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

[renz496]

Hopefully will get our review at least by mid this month.

 

[17seconds]

The next card, probably GTX 1060 (Ti) is also going to use the same GP104 chip, so I would think more like a GTX 980 at least, with a bunch of headroom.

 

[Mousemonkey]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from KillSwitch07 : "About the 1080 and 1070"

So for anyone that out of the loop, nvidia announced the 1080 and 1070 today. http:// I was watching the live stream of the event and Jen was claiming that the 1080 will be faster than two 980's running in sli, it's faster than the titan-x and and three times more power efficent than the titan x. The reference model was running at a 2.1 GHZ clock with a 5.5 GHZ mem clock at 67 C. I'm not interested in amd what so ever (very bad experiences with them). So I've come here to ask, should I become a day one adapter of the 1080, I currently have 970 sli's but i was literally planning on buying a 980ti today but decided to wait once i heard pascal was finally coming. The 1080 is dropping on the 27th, so I'm here to ask; should i sell my 970 sli's and get about 250 each before the price of used 970's tank, and just run my old 750 until these cards come out and buy one day one, or wait a few months? I don't really have a problem with the stock cooler, as I've seen like many others, what the stock cooler can do on this card. I'm also not all that much into overclocking, i don't find it all that worthwhile so i don't care much about waiting for evga, asus and others to drop models.

So for anyone that out of the loop, nvidia announced the 1080 and 1070 today. http:// I was watching the live stream of the event and Jen was claiming that the 1080 will be faster than two 980's running in sli, it's faster than the titan-x and and three times more power efficent than the titan x. The reference model was running at a 2.1 GHZ clock with a 5.5 GHZ mem clock at 67 C. I'm not interested in amd what so ever (very bad experiences with them). So I've come here to ask, should I become a day one adapter of the 1080, I currently have 970 sli's but i was literally planning on buying a 980ti today but decided to wait once i heard pascal was finally coming. The 1080 is dropping on the 27th, so I'm here to ask; should i sell my 970 sli's and get about 250 each before the price of used 970's tank, and just run my old 750 until these cards come out and buy one day one, or wait a few months? I don't really have a problem with the stock cooler, as I've seen like many others, what the stock cooler can do on this card. I'm also not all that much into overclocking, i don't find it all that worthwhile so i don't care much about waiting for evga, asus and others to drop models.

unless you plan on buying 2 1080's dont buy the first day, wait and see benchmarks, dont expect to see near double the titan x's performance. that bench was using the vr headset with their technology for vr/multi something(during the stream it showed a 33ish fps boost alone) that the titan x cant support as well as being on DX12 which the 1080 is better supported for. in your todays games of dx11 dont expect 980ti/titan x performance but close to it.

wisdom needs patience my friend...a wise man shd always wait for the right time...
its a new line of product...let it be tried and tested...wait for the reviews to roll out...allow enuf time to grasp the market feedback...then go for the kill...
ideally i wud wait for a couple of months atleast...see wats the buzz out there...let them fix the initial bugs and all...

but thts just me...

 

[Mousemonkey]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from cdabc123 : "PASCAL!!! price confirmed"

confirmed
1080-$599 for base
1070-$379 for base

$550 and $330 is wat i came across in various news articles...
but these are mere speculations as of now...
nothing has been confirmed officially...

just saw it in the live stream

599$ for the 1080 and 379$ for the 1070

Official. The other official statement is:
"GTX 1080, twice the performance of TitanX and 3x as efficient."
May 27th.

www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3047729/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1000-series-megathread-faq-resources.html let's keep the discussion to the mega thread please so we don't have 100 mini threads all saying the same thing

 

[Mousemonkey]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from chasep255 : "Nvidia GTX 1080 Double Precision?"

Does anyone know what the double precision performance for the new Gtx 1080 is? I saw the spec for single precision but nothing about doubles. Will is be handicapped like in past consumer cards?

this might be helpful...

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-volta-gpus-sc15/

 

[Guest]

can anybody explain what the founder edition includes??

they are prob higher bined cards so they will oc more and be more efficiant

All he said was that they overclock like crazy. I'm wondering, for $700, if they're finally offering more of a custom design with upgraded components and a new cooler.

i think the founders edition will have the newish design, while the normal suggested price could be for the aib makers. the low price will probably be the ones like the plastic blowers/cheaper fans.

 

[renz496]

Why need to care about double precision of 1080/1070?

 

[Hellfire13]

Why need to care about double precision of 1080/1070?

some people like to dig down all the way to the deepest level, just to be sure...
u can call them delusional...or u can call them intelligent/thoughtful...

 

[renz496]

Because ultimately double precision is useless for gaming application. I see there is big misconception about nvidia removing double precision stuff inside kepler (GK104) leads them to be weak in everything that is related to compute.

 

[Tomie_]

What about power supplies for GTX 1070...will be RM750i enough for 1070 and i7 skylake?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Should be enough for three 1070s and an i7. The 1080 is only a 180w card. I didn't see specifics but I'd guess the 1070 is 150w?

 

[Mousemonkey]

Should be enough for three 1070s and an i7. The 1080 is only a 180w card. I didn't see specifics but I'd guess the 1070 is 150w?

If the 1070 is a replacement for the 970 (which was a 980 that didn't make the grade bit of silicon and thus had "broken" Vram) was there any mention of what does or doesn't work this time round? 😀

 

[Michael Trenton]

Given the May 27th release date for the 1080 what would be a realistic expectation for the date of an Asus 1080 STRIX release?

 

[Nick_50]

They said that a 1070 is better than the current Titan X and it will be around $389, a current 970 is around the same price and in the UK the same model is £280. If I can get a 1070 for £300 or less and get better performance than a current Titan X that has to be a good deal.

I am no expert with graphics cards, I know we don't know all the info yet for the 1070 but what can a Titan X do? Is it good to run games at high settings at 1080p and 1440p?

 

[renz496]

1440p? Hmm....that should be walk in the park for titan x? Though titan x/980ti still not strong enough for 60fps 4k.

 

[Jonathan Cave]

So the 1080 will have DP 1.4 which allows 4k @ 120Hz imagine 4k gsync 120hz mmmmm!

When will these monitors be for sale?

$379/599 for the 1070/1080! Every used nvidia card being sold on ebay over the next few weeks will be CHEAP! i mean.... $370 for better than Titan X performance? who is going to want to buy a GTX 970 / 980 / 980 Ti NEW or USED at those prices. LOL MADNESS!

IM SOOOOOO glad i sold my 980 ti last week for £450. (made a £90 loss)

 

[TheConsiderateIlliterate]

So the 1080 will have DP 1.4 which allows 4k @ 120Hz imagine 4k gsync 120hz mmmmm!

When will these monitors be for sale?

$379/599 for the 1070/1080! Every used nvidia card being sold on ebay over the next few weeks will be CHEAP! i mean.... $370 for better than Titan X performance? who is going to want to buy a GTX 970 / 980 / 980 Ti NEW or USED at those prices. LOL MADNESS!

IM SOOOOOO glad i sold my 980 ti last week for £450. (made a £90 loss)

I know, right? I thought about selling my GTX 760 but I think I'm just going to keep it in storage or sell it to a friend on the cheap. Prior to this news they were going for like $100 - $120 on Ebay.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Should be enough for three 1070s and an i7. The 1080 is only a 180w card. I didn't see specifics but I'd guess the 1070 is 150w?

Their charts were a bit generous IMO, the GTX 980 has higher requirements than 160W. At least what we got out of them is the 1080 requiring 20W more than the 980, contrary to our prior predictions.

If Nvidia's cards are going up in energy consumption, I won't be surprised at all if AMD beats them this time around with Polaris significantly.

Of course, perf/watt has increased dramatically, but so has watt increased a bit.

 

[Doomjoon]

And I bought a 980Ti two months ago

At least I can hope that multi-GPU will become a common thing. Although we're very far from that.

 

[TechyInAZ]

If the 1070 is claiming to beat the Titan X. I'd expect the 1060 to come in at about GTX 970 performance IMO not GTX 980 performance.

That would be awsome!! if not GTX 980 performance for the 960 ti.

I can't wait for those cards to come out!! The 960 ti is currently on my upgrade list.

 

[Jonathan Cave]

And I bought a 980Ti two months ago

At least I can hope that multi-GPU will become a common thing. Although we're very far from that.

This feature sits in the laps of the developers, it is them who have to utilise 'multi-adaptor' and write it in their coding. Only Ashes of the Singularity uses multi-adapter to my knowledge.

 

[Math Geek]

Initial posts updated to reflect last night's release. feel free to post anything i may have missed. found one product page from zotac but did not see any others so far.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Time for some theory crafting.

With how powerful the gtx 1080 is. I just realized that the notebook market is going to explode! If pascal can deliver GTX 980 ti performance on a mobile platform, and in a mobile form factor (not this GTX 980 desktop in laptop stuff), laptops will finally be equal to their desktop counterparts!.

 

[Math Geek]

hhhhhhhhhmmmm interesting thought. how low power are the mobile parts right now? say the 980m uses what wattage? can the new gpu's get this low to be usable? i guess a high power laptop that was never meant to run on a battery could handle a 100+gpu but a battery would never last like that.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Remember these new GPUs are more power-hungry than Maxwell.