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I wouldn't have thought that 980ti owners would have been especially interested in GP104 cards. Not so much a sidegrade but a minor upgrade, especially at current prices.
Something a bit wrong Max OC to Max OC on my 1080 vs 980Ti was 20-30% about 1501 vs 2101. Not a huge jump no. Not up to the hype anyway.
TXP is a good 30% faster still.
I wouldn't have thought that 980ti owners would have been especially interested in GP104 cards. Not so much a sidegrade but a minor upgrade, especially at current prices.
Because you have a Pascal card![]()
Correct, for me at least. At this moment in time I'm content to wait for Volta. Even if 1080ti does rock up, what's it's going to cost? £850, £900? My 980ti isn't being pushed hard enough to justify it.
Ebaying a 980ti for 300 though is not as good.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9086285
gtx 1080 positives
- less heat runs cooler ( on water )
- less power
- more support, maxwell now ended
- few extra features like better memory compression etc
that said a maxwell 980 ti or titan x is still a badazz card and the only reason I went 1080 was because my titan x was too hot when overvolted/custom bios
Maxwell support ending doesn't suddenly render the card a useless paperweight.
I don't think anyone is saying the 1080 isn't a great card, it's just a pointless upgrade for most 980ti/Titan X owners.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9086285
gtx 1080 positives
- less heat runs cooler ( on water )
- less power
- more support, maxwell now ended
- few extra features like better memory compression etc
that said a maxwell 980 ti or titan x is still a badazz card and the only reason I went 1080 was because my titan x was too hot when overvolted/custom bios
My metric for high end is pushing the limits of what is possible - between using barely half its available thermo/electrical budget, GP100 showing much bigger cores are posible and that aside from the VRAM modules most of the parts on the PCB are more commonly found on mid range GPUs I struggle to take it seriously as "high end".
Gotta love Nvidia's marketing. Don't tell me you believe that R&D line about Pascal costing billions in research? It's plainly just Maxwell spiced up and with Volta coming in early 2017 according to the latest rumours, Pascal is just a stop gap. Look at how quick they are releasing the Pascal parts, getting them all out before more solid info about Volta appears and cuts into their sales.
Rroff is right, but, nobody wants to hear about their £600 cards been mid range.
For the high end "pushing the limits of what is possible"
That would be a 5000 CUDA core 375w card (that is the limits of power)
So no the top end cards are built to be "good enough" eg. 30% faster. To be "worth upgrade"... Not "pushing the limit of what is possible".
Your definition of 'high end' is ridiculous. Sure NVIDIA could have released a big die Pascal product first but it would have been prohibitively expensive and in very short supply. The P100 has not yet been released, is itself not a fully enabled die and is expected to cost upwards of $5,899. The fact that 1070's and 1080's were in short supply some time after their respective releases and that some people are still waiting for some SKU's after the release of a successor flagship product (The Pascal Titan X) shows that NVIDIA DID PUSH THE LIMITS FOR A VOLUME HIGH END PRODUCT
Rroff's version of 'high end' doesn't actually exist in reality.... (certainly not at anything other than an exorbitant price)
The 1080 was just about 'good enough' for a volume released high end product any attempts to make it bigger/better etc would have made it more expensive to develop an make and likely reduced the already constrained supply to boot.
Just because the 1080 doesn't use 300 watts of power doesn't mean that it wasn't pretty close to the optimum GPU NVIDIA could have released at the time because other parameters(i.e. like die yields) could easily be the constraining factor. If mass power consumption is your main parameter for 'high end' then there's always AMD cards to fill the role currently.....