Bugal Jackson :
I built my first PC just earlier this year, but by chance it was only a couple months before the 1070 and 1080 released so people advised me to get one of them. They told me that their new pascal technology was grounbreaking somehow, forgot exactly what was told. But now that I know a bit more about this stuff, can someone explain?
Nvidia's PASCAL offers a much greater performance increase over last generation Nvidia GPUs, more so than any other generation has before. It also offers a much greater performance in VR. Also the clock speeds are ridiculous at over 2GHz!!!
As far as the details of how they do this... I'm not sure..
*Oh, and they did all of that consuming less power than any other generation of GPUs
The generational increase in performance jumped two tiers, more than the usual one tier. For example, the GTX 960 performs like (actually less than) a GTX 770, but a GTX 1060 performs like a GTX 980. Which results in a much better value for the card.
**The 960 didn't really offer much better performance than the 760.