GPUs used to be just GPUs, but over the years as gaming rigs started to get fancy, so did GPUs where manufacturers started to add things like lights, thus helping to “complete” the typical gamer’s rig where there are ton of flashing LEDs for just about every component available.
However a Chinese company by the name of Colorful might have taken things to the next level because it seems that in their version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti that was recently announced, the company decided to slap on a built-in LCD display. Yup, as you can see in the image above courtesy of Videocardz, there is an LCD display in the side of the GPU.
Now you might be wondering what’s the use of the LCD display, and it seems that it will be used to display important information such as the clockspeed, GPU usage, current temperature, and the fan status. This will come in handy if your computer or game is suddenly lagging and you’re wondering if the GPU might be the cause of it.
Things like temperature and fan speed are also important if you want to prolong its lifespan as you don’t want it running too hot if you can help it. No word on whether or not Colorful’s GTX 1080 Ti will be finding its way stateside, but apparently it will be launching next month in China.
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