GTX 1070 and 1080 Announced!

[rlaugh0095]

Okay, so who is upgrading? My 970 has served me well, but that 1080 will be driving my 4k screen in a month.

The 1080 is said to be stronger than a titan x and twice as powerful as 2 gtx 980's in sli all for the price of 599$!

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/06/nvidias-new-gtx-1080-gpu-is-even-faster-than-the-titan-x/

[IceStrike256]

Man that's nice!

[Anti-Ultimate]

lol welp. Time to sell my 970s I guess. (Why did I even bother buying 2)

[rlaugh0095]

(05-07-2016, 04:07 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: lol welp. Time to sell my 970s I guess. (Why did I even bother buying 2)

lol the sad life.
Anyway, there is more tech specs listed here.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080
Even if you are coming from 2 970's, if you get the 1080, it will be WELL worth the purchase. If this card can smoke 2 980's, then im sure your 970's woulds be obliterated into non exsistance in comparison. XD

[DrHouse64]

God these specs are good. Time to change my GTX 770. I wonder if my 500W AC will be enough.

[admin89]

As I predicted , GTX 1070 will replace GTX 980 for a cheaper price like the GTX 770 did in the past (GTX 770 > GTX 680)

Quote:Time to change my GTX 770. I wonder if my 500W AC will be enough

If you don't overvolt the CPU then sure it will be enough
You could OC the CPU but don't forget to undervolt Vcore to lower power consumption (lower heat is also a bonus ). IMO , 4.2GHz and <=1.25Vcore is nice

[AnyOldName3]

Remember that those performance levels were specifically for using Pascal's new single-pass stereoscopic VR rendering, which Maxwell doesn't have. It's also a cherry-picked number (why would they not do that?) so probably isn't going to be representative of real-world performance. I'd definitely wait until we have benchmarks from independent organisations, and also probably for Polaris to be released.

[admin89]

I have a mixed feeling about this . I mean GTX 1080 just killed the entire maxwell lineup
I feel sorry for those who just bought Titan X and GTX 980ti ...These cards , no , the entire Maxwell cards are all overpriced and worthless now
Unless they slash the price 50% off , I don't think they could sell any maxwell card in the near future

[rlaugh0095]

(05-07-2016, 11:02 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Remember that those performance levels were specifically for using Pascal's new single-pass stereoscopic VR rendering, which Maxwell doesn't have. It's also a cherry-picked number (why would they not do that?) so probably isn't going to be representative of real-world performance. I'd definitely wait until we have benchmarks from independent organisations, and also probably for Polaris to be released.

Im ready for some 4k benchmarks. Q.Q

[NaturalViolence]

Always wait until actual real world benchmarks are available from reputable professional journalists before making a decision. You can be excited but if you let the hype train build up too much speed it will derail and start smashing into buildings.

That said this price/performance was to be expected since it's been 4 years since the last transistor shrink (Kepler 600 series). And on top of that this time it's a double shrink since finfet wasn't ready for the last cycle (28/32 nm -> 14/16 nm which is 1/4 the surface area). Performance per watt and performance per dollar are expected to increase by 200% from this shrink for both Nvidia and AMD and I would be surprised if they didn't at least meet that goal within a year.

admin89 Wrote:I have a mixed feeling about this . I mean GTX 1080 just killed the entire maxwell lineup
I feel sorry for those who just bought Titan X and GTX 980ti ...These cards , no , the entire Maxwell cards are all overpriced and worthless now
Unless they slash the price 50% off , I don't think they could sell any maxwell card in the near future

You remember that this used to happen every year right? Up until very recently this was the norm.

It amazes me how quickly everyone has forgotten what things were like in a moore's law dominated world. Where all of our hardware was utter shit within 1-2 years of buying it and everyone was constantly upgrading as a result.

I wouldn't feel too bad about it. This is the way things are meant to be. It will likely be another 4 years until we see it happen again unfortunately....

Edit: Actually looking at these specs again they don't seem to be anywhere near the projected increases. 50% at best vs. 200% projected. They seem to be using a VERY small die and high clock rates to make up for it. This was likely done to combat poor yields, bring down costs for the new manufacturing process, and increase availability at launch. They might have also figured that the limited memory bandwidth of GDDR5X would limit any potential performance increases from a larger die. I'm willing to bet that when volta comes out next year and brings us HBM they will switch to larger dies and we'll see another big jump in performance. If AMD can get HBM in their mainstream cards this year they'll have a big advantage.