NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB

[TheLostSwede]

AOTS should become standard as part of the testing suite too

Anyway to tell if async is real or maxwell style supported?

 

[deemon]

Great review!

some thought...
1) The Fast Sync latency slide does not make sense. How is the VSYNC ON latency so big on this picture, whereas normally... on 60Hz monitor ... the maximum it could be is 2x what the VSYNC OFF latency (16.67) is, so ... ... 33.33ms max. Why on the slide it shows 88ms+ did they count with some 5 pre-rendered frames? Nobody does that. Max pre-rendered frames should never ever be more than 1.
2) For me surprising was HDR inclusion... since I have only read about AMD HDR hype and NVidia was rather quiet about it. Glad to see they also decided to add this.
3) I am slightly sad how they implemented the FastSync or more precicely, I would love, when they added another "mode" to VSYNC, that tries to sync GPU frames output to static sync display by predicting when to start rendering next frame ahead of time instead of bruteforcing maximum frames out of GPU.
4) Really sad about no mention from NVIDIA about VESA Adaptive Sync support. Nvidia must hate us :-(
5) SMP is cool feature...
6) Ansel is just gimmick for most of us.

 

[Dux]

Hmmm. Not sure if it's time to upgrade my HD 4850 or should i wait for a bigger performance jump. Joke aside, i'll wait for AMD to see what they have to offer before i upgrade.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Aw, no DX12 runs for Hitman?

Just wanted to see Pascals async compute capabilities. Could be maxwell style implementation with just raw power thrown in.

 

[W1zzard]

Aw, no DX12 runs for Hitman?

DX12 was completely broken with Hitman at time of rebench (last April). It's apparently better now. I'll look DX12 again for next rebench, maybe they get more fixes out.

 

[deemon]

This slide shows that 1080 async is as bad/good as was with 980Ti. 1080 is just ~33% faster at 4k than 980Ti ... thus the number is ~33% bigger here aswell. Did I understand that right?

 

[Absolution]

Any idea whats the differences between Extreme and Crazy quality settings? Dunno why they picked a lower setting :/

 

[W1zzard]

I would love, when they added another "mode" to VSYNC, that tries to sync GPU frames output to static sync display by predicting when to start rendering next frame ahead of time instead

FastSync lets the game render as quickly as possible, it buffers the rendered frames and when the monitor starts a new frame it will send the last completed frame from the GPU buffer. This approach requires no game developer support.

More info:

 

[GreiverBlade]

and here it is ... the "founder edition that cost 100$ more" am i the only one that find nvidia particularly despicable for that one ? custom model are far above that one in term or cooler (generally) and already more expensive than a stock one (everybody know the price of a custom one will not be 599$ ...) , so why make the stock one wear the name of "founder" just to add a 100$ overprice?

on the other hand, the perf are correct, tho +36% is not a warrant for a change over my 980 (not even for 4gb more, nor 41% in 4k case )


oh ... so the fps is in the "barely acceptable" for 4k? oh well at last you need only 1 card for it

 

[chodaboy19]

Thank you for the comprehensive review.

Where there any improvement or changes to G-Sync?

 

[Frick]

So clock for clock it's not much faster than the 980ti? It has crazy clocks though...

Now bring the effeciency too mid-low end cards.

Also, I really like that backplate. Like a lot.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

LOL 700$ and still not able to pull 4k @ 60fps.. and with the ti version coming i really dot get why would someone buy this card.

 

[Absolution]

Interesting part is it cant run 60fps @ 4k in most titles, guess the 1080Ti will be the one for it.

 

[Mussels]

what glorious pricing the australian overlords have given me :/

 

[GreiverBlade]

what glorious pricing the australian overlords have given me :/

don't worry ... Switzerland will be worse ... after all 699$ is the standard price of a custom model 980 ... 1299$ being the one for the 980Ti...

funny enough in the end a 295x2 is more attractive than that one ...

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Well, I can finally say; there is a card that can keep most games above 100FPS for 1080p gaming and no doubt for a long while yet, thanks to it's 8GB VRAM. Although the card is more expensive than what I would have liked, I will probably buy the card. I plan to stick with 1080p for a long time, that is, until we see 100FPS+ results for 1440p and 4k gaming. I can't stand anything below 100FPS, my brain doesn't lag.

 

[W1zzard]

Where there any improvement or changes to G-Sync?

NVIDIA did not mention G-Sync at all, so I think it's safe to assume that there were no changes

 

[GreiverBlade]

i noticed the power consumption, well at last it's on par with the 980. (not that i care about power consumption, but they promised decreased power consumption, while it's not really the case )

 

[Air]

Looks like blower cooler technology already reached its limits, if for $100 thats all it can do...

 

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

I have never felt this happy being robbed of 1400 euros. This months salary incoming... aand its gone!

 

[ViperXTR]

Looking at the results, i could imagine the 1070 being in the Titan X/980 Ti territory (rumours being 1920 cores, ~1.6Ghz boost, 150W TDP)

 

[Sempron Guy]

is just me or that Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Nvidia estimate translate to .75x faster than the 980?

 

[rtwjunkie]

Are all reviewers instructed by nvidia to bench against stock nvidia cards? I hope you stick to that when benching future AMD cards too.

He always does the initial reference version, and then most of the AIB versions that follow. It's great to have a baseline.

 

[LightningJR]

great review wizz, the power consumption is unreal, even the low power states like bluray is crazy. I didn't expect anything from this cooler tbh, all fluff from nvidia.. I am sure manufacturers will have amazing coolers and 8+6 pin on some of their cards that'll push the 16nm Pascal architecture to it's limits. Now I wanna see it under water or dice.

 

[medi01]

DX11 vs DX12 for 1080 (in short, no gains)