GTX 1080 revealed!

[nalex66]

Nvidia is live-streaming a reveal event to show off the new GTX 1080 tomorrow night (Friday May 6 9pm EDT). (Source)

I know a lot of us here have been waiting for the Pascal line-up, due to the graphics-power-hungry nature of VR. If the performance increase is significant, I'm going to go ahead and upgrade my GTX 980. I have a second PC that I recently built that's using an old GTX 660 Ti, so it will take the 980 when my main box gets upgraded.

Anyway, just thought you guys would like to know!

[Synthetic]

now we need 1600p HMDs

[Shadowmask72]

I'll definitely be on one of these and will sell on my GTX 980 Ti.

[shadowfrogger]

Could be good to wait for real world benchmarks before selling on. While the VR focus stuff is highly impressive. We don't know how it compares to the 980ti. For 2d games, the 1080 vs 980ti is going to be closer then you think. When it comes to vr, the single pass is like 20-30% better and multi projection another 20-30% (as it's rendering at a much lower resolution) but games still have use the api for the latter.

How many games are you going to notice the difference until the 1080 ti or pascal with hbm 2 comes out. But then again, you could just about sell the 980ti and the difference in cost wouldn't be that much I suppose.

[Kalec84]

Ok, i'm sold on it, but since my 980ti can handle "actual vr" hands down i think i can wait till 1080ti pop out...
Since just next year we will probably have 1080 native vr games... we know that, right?
Still, seeing such a performance leap in conjunction with the arrive of VR give me a very good feeling about the next 2-3 year for gaming/tecnology in general 😄 

[RorschachPhoeni]

The prizes are insanely low! How comes that?

[LZoltowski]

@RorschachPhoenix   I know right?!! Im so glad I waited and didn't upgrade my 970 to 980ti

[TwoHedWlf]

RorschachPhoenix said:

The prizes are insanely low! How comes that?

They seem reasonable, certainly not insanely low.

GTX 980 MSRP at release on 09/18/14 was $549, 1080 is $599
GTX 970 was $329, 1070 is $379.

So, about a year and a half later each GPU's successor is exactly $50 more

[Shadowmask72]

Yeh I'm wondering how this will affect the price of the 980 Ti now as well. Not only for potential resale of the one I own (barely six months old) but whether it would be worth doubling up and going back to SLI. Although I then run into the usual SLI problems once more. Even so, the price is great and I might just bite the bullet if the 4K gains are worth it.

On the plus side, if these new prices drive down the 970/980/ti prices considerably, then it's a massive boost for VR in general. So good call Nvidia and I assume AMD will follow suit.

[RorschachPhoeni]

LZoltowski said:

@RorschachPhoenix   I know right?!! Im so glad I waited and didn't upgrade my 970 to 980ti

Yes. I was going to buy a 980ti but thought: "Let's just wait a little more." (I will get my Rift in July, so there is still some time).

And wow! I'm glad I waited. I thought Pascal would cost about $1000 or something. I speculated that 980ti will get cheaper when Pascal is released. But man, now I will buy a Pascal for that prize.

[darkcrayon]

TheGamesCritic said:

Lets see 1080 default at $599 is only 600 MHz faster than 1 980 Ti. 2 of them Only 1.2 GHz faster but there's also a lack of efficiency in terms of the actual scaling of two of them. But it should be at least 900-1GHz difference in SLI. Is it a major change? Absolutely not. Especially at 4K.

My 2 980 Ti's run 4K games at about what? 40-45 tops? With 1 GHz extra you're looking at 49-53 fps tops. Not a big jump on average I imagine. I know it says 10 Teraflops of processing...but NVIDIA has never directly explained how that works.

It used to be CUDA Cores x Hertz Freq x 2 clock ops per cycle x ALU...but they don't really reveal a lot of specs.

Either way unless you get a Founder Edition ($699) and then OC it to 2000 MHz, if you even can which I advise against as it would significantly shorten the lifespan even at 18nm process of the chipset, it still isn't worth it.

Foolish at best to trade up right now. Especially if you don't play at 4K. I don't.

But it is a major advantage for VR, which is what we're most interested in here, is it not?  It should absolutely crush SLI 980s for VR (since they won't be working together for VR in most cases).

(It's a 16 nm process not 18).

I think it'd only be foolish if you don't play VR games and don't plan to this year.  But there is certainly time for benchmarks and reviews to see what we're really getting before spending any money.