Zotac announces a GTX 1080 Mini, ready for CES 2017

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In less than a week CES 2017 will start, which PC hardware companies traditionally use to present their products for the first months of the year.

The po[CENSORED]r card manufacturer Zotac will show at the show its new line of mini PCs, the first with Thunderbolt 3 connection, a new Intel all-in-one connector that supports USB Type C, PCIe, DisplayPort, HDMI, etc. .

But its most interesting announcement is a GTX 1080 Mini, which Zotac calls "the most compact GTX 1080 card in the world." And of course, there is no reason: the new Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini is really small:

Especially if you compare it with Zotac's standard GTX 1080 model:

Many PC gamers want to install a powerful graphics card in their computer, but they can not do so because they have a compact PC or a mini PC that does not offer space to install a GTX 1070 or 1080 card of great length. By reducing the length the new Zotac GTX 1080 Mini opens to a new market hitherto vetoed to high-end chips.

That yes, although it reduces its length does not happen the same with the thickness. You still need two free slots on your PC

The big question is: what has Zotac had to cut to reduce the size of its GTX 1080 Mini almost 30%? The truth is that it has not revealed all its technical features, but those already confirmed are the same as a standard GTX 1080. It will maintain the same CUDA Cores as the standard version, 2560, with a base speed of 1620 Mhz, and a boost mode at 1759 Mhz. The memory speed is 10 GHz, and uses a 256-bit data bus. It will come equipped with 8 GB of GDDR5X memory.

No details have been given of a possible feature cut, nor the price or release date. All this data will be revealed in CES 2017.