Hello all! As you probably already know, NVIDIA has announced the GTX 1080 (May 27th) as well as the GTX 1070 (June 10th). I currently have a R9 390 but plan on selling it and upgrading once the new cards from NVIDIA and AMD are released. Apparently, both of these cards will offer better performance than the $1000 Titan X. What do you guys think about everything? Do you think NVIDIA will lead or AMD? Just interested in hearing the community’s thoughts on this, haha. I’m surprised that no one has created a thread about this yet. 
I think it’ll be more like in certain tasks that pascal has ‘new things’ for, the 1070 might sometimes be faster than the Titan X/980 ti and in certain tasks that pascal has ‘new things’ for, the 1080 might sometimes be twice as fast as TX/980 ti.
In current games, I don’t think the 1080 will be that much faster than TX/980 ti.
Remember that these are 970 and 980 replacements, not the ‘big’ chip replacements.
Given that AMD has said they’re targeting the mid range with polaris 10 (polaris 11 being more towards laptops if I remember correctly) I’m expecting the 1080 to be the highest performance card out for a while, of course at a higher price.
Seems like we might have some great stuff in the $200-$400 range though?
Looking forward to finally replacing my HD 7850.
I have the GTX 980, looks like the 1080 should finally be able to play games on high settings at 4k, so I’m excited for that. Also looks like it’ll be a good value for GPU rendering.
During this nvidia cards launch, id Software demo’ed Doom @1080p (the max resolution of the projector, not the card) using Vulkan (yeay!) and it reached 150-200fps. They (id) also found a bug in their engine that only happens at 200fps, which wasn’t detected until nVidia 1080 is materialised.
Now I’m waiting from the AMD’s corner.
I am thinking of getting a GTX1080 this month. However, GTX1080TI and new Titan will be released next year and Titan will be about 15% faster than GTX1080 and it will have 16GB VRAM which is tempting.
Still don’t know if I should wait for new Titan to come or just get a 1080 for now. Any advice?
A 1080 costs about $500 and a Titan runs about $1000 so grab two 1080s in SLI and you’re good to go especially with the improvements to aysycronous compute.
The thing is unreal engine 4 doesnt support sli and not sure about vr sli. Also, vram
doesnt stack so even with 2 1080, you still get 8G vram, however titan will give you 16G vram.
Unless you’re playing a game that uses the DirectX12 multi-gpu feature
I personally like this unbiased review of the new NVidia GTX 1080 (single and SLI mode).
In some games the performance difference between 980 and 1080 is not that high after all 
Where did you get that information? So far I’ve never head about a new Titan and it’s specs.
It’s pure speculation. It’s not unusual to see some 3rd party cards with more vram. But are people really hitting vram performance walls because of 8gb? Also the vram in the 1080 is 1.7x faster than standard gddr5 which is nice.
Hm then I hope you’re right.
I mainly asked this because we actually hit the wall, since I’m trying to advocate the usage of geforce cards for our CAD works. We’re doing lots of realtime visualisation and while the quadro K6000 is more suitable for the job, for most of us a geforce card does just as well, if the RAM isn’t filling up. That’s why they’d rather go for 12GB+ models. And the sooner I get my hands on a GTX 1080 at work I can see if it’ll be worth it for my own PC. 
980 ti*, it stomps all over the 980.
The 1080s die is like half the size of the 980 ti, 314 mm2 vs 601mm2, for reference the 980 was 398mm2 & 780 ti was 561mm2.
So sure new process let’s you fit more stuff in the same area, but it’s almost half the size and is still faster at everything, and in some cases quite a lot faster.
I think we’ll see some cases where it is 2x 980ti performance, but it might only be for some part of VR rendering (or something else) and won’t/might not translate to twice the fps.
Some other reviews are reporting that the frame time variance/smoothness of the 1080 is particularly good.
Also the GP100 die is 610mm2, looks like there might be a bigger performance difference between the 1080 & 1080 ti than there was with the 980 & 980 ti?
I think it’s nice that the guy in that review covered some non-AAA games, but those games might also be the least efficient at submitting work for the GPU to do, so I’m not sure if it’s really the best way to compare performance of cards.
In the end as a consumer most of the stuff above doesn’t really matter, what I’m most worried about is the price.
The 980 already seemed like the odd one out from a price/performance perspective (vs 970 & 980ti), the 1080 is more expensive, and there might be an even bigger difference between the highest end cards this generation…
Wonder how much that 1080 ti will cost?
Guess we have to see how much $$$ the AIB 1080s are (and if custom PCBs/cooling/power etc will give better OC headroom).
Also keen to hear what AMD has been up to later this month =]
Yeah the difference of between the new 1080GTX and the 980GTX TI is not so big tbh, but is a step forward.
Thanks for the video! Seem to me that NVidia cards are generating much smoother frame-time (means less stutter) compared to AMD cards.
does exist some test about the 1070 GTX card ? I can’t afford the 1080
Is it me or Division is the most beautiful game ever created for now ? I means, look at that buildings <3
I personally think Uncharted 4 is the best looking game out ATM
Have to agree. Certainly in terms of art direction and overall look.
Wait for 1080ti.
Also, if you have a 980/980ti dont jump to 1070 not worth it.
I need a GC compatible VR and my actual is a 760GTX