The Box and Packaging
Ah yes, it’s the usual yellow coloured box and packaging from Zotac. This time it’s slightly smaller. As with all GeForce GTX 1080 Ti’s … 11GB of GDDR5X comes as standard.
Inside the box, you’ll find the graphics card itself, nicely wrapped in some anti-static bubble bag. Also included are two 8-pin PCI-E power extension cables, a driver DVD and a quick start guide.
The Card Itself
The graphics card itself is really small, and looks some what cute. only a little bit bigger than the size of my palm, and roughly the size of two mugs. Remember, it’s a full blown GeForce GTX 1080 Ti inside!
Dual fans help cool the card, while the solid backplate helps with heat dissipation and provides shielding for the PCB circuit board. The Zotac logo features RGB LEDs which lights up when plugged into the system. The RGB lighting effects are controlled by Zotac’s Firestorm software.
A Closer Look
As far as connectivity is concerned, you get 1 x DVI, 3 x DisplayPort and 1 x HDMI. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti’s are really power hungry, so you’ll need to have 2 x 8-pin PCI-E power cables plugged in.
The heatsink comes with 4 heatpipes which covers the whole card and you can see that the GDDR5X ram is made by Micron.
Installation
Because of its size, the installation is super easy … just make sure you plug in both 8-pin PCI-E power cables.
I can really see this card being extremely popular among enthusiast gamers who wish to build a high-end mini gaming PC or even extreme HTPC users … after all, it is the world’s smallest GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
