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

[JediFragger]

That one is more plausible than the other vids.

33% faster seems to be in line with what we have been told so far and is around what I am expecting.

Yup, and the only problem I have is the biiiiiiig clockspeed increase seems to be doing the heavy lifting!! Hopefully it overclocks like a monster to make up for it....

 

[Jono8]

Yup, and the only problem I have is the biiiiiiig clockspeed increase seems to be doing the heavy lifting!! QUOTE]

So what?

The max you are realistically going to get out a 980Ti without getting exotic cooling and winning the silicon lottery is ~1500mhz. Nvidia have already shown a 1080 capable of 2.1ghz on air and running nice and cool and I would be extremely surprised if that is the max anyone is going to be getting out of one of these.

 

[andybird123]

Yup, and the only problem I have is the biiiiiiig clockspeed increase seems to be doing the heavy lifting!! QUOTE]

So what?

The max you are realistically going to get out a 980Ti without getting exotic cooling and winning the silicon lottery is ~1500mhz. Nvidia have already shown a 1080 capable of 2.1ghz on air and running nice and cool and I would be extremely surprised if that is the max anyone is going to be getting out of one of these.

Yeah, talk about setting expectations. If nvidia themselves say a reference model can do 2100 on a blower, even a vapour chamber one, that sets expactations quite a bit higher for full custom cards

 

[Ayahuasca]

I expect 2300 under water with bios mods.

 

[JediFragger]

Yeah, talk about setting expectations. If nvidia themselves say a reference model can do 2100 on a blower, even a vapour chamber one, that sets expactations quite a bit higher for full custom cards

3 words: Cherry picked

 

[Ayahuasca]

They did say the card on show wasn't cherry picked but we know never to believe nVidia.

 

[Gregster]

If mine doesn't do 2.1Ghz, I would be gutted in truth.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

I don't know what the obsession is with 4k when 2K 100hz gsync Superwide ****** all over it ...

4k 60hz 16.9 sounds lame.

Got the 4k 60hz 16:9 T-shirt, threw it in the bin when I got the 21:9 1440p T-shirt

 

[Jono8]

3 words: Cherry picked

Yes, but you could argue to get a 980Ti to do 1500mhz completely stable in everything it would need to be cherry picked. There seem to be plenty of people that struggle to go much beyond 1400mhz.

A lot of people seems to be acting like a 980Ti that can do a lot over 1400mhz is an absolute given when it is not.

 

[JediFragger]

They did say the card on show wasn't cherry picked but we know never to believe nVidia.

Yeah, I wouldn't believe a word of it tbh.

Probably meant that he didn't *personally* cherry pick it, and that he got a monkey to do it

 

[Phixsator]

I think 20-25% is the most you will se on average a 1080 overclock. Which will put it around 2100-2200 area. Its been like this for kepler and maxwell and i dont see the trend stopping now. Only thing that could break this trend if i had to make a guess is the transition to finfet. Going to be interesting reading some proper reviews.

 

[maonayze]

JayzTwoCents said that there is apparently no cherry picking with the Founders (Read:Reference) edition models. That does not say that Nvidia didnt cherry pick one for that demo though. Lets be honest...If it was my card launch I would get the best one to demo too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0AoYSH01g

Them there Nvidia users needs the "Mine goes up to 11" edition.

 

[JediFragger]

Got the 4k 60hz 16:9 T-shirt, threw it in the bin when I got the 21:9 1440p T-shirt

Fairy muff

Tbh I've been switching between them for a couple of months now and just couldn't make up my mind. 2 days ago I was def keeping the X34, and last night I changed my mind again! Arrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!

I just need to sell one and I'll be happy

 

[sam77]

nvidia will want to milk the cash cow as long as possible so they will not release better cards for a while
they know that people only need to buy a single gfx from them to be able to play anything they want, so they want to make sure the first iterations of their new architecture are gimped beyond measure of what they are really capable of achieving

 

[sam77]

It's ok dude, we all got ****ed by nVidia

no, some of us could actually wait for the die shrink...

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

People can always wait a month or two for pricing and availability to settle. After all we are heading to summer,so I expect most people will be spending more time outdoors anyway.

 

[Mackey18]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what do you guys think of the 8GB VRAM on the 1080? Think this is enough for 4k or for future proofing 1440p?

 

[Wrinkly]

3 words: Cherry picked

That's only 2

(unless you are working for Nvidia's marketing team in which case that would be 3 Asynchronous words viewed through Simultaneous Multi-Projection )

 

[Smurfin]

People can always wait a month or two for pricing and availability to settle. After all we are heading to summer,so I expect most people will be spending more time outdoors anyway.

^ This!

I've been tempted to shift my SLI 970s but I'm thinking I might as well wait a few months as I'm going to be outside more than in! (I don't really game much during the summer).

 

[Smurfin]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what do you guys think of the 8GB VRAM on the 1080? Think this is enough for 4k or for future proofing 1440p?

The word "GPU purchase" and "future proofing" don't go well together!

No-one can answer that until the benchmarks are out, but not only that, it all depends what VRAM future game releases will use!