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.
Do we know much about the 1070 yet? Was thinking of jumping from my 970 to 1070...but would it be worth it? Say I sell the 970 for $150 and have to drop $250 to get the 1070? I would mainly be doing this for VR optimizations.
We don't know as much about the 1070 yet, except that it also competes with a Titan X and has 8 GB or RAM (GDDR5 rather than the 1080's faster GDDR5X). Here's a little recent info.
I was planning to put my 980 into my HTPC when I upgrade my main box, but now I'm thinking I'll sell the 980 and grab a 1070 for that PC. It's a mini-ITX case, and I think it will do better with a blower-type cooler rather than the open air cooler that my 980 has, plus the 1070 outperforms the 980 anyway.
i'm on a 970GTX SLi, which i had build for my VR Rig, but since SLI will be a no go for most games in VR, i will go for the 1080 as soon as i can as well.
should be a good upgrade. and no SLI hassles and less power draw. have to admit, that i can throw anything at max level to the 970 pair though, so it is/was definitely a great rig.
Any VR benchmarks yet? Desktop performance means little to me for this generation 😉 980TI is more than up to the job.
Quite an in depth piece here http://www.roadtovr.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-benchmark-review-performance-head-to-head-against-the-980ti/
Doesn't look like any need to get rid of my 980Ti until the 1080Ti hits.
Yep, I was thinking the same after reading that. Unless it's a driver issue with the new technology that is not the performance increase I was looking for in VR. Disappointed.
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Any VR benchmarks yet? Desktop performance means little to me for this generation 😉 980TI is more than up to the job.
Quite an in depth piece here http://www.roadtovr.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-benchmark-review-performance-head-to-head-against-the-980ti/
Doesn't look like any need to get rid of my 980Ti until the 1080Ti hits.
Yep, I was thinking the same after reading that. Unless it's a driver issue with the new technology that is not the performance increase I was looking for in VR. Disappointed.
There does seem to be a much bigger leap in performance for none VR gaming when compared to VR gaming. I'm a little bit surprised by the results to be honest particularly when you consider that Nvidia made a point of saying that the new cards had been developed with VR in mind. However, drivers and games optimised for the new cards may result in bigger improvements over older cards in the future.
From what I understand, the new GTX cards still don't do true asynchronous processing either (sort of an accelerated pre-emptive scheduler?).
Watching the async video from AdoredTv, the same youtuber you posted above. He says that Nvidia has fixed the main part of the async problem for pascal. So async shouldn't be a problem. @Lusca Thanks for linking him, His videos are well thought out and explained.
He has done a really great video on the direction of AMD Gpu's, He puts his case down and backs it's up with facts. A really good watch for the future of the GPU industry.
