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** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **

Yep i am near enough 1500 on stock bios with a G1 i get 1491 but with vrel pref but its stable across games and bench.

With bios mod Core B 1555 8000mem no caps stable in bench but still in testing phase ..as i have not had this G1 for that long...
it starts flaking out at any thing above 1565 requires more juice so the heat and noise is above what i do not like...
So i will more likely stick with 1520 or so to keep fan volts down
 
easyrider: even if not interested in Polaris we should get a good look at all the custom 1080s at computex, assuming all kimonos are not opened on 27th may. I would wait until computex. gregster buckled but he got a YouTube channel to keep happy
 
dessimpson said:
Neither of my Titan-X's will get anywhere near 1500Mhz
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No I think the average speed is about 1400-1450, you will just get everyone at 1500 saying about it, probably 1 in every 50 980ti owners and only the cards like lightning, xtreme gaming etc etc. So comparing that to a reference card is not fair, although the review comparing at 1455/8000 is about right, but I don't think most people would even put their memory at 8000 for 24/7, I know I wouldn't anyway. But yes overall the 1080 look good but will entirely depend on how much they want for them.
 
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1450 is the most you would get 24/7 on a reference 980Ti, with 1500 being the exception rather than the rule. But it is clear the reference 1080 is getting around 2.0 Ghz for sustained gaming, with anything higher being the exception rather than the rule.

I see far too many posts trying to claim the 1080 is a great overclocker, with numbers such as 23% being flung around. The reality is that the average boost clocks are around 1750 with OC of ~2GHz (with more aggresive custom fan profiles). This is in line with most reviews showing ~5%-15% performance gains on OC 1080 over stock. Obvioulsy you will get some golden samples or even some outlier games that OC better but from what I can see the 1080 FE is not that great at overclocking.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,29.html

"The Boost clock will now render at roughly 1950~2050 MHz depending on the power and temperature signature. The GPU will continuously be dynamically altered on voltage and clock frequency to match the power and temperature targets versus the increased core clock. In FireStrike we are now hovering at the 2 GHz marker on the Boost frequency for example, but some games jumped to roughly 2.1 GHz one second and dipped below 2 GHz the other."

What I find puzzling in their OC conclusion is the claim that anything from 5% - 20% extra performance can be expected. Yet their graph shows nowhere near this 20% performance increase. The graph clearly shows no more than ~15%.

In fact even HardOCP OC results show only ~2.06GHz average OC and that is with 100% fan speed.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016...ers_edition_overclocking_preview#.V0RWTORwY-V
"the average new clock speed is 2062MHz versus 1770MHz average clock speed at default operation"

16% OC with a 100% fan setting, and that's not even an actual performance difference. ooooh awesome. :rolleyes:

Better than Fiji I suppose, but it's clearly not as good as reference 980Ti for overclocking potential. Maybe AIB custom cooled versions will be better with the extra power connectors but FE is NOT good overclocker and that's backed up in pretty much most reviews. Even Hardwarecanucks who had the gall to claim "going beyond insanity" shows only a ~13% actual performance gain with their 2.12GHz OC.

Of course ~13% is free performance and not to be sniffed at but please stop the 1080 is an awesome overclocker BS. I think people are seeing 2.0-2.1GHz and thinking "wow, that's a big number" but failing to realise as an actual percentage over stock it's not that great.

FE 1080 - not a great overclocker
Custom cooled AIB versions with better power deliver = wait and see.
 
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Well a reference 980ti needs the fan speed at 80% just to keep at 1200mhz.

Just wait and see what the custom cards are like, then you can make 50000000 word posts about it if you want.
 
easyrider said:
I'm so confused .....

Help
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Simple: Upgrade less often/be smarter with your upgrades. It depends on what exactly you want out of a card, what resolution and what framerate. Hopping from top-end to not-quite-top-end is not as advantageous. From what I've seen, the best way to upgrade is to stick to one particular part of the stack. For best results, one would go with the mid-range x70. But if one has the x80ti, it's best to wait for the next x80ti before upgrading. Patience is a virtue. If one is too impatient, then SLI is an option for much better performance. Even in games with poor SLI scaling, 2 980ti will always outperform a single 1080.

1080 (non-founder's edition) is best upgraded from a 980 or below.

The only exception to this is if one is swimming in money, in which case buy whatever you want, a few hundred quid is probably worth nothing to such a person.

And the funny thing is that many companies like Nvidia have turned impatience into a business. It's like pre-ordering a video game. Buy before you try and enjoy the day 1 issues! Thankfully it's not so bad with GPUs.
 
NirK said:
Well a reference 980ti needs the fan speed at 80% just to keep at 1200mhz.

Just wait and see what the custom cards are like, then you can make 50000000 word posts about it if you want.
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The claim that FE 1080 is not a good overclocker (on existing evidence) is not invalidated because you keep claiming "neither is reference 980Ti".
 
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