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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Insomnia said:
Look at the leap between Titan X and 1080! :O Wow!
I hope the 1070 will be closer in perf to the 1080 than the Titan X. I can't help but wonder what AMD will do? Liquid nitrogen cooled GPU? :D
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thing is, there's going to be four 1080s at launch:

- base version, using 'standard cooling' released by partners
- founders version - vapour chamber from nVidia
- oc version - air - partners - expected to be clocked above the 2.1ghz shown by NVidia during their demo (possibly 2.4ghz)
- oc version - water - partners - god knows how high this could be clocked - 2.5Ghz seems likely apparently:

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52117...rrive-liquid-cooled-version-2-5ghz/index.html

This is where NVidias quest for efficiency makes sense - when you pump more juice into it, you get much higher performance over a previous gen card at the same wattage.

Quite insane. And, oh look, the benchmarks are released on my birthday! Do I sense an order coming!? :)

In theory, Ati/AMD's next revision should see similar improvements over their last edition, but nVidia have the initiative here for the moment for sure.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
A few specs ---- http://videocardz.com/59962/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-final-specifications-and-launch-presentation

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Insomnia

Insomnia
The theoretical performance tests based on the 1080 specifications doesn't convince me though. And frankly I'm more interested in the 1070 than the big brother. In terms of bang for the buck I think the 1070 will deliver more power per dollar.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
rootsrat said:
23 transistors per mm2, that's just crazy if you think about it :)
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Yes I had the same reaction. Everything is crazy in a computer. The clock cycles of a processor at 4Ghz. It is as if you count from 1 to 4 billion in 1 second. This is crazy too
 
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winterknight

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Preview at AnandTech, http://www.anandtech.com/show/10326/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-preview

Still no 1070 numbers.
Quite a few games frame rate comparisons in but most are in 3840x2160 Ultra Quality, compared with other cards down to 780Ti and latest range of AMD's.

Interesting comment about AMD on last page
"NVIDIA’s loyal opposition, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group, has strongly hinted that they’re not going to be releasing comparable high-performance video cards in the near future. Rather the company is looking to make a run at the much larger mainstream market for desktops and laptops with their Polaris architecture, something that GP104 isn’t meant to address."
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
winterknight said:
Interesting comment about AMD on last page
"NVIDIA’s loyal opposition, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group, has strongly hinted that they’re not going to be releasing comparable high-performance video cards in the near future. Rather the company is looking to make a run at the much larger mainstream market for desktops and laptops with their Polaris architecture, something that GP104 isn’t meant to address."
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Digital Foundry said the same thing and AMDs Vega will be the true competitor to Pascal.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Insomnia said:
Digital Foundry said the same thing and AMDs Vega will be the true competitor to Pascal.
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For competitiveness' sake (I don't buy AMD as I've had far too many problems over the years, but I try to remain objective - no fanboiness here) I only hope that what they release can compete with 1080tis and other parts that will be out by then. Not having a big upgrade equivalent to NVidia for 6 months could be a real mistake. That said, they've got the Console market. For now anyway.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
LordZoltan said:
For competitiveness' sake (I don't buy AMD as I've had far too many problems over the years, but I try to remain objective - no fanboiness here) I only hope that what they release can compete with 1080tis and other parts that will be out by then. Not having a big upgrade equivalent to NVidia for 6 months could be a real mistake. That said, they've got the Console market. For now anyway.
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I agree. I read somewhere that Nvidia has a 80% market share. But AMD has a 100% market share on the console side. I hope also for competitiveness sake that Microsoft will team up with Nvidia for their next console. Forcing the graphical evolution on the console side to the PC levels.
And remember that AMDs Vega will launch next summer which gives Nvidia a full year headstart.
Nvidia is probably gonna milk the 1080 card and see what AMD has to offer before they release their next Titan or Ti version.
 
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CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Insomnia said:
And remember that AMDs Vega will launch next summer which gives Nvidia a full year headstart.
Nvidia is probably gonna milk the 1080 card and see what AMD has to offer before they release their next Titan or Ti version.
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Rumour has it that AMD might have brought forward the launch of Vega from approx. Jan 2017 to Oct. But it's just that, rumours. Realistically it probably depends on the availability and yields of the HBM2 chips. Certainly I don't think we should be expecting Polaris 10 to be competing with these new Nvidia cards, though if AMD do launch a Polaris 10-based 490X it might get close to the 1070, but it's possible that the biggest Polaris 10 card will be a 480X and the 490X replacement will use Vega 11 with the Fury replacement using Vega 10.

The 1080 reviews are saying that Nvidia will likely release "Big Pascal" i.e. 980ti/Titan replacement in Spring 2017 which again will depend on HBM2 production and you're right they will probably wait and see what AMD do with Vega.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
Aaaand Digital Foundry's review of the Founders Edition. ;)
[video=youtube_share;-ZG54Da2pMM]https://youtu.be/-ZG54Da2pMM[/video]
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
According to rumors, in a few months, the GTX 1060 will have the following characteristics: GPU GP106, 1280 computing units and a GDDR5 video memory of 4 or 8 GB interfaced in 256-bit. For less 300 euros
 
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winterknight

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For UK peeps, 1080 founders edition listed on Scan and Overclockers. No real info, not even confirmed price, but assume if you have that sort of cash available, you might be able to pre-order.
I understand, but not looked, that Amazon also list but marked as sold out, nil stock.
 
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