Our friends from HardwareCanucks put together a recap of all the upcoming Gigabyte motherboards, graphics cards and peripherals the vendor presented at this years CES. Interestingly, in their three minute video, they’ve shown a yet unreleased card and speculations are that this could be an upcoming custom GTX 1080 Ti. The card at hand features a triple slot heatsink and the video shows a dense aluminum fin stack that has been combined with three fans. The entire cooler has been covered with black shroud that's been made from metal. Additionally there is a solid back plate featuring the Aorus logo.
Since all the latest Gigabyte Aorus motherboards have been equipped with an armada of LEDs for RGB lighting, we expect something similar for this massive pixel accelerator. Looking at the power connectors, we see two 8-pin plugs, suggesting that this is either a custom GeForce GTX 1080 or maybe even a GTX 1080 Ti.
Apparently this is a high-end graphics cards and the guys from HardwareCanucks mentioned that first reviews should hit the net by Spring 2017. Since the latest rumors suggest that NVIDIA might launch their GTX 1080 Ti at Pax East 2017, which takes place in March it appears likely that we’re really talking about a custom GTX 1080 Ti from Gigabyte.
Last but not least, we’d like to add something in regards to the cooler. If Gigabyte is really going to release a card with a triple slot cooler, we honestly don’t understand why they’re doing so. The latest air coolers for GPUs are capable enough to handle the heat generated by high-end graphics cards. So why would you come up with a triple slot monster that’s just blocking slots? We would certainly not understand that logic.
