:



GPU (Codename) — GP102

Shаder Units — 3584

Bаse & Boost Сloсks — 1569 MHz / 1683 MHz

Memory Size & Type — 11GB GDDR5X

Memory Сlock — 1376 MHz

Memory Bandwidth — 484.4GB/s

Fаns — (3) 90mm Axial

Ports — (1) DVI-D, (1) HDMI 2.0b, (3) DP1.4

Power Conneсtors — (3) 8-pin

Dimensions (LxHxD) — 31.8 x 14.5 x 5.4 cm

Weight — 1689g

Wаrranty — 2 Years


Design

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Power Color has just unveiled a pair of video cards which belong to Radeon RX Vega Red Devil family. The Radeon RX Vega 64 Red Devil & the Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil models are based on custom PCBs and enforced by 1.5-mm metallic amplified plates on the reverse.



Both new-comers are differentiated by industrial overclocking of graphics cores. The first unit offers 1417/1607 MHz frequency, having in store 4096 stream processors, whereas the second unit employs 3584 stream processors, running at 1526 MHz frequency during overclocking. The couple is equipped with 8 GB HBM2 video memory (2048-bit) that operates at 1890 MHz and 1600 MHz frequency respectively.


The Red Devil graphics cards feature a pair of 8-pin connectors; the recommended by the manufacturer compatible power supply unit must be of 750 W efficiency at the least. Cooling is entitled to a voluminous heatsink with a pair of 8-mm and four 6-mm heat pipes; the construction is replenished by three 90-mm fans, …

Data interface Thunderbolt from Intel company entered the market in February 2011 in the Apple MacBook Pro laptop. By combining in the one interface PCI Express and DisplayPort, it now offers data rates up to 10 Gbit / s. On the more common personal computers the interface began to be applied recently, as part of the laptop and PC top price category.



Intel plans to introduce a new controller interface Redwood Ridge Thunderbolt for use in personal computers in the second quarter of next year. It is likely that the new controllers will form the platform of the Shark Bay for next generation processors under the name of Haswell.


Controllers Redwood Ridge will support completely the same data rate 10 Gb / s, interface DisplayPort v1.1 and function DisplayPort v1.2 Redriver. At present, even the cheapest chips Thunderbolt, 2-channel Cactus Ridge, cost motherboard manufacturers at about $ 20, and many consumers expect that emergence of new generations of controllers will reduce …