Enthusiasts and high-end gamers will have much to celebrate with the GeForce GTX 1080 price cuts as the high-end chips become more affordable at $499 from original $599 price. The card was launched in May 2016 using the GP104 GPU with 2560 CUDA and leveraging on NVIDIA's FinFET architecture for extreme overclocking as demonstrated in its launching. The GTX 1080 has 8GB of the next-generation and faster GDDR5X memory across 256-bit bus with a boost of over 352 GB/s as compared to its 320 GB/s when it first shipped.