Hardware & Technical Hardware -Nvidia GPU news

winterknight

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Can't find any discussion on "Hardware" so putting this here. If it has better home then the Mods can move it.

Last night 09:00 EDT (US - Eastern Daylight Time) Nvidia held their release presentation. The news is about 1080 and 1070 cards only. The important bits are;
The new king: GTX 1080 $599, faster than two 980's in SLI [edit] Available May 27th [/edit]

GTX 1070, $379, June 10th

The prices are about same as the 980 and 970 they will replace.

Link to Anandtech blog http://www.anandtech.com/show/10305/the-nvidia-geforce-2016-liveblog#post0506222007
 
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Cmdr-Wotherspoon

Cmdr-Wotherspoon
And the 1070 is "about 50% more powerful than, but only 20% more expensive than a 970" according to a site I was just reading. Which probably makes it viable as an entry-level VR card, even for Elite Dangerous. Although the price of the 1080 makes it very attractive indeed....
 

Porina

Porina
Trying to digest stuff now, and will rewatch the vid in a bit. Anyone else annoyed the comparisons were against 980, not 980Ti? While it might be more fair in terms of market placement, there will be a lot of Ti owners out there wondering where it fits in for them too. Even Titan got a mention.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Seriously hoping that FD add support for that new 'Ansel' feature - seems like it's made for Elite Dangerous to me :)

Also, will FD be integrating the new multi-projection feature to enhance VR performance?
 

Porina

Porina
Simultaneous multi projection is what multi-monitor people have wanted since forever. I'd much rather have that than VR... wonder if it needs game support or can it be purely handled in the driver?
 
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Prince Thrakkath

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Porina said:
Still watching...

Don't forget team red will also have something also... bite or wait?
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I would wait unless what you currently have is way underpowered or you need 4K straight away, direct competitor to 1080 will be Vega which launches Q1 next year. It will be interesting to see how the Polaris 10 stacks up against the 1070 both in terms of power efficiency and performance as they are both targeting the mid-high end. I'm on 2x390's which I got specifically for VR(thankfully AMD is targeting multi-gpu setups with liquidVR) and I can't see any need to upgrade GPU's for at least another year(polaris is supposed to be close to 390(x) performance anyway just more efficient), I'm more interested to see how Zen stacks up against Intel.
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Porina said:
Simultaneous multi projection is what multi-monitor people have wanted since forever. I'd much rather have that than VR... wonder if it needs game support or can it be purely handled in the driver?
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Link the SDK, then the game sets up or enables the multiple projections through the API (driver probably feeds the physical orientation of the screens/lenses in the case of VR viewports).

So, yeah - some coding will be required, but the goal of the SDK is theoretically to make it as easy as possible for the dev to use
 

Porina

Porina
My immediate problem is my 980Ti thermally throttles and even when not throttling there isn't quite enough power. I already tried cleaning, and it was clean. Reapplying thermal compound made no difference. My options are basically watercooling or new card. Watercooling isn't cheap or simple. Q1 next year is too far out. I wont fight to get it on day 1, but certainly it is a consideration for me in the short term. If the multi-monitor thing works without waiting for ED to code it in, that would push it up my desire list a LOT.
 

Prince Thrakkath

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Porina said:
My immediate problem is my 980Ti thermally throttles and even when not throttling there isn't quite enough power. I already tried cleaning, and it was clean. Reapplying thermal compound made no difference. My options are basically watercooling or new card. Watercooling isn't cheap or simple. Q1 next year is too far out. I wont fight to get it on day 1, but certainly it is a consideration for me in the short term. If the multi-monitor thing works without waiting for ED to code it in, that would push it up my desire list a LOT.
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Probably a stupid question, but is it not still under Warranty? 980TI hasn't been around long. I used to mine dogecoin(when it was profitable) and have RMA'd more cards than I can count:)
 

GuruNot

GuruNot
Porina said:
Anyone else annoyed the comparisons were against 980, not 980Ti? While it might be more fair in terms of market placement, there will be a lot of Ti owners out there wondering where it fits in for them too. Even Titan got a mention.
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This article on Videocardz, assuming it is legit, has some benchmarks for 3D Mark firestrike Extreme: http://videocardz.com/59558/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-3dmark-benchmarks

The 1080 clocked at 1860Mhz scores 8959, that is meant to be with a i7-3770 CPU.

My 980Ti clocked at 1190Mhz (1291 Boost) , with my old i7-2600K scored 8282 :

980ti_Fire_Strike_Extreme.jpg

But until official benchmarks come out, it is all speculation.
 
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Nyres

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Definitely getting a 1080, I'm going to be also buying a new computer around June-July, should I wait for other companies to make the 1080 with their own heat sinks or is the reference cooler good enough to warrant buying a 1080 with just that.
 

GuruNot

GuruNot
Nyres said:
Definitely getting a 1080, I'm going to be also buying a new computer around June-July, should I wait for other companies to make the 1080 with their own heat sinks or is the reference cooler good enough to warrant buying a 1080 with just that.
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Whilst the Nvidia Reference cooler has been getting better, the coolers offered by the other vendors are generally superior. There is also the fact that the cards come with higher clock speeds than Nvidia's reference boards. I personally would hang on until multiple vendors have released their own cards.
 
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