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

MrMD said:
Reference card hitting 84c at stock,ouch lol

max Oc boost clocks 1950-2065mhz

So much for 2.1Ghz at 67c as shown a few weeks ago :D

Double the performance of my 970 tho,tempting.............
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The 67c at 2.1Ghz will be on an open test bench with fan at 100% in a climate controlled room.
 
Another quick thought, Nvidia might well just start releasing upgrade after upgrade every 6-12 months from now on and keep raising the prices.

How long was TitanX out before they basically killed it off with a 980ti? and now how long has the 980ti been out and they are just releasing a better version? how long before they milk us again with a 1080ti and a Titan?

Its a never ending cycle of marginal upgrades for extortionate prices lol
 
Gerard said:
As i thought not as impressive as the hype was suggesting. If you have a ti it's pretty much a pointless upgrade, that being said this card is replacing the 980, not the 980ti so for users coming from a 980 they're getting much more more performance for their cash.
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Indeed, this has been the trend for many years now...

Own a 980ti? Don't bother.

Own 980ti? want the latest and greatest? upgrade.

Own a 980? Worth it if you can justify the cost if not, wait and see what the 1070 comes in at.
 
Seanspeed said:
I remember when the reference 980's were reviewed, sites weren't managing more than like 1300-1350Mhz base clocks when overclocking. But when the 3rd party cards went out, it was fairly common for people to be getting 1500Mhz clocks.

So I'd wait on judgement about overclocking potential til those get out. And especially what actual users are getting.
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Yea i would agree on this. What will the price be though? This could be another Fury X though where it's just about maxed and no amount of decent cooling bar LN2 will make a big difference. If this really is Maxwell 2.0 the clocks are already seriously high.
 
Gerard said:
As i thought not as impressive as the hype was suggesting. If you have a ti it's pretty much a pointless upgrade, that being said this card is replacing the 980, not the 980ti so for users coming from a 980 they're getting much more more performance for their cash.
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Well it doesn't seem like the right price to go from 980 to this. The 980 wasn't this expensive :o
 
Gerard said:
As i thought not as impressive as the hype was suggesting. If you have a ti it's pretty much a pointless upgrade, that being said this card is replacing the 980, not the 980ti so for users coming from a 980 they're getting much more more performance for their cash.
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If you look at shader heavy games there is often an approx +28% lead to the 1080 over the Titan X - you are still likely to be a fair bit faster in future games on a 1080 over a 980ti - but as I said before contemporary games the gains aren't so much.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Yea i would agree on this. What will the price be though? This could be another Fury X though where it's just about maxed and no amount of decent cooling bar LN2 will make a big difference. If this really is Maxwell 2.0 the clocks are already seriously high.
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Yea, that's possible. And at the moment it doesn't look that it'll have quite the same overhead as Maxwell was released with. But still, shouldn't rush to judgement based on a reference cooler card.
 
Five.Stars said:
The 67c at 2.1Ghz will be on an open test bench with fan at 100% in a climate controlled room.
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Maybe so but still a bit shifty on their part. I'm sure a lot of people will be questioning temps since nvidia put some emphasis on it running cool at 2.1 GHz.
 
When you look at the overclocking and pricing, it certainly is not as impressive as what I originally thought when just looking at the game performance graphs and falls back to what I originally expected to happen with regards to a OC'd 980ti

If I where buying a gpu now, I would certainly be going for the second hand 980tis, especially if you can get one for <£400

I fully expect second hand 980ti prices to be going back up to >£400 now though!

HazardO said:
1080 does look impressive, but not at that price. I'm going to wait for the 1070 reviews, I don't really need to upgrade until BF1 beta anyway.
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Surely 2x970s is enough for us all low4pro players? ;) :D

If battlefront is anything to go by, I think BF 1 is going to perform extremely well.
 
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ICDP said:
So ~30% faster than stock 980Ti, doesn't overclock as well as rumoured (2.5GHz lolololol). 2.0-2.1GHz OC equates to ~5%-15% extra performance depending on game. This is actually worse than I excpected but still overall some decent gains over 980Ti.

But not worth £620 IMHO.

Also WTF hardOCP, why only 1440p benchmarks, talk about pointless. Anytime I see [H] do the 1440p only benchmarks I think "paid off".
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Any time anyone asks Brent on their forums about certain settings or weird results in their reviews they are basically instantly banned and it's been that way forever. Anytime I see [H] I think paid off. It was really epitomised when he did a Asrock review, said the board was broken, said the support staff said it sounded broken and they'd replace it straight away but instead benchmarked a known broken board then trashed it and then a new review came out of a rival company board like two days later comparing it to the Asrock(which he went out of his way to say he bought himself... but not the other board) and saying the new board was epic and the asrock sucked.

I signed up over that one to ask how he knew performance wasn't compromised and was instantly banned. Brent/[H] is a joke.
 
After all the hype its not all that is it?

Very slightly faster than an overclocked 980TI but struggles to overclok its self.
 
I wouldn't buy keeping your fingers crossed they overclock like crazy... fell for the same crap with the two Fury X's i paid £600 on release.

With my 980Ti @1480 24/7 i really can't see the temptation to upgrade to a 1080... definitely going to wait until at least the price comes down and we have AIB cards available.
 
Five.Stars said:
£620? LOL
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That is for the Milk'em Edition :p

Wait for the custom ones, they should be sub £600 ;)

drunkenmaster said:
Any time anyone asks Brent on their forums about certain settings or weird results in their reviews they are basically instantly banned and it's been that way forever. Anytime I see [H] I think paid off. It was really epitomised when he did a Asrock review, said the board was broken, said the support staff said it sounded broken and they'd replace it straight away but instead benchmarked a known broken board then trashed it and then a new review came out of a rival company board like two days later comparing it to the Asrock(which he went out of his way to say he bought himself... but not the other board) and saying the new board was epic and the asrock sucked.

I signed up over that one to ask how he knew performance wasn't compromised and was instantly banned. Brent/[H] is a joke.
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Yeah, not used them for years now.
 
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