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]

here is the estimated specs but keep away from the comments section below its a troll hangout

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gtx-1080-1070-livestream/

[nalex66]

Some 3D Mark performance scores have come out, but an abstract number doesn't mean all that much to me, especially when there isn't much at that level to compare it to. I'm hoping the see some real-world benchmark results--or even better, some VR benchmarks.

[Zenbane]

Oooh thanks. Yesterday I tried setting Farlands to max graphic settings; and Ethen Carter to 130% resolution. Both situations caused my GTX 980 to slow drastically; I assume this new beast of a card will make this a non-issue.

That being said, I don't plan to upgrade my graphics card again til around 2019. Unless of course a VR game is released that is not only breathtaking and revolutionary... but also devoid of excess motion sickness.

Right now, no matter how amazing the graphics, if the game is too intense I just can't enjoy it for longer than 45-minute intervals (at most).

Great news nonetheless!

[Shadowmask72]

I've recently got rid of my R9 295x2 ( ❤️ ) and replaced it with a GTX 980 Ti because I wanted to steer away from dual GPU configurations. Now if the GTX 1080 can handle 4K much better than the 980 Ti well then I'm probably going to crumble rather than wait for the GTX 980 Ti to fall in price and go back to dual GPUs again. I figure if supported, SLI GTX 980 Ti is a formidable setup and would be very tempting.

[Synthetic]

its going to be close to 60fps 4k, 25% faster than titanX looks like

[Shadowmask72]

So lemme throw a ballpark figure on the price. £1200 GBP.  😮

[nalex66]

I would expect it to be priced similarly to the 980 when it released--I've seen estimates in the $500 range.

[Anonymous]

How the hell is a 1080 getting 26K in 3d mark? jesus chris. That 5820K is also underperforming to hell.

[Techy111]

May I just tippy toe into this thread and ask if any of you upgraders get a 1080 I'll be happy to buy your 980ti cheap 🙂