The official slides of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card have been leaked ahead of launch by Videocardz. The GeForce GTX 1080 will be the world's first, commercially available graphics card based on the latest FinFET node which delivers an insane increase in transistor density and allows GPUs to deliver high clock speeds compared to previous generations.

The specifications, features and various details of GeForce 10 series cards have been leaked by Videocardz.

Official NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Slides Leaked -Async Compute, SMTP and Various Features In The Spotlight

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 reviews arrive next week which will soon be followed by launch on 27th May. The GeForce GTX 1080 will be available globally in reference and non-reference flavors. NVIDIA has set their Founders Edition at a price point of $699 US while the non-reference models will be available at a starting price of $599 US.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 will cost $50 more than the launch price of the GTX 980 and $50 less than the launch price of GeForce GTX 980 Ti but at the same time, delivers performance better than a GTX Titan X and GTX 980 in SLI.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition will be available to purchase on 27th May for $699 US.

The huge increase in performance is not only due to the move to the FinFET process but also due to update to a new architecture. The GeForce 10 series cards are powered by NVIDIA's Pascal architecture which is powering a broad range of GPUs. We have already seen two chips in action, GP100, GP106 and now GP104. NVIDIA GP104 GPUs will first power the GeForce 10 series cards and will bring a range of new enhancements to the NVIDIA GPU architecture.

NVIDIA GP104 GPU Block Diagram In Detail - 314mm2 Powerhouse For GeForce 10 Series Graphics Cards

The NVIDIA GeForce 10 series graphics cards are powered by a Pascal GPU known as GP104. This GPU will have several SKUs which will be housed on several graphics cards. The GP104 GPU houses 7.2 Billion transistors and up to 2560 CUDA cores.This arrangement is achieved through 128 cores per streaming multiprocessor which is the same as GM204 but different compared to the GP100 GPU which has 64 CUDA Cores per SM unit.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU Block Diagram. (Image Credits: Videocardz)

Tearing down the GP104 block diagram, we can see that there are a total of 4 graphics processing clusters on the GP104 GPU. Each GPC houses 10streaming multiprocessor units. These streaming multi processor units have 128 cores, 8 ROPs while each GPC partition has 16 TMUs in total. These round up to give 2560 CUDA cores, 160 TMUs and 64 ROPs on the entire chip. There are a total of 8 32-bit memory controllers on the GPU that will be able to drive GDDR5 and GDDR5X memory.

The top-end GP104 GPU can deliver up to 9 TFLOPs of compute performance on its stock configuration. All of this circuitry is housed in a 314mm2 die size which is impressive considering it could achieve better efficiency and performance stats compared to a Titan X which is based on a 601mm2 die and houses 8 Billion transistors. The complete transistor density has jumped from 10 million to 23 million per square millimeters which is a huge increase. Our detailed run down on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture can be found here.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Official Specifications - 8 GB GDDR5X, 2560 Cores, 180W TDP and A Beautiful Reference Cooler

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 features the GP104-400-A1 GPU with 7.2 Billion transistors. The GPU comes with 2560 CUDA cores, 160 Texture Mapping Units and 64 Raster Operation Units. The card has clock speeds of 1604 MHz and 1733 MHz which deliver up to 9 TFLOPs of single precision compute performance and can boost to higher clock speeds with the new GPU Boost 3.0 algorithm.

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NVIDIA GPU Boost 3.0 allows for per voltage point frequency offset which delivers maximum clock speeds per voltage point. This allows huge gains in clock speeds with stock configurations where the GPU can boost even beyond the reference boost clocks. The GPU can theoretically boost beyond 2 GHz frequency and can overclock in a similar way.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPUz screenshot reveals the full specifications of the graphics card.

NVIDIA features 8 GB of GDDR5X memory on their GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. The next generation GDDR memory runs at 10 GB/s effective speeds along a 256-bit bus. This delivers a total cumulative bandwidth of 320 GB/s. The card has a pixel fill rate of 102.8 GPixels/s and texture fill rate of 257.1 GTexels/s. The card has a 180W TDP which will be powered through a single 8-Pin connector. Display outputs include 3 Display Port 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b and a single DVI-D port. A more detailed look at the PCB can be seen here.

NVIDIA Pascal GP102 GTX Titan X Specifications: