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Geforce Pascal Review thread

Mei said:
no it was a trick with vsync
i said it at the time, and i spotted it when drunk so shame on them guys lol
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Hardware Canucks found their card throttling a bit at Stock speeds once it got to 82 degrees. What?!

So much for this improved Vapor Chamber cooler they touted. My 980Ti Superclocked card has a reference cooler and doesn't downclock at all. Even when rendering for hours on end. The 1080 is a 180w card. :/

I can't say I'm impressed by the card overall really. I expected more from it and Pascal.
 
Baboonanza said:
Only on this site can you find a £500+ GPU being called mid-range! It's absurd.
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I don't see why it's absurd, apart from the price side of things. The 1070 an 1080 are in the middle of the range. 1080Ti and whatever the Titan may be are the high range.

Though i admit it does depend on how you view it.

1080 could be high range but you'd have to call the 1080Ti and Titan equivalent Ultra range or some ****.

Or you could view "range" purely on price or performance over all cards available on the market.
 
Midrange budget imo would be 150 quid not 500 quid+

I find it sickening that gfx cards are costing hundreads and getting nearer and nearer to the start of thousands. Just for playing a bloomin computer game.. For fun when ur bored.. I remember when a geforce 2 mx was like £25 or somit. A 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 pci was £70 (high end ish at the time) and then gf3 came along costing £300 notes which not many bought.

Miss the days when gpus were cheap but good. Yes there more complex now but the fabs once setup right churn them out cheaply. They are passing the costs of development onto the consumer which is bad, i mean R&D yes probably costs a bunch more than it did 20 years ago but damnit dont R&D so much then. :p

For those that either dont work cant work or have low paying jobs, are getting exluded more and more and only those that live either down south where they get more income or have better jobs are lapping these expensive cards up while not really a lot of those but when you come on the forums and see the same people that brag or talk about the highend ones more than lower end it really gets things in perspective.

In another 5-10 years, gaming will be too expensive i reckon to even bother upgrading. I blame the game devs too tho, making too many expensive high budget games where you need good gpus to get 60fps 1080p. They need to start a movement to downgrade them so more ppl can play them at nice fps but without needing new gpus etc. Will not happen but lol. I bet in time not now but some time down the line ppl will be wondering about that and hoping they do it.
 
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N19h7m4r3 said:
Hardware Canucks found their card throttling a bit at Stock speeds once it got to 82 degrees. What?!

So much for this improved Vapor Chamber cooler they touted. My 980Ti Superclocked card has a reference cooler and doesn't downclock at all. Even when rendering for hours on end. The 1080 is a 180w card. :/

I can't say I'm impressed by the card overall really. I expected more from it and Pascal.
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Unless you are using a custom BIOS then you are wrong! The 980Ti and the Titan X both begin to thermal throttle at 65c in increments of 7mhz I think.

EDIT: it might be increments of 13mhz actually now I think about it.
 
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That's some serious performance and such a nice looking power usage. Shame about the price though, hopefully the 1070 will be kinder to our wallets.

Really don't see the point in the FE though, the cooling doesn't seem to be that brilliant.
 
Decent but will keep my Titan X until the 1080Ti as frankly it chews up most games at 1440p. The pricing is becoming quite obscene though and that's coming from someone who droped 900 on the TX at launch.
 
Baboonanza said:
Only on this site can you find a £500+ GPU being called mid-range! It's absurd.
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That is in reference to the chip design and core size. The price is very much high end, because from a performance perspective it is by far the fastest GPU money can buy. Thus nvidia can charge a premium and enjoy massive margins.


Once the actual high end cards come out (1080ti) the vanilla 1080 will drop in price to reflect its mid-range status.
 
Gregster said:
I remember all the way back to the GTX 8800 Ultra and its cost of $800 + dollars :eek:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2222
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Graphics cards have been stationary or inf act reducing in cost when you factor in inflation.

There were times when graphics cards would cost thousands of pounds in today money.


16 years ago Nvidia released a Geforce 2 Ultra which would cost $700 in today money. 12 years ago the AMD X850 also cost $700 in todays money.
 
Five.Stars said:
Unless you are using a custom BIOS then you are wrong! The 980Ti and the Titan X both begin to thermal throttle at 65c in increments of 7mhz I think.

EDIT: it might be increments of 13mhz actually now I think about it.
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Really?! You sure about that?

I thought it was more like 80ish degrees?

The GM200 throttles it's boost at 84 degrees, and at 92 degrees it throttles the stock speeds
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Rossi~ said:
I don't see why it's absurd, apart from the price side of things. The 1070 an 1080 are in the middle of the range. 1080Ti and whatever the Titan may be are the high range.

Though i admit it does depend on how you view it.

1080 could be high range but you'd have to call the 1080Ti and Titan equivalent Ultra range or some ****.

Or you could view "range" purely on price or performance over all cards available on the market.
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This is a pointless argument of course but I don't see how you can call the current fastest GPU 'mid-range'. You could perhaps make that argument AFTER the TI and Titan are released but not before, and even then the 1080 would IMO still be high-end unless the price drops hugely. Arguing otherwise is like saying that a £400,000 super car is 'mid-range' just because the McLaren P1 exists.

Best to drop the whole thing as OT though really :)
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Hardware Canucks found their card throttling a bit at Stock speeds once it got to 82 degrees. What?!

So much for this improved Vapor Chamber cooler they touted. My 980Ti Superclocked card has a reference cooler and doesn't downclock at all. Even when rendering for hours on end. The 1080 is a 180w card. :/

I can't say I'm impressed by the card overall really. I expected more from it and Pascal.
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the chip runs HOT at them clocks
all those short benchmark runs with a card that can throttle over time are pointless, we dont game for 2minutes, we game for hours..

who wants a card just good enough to cheat benchmarks, custom cards should be better! i want to see where the limit is with good cooling <3
 
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