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

Gigabyte extreme looks like it will be better than the "founders" but probably at the same MSRP as the founders.
 
btw LOL at that card and the box.

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Looks like the big gains nvidea said around async was lies barley any difference from Maxwell first benches out in ashes async over at mobi picker
 
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Premption uses context switching just to clarify that is what Pascal uses as a scheduler.

They've made a few changes to the dma engines, shared memory access, etc. to minimise the impact or need to resort to context switching.

Yes they are still behind AMD in terms of hardware implementation here - but it isn't a case of nVidia are (entirely) software emulating async or "don't have async" as some claim (and yes as you say the scheduler frontend is done in software - not trying to claim that isn't heh).
 
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Whatever happens i think it best to wait for real world gaming benches before ordering or buying anything. Also wait for Polaris too. Polaris 10 may not be aimed at 1080 but I think Vega will be gunning for it. With Async and DX12 it will be a fascinating contest in the near future for sure. Pascal is looking like Maxwell on 16nmFF with some extra features.
 
Whatever happens i think it best to wait for real world gaming benches before ordering or buying anything. Also wait for Polaris too. Polaris 10 may not be aimed at 1080 but I think Vega will be gunning for it. With Async and DX12 it will be a fascinating contest in the near future for sure. Pascal is looking like Maxwell on 16nmFF with some extra features.

Yeah I don't have particularly high hopes for async on Pascal but I find it funny how people are so quick to write it off before we've even seen any real proper benchmarks of how it handles more advanced DX12 type stuff.
 
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