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

[GFX-Kid]

Me right now in this thread reading some posts

Spoiler

Sorry guys and jest only

Lol, was you just not a few hours ago having a go at Nexus?

 

[harney]

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

Yep not only do they know how to milk correctly but it seems now they have learnt how to freeze dry it make milk powder and compress it too us smaller

 

[elrasho]

Any views on 1070 vs. 2x 970?

That would be very interesting

 

[DarrenM343]

Well overclocked 980Ti = Stock 1080.

The End.

- new tech and features

 

[Gregster]

Lol, was you just not a few hours ago having a go at Nexus?

Many many salty tears mmmmmm

 

[Smrtka]

Me right now in this thread reading some posts

Spoiler

Sorry guys and jest only

you just went full nexus, but it tru tho

I am reading the reviews like:

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[Ste]

I am hoping to be able to sell the 970 for 150 each and get a 1070 for 100 quid or so net. Guess we will see if the prices and performance work out. But I am at 3440x1440 so the extra ram and lack of SLI issues would be worth 100 or so to me.

 

[GFX-Kid]

Many many salty tears mmmmmm

Going to report you to a mod now, had enough this behaviour

 

[easyrider]

- new tech and features

I think the card to get maybe a 1070....

Then sell when ti hits for little loss...

 

[HazardO]

Any views on 1070 vs. 2x 970?

I'm guessing of course, but I doubt a 1070 would beat a pair of 970s unless VRAM was the issue. (It will depend on the game, settings and resolution).

However 1070 SLI should be a very good upgrade and should be quite a lot faster than a single 1080.

Given the expected price of 1080s, that's the route I'm looking at.

 

[Seanspeed]

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

It's not really two node shrinks, though. This is basically a reworked 20nm process. Intel is the only one with a true 14nm process right now.

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

If it can just edge out a Titan X at 1080p and 1440p on release, it should be able to open the gap up as drivers mature.

That would be pretty good.

Seeing the gap the 1080 has, this seems quite doable.

 

[Gregster]

Going to report you to a mod now, had enough this behaviour

To be fair, I am hoping many people think the price is really high/rip off/jokes/mugs buying, as I suspect the first cards to be in limited numbers, so at least I can get in and get one of the first batch, so keep them salty tears coming please

 

[Mr109]

Has anyone seen any VR benchmarks? Does the 1080 need VR games to be recoded?

Have tried google but it didn't return anything useful.

Al

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

I said I would jump ship if it was 30% faster than a TX (both stock) - it isn't, and could hit 2100mhz on reference - it can't.

Whens the next Titan please.

 

[Seanspeed]

Any views on 1070 vs. 2x 970?

I think they will be very comparable. A 1080 is basically double the performance of a 970. So it stands to reason a slightly cut down version would be around the performance you'd expect of typical 970 SLI scaling.

 

[Smrtka]

I'm guessing of course, but I doubt a 1070 would beat a pair of 970s unless VRAM was the issue. (It will depend on the game, settings and resolution).

However 1070 SLI should be a very good upgrade and should be quite a lot faster than a single 1080.

Given the expected price of 1080s, that's the route I'm looking at.

even after all this talk about sli being poop ? even the guy on linus tech tips is not recommended, also on your 1440p i can see one 1070 be at least on pair with 970sli...

 

[HazardO]

So if SSMs/SMXs are the only indication of performance, the 1070 with 15/20 will be 3/4s of the performance of a 1080. It's not going to be quite that straight forward though I'm guessing. It may have 8GB RAM, but only 3/4s of the memory controllers (6GB card anyone).

even after all this talk about sli being poop ? even the guy on linus tech tips is not recommended, also on your 1440p i can see one 1070 be at least on pair with 970sli...

I expect 2 way SLI performance will be good TBH, up until GP100 comes out

2x970s won't be enough for me to get very high frame rates in upcoming games, and the VRAM will start to show it's weakness. And a 1080 at that price is not enough of a performance boost, so 1070 SLI is where I'm heading.

We'll see when it's released though.

 

[Seanspeed]

Has anyone seen any VR benchmarks? Does the 1080 need VR games to be recoded?

Have tried google but it didn't return anything useful.

Al

Unfortunately nobody is really doing much VR benchmarking in general.

As for games needing to be recoded - no. What *will* require some extra effort is to take advantage of all the new VRWorks features, some of which will require Pascal and some not.

 

[Aretak]

So if SSMs/SMXs are the only indication of performance, the 1070 with 15/20 will be 3/4s of the performance of a 1080. It's not going to be quite that straight forward though I'm guessing. It may have 8GB RAM, but only 3/4s of the memory controllers (6GB card anyone).

The supposed leaked specs for the 1070 posted earlier state that it'll be an 8GB card. Whether that's 8GB or "8GB" remains to be seen of course.

 

[tyler_jrb]

What's the 1080Ti going to be at this rate £770? This is bad times for my wallet lol.

I'll try resist the 1080. I'll fail. Probably quite miserably.

Want to see some water cooled OC results. Apparently stock bios has 120% power limit. Over the 98% EK showed.