Friday, May 6th 2016
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1080, Faster than GTX 980 SLI
NVIDIA announced its next-generation GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. Based on the "Pascal" architecture, this chip is built on the 16 nm FinFET process. It uses GDDR5X memory at 10 GHz (GDDR5-effective) clock speed. NVIDIA announced major improvements to the VRM that drives graphics cards, that increases switching efficiency. NVIDIA announced that the GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than a GeForce GTX 980 SLI, and a GeForce GTX TITAN X. The air-cooled GTX 1080 runs at a very high clock speed or 2.11 GHz, with 10 GHz memory clocks, at a temperature of 67 degrees C. Available on May 27, it's priced at $599.More pictures after the break.
64 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1080, Faster than GTX 980 SLI
Maybe this means I'll finally have a real reason to replace those HD5850's in my wife's PC :roll:
I'm only interested in getting the Big Pascal GP100 version when it comes out which hopefully won't be too expensive. Oh yeah, wishful thinking. :ohwell:
Paper fast is not necessarily benchmark nor gaming fast. Normally those will show it to not be as amazing as he says. I'm waiting for the real story from reviews.
Its reported the 1080 scores only 19,000 3D marks(11 P) which isnt much more than a FuryX around 18,000, and this list has the 980Ti at 20,000.
Dont forget the 980 is old now, and titan was long superceded by 980Ti, why do they mention performance relative to older cards? The 980Ti is 25% faster than a 980, ( even more with non-ref 980Ti's) even the 390X beats a 980 these days.
It seems like there is some sneaky advertising going on here....and why is there this big release but no thorough benchmarks available??
Something doesnt seem right, I'm sure they have big gains in efficiency, but it looks like the performance gains are not as big as first thought.
"Double the performance of 980" Sounds a lot better than "30% better than a 980Ti". Dont forget, There are some aftermarket non-ref 980Ti's that are 20% faster than reference 980Ti's
Dont get me wrong, it seems like a good card, and fast, but I dont think its as fast as the advertising would suggest.
And nowadays' it is falling behind against everything at an equal price point. Even a gen older 780ti.
But the card looks really good.
I know appearence isnt going to affect performance, but it certainly does factor in sales, and IMO this design just kind of seems lazy, development wise.
I hope these claims of the new cards being 2x the performance of 9xx cards is true, but it seems a bit hopeful. If it is indeed true, ill be kicking myself for buying 2 970's tno.
im still glad i was able to obtain 2 reference nvidia 970's tho. That shroud is imo theyre best yet,and it out performs many aib shrouds ime,and i have had a few to compare it to.
Ill likely buy a 1070,or 1080 because i can, and then sell my 970's, not sure tho yet...money is already on hand ;)