NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card at $699

[GhostRyder]

throw a water block on it and you get a single slot card!!! FINALLY!! the day of DVI is over!

Yea, I am thankful at least on reference no DVI. I prefer this 1 HDMI and 3 DP design (Same with AMD) well over having anything on the top.

Interested in how this thing will perform and how this cut up card handles things in the memory department. For the price, I may trade up my Titan XP for a pair of these instead of grabbing a second Titan XP (Also depends on how it overclocks).

 

[Hotobu]

Just posting for posterity in this quasi tragedy called a thread. LOL @ people who can't read the most basic of graphs and thought the original was reversed. Like... how hard is it to correlate a higher noise level with higher fan speed and lower temps?

What really sucks is that this embarrassment has to be on the main page. Hard to be a reputable site when a guy with genius (lol?) in his name goes through the trouble of fixing something that isn't broken. What's even worse is that some people probably STILL haven't figured it out.

 

[EarthDog]

If 256bit handled it just fine, 352 will...

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Just posting for posterity in this quasi tragedy called a thread. LOL @ people who can't read the most basic of graphs and thought the original was reversed. Like... how hard is it to correlate a higher noise level with higher fan speed and lower temps?

What really sucks is that this embarrassment has to be on the main page. Hard to be a reputable site when a guy with genius (lol?) in his name goes through the trouble of fixing something that isn't broken. What's even worse is that some people probably STILL haven't figured it out.

Also he originally misread the graph and was first to be confused by it ironically..."genius" guy that is. Site is very reputable, I don't think TPU is any less or more due to certain posters and hey, maybe they just didn't have their coffee before posting.

 

[NTM2003]

any Idea when pre order starts I keep refreshing the amazon page but nothing yet not even price drops

 

[Captain_Tom]

you are right that amd should be able to do 50% over previous flagship.
however, amd's previous flagship was fury x. 50% on top of fury x would put performance at only slightly faster than gtx1080.

depending on where exactly they want vega to be it might not be enough.

Not at all true.

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_1080_Aorus_Xtreme_Edition/images/perfrel_3840_2160.png


That's 15%+ higher than a stock 1080, and that's using a list that includes many older games. All of this is just the bare minimum too. If you actually look at the architectural enhancements and leaked specs it could be as much as high as twice as strong - we just don't know yet.


The point is that the 7970 was practically twice as strong as the 6970, and the 290X was 50 - 65% stronger than the 7970. We should expect at least that much from AMD considering how long it has been.

 

[Hotobu]

I was considering waiting for Vega, but now I don't see a reason to. Even if it does beat out this card I don't see that happening with a large enough performance increase or price difference to justify the wait.

 

[GhostRyder]

any Idea when pre order starts I keep refreshing the amazon page but nothing yet not even price drops

You need to buy from Nvidia's store. They are doing the FE versions first only on the NVidia store.

Still debating if I want to trade up.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Wow ,i've a comment but I'm keeping it to myself, it errr lolz lots enough said.

 

[JJJJJamesSZH]

Now I feel sad for my TTXP

 

[NTM2003]

I want the ti but the normal 1080 is a major upgrade from my 960. but then again the price on the ti made me want that more now. cant wait I just hope my cpu will handle it I'm sure it will.

 

[Grings]

I was expecting 799 (didnt last gen titan cost that?)

Annoyingly, Nvidia have finally gone for 1:1 $>£ currency conversion, so its £699, i was hoping it might be £649

Seems they took that opportunity to jack the price of the Titan from £1099 to £1179 too

 

[NTM2003]

I thought they went around $1099 or $1199 when the 980ti was released

 

[Kyuuba]

Perfect card to upgrade from 780ti.
Wallet ready to put one inside my case!

 

[efikkan]

This is by far the greatest top consumer model Nvidia has released in ages, with a great price, 35% extra performance, outstanding efficiency and thermals, and still some decent overclocking headroom. Many of you dismiss this product, yet you create hype about Vega, which will not even compete with this one.

No founders edition tax? Only $699? 11 GB of RAM? Does anybody else feed AMD tricked them into releasing this card so early with their Vega "reveal"? They could keep charging that much for the 1080 and get more profits.

Nvidia was not tricked, in fact GTX 1080 Ti was postponed, it was supposed to arrive end of 2016 but was delayed due to supply issues. Why are so many people complaining about the memory size/bus width? The memory controllers in a GPU are separate and work independently, you can have as many 32-bit controllers you want, it's not a technical problem.

A slightly crippled GPU and a weird 11GB RAM on their top GTX? Now that's just fugly. I'll wait for the reviews and Vega before buying, but this puts me off the card and might just stick to a 1080. The thing was plenty fast anyway.

And exactly how did the 11 GB memory put you off?
It's not like Vega is going to beat this anyway.

maybe another gtx970 memory fiasco

How will this be a fiasco?
None of the memory controllers or chips are crippled in any way.

(off topic, but..)
Why the joy at no DVI?

Because the DVI-port is blocking ~30 of the exhaust of GTX 1060/1070/1080, even though it's not that useful any more.

 

[londiste]

I was expecting 799 (didnt last gen titan cost that?)
Annoyingly, Nvidia have finally gone for 1:1 $>£ currency conversion, so its £699, i was hoping it might be £649
Seems they took that opportunity to jack the price of the Titan from £1099 to £1179 too

nvidia has very little to do with that.
for £ prices, thank brexit. especially titan x one. nvidia actually has a press release or something about that, saying they needed to adjust prices to due £/$ rate changes.
for the rest - usd has been gaining a lot against other currencies, € is also almost 1:1 now.

The memory controllers in a GPU are separate and work independently, you can have as many 32-bit controllers you want, it's not a technical problem.

not really separate controllers.
idea is correct though, memory controller can work with somewhat arbitrary width of memory bus. memory bus width increments are defined by the data bus width of a single memory chip, in case of gddr5(x) that is 32 bits.
nitpicky, i know. sorry.

 

[kruk]

This is by far the greatest top consumer model Nvidia has released in ages, with a great price, 35% extra performance, outstanding efficiency and thermals, and still some decent overclocking headroom. Many of you dismiss this product, yet you create hype about Vega, which will not even compete with this one.

Man, you sure know a lot of things about the card which wasn't released and benchmarked yet. And Vega. Do you work in/for GPU industry? Just curious, not accusing you of anything ...

 

[Kyuuba]

I need an advice here, my monitor is 144 Hertz capable but in order to work at 144 Hz it needs the DVI port, will the DVI adapter found in the 1080ti package content allow my VG248QE to run at 144Hz ?

 

[efikkan]

not really separate controllers.
idea is correct though, memory controller can work with somewhat arbitrary width of memory bus. memory bus width increments are defined by the data bus width of a single memory chip, in case of gddr5(x) that is 32 bits.
nitpicky, i know. sorry.

I'm sorry, but that's incorrect.
Modern GPUs work by having multiple separate 32-bit memory controllers, each complete with their own ROPs. GTX 1080 Ti has one of these disabled, which is why it also has fewer ROPs. This is one of the nice modular features of modern GPUs.

When a cluster of cores wants to access a block of memory it addresses the respective memory controller.

 

[iO]

Yeah all nice and fast but 819€ for a cut down GPU in a ref design is still not cool...

 

[efikkan]

Yeah all nice and fast but 819€ for a cut down GPU in a ref design is still not cool...

Why does it matter if it's "cut down"?
Isn't all that matters what it actually gives you?
If Nvidia needs to add more cores/controllers/etc. to get decent yields and keep the prices low, precisely how is this bad for the end user?

 

[the54thvoid]

Not at all true.

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_1080_Aorus_Xtreme_Edition/images/perfrel_3840_2160.png


That's 15%+ higher than a stock 1080, and that's using a list that includes many older games. All of this is just the bare minimum too. If you actually look at the architectural enhancements and leaked specs it could be as much as high as twice as strong - we just don't know yet.


The point is that the 7970 was practically twice as strong as the 6970, and the 290X was 50 - 65% stronger than the 7970. We should expect at least that much from AMD considering how long it has been.

Using your own rational, the increase in performance from a 390X to Fury X was only 30%. Vega has the same core count as Fiji. So the arch tweaks and clockspeeds will be the difference. I can't see Vega being 100% faster than Fury X. Not even 75% faster. I'd love to be wrong but the history doesn't back it up.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Using your own rational, the increase in performance from a 390X to Fury X was only 30%. Vega has the same core count as Fiji. So the arch tweaks and clockspeeds will be the difference. I can't see Vega being 100% faster than Fury X. Not even 75% faster. I'd love to be wrong but the history doesn't back it up.

in some cases it will be 100% but how many being realistic ,all yawn and no action for me this Ti

 

[efikkan]

If 1080 Ti is boring (even though it's the most exciting high end model in recent history), then Vega is going to bore you to death.

 

[jabbadap]

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