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The amount of time on 28nm kind of skews that a bit.
The whole focus and approach with Volta is different to what people generally think. Volta is not what people think it is.
You still have not answered.. what exactly do you know about Volta that other people do not? You make these cryptic posts "it will not be what you expect" but do not say anything more than that.
From what I have gathered it looks to be a bigger redesign - Pascal is more a stopgap uarch it appears whereas Volta is probably more a Maxwell or Kepler level change.
Remember,the earlier roadmaps said Maxwell to Volta. It also looks like Polaris is more of the same on the AMD side.
Yes but he was saying it as if Volta will not be any good for gaming or something.
It could be Rroff has some more information we don't(think he is a dev??).
The 1080 is out my price range so had been looking at the 1070's but Im still considering a 2nd hand 980ti.
Ive currently got a shot of my mates 780ti while my 970 is away under RMA for the 2nd time and the 780ti benchmarks better than the 970 and is faster in GTA V also.
Being honest after using my mates 780ti Im really disappointed with my 970..
Not these days.
I don't know substantially more than anyone else but the people I know that do know are having a right laugh at the current rumours/speculation and hinting that people are so wrong on what they are assuming with Volta.
Not these days.
I don't know substantially more than anyone else but the people I know that do know are having a right laugh at the current rumours/speculation and hinting that people are so wrong on what they are assuming with Volta.
Not these days.
I don't know substantially more than anyone else but the people I know that do know are having a right laugh at the current rumours/speculation and hinting that people are so wrong on what they are assuming with Volta.
Ah,OK. The only thing we have seen about Volta,is that it might be quite compute focussed since ORNL are using them.
I do wonder if Volta will be a separate compute focussed line for commerical usage and Nvidia will stick with Pascal for the time-being and improve on that??
Speculation is fun!!
But there is a lot of speculation that volta will be a gaming card and they have to release something at some point, but maybe because the competition from AMD is so poor at the moment that they will just release this pascal refresh on 14nm.
Well we don't know what AMD has up their sleave though,so we need to wait and see!
Plus,these things take time,so any refresh would have been in motion even before the current launches IMHO.
If Nvidia is using 14NM,I expect its either down to cost or supply issues as they would need to spend money redesigning parts of the chip for a new process.
I suspect Samsung has more spare capacity after loosing the Apple contracts so that is why they are probably trying to find more customers.
4 pages of arguing :
GTX980Ti or GTX1080
Maxwell vs Pascal
What should be called mid range what high end.
Many of you in here, even talk about power consumption which I find irrelevant when we spend £300+ for a graphic card and overclock them on top.....
Less heat certainly, but less noise isn't a guarantee as cards with higher TDPs tend to have much better coolers attached to them. Having owned a couple of 1070s (MSI Gaming X and EVGA FTW) and a Sapphire Fury Nitro recently, the latter was every bit as quiet as the 1070s, despite consuming a good 70W or so more under load. Of course, that extra heat still has to go somewhere, but with an exceptionally-designed cooler like the one on the Nitro it won't cost you anything in terms of acoustics.so lower TDP = less heat and noise
With TDP, it is not so much the power bills (although that is a bonus), but the heat and noise, so lower TDP = less heat and noise, which is definitely good, look at the TXP for example the cooler is not good enough at all, even a custom cooler would struggle with that card to keep the temps and noise low.