Does GTX 1070 SLI look like a better buy than the GTX 1080?

[Brazo]

But the problem is the GTX1080 has a massive gap over the GTX1070. The GTX670 in comparison destroyed the GTX580 and was quite close to the GTX680. Even the GTX970 was quite close to the GTX980.

Nvidia has made sure,that the 70 series card this generation won't be making the 80 series card sweat that much.

I would agree very little difference between a 970 and 980

 

[skywalker909]

what people don't realise and reviewers don't say is that there is much more to great gaming experience than just brute forced fps. You can have 100+ fps but your brain will be still telling you "it aint smooth"

so yes you can have day 1 sli support etc but the experience will be meh. You may not realise it unless you see buttery smooth gameplay
But sometimes sli worked great (tomb raider, shadow warrior) and when that happened it was amazing....Reminiscence of this experience makes me want to buy a more powerfull card. But I won't do sli again for sure.

 

[smogsy]

Only one DX12 game supports SLI, that can't be ignored. I'm happy the experience is good for you and all of your games work with it properly. I just don't understand why some SLI users try to ignore that there are several big recent games with no support and this is part of using dual GPU. How do they benefit from seemingly pretending there are no potential negatives of dual gpu support. I've tried the 6990, 690, 7990 and 295x2 and I will never try and portray that it's problem free.

Whatever developer or NVIDIA excuse there is, it's just not a given SLI will work day one and that's a fact that shouldn't be ignored or played down with "all my games work fine".



Yes but it's a shame that "soon" is anyone's guess. Until then it's not fun stroking your powerful SLI setup that uses only one GPU in some of the latest games.

thats why ive gone 980s to 1080.

for DX12 but he said SLi in the past which has been fine

 

[RanxZy]

thats why ive gone 980s to 1080.

for DX12 but he said SLi in the past which has been fine

Yeah well fair enough, because admittedly SLI is well supported by most big games of the past.

 

[smogsy]

i most lely will be getting a 2nd 1080 depends on fps at 4K

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Is that weird or surprising? It does cost much less

The past is the past, things change.

It really isn't that massive, on average it's about 80% the performance for a lot less than 80% of the price.. I'm not sure what you were expecting. It's faster than a TitanX or a 980TI, I've not had an Nvidia card for many years but I'm impressed and it looks great on balance.

Remember,the GTX480 and GTX580 were the Titan and 80TI cards of their days.

Nvidia and AMD have progressively bumped up the top end cards from £400 to £500 to £700 in the last few years,with the Fury,Titan and 80TI brand names.

Both the GTX470 and GTX670 were around 20% faster than the GTX285 and GTX580.

According to TPU the GTX680 was only 10% faster than a GTX670.

The GTX970 traded blows with a GTX780TI/Titan Black for less money(in both dollars and pounds),dropped power consumption and was on the same node.

The GTX1070 cannot even do that. Remember,this is a better the one node shrink. The TSMC 16NM and GF/Samsung 14NM process nodes are third generation 20NM based processes.

So after 4 years on 28NM,people are amazed that the GTX1070 can just about match the Titan X??

This pretty much means the £250 GTX1060 and Polaris 10 won't be significantly faster than a GTX980 or R9 390X otherwise they will be way too close to the GTX1070.

It pretty much means probably another 20% increase.

It also means,we need to wait until BOTH the GTX1080TI and Vega10 are released,to put some downwards pressure on the slower cards.

But we can OFC agree to disagree and leave it at that!!

 

[triss]

Remember,the GTX480 and GTX580 were the Titan and 80TI cards of their days.

Nvidia and AMD have progressively bumped up the top end cards from £400 to £500 to £700 in the last few years,with the Fury,Titan and 80TI brand names.

Both the GTX470 and GTX670 were around 20% faster than the GTX285 and GTX580.

According to TPU the GTX680 was only 10% faster than a GTX670.

The GTX970 traded blows with a GTX780TI/Titan Black for less money(in both dollars and pounds),dropped power consumption and was on the same node.

The GTX1070 cannot even do that. Remember,this is a better the one node shrink. The TSMC 16NM and GF/Samsung 14NM process nodes are third generation 20NM based processes.

So after 4 years on 28NM,people are amazed that the GTX1070 can just about match the Titan X??

This pretty much means the £250 GTX1060 and Polaris 10 won't be significantly faster than a GTX980 or R9 390X otherwise they will be way too close to the GTX1070.

It pretty much means probably another 20% increase.

It also means,we need to wait until BOTH the GTX1080TI and Vega10 are released,to put some downwards pressure on the slower cards.

But we can OFC agree to disagree and leave it at that!!

Power wise and price compared to a titanx 1070 is lot better, benchmark wise we will have to see as more reviews come out, reference titanx vs 1070 from what i've seen are trading blows.

IMO if people want a polaris or 1000 series card buy one , waiting can turn into a mugs game as there will always be something better coming out next year

 

[AllBodies]

I'm quite seriously considering a 1070 OC model (non-SLI) as a stop gap until true high end cards (unless they are priced too close to the 1080s) - paired with a G-Sync screen it should provide more than playable framerates for sub 4K gaming in the meantime.

I think this is the most sensible option.

Especially since the rumour mill has Vega and the 1080Ti coming faster than we expect (as early as October, as late as Q1 next year, on the cards)

 

[Mayh3M]

I'll most likely stick with a single 1080 rather than two 1070s based on benchmarks.

I'm surprised by how many people talk down on SLI though. It really was great from a performance standpoint in my experience using 2x 980 Tis. It also seems to work particularly well in the games where you really need all the power you can get on high resolution, high frame-rate screens., such as GTA V, Assassin's Creed games, Dragon Age Inquisition, Witcher 3, just to name a few. Scaling in these games is excellent.

Heat and noise will always be factors you need to take into consideration though, but the 1070s should be much quieter and cooler than more power hungry setups. Some people swear that micro-stutter makes games unplayable. Others like myself have never experienced any such hindrance to the overall experience of an SLI setup.

 

[Rroff]

I'm surprised by how many people talk down on SLI though.

Some people seem to be basing their opinion on a mix of SLI and CF and there have been times when CF suffered from significantly higher level of microstutter if someone was sensitive to it.

When I had my GTX470 SLI setup I knew a couple of people IRL who were running 6000 series CF setups and the experience was quite different.

My biggest problem at the moment though is that (partly helped by a G-Sync screen) I'm largely not suffering for lack of performance somewhat taking the impetuous off upgrading especially combined with the fact that in the past I've not had to pay more than £400 tops (usually less) to get the kind of jump in performance a 1080 would bring over what I have.

 

[Tropicocity]

The GTX970 traded blows with a GTX780TI/Titan Black for less money(in both dollars and pounds),dropped power consumption and was on the same node.

The GTX1070 cannot even do that. Remember,this is a better the one node shrink. The TSMC 16NM and GF/Samsung 14NM process nodes are third generation 20NM based processes.

Every bench and review I've seen has put the 1070 a few frames ahead of the 980ti, with lower power consumption. Granted, initial pricing isn't that great, but let's not forget that even at £400, the 1070 is still ~£150 cheaper than where the 980ti was at debut. Only OcUK have reduced their 980ti cards to where they should be in terms of price (even then it's still a tad high), everywhere else is still charging £450 for them.

It's not intended to replace the 980ti anyway, it's supposed to replace the 970, and much in the same way the 970 was a better 780ti, the 1070 is a better 980ti, it just needs to come down in price a bit and have full driver support for everything

 

[Five.Stars]

1. Noise, this has not been a issue since the 280GTX, even reference coolers are quiet at 100% load & i hate any type of noise.

Aye if you enjoy massive levels of thermal throttling. To prevent that you need to run an aggressive fan profile.... which is FAR from quiet.

 

[Scania]

I'm very surprised to read of the many SLI issues, I have SLI 580's which are ancient by modern standards and I'm sure new drivers won't be optimised for them yet even running @5760x1080 the only issues I suffer from are due to my lack of VRAM - 1.5Gb - if I wind back to 1920x1080 ie use a single screen instead of surround across three the performance given their age is remarkable, I'm going to be replacing them after my holidays with hopefully a cheap used 980 / ti / Titan Black and go SLI again but from my research it appears more issues with SLI and the newer cards than with the old 580's, I hope I buck the trend again!