Nvidia's latest GeForce flagship gaming card, the GTX 1080, is already in the hands of reviewers as Nvidia begins seeding evaluation samples to the press who will be puttingthe company's latest productthrough itspaces ahead of the card's May 27th launch date.

[UPDATED 9:14 AM Sunday May 8th 2016] Reviews will go live on May 17thaccording to videocardz.com.

By now you probably know everything there is to know about Nvidia's latest Pascal powered gaming card and are eagerly awaiting independent & thorough gaming benchmarks toreally see what this card is capable of in the real world. Well worry not as the wait is quickly coming to an end. It is true that Nvidia's May 27th launch date is specific to the $699 "Founder's" edition GTX 1080. So we're likely to only get reviews of the reference design before the 27th with custom AIB GTX 1080 cards coming later at $599.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Cards Already In Reviewers Hands - Beautiful Box Art Revealed

A lucky few including friend of the site Jason Evangelho - PC Tech contributing editor at Forbes - have already received their GeForce GTX 1080 review sample. The box GTX 1080 box maintains theemblematic look and feel of the Nvidia GeForce brand. Displaying the name of the card in bold silver and green letters with the famous "Insipired By Gamers, Built By Nvidia" tag line below.

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— Radeon Jason ✈️ E3 (@killyourfm) May 8, 2016

But of course you're not overly interested in the box but what's inside it. With Independent benchmarks andreviews stilltwo weeks away and actual product launch roughly three weeks away, you'll need something to quinch your thirst for more GTX 1080 information. Fortunately andlucky for us we don't have to wait until the 17th or the 27th to tell youall about not only what's inside the box, but what's inside the GPU itself that's powering the GTX 1080. Nvidia's latest and most refined CUDA graphics architecture yet Pascal.

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