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

I just watched the press conference and one minute Jensen is saying it's faster than 980 sli then he's saying it's faster than titan x sli. Did I misinterpret?
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
I just watched the press conference and one minute Jensen is saying it's faster than 980 sli then he's saying it's faster than titan x sli. Did I misinterpret?
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In non-VR applications, it's only faster than 980 SLI. In VR applications, it's faster than Titan X SLI.
 
D.P. said:
All this nonsense that nvidia had to rush out a simple die-shrink of Maxwell is hilarious
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They've made changes in Pascal to make it more suitable for higher frequencies - Pentium-4 strings into mind, they can only get away with it because of the new process.

Either way it's going to be a big increase in performance, much much better than +5% on CPUs, so let's be grateful for what we get!
 
Nvidia: The Geforce GTX 1080 Graphics Card Can Do Asynchronous Compute

The Async Compute problem is probably one of the most controversial issues surrounding the older generation of Geforce graphics cards from Nvidia. Something very interesting, however, is present in the press release that they sent out to, well, the press. According to the official statement, the GTX 1080 is fully capable of performing Async Compute. If this turns out to be true, then this will give negate a major edge that Radeon graphics cards from AMD have enjoyed this past year.
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http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-asynchronous-compute/
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Single one for me, SLi and Xfires gash :D
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Think this is going be the first time am going back to a single GPU in how many years..:eek:
I loved my SLI setups and think they worked great but now I don't game very much at all it just not worth splashing out that amount of cash for SLI..

My SLI setups through the years
SLI 7800 GTX
SLI 8800 GTX
SLI GTX 275
SLI GTX 580
SLI GTX 780ti


The 7800gtx was released back in 2005 (About 11 years ago :eek: )
 
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DarrenM343 said:
Pascal was over 2 years in the making apparently, 7000 people involved and billions of $. As they were first to market with the last gen I expect they probably started on the next gen before the competition did who were already struggling to get something to market.
The competition who have lost market share over the last few years are hardly going to claw that back if they are behind the curve of release and when they do bring something to the table it just able matches in some aspects (give or take a water cooler to help).I'm hoping AMD do spring a surprise this time around but i fear not.

I dunno, the 1080 is what 400 cores down on the TItan x yet faster, apparently by 20%+
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It doesn't matter how they spin it, Pascal was a rushed compromise and didn't exist ~2 years ago. They cancelled a uarch i forget the name of nearly 3 years ago, and moved Volta forwards from its already slightly delayed ETA to fill the gap. Then they announced that Volta had been pushed back at least another 18 months, and that 'Pascal' would fill the gap.

Since then there has been much speculation about it being a half way house between Maxwell (non-asynchrous and non-parallel) to Volta (much more GCN-like).

The reality is that Pascal is quite clearly FINFET Maxwell.

Huge clocks (which add to TDP and probably significantly reduce useful life) can't make up for an architecture that's already looking long in the tooth, and is now expected to last well into 2018. Software tricks like Multi-Projection aren't going to cut it.

It's now abundantly clear why that Stardock developer implied that Pascal wouldn't be efficient enough for certain applications, and Polaris would ... high clocks are NVIDIA's only weapon.
 
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