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

[Smrtka]

my experience
2x Nvidia 280
2x 570s
2x 7970
2x 7990s
2x 980s

in my experience SLI is much better than Xfire in
Quick Profiles on Day 1 or week 3. xfire sometimes takes weeks-months.
SLI scaling is generally good from 25-100% two examples Overwatch 99% Scaling & witcher 3 is a good 60-80%


Regarding the future Hopefully Game designers go with LDA multi GPU support in Directx 12 and nothing will change NV/AMD will still carry on doing profiles. Some designers like 3Dmark/Ashes that use MDA & have done well, but i trust AMSD/NV to do a better job than Developers.

Personally don't care about DX12. till 1180GTX or The AMD 590. Their wont be any decent games for a while & by then ill have upgraded or close to.

I care about
Witcher 3
Overwatch
Truck Sim


Most can be done on a 980 with ease, But i have 4K so any horse power that can help i want

If you play games that support SLI well then there is no question for you. If the 1070SLI edges the 1080 then i'd get that.

 

[Pr0SteR]

Long time SLI user.

No issues with games at all, they all work , usually day one, NV is very good when it comes to anticipated titles support, I cannot fault them here at all.

I will wait for the best of the bunch 1070 or 1080 , it all depends on pricing, I will not be taken for a fool by this FE malarkey, 1080TI is the card that currently will deserve this pricing.

 

[tyler_jrb]

^agree 100%
SLI has been perfect for me. There are a few cases with not fantastic support at launch. Fallout 4 etc. Usually easy work around or patch soon after. 99% of my games have near double performance over a single card.

I will get 1080 SLI when we see some AIB cards. Then watercooled them soon after.

 

[Legend]

Is there any indication that Nvidia and devs will be better supporting SLI this time around? Definitely seems to split people, but overall the advice has always been to go for the most powerful single card solution. Are we going to see that change with the 1070/1080, or is it same old story?

 

[nashathedog]

Is there any indication that Nvidia and devs will be better supporting SLI this time around? Definitely seems to split people, but overall the advice has always been to go for the most powerful single card solution. Are we going to see that change with the 1070/1080, or is it same old story?

I wouldn't bank on support improving over what we have now from either side.

 

[Jimdriver2]

Yep as an AMD crossfire owner the impression I had following the release of games like Witcher 3 and various Ubisoft ones was that SLI performed far better.

My problem was I went into Crossfire blind and just thought if I pay double the price (by buying 2 cards) then I'd just automatically get double the performance. Didn't even consider how much support would be needed by devs.

My worry is that, especially when the PS4 Neo turns up, there's little incentive for devs to properly multi-GPU because such people are so small a market. All this DX12 stuff I'll believe when I see it. To me it sounds like another grand GPU promise of the earth that never comes close to delivering, Mantle like etc.

 

[Combat Fighter]

GTX 1080 vs. 980 vs. 980 Ti: Overclocking Battle

Good video that and clearly shows a 1080 overclocked is not that much of increase in performance from a overclocked 980Ti.

Considering my 980Ti runs 1550/2000 24/7 the performance gains will be even less as in the video that 980Ti is overclocked 100hz lower than mine.

Makes waiting for the 1080Ti not as painful now. I hope it comes out this year (Oct maybe?) as it will be worth upgrading to.

 

[madmonkey]

Have we had any benchmarks for the 1070 yet?

Desperate to get a new graphics card, but refuse to pay rip off price of the 1080 fe

 

[tyler_jrb]

Good video that and clearly shows a 1080 overclocked is not that much of increase in performance from a overclocked 980Ti.

Considering my 980Ti runs 1550/2000 24/7 the performance gains will be even less as in the video that 980Ti is overclocked 100hz lower than mine.

Makes waiting for the 1080Ti not as painful now. I hope it comes out this year (Oct maybe?) as it will be worth upgrading to.

980 to Ti was 9 months so Titan will likely be Christmas time. Ti about Jan-Feb time I'd say.

 

[JediFragger]

980 to Ti was 9 months so Titan will likely be Christmas time. Ti about Jan-Feb time I'd say.

Also depends on the 'competition' and if AMD really are moving Vega up to October. Here's hoping!!!

 

[Jono8]

Good video that and clearly shows a 1080 overclocked is not that much of increase in performance from a overclocked 980Ti.

Considering my 980Ti runs 1550/2000 24/7 the performance gains will be even less as in the video that 980Ti is overclocked 100hz lower than mine.

Makes waiting for the 1080Ti not as painful now. I hope it comes out this year (Oct maybe?) as it will be worth upgrading to.

Again though, you are comparing your custom 980Ti G1 to a reference blower 1080.

I agree that upgrading to a 1080 isn't really worth it for 980TI owners but I reckon the 30% increase the 1080 gives stock for stock will be getting close to 30% again overclocked for overclocked once the custom cooled versions are out.

 

[easyrider]

Good video that and clearly shows a 1080 overclocked is not that much of increase in performance from a overclocked 980Ti.

Considering my 980Ti runs 1550/2000 24/7 the performance gains will be even less as in the video that 980Ti is overclocked 100hz lower than mine.

Makes waiting for the 1080Ti not as painful now. I hope it comes out this year (Oct maybe?) as it will be worth upgrading to.

I'm seeing 30 fps difference and more in some titles...in that video

at 2k that's huge

 

[Mei]

id like to see some 4k benchmarks not on ultra
grr

 

[Simon Belmont]

Have we had any benchmarks for the 1070 yet?

Desperate to get a new graphics card, but refuse to pay rip off price of the 1080 fe

I'm waiting for them as well. 1080 is a bit of a joke atm.

 

[easyrider]

Again though, you are comparing your custom 980Ti G1 to a reference blower 1080.

I agree that upgrading to a 1080 isn't really worth it for 980TI owners but I reckon the 30% increase the 1080 gives stock for stock will be getting close to 30% again overclocked for overclocked once the custom cooled versions are out.

I'll wait for real world testing and overclocking from the ocuk community.

Once the 1080 custom cards are out with 1 6 pin and 8 pin power connectors I can see 2.2ghz on these cards easy.

Not the gimped FE with the crappy blower...

 

[easyrider]

I'm waiting for them as well. 1080 is a bit of a joke atm.

The FE is a joke...

Lets wait and see what the custom cards bring to the table...

 

[Combat Fighter]

I'm seeing 30 fps difference and more in some titles...in that video

at 2k that's huge

Well with my (and yours) Predator X34 you just need to aim for a solid 100fps.

Any more fps ain't needed!

All my games are maxed out ultra settings. My G1 980Ti will do me fine for now till the 1080Ti comes along.

Hopefully games might be a bit more demanding by then.

 

[andybird123]

Well with my (and yours) Predator X34 you just need to aim for a solid 100fps.

Any more fps ain't needed!

All my games are maxed out ultra settings. My G1 980Ti will do me fine for now till the 1080Ti comes along.

Hopefully games might be a bit more demanding by then.

Really? You're running all games on ultra settings at 1440 21:9 on a single 980ti and consistently getting 100fps?

So how comes there are plenty of games I have to turn down a whole bunch of settings to get 80-90fps on 16:9 1440?

 

[Purgatory]

Good video that and clearly shows a 1080 overclocked is not that much of increase in performance from a overclocked 980Ti.

Considering my 980Ti runs 1550/2000 24/7 the performance gains will be even less as in the video that 980Ti is overclocked 100hz lower than mine.

Makes waiting for the 1080Ti not as painful now. I hope it comes out this year (Oct maybe?) as it will be worth upgrading to.

He found like 5%+ difference compared to a 980 Ti, but he had one test game that was really skewing that result, most other people that did the same test with a lot more games and benchmarks found it was closer to 2-3%.


980ti and Titan x owners really need to wait for a 1080Ti or Volta.


Also I really wonder how he tested too, did he let the benchmarks and games tested to heat up the card to operating temps or did quick runs, also was it in a closed case or a open test bench. As the 1080 throttles pretty badly after a few mins of running a stressful game or benchmark due to the heat.

 

[easyrider]

Well with my (and yours) Predator X34 you just need to aim for a solid 100fps.

Any more fps ain't needed!

All my games are maxed out ultra settings. My G1 980Ti will do me fine for now till the 1080Ti comes along.

Hopefully games might be a bit more demanding by then.

I'm not getting 100FPS with my 980ti either.

maybe I have my setup wrong?