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

JediFragger said:
I'm *really* disappointed in the 1080 if I'm honest. Effectively 2 node shrinks and this is the best they can do!!??? I think they're giving us *just* enough to keep us happy tbh
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I feel the same way. This was the card I was planning to ditch my 780 for, but the price is absurd and the performance gains minor over what's already on the market. Kinda wish I'd snapped up a 980 Ti on the cheap after the press conference now. I doubt I'm as gutted as those who ditched them at fire sale prices in anticipation though. :eek:
 
Gregster said:
£620 is very steep and a bit of a shocker but you can wait it out for the "non" founders card and get it for £100 cheaper and custom cooled with maybe better overclocking potential.
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Need to see liquid results before the FE is written off, I assume Nvidia is trying to protect the 980ti Custom board owners by pricing the 1080 FE @ £620. If the reviews are correct, the chips clock speed seems to scale directly to temps, we might see 2.5GHZ or higher once the blocks go on.
 
MrMD said:
The official 1070 specs were released today


http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-specifications-surface.html

Think it will only match reference Ti/Tx after its clocked,Ti/tx with decent over clocks will be a fair bit faster i'd imagine
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Well, it has more Cuda cores than I expected! I think I read 16xx somewhere, but considering that it needed to at least match stock Ti/TX it would have to be more.

I'm interested to see these in SLi more than anything, see if the efficiency is improved or if it's just nVidia bluster...
 
Besty said:
Need to see liquid results before the FE is written off, I assume Nvidia is trying to protect the 980ti Custom board owners by pricing the 1080 FE @ £620.
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I highly doubt that - nVidia would like nothing better than for the 980ti value to crash and burn and everyone buy Pascal.
 
Rroff said:
2nd gen Maxwell is pretty stripped out and optimised for DX11 rendering - with Pascal they will have had to undo some of that (which IMO means the delta between the 980ti and 1080 will widen with future titles) the 1080 is a replacement really for the 980 rather than 980ti tier wise though it is the 680 all over again (plus nVidia pushing the pricing).
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It just goes to show how good 2nd Gen Maxwell really is/was. Good and strong for another year/18 months at least! :cool:
 
Besty said:
Need to see liquid results before the FE is written off, I assume Nvidia is trying to protect the 980ti Custom board owners by pricing the 1080 FE @ £620. If the reviews are correct, the chips clock speed seems to scale directly to temps, we might see 2.5GHZ or higher once the blocks go on.
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Agreed. This is where these cards will start to shine. Not sure on voltage control and what will be allowed by NVidia but it would be seriously good to hit 2.5Ghz on water alone.
 
JediFragger said:
I don't know, but I hope it continues!! nV need the competition to keep them honest imo.

edit - It will sure be interesting to compare the FuryX and 1080 in a year's time when DX12 is in full swing!!! ;)
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Indeed.

JediFragger said:
I'm *really* disappointed in the 1080 if I'm honest. Effectively 2 node shrinks and this is the best they can do!!??? I think they're giving us *just* enough to keep us happy tbh
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Yeah, I feel the same, I had hoped 16nm would bring a lot more. Instead we get the drip drip and a tub of Vaseline from nvidia :o

At least I am hoping with watercooling the 1070/80 will OC a lot to make up for the disappointment.

I see little reason to spend so much on a 1080. 1070 will suffice until the big guns are released. I get the feeling those will easily be 50%+ increase of performance over these medium sized chips.
 
Gregster said:
Agreed. This is where these cards will start to shine. Not sure on voltage control and what will be allowed by NVidia but it would be seriously good to hit 2.5Ghz on water alone.
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if....if...
i guess they should have gone liquid it would have been a "overclockers dream" p___p
 
Someone needs to do a comparison of the 980ti vs 1080 with the latest drivers then 980ti vs 1080 with the 980ti using a driver from 4 months ago and the 1080 using the new driver. That should show any gimping on the 980ti
 
JediFragger said:
nVidia be like:- COMMENCE THE MAXWELL GIMPING!!!

/throws switch

:p:p:p:D:D:D
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Yes along with

"nvidia speaking... you know that async driver we promised everybody on the previous gens months ago how about we sit on it make it only work on the pascal eh! maybe wa could call it a feature too"
 
Looks pretty good to me...

Not amazing, not terrible, about what I expected....

About 25% improvement compared to my old 980ti.

Was hoping for 30%+... but then it could have been a lot worse and more like 15-20%

So overall not bad... just about good enough to get playable FPS at 3440x1440.
 
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