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GTX 1080 revealed!

nalex66
MVP
MVP
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!

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HornyyyHorn
Expert Protege
Im waiting for the big ones!

SlimBoyFat
Adventurer
Quite happy with my 980Ti at the moment so will await the 1080Ti before I upgrade.
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bigmike20vt
Visionary
I was fully expecting my 2014 black Friday gtx980 to be replaced as soon as Pascal and the rift came out however I must admit it is doing so will with my current games that I am thinking I may skip this generation.
Historically I have only upgraded when I can get around a 100% improvement in performance and that simply can't happen this generation..... Nor did I expect it to, I just didn't expect the 980 to do as well as it does in vr. The only game which stutters at all really seems to be ets2 on ultra and that is down to it being dx9 and not built for vr engine wise IMO. Pcars, elite Eve V all run superbly.

Pretty pleased to be honest..... ESP as just tonight it seems my media PC has just died.
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LZoltowski
Champion
Really? No one? Ugh I have to do all the work around here 🙂



But yes my wallet is ready .... claiming it as a "business expense" lol well that's what my partner thinks anywhoo ... Cant wait! I want to see some eye melting tech demo too!
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Solsland
Adventurer
Getting back into PC gaming after a (very) long break.  I had been looking at a nice rig with a GTX 980ti but with my Rift looking like it is probably still a while away I might hang fire for the 1080.  Any clue's as to when they expect the 1080 to be on shelfs?  Guessing the 1080ti is still a long way off?

shadowfrogger
Heroic Explorer
@Shadowmask72
Directx 12 let's you sli with any card now(people have benchmarked a fury and 980ti together), you could always get a 1080 and keep you 980. Single gpu is always better, but you have new options now. Only thing I'm not sure about is how nvlink is going to be handled.

@bigmike20vt
But pascal is going to be 10 times the power, that's 1000%. The formula is ( 1080*3 (pci 3) * 12 (directx 12) + 4k ) * 2 (nvlink) + 8600 (speed of the fan).
CEO logic...
All in all, this should be a really decent step since we are going from 24nm to 16nm with a new design. If you don't mind waiting, wait for Volta in 2017/2018. That will be close/above 100%
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LZoltowski
Champion
@shadowfrogger  at the moment SLI doesnt work in VR (a few issues to iron out before it does) .. so in VR terms single GPU is much better ..... but who know for how long!
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Anonymous
Not applicable
The initial results are somewhat disappointing to me. I mean this is now finally the jump to 16nm after many years, I thought that would lead to a massive jump in performance.

I guess it is nice that my 970 will remain somewhat 'competitive'.

ThreeDeeVision
Superstar
@LZoltowski apparently a forum user has had a little luck with SLI, although you are correct, it most often causes more issues than it solves.  I had a few SLI setups in the past and even a 3D Vision Surround setup for a while and all that extra hardware ended up not being worth it in the long run (for me at least).  It was awesome for benchmarks and the few games that supported it, but it was always a big let down when I would try a game that had issues with SLI or triple-screen resolutions.  I would spend a lot of time figuring out work-arounds that still didn't work right.

Here is the post if you haven't seen it: https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/35577/sli-is-working-on-release
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Zandil
Rising Star


@LZoltowski apparently a forum user has had a little luck with SLI, although you are correct, it most often causes more issues than it solves.  I had a few SLI setups in the past and even a 3D Vision Surround setup for a while and all that extra hardware ended up not being worth it in the long run (for me at least).  It was awesome for benchmarks and the few games that supported it, but it was always a big let down when I would try a game that had issues with SLI or triple-screen resolutions.  I would spend a lot of time figuring out work-arounds that still didn't work right.

Here is the post if you haven't seen it: https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/35577/sli-is-working-on-release


Agree with you there 3D, I loved my Xfire setup but 70-80% of games I played don't support it and i spent so many hours working out issues or turning Xfire off to run them that 1 single powerful card was so much easier in the long run.