Nvidia GeForce GTX 1000 Series (Pascal) MegaThread: FAQ and Resources

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The CPU doesn't run the card, and doesn't have a minimum specification CPU to run it. Otherwise there would be a CPU specified on the Nvidia website product specifications, alongside minimum PSU required.

The general rule is, buy the most powerful single graphics card you can afford. The most important factor is what are your requirements.

Your CPU is powerful and should run all games on the market. Whether it bottlenecks with games in the future, when paired with a 1080, is not the fault of the graphics card.

I have an i5 4690 (3.5GHz - 3.9GHz turbo). I have seen usage get fairly high in The Witcher 3; medium in Doom, and Crysis 3. Not enough to cause a slowing of frame rate when using 60fps. It should be good for a few years yet.

 


Thank you for the quick response. What do you mean bottle necked? I understand what the phrase means but in what respect are you talking about? overall performance? the card wont operate its full potential?

As for your question I googled system requirements for GTX 1080 and there was a site that had all the details about it and they recommended the CPU I mentioned etc. Sorry I cant think of the site off hand.
 
bottleneck is a general term suggesting the weakest part of the system. it varies depending on the game but with a high end gpu like the 1080, the cpu will just about always be the slowest part of the system. nothing to worry about really but in the end it may drop a few fps due to the age of the cpu. but we're talking abut a few fps when you're already getting some rather large numbers. you won't even notice.....
 
So I got my FE in today. I am able to overclock it to a constant 2Ghz and keep temps ~76, which I'm perfectly comfortable with. In heaven the card runs maxed out and consistently smooth with rare to any stutters. But in Paragon it's a total stutter fest. Temps look good. It looks like the stutters are coming from the power % of the card (which I have set to 120%) I see it his 119 -125, stutter like crazy, then return to normal. This happens ever 5-10 seconds. It's unbearable. You'll see in the screenshot linked that the left side's graph (Heaven) looks good. The middle-right (Paragon) is a mess in the power part (top section)

What piece of the puzzle am I missing? I thought if I could keep temps low I'd be good. Is the game just poorly optimized? What's letting the card constantly hit to much % power, then throttle. How to I fix it?

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9gnOxnP8EsiaWNQU0lVXzdUVE0/view
 


Oh ok. That's what I figured ya meant. Great and thanks a lot for your input! Cheers.

 


that's common to the card itself from the reviews i read. power usage is all over the map and fps does the same thing as it throttles, powers up, throttles again and so on. you're experience is pretty much on par with overclocking the FE card.
 


So if I were to return this one, and go for a NON-FE, what are the traits that will keep it from constantly hitting it's power percent ceiling? More power pins, more phases, upped voltage limit? All or some of the above? Lol.

Also. Is there anything I can do with the FE to keep it from hitting the ceiling so often? Is it the OC that's casting that?
 

According to your screenshot, you are being bottlenecked by your... page file? Talking about the bit just after the halfway mark where your pagefile is maxing out off the chart at nearly 9000 MB. How much RAM do you have in your system?

If you can, you should change the scale of your graphs, since a couple are maxed out at the top. Makes it hard to see what your top value is. It's impossible to tell if you are having any clock speed fluctuations that supposedly can lead to "microstutter" with the top of the Core clock graph obscured. You also need to let us see your "Limit" graphs. A 1 means you've hit that limit, a zero is good.

Don't jump to conclusions, the problem is likely not your FE video card, but more likely the game, your system, and the drivers.

Add: I just figured out that Paragon is an on-line massively multiplayer game in beta stage. That's got to be a big part of the problem.
 


Upgraded to Asus GTX 1080!

New Drivers are out as of today!
 


I've been thinking of the possibility of drivers, cpu bottleneck, no idea what the page file stat is. Tried a few other games with the OC on and they worked alright. Need to do more testing. Until then, below is a screenshot with adjusted graph limits. Hopefully it will help nail down what might actually be causing the issue. Wish there was a way to monitor watt usage ont he card to make sure that wasn't maxing out.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9gnOxnP8EsiY20tYjdmbFhoSVk
 


Lucky! How'd you get your hands on one?
 


Just kept checking the stock at the local computer store... Than i got an e-mail that my pre order is ready from the same store different location. I got the card from the other location not my pre order location...
 
Hi. I was wondering if the reports that the 1080 is better than 980 SLI was overhype or if this is actually the case? I have 980 SLI and I've been trying to figure out if there is a significant difference at 1440p. Thanks :)
 


In short: the 1080 and two 980 in SLi trade blows in all the benchmarks I have seen with the dual 980s being more often on the top than not. The difference is not very large, though. I wouldn't upgrade unless you desperately want to get rid of the SLI setup.
 


pay for my flight ticket and ill build it for free
 


1080 is will give you similar fps to 980 sli in games however less in firestrike.

1080 has double the vram which will give you better performance in titles such as Shadow of Mordor, the new tomb raider, GTA.

In games that don't support sli the 1080 has significant faster...

 



I wouldn't call it significant, really. Most AAA titles I know of support SLI and the smaller titles that don't are usually not as demanding. The 1080 will perform better in those circumstances but I don't think that having 180 instead of 120 fps is really significant. Just my two cents, though.
 
Metal gear solid requires a 980 ti / Titan x to get a solid 60 fps at 1440p maxed out and if my memory serves me correct this game doesn't take advantage of SLI...

Killing floor 2 when I was playing it benefited from the single card however I have 1440p 165 hz and like more than 60 fps.

What do you think of 4 gb of vram do you think this is enough to max out games at 1440 with max textures?

980 sli is a great solution, i've tested it myself however there are benefits to a single card with similar performance with more vram that gives it an edge in some titles...
 
If my only goal is to OC my 1080 to 2ghz, will the EVGA ACX do just as good a job as a aib with more pins, or will the extra pins of say a gaming x make a large difference in performance with that OC?
 
But if my card appears to be at 2ghz without jumping around during gaming and benchmarks, does that mean my silicone can handle it and the power won't be limited by the low wattage available by the single 8-pin? It's just been so long since I've had a card that only has a single 8-pin I'm having a hard time accepting that it's providing enough power to the card.
 
This is true, but my understanding was that directx 12 is eventually going to be able to utilize multiple cards on the directx level and there will be no need for nvidia to continue sli. Anyone else heard anything like this?
 

There's no need to guess at what is holding you back. Use the "Limit" graphs, Temp Limit, Voltage Limit, Power Limit, OV Max Limit to see whether you are getting a '1' or a '0'. A 1 means that you've hit that limit.

It's still most likely going to be an issue with the game, unless you are having the same problem on a non-online non-beta game with proper driver support for Pascal.
 
newegg finally has a few custom 1080 cards. 1 is "coming soon" and 2 others are out of stock right now. but they seem to be finally showing up places here and there. they have the asus strix, evga acx 3.0 and gigabyte g1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20601201888&IsNodeId=1&Description=gtx%201080&name=Desktop%20Graphics%20Cards&Order=BESTMATCH&isdeptsrh=1

guru3D also let slip a 1070 custom review this morning but pulled it real quick "Hey guys, the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X review we had this morning is offline until Friday. There has been a bit of confusion regarding embargo times and dates, this morning when we posted the review we did contact Nvidia who gave us the thumbs up on the article. As it now turns out AIB 1070 reviews are still embargoed until Friday. So we have taken the article offline and will obviously re-post it upcoming Friday. "

seems on friday we can start seeing custom reviews for 1070's. hopefully they come faster than the couple 1080 reviews we have seen so far.
 
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