** NVIDIA GTX 1080 FOUNDERS EDITION: WANNA PRE-ORDER?

dbmzk1 said:
It's not a mid range card though is it. It's very much a high end card and everyone knew it would be at least £500 but £630 is taking the biscuit.
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It's a mid range card. If this was released during the Fermi, it would be called a 560Ti. All that Nvidia has done is change the name so people think they are buying a high end card.
 
melmac said:
It's a mid range card. If this was released during the Fermi, it would be called a 560Ti. All that Nvidia has done is change the name so people think they are buying a high end card.
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On top of this, they've slapped a whopping great premium on a basic reference card, which is only going to allow AIB's to charge more for their custom cards! The whole thing reeks of greed.

You'll get people arguing that it IS a top high end card though, because it's the fastest card you can currently get... well duh! Doesn't change its overall tier position in their line-up with the 1080Ti inevitable in 6 months or so (maybe sooner if VEGA gets brought up). It's no different to the 980 in that sense. Going to be interesting to see people try to defend the £800+ price tag the 1080Ti gets slapped with when it's released, then the £1K+ when HBM2 cards arrive on the scene. :rolleyes:
 
MichaelAwkward said:
I'm confused. Since when were the 980 cards mid range? The 970 was low end then? What about everything below that? Entry level?
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GT is low-end and mainstream.

GTX is high-end, lots of GPU's carry GTX monica, for example a 750 is a GTX so this is consider the low-end of gaming GPU's but in the overall stack is actually mid-range.

A quick over-view would suggest:

GTX
1080 - High-end, current fastest.
980Ti - High-end, not far off 1080
980 - High-end
970 - High-end
960 - Mid-end
950 - Mid-end
750Ti - Low-end
750 - Low-end

GT
Really low-end stuff, though can still play basic games at 1080P or fine for multimedia etc.
 
That makes more sense, although I'd say the 970 was mid-end as well, just, since there's usually much more of a gap in pricing between it and the x80 cards compared to the x60 cards. High-mid-end :p.

Anyone suggesting the 1080 isn't high end is just being daft.
 
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Hi there

Also to clarify our FREE shipping offer voucher code also extends to both Saturday and Sunday delivery for UK mainland. :)
 
MichaelAwkward said:
I'm confused. Since when were the 980 cards mid range? The 970 was low end then? What about everything below that? Entry level? That makes no sense.
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The 980 and 970 are both mid range. They are both based on the GP104 chip. The high end will be based on the GP100 chip. All Nvidia have done is changed the names of the cards and has everyone believing they are high end cards.

This post explains it better

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29526440&postcount=542
 
I assume the voucher code will be emailed out to those who registered interest? Apologies if I've missed the info.
EDIT:Found it now

Nvidia are expecting to shift A LOT of Pascal cards in the coming months - it's full steam ahead on the production line apparently. :D
 
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Legend said:
On top of this, they've slapped a whopping great premium on a basic reference card, which is only going to allow AIB's to charge more for their custom cards! The whole thing reeks of greed.

You'll get people arguing that it IS a top high end card though, because it's the fastest card you can currently get... well duh! Doesn't change its overall tier position in their line-up with the 1080Ti inevitable in 6 months or so (maybe sooner if VEGA gets brought up). It's no different to the 980 in that sense. Going to be interesting to see people try to defend the £800+ price tag the 1080Ti gets slapped with when it's released, then the £1K+ when HBM2 cards arrive on the scene. :rolleyes:
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No decent games have been released recently that require anything more than a R9 290 or GTX 970 for 1440p @60hz minimum so I'll just wait for Polaris to make Nvidia have to bring the big chips to the table, no point in paying all this as I can see these cards being worth £150-£200 used in a year.
 
Do you guys play die size or bus bandwidth on your computers?

Do you spend hours looking at a naked PCB thinking this would be so much better if only the GPU was a little larger and had more connections to the surrounding memory chips?

If you do actually play games on a computer with a GPU in it do you find the gaming experience more satisfying playing with a GTX 8800 Ultra, an apparent 'high end card' with its 480 mm² die size, 384 Bit memory bus and $830+ (680 pounds inc VAT) launch price or with a relatively cheap GTX 960 with its obviously inferior 128 bit bus and 227mm² die size?

Or do you actually just play games and run other software on a computer and therefore understand that the 1080 is (soon to be) the current fastest single consumer GPU on the market regardless of how big the GPU die is, how wide the memory bus is and what GPU's NVidia will release potentially down the line and that its incredibly perverse therefore, in the current market, to call it 'mid range'
 
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melmac said:
It's a mid range card. If this was released during the Fermi, it would be called a 560Ti. All that Nvidia has done is change the name so people think they are buying a high end card.
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No, it's NOT a mid range card.

Performance wise, it's better than ANY of their existing current range. This is their new flagship card. It's a DIRECT replacement for the existing 980 & Titan ranges, which are high end.

Yes, there will probably be faster ones. But until they exist, this is the very best from Nvidia, the highest of the high end.
 
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