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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 reviews and benchmarks

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velociraptor

Junior Member
jayzuz at the performance

jayzuz at the price

Doesn't seem worth upgrading from my 970 even though it's literally 2x the performance at 1080p. I can play all games I want at 1080p60 - maybe not 'maxed out' but the visual gain isn't exactly that big if I max out every game. This seems pointless to spend money on a new GPU.

Waiting for a new '970' - affordable, yet powerful.
 
Auto_aim1

Auto_aim1

MeisaMcCaffrey
Kinda feeling a bit depressed as a 980Ti owner. :( I'm pretty sure 1070 will match its performance. I mean I am not gonna upgrade to these cards, will probably wait for 1080Ti, but its funny how it got outdated in less than a year.
 
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Durante

Member
Did anyone do Witcher 3 tests with Hairworks?

It's nice to know that it runs at 80 FPS+ at 1440p max without Hairworks, but I wonder if you can stay solidly above 60 with it enabled.

wachie said:
GTX680 to GTX980 +74%
GTX980 to GTX1080 +70%
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It's quite impressive if you look at it like that, especially if you consider that 980 was actually a significantly larger chip.
 
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jacobeid

Banned
velociraptor said:
jayzuz at the performance

jayzuz at the price

Doesn't seem worth upgrading from my 970 even though it's literally 2x the performance at 1080p. I can play all games I want at 1080p60 - maybe not 'maxed out' but the visual gain isn't exactly that big if I max out every game. This seems pointless to spend money on a new GPU.

Waiting for a new '970' - affordable, yet powerful.
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Bought a 970 and am sort of feeling the same way, regardless of how the benchmarks turned out. Until I start noticing issues with my 970 I'll remain happy...seems pointless for *me* to upgrade now.
 
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Future PhaZe

Member
will be interesting to see where things go in the next year--with the floor and ceiling both being propped up by PS4k/Xbox One Elite, gotta imagine artists are about to go HAM soon
 
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MikeE21286

Member
fwpx said:
I dont know why anyone would buy the Founders Edition, when partner cards are a month or less away?
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I wish partners would announce something.

Factory OC'd/cooling solutions for what their cards are going to be as well as price.

There is no guarantee that they won't launch at Founders Edition prices.

I think myself and many believe they will launch closer to $699 than $599

Edit: in the PCPer video in the OP he mentions that he's spoken with AIB partners that will sell at $599 at some point in he future. Not sure how far out that is though.
 
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x3sphere

Member
Impressive at stock performance but overclocking seems to be significantly limited by the reference cooler as expected.

Need to wait to see how custom cards perform. As it stands, OC to OC the gap between the 980 Ti seems to diminish a lot.
 
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laxu

Member
I wish they had included comparisons of overclocked 980 Ti and 1080 (OC and without). Now I have to compare different reviews to get the goods. So far it looks like stock 1080 = 980 Ti overclocked.

This should be a great card for anyone except us 980 Ti owners. I'd still advice waiting for the custom cooler equipped cards from various manufacturers.
 
Lister

Lister

Banned
So it looks like asynchronous compute is much improved in the 1080. Both async workloads and time critical and preemptive ones receive hardware level support.
 
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Trojan

Member
Impressive power, but the lack of those gains in the VR space might make me hold off on this for now. This quote from the PC World review is the best descriptor:

Nvidia's biggest claim to performance fame for the GTX 1080 lies in virtual reality. While the traditional performance games are sizeable enough, Nvidia’s loftiest performance claims—faster than two GTX 980s in SLI! 2.7x performance increases!—are firmly tied to VR games that make full use of Nvidia software like simultaneous multi-projection. Unfortunately, the granular VR benchmark tools coming from Crytek and Basemark haven’t hit the streets, and no released VR games support the GTX 1080’s new software features yet. That leaves us with no way to quantify the GTX 1080’s potential performance increase over the competition except for the SteamVR benchmark, which is better for determining whether your rig is capable of VR than direct head-to-head GPU comparisons.
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Jeffrey

Member
Great card, although the bump from the 980ti is within expected region.

Think upgrading the monitor (1440p 60 hz to 1440p 144 hz g-sync) was a better buy for me this year.

time to start saving for 1080ti 1180 though.
 
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Mupod

Member
When I got my 970 I actually got two identical Asus ones and sold the other to my brother in law. I'll likely either sell mine to him and grab a 1080 or buy his for cheap and SLI. Depends which one of us upgrades.

I'd feel a little silly putting that thing into a system with a 2500k from 2011, though.
 
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shark sandwich

tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
I feel sorry for the folks who rationalized buying a 980Ti earlier this year because "Nvidia wouldn't obsolete its flagship Ti card with the 1080".
 
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digitalrelic

Banned
Auto_aim1 said:
Kinda feeling a bit depressed as a 980Ti owner. :( I'm pretty sure 1070 will match its performance. I mean I am not gonna upgrade to these cards, will probably wait for 1080Ti, but its funny how it got outdated in less than a year.
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There's nothing funny about it... This is completely normal hardware progression and will happen with any piece of gaming hardware you will ever buy. A year from now the 1080 will be "outdated" and a year after that the 1080 Ti will be "outdated". That's how it works.

The key is to stop looking at it that way. Just because a new card offers better performance, it doesn't meant that your 980 Ti is suddenly outdated. If the 980 Ti is still offering up great performance (which I know it is), then there's no reason to upgrade. I'll definitely be holding out with my 980 Ti until the 1080 Ti arrives.
 
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OraleeWey

Member
I've got a Titan X but I'm going to wait for the 1080ti or the new Titan if there will be one. 20-30% is not worth upgrading for me.
I won't let the hype get to me is what I'm tying to say.
 
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Dreams-Visions

Member
Trojan said:
Impressive power, but the lack of those gains in the VR space might make me hold off on this for now. This quote from the PC World review is the best descriptor:

nvidia's biggest claim to performance fame for the GTX 1080 lies in virtual reality. While the traditional performance games are sizeable enough, Nvidia’s loftiest performance claims—faster than two GTX 980s in SLI! 2.7x performance increases!—are firmly tied to VR games that make full use of Nvidia software like simultaneous multi-projection. Unfortunately, the granular VR benchmark tools coming from Crytek and Basemark haven’t hit the streets, and no released VR games support the GTX 1080’s new software features yet. That leaves us with no way to quantify the GTX 1080’s potential performance increase over the competition except for the SteamVR benchmark, which is better for determining whether your rig is capable of VR than direct head-to-head GPU comparisons.
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this is my salty face. sounds like the GPU equivalent of Valve's Reprojection or Oculus' Time Warp. And in fact, it's worse because it attempts to get support for a standard that would presumably be tied to Nvidia GPU's only. As if feature fragmentation wasn't bad enough in the PC VR space as it is.

Actually salty right now.

Well I can certainly sleep easier knowing I don't need to spend more money on GPUs. Maybe I'll look at 344x1440/144Hz monitors this year instead, assuming more are released.

Ozorov said:
Some VR-tests from PCPer : http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...ition-Review-GP104-Brings-Pascal-Gamers/VR-Te
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zzzzz

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But this is cool. Would just need games with more demanding features to make it matter.
 
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Kaffeemann

Banned
snowblind said:
Nice avatar ;)
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Same :p

According to Computerbase Fast Sync is coming to Maxwell cards at a later date.
It combines vsync on and vsync off and is designed for situations where the framerate is higher than the display refresh rate. No tearing and less input lag compared to vsync.

I'm surprised nobody is discussing this. Sounds like an amazing new feature!
 
Lister

Lister

Banned
Trojan said:
Impressive power, but the lack of those gains in the VR space might make me hold off on this for now. This quote from the PC World review is the best descriptor:


gtx-1080-steamvr-100661302-orig.png
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Multi-projection will indeed require integraiton by the developers. So we'll have to wait to see games takign advatanage of this.
 
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BeEatNU

WORLDSTAAAAAAR
shark sandwich said:
I feel sorry for the folks who rationalized buying a 980Ti earlier this year because "Nvidia wouldn't obsolete its flagship Ti card with the 1080".
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That's me lol.
I sold both of my 980ti's, one way before the announcement and one after. What a price difference :(
Regardless the 1080 looks to be my card of choice. Getting close numbers at 4K/60 which I'm cool with and OC them will be it really achievable
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'm curious. Curious because those extra frames at 1440p and seemingly superior DX12 performance are appealing even with a 980 Ti. The gains aren't great at all, but given I like to crank my settings to maximum, run at 1440p, and have a g-sync monitor, every gain is appreciated. Plus I think that extra VRAM could be very useful in the long run.

Price will be the defining factor, and availability. Definitely interested, because I could probably get a solid AU$700+ for my 980Ti, and I'd be happy to splash a few extra hundred to cover the gap. But Australia gonna Australia, so who knows how fucking stupid expensive it'll be here.
 
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AndyMoogle

Member
Alexious said:
It might be meaningless to you, but it's certainly not meaningless to those playing at 4K. Those frames can make the difference between playable and unplayable.

Of course, this card is total overkill for 1080P, but that's a given.
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Ugh, I hate it when people say that a card is overkill for 1080p. There is no such thing as a card being overkill for any resolution. 144 Hz, G-SYNC/FreeSync, downsampling, games getting higher requirements for max settings as time goes on, etc.
 
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wachie

Member
Durante said:
It's quite impressive if you look at it like that, especially if you consider that 980 was actually a significantly larger chip.
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It's not actually. 980 was on the same node as 680 hence it was larger.

The performance jump 1080 is exactly in the expected range, which is what Anandtech is pointing out.
 
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Deleted member 98878

Unconfirmed Member
789€. Wow.

I'll keep my 980Ti for now and wait for the 1080Ti.
 
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riflen

Member
nortonff said:
No QUAD-Sli review? Shame.....
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Guru3D said:
SLI then, we have to mention this. Starting with Pascal the primary focus for Nvidia in terms of multi-GPU setups is that they will support 2-way SLI, but really that's it and all. For those of you that want to run 3 and 4-way configuration, it's going to be difficult but remains possible as the game needs to support and you will need to obtain a driver key from the Nvidia website. Do not expect Nvidia to enhance drivers for it, they'll just open up the floodgate and have you deal with the rest. Personally I am okay with this choice. I have been complaining for years now that once you pass two card, you will almost exponentially faster run into some sort of driver issue and thus irritation. So yes, some of you might be disappointed about this news. Me personally, I am fine with the choice to focus on proper 2-way SLI opposed to all the arbitrary configurations that less then 0,01% of the end-users uses.
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Big_Al

Unconfirmed Member
Looking forward to June for the 1070 benchmarks, that'll probably be my next card. Though it'll very likely be August, September or even October before I can upgrade anyway. Something like an EVGA 1070 Overclocked ACX2.0, basically what I have now but for the new model.
 
Lister

Lister

Banned
Dreams-Visions said:
this is my salty face. sounds like the GPU equivalent of Valve's Reprojection or Oculus' Time Warp. And in fact, it's worse because it attempts to get support for a standard that would presumably be tied to Nvidia GPU's only. As if feature fragmentation wasn't bad enough in the PC VR space as it is.
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Don't know what you mean with this. Time Warp/Reprojection are the the same technique, and have nothign to do wiht muti-viewport technology.

The 1080's do indeed feature much improved asynchronoous and priority workload handling, so it will significantly improve time warp - giving shaders more time to finish their workload before preemptive timewarp is processed.

Multi-view ports allows multiple perspectives to be rendered ina single pass, instead of two. It's one of the reasons why stereoscopic 3D and VR are so computationally expensive.

Multi-projection requires developer integraiton however, so we won't see improvements until games start implementing this.
 
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Barzul

Member
Not sure I'm getting the big picture on Fast Sync, so it basically means that there's no need to force Vsync anymore in games, the graphics card will automatically render the accurate number of frames to reduce stuttering that can happen at higher framerates than the refresh rate of the monitor?
 
Auto_aim1

Auto_aim1

MeisaMcCaffrey
digitalrelic said:
There's nothing funny about it... This is completely normal hardware progression and will happen with any piece of gaming hardware you will ever buy. A year from now the 1080 will be "outdated" and a year after that the 1080 Ti will be "outdated". That's how it works.

The key is to stop looking at it that way. Just because a new card offers better performance, it doesn't meant that your 980 Ti is suddenly outdated. If the 980 Ti is still offering up great performance (which I know it is), then there's no reason to upgrade. I'll definitely be holding out with my 980 Ti until the 1080 Ti arrives.
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Yeah, I know. There'll always be a little disappointment though. 1080Ti will be a monster and likely run games at 4k/60fps easily so there's something to look forward to.
 
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laxu

Member
shark sandwich said:
I feel sorry for the folks who rationalized buying a 980Ti earlier this year because "Nvidia wouldn't obsolete its flagship Ti card with the 1080".
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Why? It looks like the 1080 will cost about the same as a 980 Ti on launch and offers roughly the same performance as an overclocked 980 Ti (but is faster when overclocked). So basically I've been enjoying that kind of performance for a year now and have no need to upgrade until 1080 Ti hits the scene.

The only 980 Ti owners who would truly benefit from the 1080 are those who run 4K displays.
 
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cackhyena

Member
Auto_aim1 said:
Kinda feeling a bit depressed as a 980Ti owner. :( I'm pretty sure 1070 will match its performance. I mean I am not gonna upgrade to these cards, will probably wait for 1080Ti, but its funny how it got outdated in less than a year.
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Eh, I bought mine early last year. 1080 isn't doing anything that's making me regret my 980ti purchase. This will last a long ass time for me. These new cards are great for people that have been waiting a while.
 
dr_rus

dr_rus

Member
Shawn6661 said:
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Not bad. My poor MSI GTX 970 Gaming!
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That's from Hardware.fr? I don't see Damien's review on it the website anywhere...

Everything else added to the OP.

EatChildren said:
I'm curious. Curious because those extra frames at 1440p and seemingly superior DX12 performance are appealing even with a 980 Ti. The gains aren't great at all, but given I like to crank my settings to maximum, run at 1440p, and have a g-sync monitor, every gain is appreciated. Plus I think that extra VRAM could be very useful in the long run.

Price will be the defining factor, and availability. Definitely interested, because I could probably get a solid AU$700+ for my 980Ti, and I'd be happy to splash a few extra hundred to cover the gap. But Australia gonna Australia, so who knows how fucking stupid expensive it'll be here.
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Well, my recommendation to 980Ti/TitanX owners would be to wait at least a couple of months unless that money is really burning your pocket (like they are mine... might jump to 1080 once the factory OC cards will hit the market). I'm hearing that GP102 will come sooner than everyone expect. Then again with nothing to push NV's prices down from AMD's side it's quite possible that the only card faster than 1080 launched this year will be the new $1000 Titan. So... wait a couple of months.
 
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Alexious

Member
AndyMoogle said:
Ugh, I hate it when people say that a card is overkill for 1080p. There is no such thing as a card being overkill for any resolution. 144 Hz, G-SYNC/FreeSync, downsampling, games getting higher requirements for max settings as time goes on, etc.
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Except that it's not true in this case. The GTX 1070 will already be able to accomplish faster than 60FPS at 1080P or downsampling, if you want that.

The GTX 1080 is truly meant for 1440P and higher.
 
holygeesus

holygeesus

Banned
laxu said:
I wish they had included comparisons of overclocked 980 Ti and 1080 (OC and without).
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Amen to that. The stock 980ti benchmarks are pretty worthless as literally nobody runs at stock anyway. Will be interesting to see the OC 1080 results, but the gains aren't enough for me to justify £600 lol I'll wait for the 1080ti.
 
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Bony Manifesto

Member
wachie said:
It's not actually. 980 was on the same node as 680 hence it was larger.

The performance jump 1080 is exactly in the expected range, which is what Anandtech is pointing out.
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Notice that they're comparing the 680 to the 980 and the 980 to the 1080, so it's sort of jumping two generations ahead (with a price point to match).
 
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Sulik2

Member
Ars Technica has 1080P benchmarks up. Basically if you are still on 1080P a 1080 will last you years. Getting 120FPS in Tomb Raider on max settings.
 
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