Pascal · 2017
The GTX 1080 Ti was NVIDIA's flagship desktop Pascal card, launched in 2017 with a huge 3584-core GPU, 11GB of GDDR5X memory and a 352-bit bus delivering 484 GB/s of bandwidth - specs well beyond anything that shipped in a laptop from this generation.
Drawing up to 250W over a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, it was built for 4K gaming and high-end desktop workstation use, not portability. It shows up here purely as a reference point for comparing against the mobile Pascal chips (1060/1070/1080) that power actual gaming laptops.
Smooth 1440p gaming and solid creative app performance.
11 GB GDDR5X memory.
Push performance beyond base clock.
PCIe 3.0 x16
Mainstream desktop power draw with solid headroom for upgrades.
The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti is a upper mid-range dedicated GPU with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, suited to mainstream gaming and everyday graphics tasks.