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

I found these specs on techpowerup, they look good for the 1080, but then the 1080 is at 1733 vs the 1076 on the 980ti. The 1070 comes in a bit below the 980ti in the specs.

980TI

Shading Units: 2816
TMUs: 176
ROPs: 96
SMM Count: 22
Pixel Rate: 96.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate: 176.0 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance: 5,632 GFLOPS

1080

Shading Units: 2560
TMUs: 160
ROPs: 80
SM Count: 40
Pixel Rate: 128.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate: 257.1 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance: 8,228 GFLOPS
 
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Well that sucks. No 4 way SLI for me then! :(

It seems that nVidia are taking multiple cards down a different road, it will be interesting to hear what they have to say in the near future.

Cheers
Ben
 
Rasphelt said:
Well that sucks. No 4 way SLI for me then! :(

It seems that nVidia are taking multiple cards down a different road, it will be interesting to hear what they have to say in the near future.

Cheers
Ben
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Probably GTX 1090 in SLI for some 4 way action.:D

It should be easy to get a couple of GP204 chips on the same PCB.
 
Kaapstad said:
Is it my imagination or does the 1080 PCB look a little empty.

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Looks very much like the Ref GTX 970 did when it first came out.
 
I'm thinking £550 minimum for the "founders edition" with a "premium" for the brands like Asus. NVIDIA have just added the most blatent early adopter tax ever for the reference version folks. Doesn't bother me, I hate the reference versions anyway because of their sound profile, MSI Twin Frozr or EVGA Hybrid are my type of cards.
 
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Kaapstad said:
You are forgetting that 4 way SLI is possible in any piece of DX12 software without bridges.

Also who would have told you, surely something like this is under NDA ?
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Kaap, I would not buy 3 or 4 cards on that premise. You are not going to see games utilise anything like that and the gains will not be as linear as typical AFR. If you do buy three of these, you'll look very silly.

There might have been some disclosure around it but I had the rumour confirmed to me early last year by someone who works closely with Nvidia.
 
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God i hate waiting.. just sit here with nothing to do, no decisions to make, just waiting for proper reviews of this and polaris, not that i think polaris will be top end performance but i will still like to know its performance levels and hopefully pricing before i choose.
 
I hope they release some custom cards on the 27th, I don't know if that will happen or not. The gigabyte card looks good but that will be next month. Looking like probably just the reference on the 27th, maybe that horrible looking Galax one.
 
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Silent_Scone said:
Kaap, I would not buy 3 or 4 cards on that premise. You are not going to see games utilise anything like that and the gains will not be as linear as typical AFR. If you do buy three of these, you'll look very silly.

There might have been some disclosure around it but I had the rumour confirmed to me early last year by someone who works closely with Nvidia.
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If kaap is anything like me he will be buying 3 just to test the theory. I do the same with monitors buy monitors to test their quality then they just used as spares

Got 8? Currently :)
 
After running 3 Titans, I vowed I would never run 3 cards again, as the third card was wasted in most games and did reduce frames in others. Two way is the max I will go and NVidia are working to make that perfect, so might well be worth another look soon.
 
Well this was obvious.

Card has two SLI fingers. It was announced SLI bandwidth is doubled. The new bridges are wide enough to cover all 4 connectors on 2 cards. How do you think they have doubled bandwidth?

They've used both fingers.

This leaves no way to connect a 3rd/4th card.

The only way to use more cards will be DX12 Explicit, which I bet will be supported by about 2 games.

Edit: We might get 4 way if they release a 1090 (e.g. 2 1080s on a card)
 
aye 980ti is more than enough for 1440p gsync users like myself :) don't think DX12 will be too important till 2017 so I'll have a look at the road map in 2017 I think.
 
I've always preferred the 980 cooler to most of the after market ones. Never had an issue with their performance either.
 
TwsT said:
aye 980ti is more than enough for 1440p gsync users like myself :) don't think DX12 will be too important till 2017 so I'll have a look at the road map in 2017 I think.
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I run 1440p GSync, but with 980 SLI.

I'm on the fence about upgrading to 1080. I was tempted by 980ti but it felt like it would be a downgrade in some circumstances, whereas a 1080 should be closer to an overall win, and definitely a win in games with poor SLI support.
 
RanxZy said:
I'm thinking £550 minimum for the "founders edition" with a "premium" for the brands like Asus. NVIDIA have just added the most blatent early adopter tax ever for the reference version folks. Doesn't bother me, I hate the reference versions anyway because of their sound profile, MSI Twin Frozr or EVGA Hybrid are my type of cards.
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Same here, rather wait a few weeks and get the cheaper card that makes less noise.

You plan on upgrading to 1080, or you going to hold out for Vega/big pascal?
 
Well if you sell both 980's you should get most of the funds for a Non FE 1080 you can always buy a second 1080 later on. Buying GPU's is sadly one of the worse for your wallet if you want to keep up to date.

Personally I think you'll find the 980 sli is still more than good for at least another 6 months. Plus the panic selling of 980's will have stopped and the second hand market shouldn't be quite so brutal.

Risk is when Vulkan and DX12 take over the 980's will suffer but for now adoption to DX12 still seems somewhat slow. BF1 will ofc be using it.
 
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