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It's never been a better time to be a PC gamer. Hardware is getting both cheaper and more powerful, most big-budget console games are making it to PCs (where they also look better), and the rise of virtual reality offers a tempting upgrade target. NVIDIA, one of the pioneering graphics card designers, is taking full advantage of this revitalized PC gaming market with the , its latest powerhouse GPU. It's the first consumer card built on the company's Pascal architecture, and most intriguingly, NVIDIA claims the $599 video card ($699 for the special "Founder's Edition") is faster than the , which goes for upwards of $1,000. After testing it out over the past week, I can say the 1080 is clearly something special.
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