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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB

Awesome 16nm final product. Truly amazing performance and power consumption. Nvidia polished it as good as it can apparently. Great job to team Green! Pushing the technology is always great.
 
nickbaldwin86 said:
Would love to see how it stacked up next to SLI 980s.... NV was claiming that the 1080 was going to beat out SLI 980s in the launch media right?
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This is all I care about and I think this is one of the most important tests for this series.. Should really be in there.
As it is, the guru review is better due to lack of the 980's.
 
I'm so tempted to get this card especially now that I see it performs better than 2 970's in SLI, but I know it would not make any sense with my current system.
 
Devon68 said:
I'm so tempted to get this card especially now that I see it performs better than 2 970's in SLI, but I know it would not make any sense with my current system.
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Yeah, looking at your specs, if those are current, I would say upgrading cpu and adding some ram first would be best.
 
Great review but, I do find it funny that when AMD releases a GPU with 8GB of VRAM and it gets a Con for "8 GB VRAM provides no tangible benefits" but, when nVidia does it, suddenly it's not a con anymore. In fact there is practically no mention of the 8GB of VRAM beyond the title, intro, and a single bullet in the Pro list in the conclusion. I just find that interesting. Did 8GB suddenly become worth while? Are these games utilizing more than 4GB with the 1080 when it didn't with other nVidia cards? I might just be looking into it too much but, I always see cons for large amounts of VRAM and I'm wondering why it's not a con anymore. It's very interesting timing...
 
nickbaldwin86 said:
Would love to see how it stacked up next to SLI 980s.... NV was claiming that the 1080 was going to beat out SLI 980s in the launch media right?
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There are some youtube videos showing that it does outperform 980 SLI in some games but not in all and not on all resolutions.
 
You ALL must be blind or just stupid I mean.... GREAT JUMP IMPROVEMENT !??

The GTX980Ti has the same jump with the GTX780Ti and now that the "improvement" is AGAIN about 20% at best you all are saying is a miracle, c´mon people.
Yes is a new card but is the same gen after gen, the NEW thing that comes was more RV support and less power consumption.


Great review and still waiting for the GTX1070 but watching this, I would say that hardly beats a SLI of GTX970, the GTX1080 as barely over the GTX970SLI by 4FPS - 10FPS
 
the54thvoid said:
But I agree, it would be good to see a heavily AMD biased title tested
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Or at least drop some of the non-demanding titles at least, as so many just punch up the averages.


While it gave some gains to 4K to me it's no so much from architectural improvements, but the faster clocks and still being able to have 320 GB/s on a cost effective 256-bit. It pack a punch at lower resolutions, and that's fine, but I see W1zzard 9.1 score telling in the value of this for 1440p it's a lot to pay, while for 4K it might, although the FE might not be a good purchase. Even to buy today as a way to tide one over till larger gains are recognized, as I don't think you will recouped the premium once the days of Vega and GP100 arrive. I think for 1440p this offer excellent FpS, but even then I'd say wait to see the 1070 and to a lesser extent a Polaris because you shouldn't have to approach even $400 any more to see great 1440p.

As to the fan cooler I kind of understand as W1zzard said, "I just hope that this will not tempt custom board manufacturers to go for ultra-low temperatures while ignoring fan noise." I see this cooler stepping aback from what the 980/908Ti could offer, especially knowing how much power/heat this new GPU would need to shed.
I think most AIB customs should have no issue controlling the clocks, temp, and noise as it seems Nvidia has provide a fairly wide breath in this F-E cooler. Honestly, is there any real difference between a 980Ti Ref and the F-E as the picture from W1zzard's previous 980Ti has only passing adjustments for PCB components. I'd say the vapo-chamber and cooling fins inside are hardly if any changed. Does anybody see this cooler as anything more than changes to the shrouds aesthetics. I almost see the F-E as a way to hold the reins in on what probably going to be fairly non-saturated channel for some time. You have a opportunity to pay the "tribute" price or be stigmatized as one of those who just can't/wont pay up till that $600 is found in the market.
 
Great review. I think the extra $100 for the Founders Edition is just good marketing, but horrible for the consumer/gamers

I just finished struggling through Quantum Break with my 680. Since the patches that game plays well and is very demanding. Would be cool to see that tested someday
 
Sah7d said:
You ALL must be blind or just stupid I mean.... GREAT JUMP IMPROVEMENT !??

The GTX980Ti has the same jump with the GTX780Ti and now that the "improvement" is AGAIN about 20% at best you all are saying is a miracle, c´mon people.
Yes is a new card but is the same gen after gen, the NEW thing that comes was more RV support and less power consumption.


Great review and still waiting for the GTX1070 but watching this, I would say that hardly beats a SLI of GTX970, the GTX1080 as barely over the GTX970SLI by 4FPS - 10FPS
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You do realize that you're comparing 980 Ti that has 96 ROPs/8000M transistors/2816 Cuda vs 780 Ti 48/7100M/2880 vs 1080 64/7200M/2560. To make this proper comparison you should compare 780/980/1080 or 780 Ti/980 Ti/1080 Ti.
 
I wounder.... why in this reviews results of other graphics cars are so very different?!

For example Titan X
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In review of Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti XtremeGaming 6GB
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73.4 vs 53.4 ... How come ??
 
Fluffmeister said:
looks like the 1070 is gonna kick my 980 Ti in the teeth too and for a fraction of the price and power consumption.
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And everyone said I was crazy to sell off my 980Ti and 970s a month ago. "They aren't going to go down in value" they said "980Ti should be just as fast as the GTX1080" they said...
 
No probably not a joke. Then again, Nvidia has had a few awful driver releases in the past months that could possibly be cosidered jokes.
 
What a killer card. God damn I wish I had a job this summer instead of taking classes...
 
I think a EVGA engineer confirmed that 1080 only supports 2-way SLI?
I think the performance boost credits to the boost on frequency rather than the architecture.
 
newtekie1 said:
And everyone said I was crazy to sell off my 980Ti and 970s a month ago. "They aren't going to go down in value" they said "980Ti should be just as fast as the GTX1080" they said...
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idk who this "they" guy is but he's a dick :P


the nm shrink should have been evidence enough, they should have realized that.. ;)
 
Very impressive performance, as expected. Looking forward to what Big Pascal can do and hope it's affordable as that's the one I'd want to buy. It should be very capable indeed at 4K too, sitting well above 60fps especially if quality isn't fully maxed out and the game isn't super-taxing.

It will probably be the MSI Gaming edition one, as these coolers are fantastic. Currently got it in GTX 780 Ti form.
 
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