What do you think the chances are that nVidia is selling this ahead of Vega because they know they will not sell as many post vega release? After all someone who buys this now won't buy a gpu next month that performs better.
Could also be they expect an uptick in PC sales this month and want to offer a new product to pair with new PC builds.
GPU-Z has a bug or better - the driver is reporting wrong numbers. Nvidias drivers said 96 but in real we have 88, the GPU-Z calculation is wrong. Just talked with the guy who made it and he corrected it now.
falchard :
What do you think the chances are that nVidia is selling this ahead of Vega because they know they will not sell as many post vega release? After all someone who buys this now won't buy a gpu next month that performs better.
Could also be they expect an uptick in PC sales this month and want to offer a new product to pair with new PC builds.
Good question. But we have a NDA for the 1080 Ti and absolute no info about Vega. This is pure speculation atm.
I get it, we're all just big kids unboxing fancy expensive toys.
I took it as more of a shot across the bow to your typical youtuber unboxers/reviewers. Tom's raised the bar (again).
It's too bad the editor in chief probably enjoys handling that role. He's well suited for broadcasting and wouldn't be out of place at all on any major news network as a go-to industry specialist.
Curious: Are any of the pictures of the thermal fleece? It's something I've never heard of before, but when I try to google it, I keep getting clothes (even when I add in the word "computer). I'd like to know what it is.
I took it as more of a shot across the bow to your typical youtuber unboxers/reviewers. Tom's raised the bar (again). It's too bad the editor in chief probably enjoys handling that role. He's well suited for broadcasting and wouldn't be out of place at all on any major news network as a go-to industry specialist.
The problem was again Nvidias salamitactics. Here a thin slice of info, there a few words. I decided to use their NDA for today word by word to unbox it completely. What the hell is unboxing? Grey area. And I'm sure, the editor in chief is a good guy 😉
rayden54 :
Curious: Are any of the pictures of the thermal fleece? It's something I've never heard of before, but when I try to google it, I keep getting clothes (even when I add in the word "computer). I'd like to know what it is.
This material is not new but not usual. I have no idea why Nvidia used this different kind of tape. It's like cotton, smashed with thermal grease. Really funny stuff.
Take a look at the cooler picture, there you will find a lot of this white pieces. The picture is HiRes, you can zoom it.
Achaios :
We know that VEGA will be about 10% faster than the 1080
I doesn't know it and unconfirmed rumors are simply waste of time. 10% faster as what? Founders or oc'ed custom models? This is nothing to believe it. We have to wait. 🙁 I saw (and heard) a Vega engineering sample a few times, but if the PR is showing something, you can be sure, that you see all and nothing. Only what AMD allowed and filtered.
Achaicos: How do you know the "Performance" Of Vega?
How do you know that it will perform slower than the 1080 TI? Was there leaked full performance reviews and tests?
And considering AMD's optimization.. I would say that the VEGA card (like all others in the past) could get up to 25% more performance with optimizations.
As a 4K-gamer I simply need ONE powerful card, that gives me the full experience. I have two 1080's as SLI and this microstuttering is killing me so often. I'm very sensitive for such things and I simply hope, that one of this upcoming cards can solve this problems.
I can't spoiler any results until NDA fall, sorry for that. So don't ask me
I wonder if the 1080 Ti has all the same features that the Titan has. The price difference is so huge that it makes me think there should be some difference in capabilities.
Single-card 4K gaming will again be kicked in the nuts, even with the release of the GTX 1080 Ti. Even still, the Ti, will destroy anything at 2K and should do nicely for 4K @60 till then 😉