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

digitalx said:
God I hope the 1080 is near £449... I'd snap it up asap.
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So we have one outlet reporting £620 and one £449, kinda doubting £449 even if it were meant to be around that price its a certainty stock shortage will come into effect (like always). Wait and see what friday brings which is supposedly pre-order day.
 
AllBodies said:
Well seeing as reducing the power by 70% would be a 3.33x perf/W increase, ending up at 1.56x is still disappointing, even taking account of high clockspeeds reducing that improvement.
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That is an over simplification your doing.

Base clocks of the 1080 are 66% higher than the 980ti, but the power consumption is 20% less. That exceeds the performance delta TSMC advertise, the difference is down to improvements in pascal architecture.
 
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Gerard said:
So we have one outlet reporting £620 and one £449, kinda doubting £449 even if it were meant to be around that price its a certainty stock shortage will come into effect (like always). Wait and see what friday brings which is supposedly pre-order day.
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Well £449 ain't gonna happen, that's for sure, although I'd LOVE to be wrong on that... but let's be realistic, it just won't. I would almost put money on the fact that we won't see ANY 1080 below £550, and even that will be for a bargain basement cheap brand, with the most desirable and best performing cards (FE and AIB cooled varieties) being north of £600. I strongly expect the 1070 to be north of £400 also for the FE, although we may get cheaper varieties of that from the AIB's given the target audience and the need to make it more affordable. Nvidia won't be blind to AMD stealing their thunder with an ultra-cheap card, so the 1070 can't price itself totally out of the market.
 
Gerard said:

Doom at 2ghz.




Because its always a source of whinging among the rabid fanboys, "omg your card needs 5 more watts to run the same speed as mine, your card sux". Its a number, therefore its a peen measuring utility for arguments among the nvidia and amd nut swingers.
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in the vid
eh? i am running at the highest settings ..sry i think you missed the nightmare settings duh!
 
Nightmare settings don't really do a huge amount aside from completely kill your framerate if you don't have a GPU with more than 5GB VRAM.
 
Rroff said:
Nightmare settings don't really do a huge amount aside from completely kill your framerate if you don't have a GPU with more than 5GB VRAM.
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Well yes he only as 8gb and yes he may have trouble with is framerates with the nightmare settings with the new slow 1080 sry i missed that one :)
 
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Gerard said:
So we have one outlet reporting £620 and one £449, kinda doubting £449 even if it were meant to be around that price its a certainty stock shortage will come into effect (like always). Wait and see what friday brings which is supposedly pre-order day.
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Wish they were £449. I'd have them pre-ordered in a heartbeat at that.

All they have to do is for it to come with a free game and they have me :p
 
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harney said:
Well yes he only as 8gb and yes he may have trouble with is framerates with the nightmare settings with the new slow 1080 sry i missed that one :)
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More just a comment in general - Nightmare settings (atleast as far as I've played so far) don't really have much impact on the visual quality over ultra.
 
hardwarecanucks are so full of it lol
in their main salespitch...i mean review they said its 70c with a 2100mhz overclock or something and right there you can see them playing doom with it bouncing off 82c and throttling

how did they test that overclock just sitting in windows moving their mouse about?
ugh pls stop posting them :E
 
ppl better get used to £400+ for 1070 and £600+ for 1080
take $ price convert to £, add 20% VAT, then add 20-30£ shipping and about 10-20£ for some other crap
699$ > 479£ + 20% > £575 + shipping & stuff = ~ £620 1080 founder edition
449$ > 308£ + 20% > £369 + shipping & stuff = ~ £410 1070 founder edition

for custom £379 1070, and £549 1080, these are MSRP prices that you wont see but during special deals, the actual price will be £30-£50 more than this 90% of the time.
 
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Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
“We’ve been running TPUs inside our data centers for more than a year, and have found them to deliver an order of magnitude better-optimized performance per watt for machine learning. This is roughly equivalent to fast-forwarding technology about seven years into the future (three generations of Moore’s Law),” the blog said. “TPU is tailored to machine learning applications, allowing the chip to be more tolerant of reduced computational precision, which means it requires fewer transistors per operation. Because of this, we can squeeze more operations per second into the silicon, use more sophisticated and powerful machine learning models, and apply these models more quickly, so users get more intelligent results more rapidly.”
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now that google is making their own chip, and apparently the chip is like 7 years ahead of what is available.
and tesla hired john keller so obviously they are making their own chip too.
Nvidia invested heavily onto deep learning, and made it clear when they announced P100, now we the 2 major companies that practicaly started the trend with their smart cars, going for their own solutions, with google having a chip much more advanced.
is this a bad news for Nvidia ?
 
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AlamoX said:
ppl better get used to 400£ for 1070 and £619 for 1080
take $ price convert to £, add 20% VAT, then add 30£ shiiping and about 20£ for some other crap
699$ > 479£ + 20% > £575 + shipping & stuff = ~ £620 1080 founder edition
449$ > 308£ + 20% > £369 + shipping & stuff = ~ £420 1070 founder edition

for custom £379 1070, and £549 1080, these are MSRP prices that you wont see but during special deals, the actual price will be £30-£50 more than this 90% of the time.
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Very much so. I'm quite gutted as I wanted a 1080 but I can't bring myself to pay more than half a grand. The custom 1070 should be interesting pricing wise on release to see who undercuts who. Either way 1070 partner cards is what I'll be waiting for
 
980Ti's are still £500+ there's no way the 1080 is going be less than that, if companies know they can still sell 980ti at that price with the 1080 around the corner. 1080s will be 550+
 
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