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[Bl@de]

Hmmm, don't know who in their right mind would buy the $699 Founders Edition when the cooling and power delivery is so lackluster and also noisey, and not wait for the superior non-reference.

Some of the reviewers fear that $699 will be the baseline though of the non-ref cards too.

Exactly my thoughts. For me 699$ is the baseline until I'm proven wrong. If NVIDIA wants a premium tax so will the board partners. And if the cards aren't selling or Polaris offers something nice they will offer a "discount" in July/August.

 

[ZOONAMI]

At $599 the 1080 seems like a great value, other than that, it stays around the same level of a 980/980Ti with current prices.

Too bad it isn't $599.

 

[Sothis Krieg]

S did any site manage to clock this thing up to 2GHz? Or is this not happening still non reference cards come out?

hardware-fr said they did it easily but they did not release OCed benches.

 

[Phawx]

I'm just going to wait for HBM2. None of these numbers make any sense for the cost.

 

[Darryl M R]

Well, this settles that.

100% Selling this 980ti. Looking forward to the overclocked AIB solutions in June.

When you're on a resolution higher then 1440p you need all the performance you can get, and imo 4k is shit for gaming anyway, the only way is Ultrawide.

Why is 4k bad for gaming? Just wondering. I felt like I was getting caught up in the 4k hype recently.

 

[Evo X]

Hmmm... do I flip my Titan X now to maximize resale value and pick up a 1080 or wait for for Pascal Titan?

I game on a 1440p 144hz GSYNC monitor and HTC Vive if that helps.

 

[Durante]

pcgameshardware review is the best imo

Ah, real power measurements. Less than 10W idle is impressive.

 

[MikeE21286]

Exactly my thoughts. For me 699$ is the baseline until I'm proven wrong. If NVIDIA wants a premium tax so will the board partners. And if the cards aren't selling or Polaris offers something nice they will offer a "discount" in July/August.

PCPer in their video review said they sole AIBs he has spoken with have said they will have $599 versions (probably not the versions you want to be).

I expect the AIBs to sit around $650ish after this founders launch nonsense dies down.

 

[EatChildren]

OC results
Core @2126MHz
Mem @5670MHz

 

[Felix Lighter]

It's looking like a 1080ti may do what I hope and come close enough to 980ti SLI performance that I can return to a single card configuration without take a big hit in performance for games that support SLI.

 

[chromatic9]

Hitman not looking too great on anand and hardware.fr

Haven't been following the game. Are we putting this down to just being an AMD sponsored game?

 

[CryptiK]

Hitman not looking to great on anand and hardware.fr

Haven't been following the game. Are we putting this down to just being an AMD sponsored game?

Looks like thats the case since it runs circles on AMD with every other game.

 

[Makareu]

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.

Here is a benchmark with Hairworks on : www.hardware.fr/articles/948-31/benchmark-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt.html

Spoiler

Almost !

 

[professor_t]

I expect to experience a whole new world when I buy this after using my GTX 670 for so long.

I'm in the same boat. The 670 has served me incredibly well for several years, but it's just about time to move on from the old chap.

I need to see how the 1070 fares before I make a decision.

 

[Durante]

Here is a benchmark with Hairworks on : www.hardware.fr/articles/948-31/benchmark-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt.html

Spoiler

Almost !

Thanks. With some OC it should be there.

 

[MikeE21286]

OC results
Core @2126MHz
Mem @5670MHz

12-15% gain over stock for a ~22% OC

Is that common? Good?

 

[Onemic]

Im confused. From the reviews is the FE able to be overclocked to a stable 2000MHZ for everyday use, or is it just theoretical?

 

[icecold1983]

12-15% gain over stock for a ~22% OC

Is that common? Good?

hes not maintaining the clocks hes claiming. at least no other review is. power limits will bring you right back down. gonna have to wait for custom boards with more headroom. i suspect youll then more closely see perf gains matching oc %s

Im confused. From the reviews is the FE able to be overclocked to a stable 2000MHZ for everyday use, or is it just theoretical?

it cant hold those clockspeeds due to power limits. youll hit it briefly then come back down. temperature can also be an issue depending on whther or not your in a case or open platform. a lot of these reviews test on an open bed

 

[riflen]

The most interesting thing for me about the GP104 launch is what it means for the GP102/100. GTX 1080 + 40% is enticing.

Did no-one bench Crysis 3? Must be too trivial finally. RIP.

 

[Lister]

Here is a benchmark with Hairworks on : www.hardware.fr/articles/948-31/benchmark-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt.html

Spoiler

Almost !

Now imagine Dx12 with async compute to boost efficiency of the Physx simulation.... Maybe for Cyberpunk.

 

[killroy87]

Hey, so I'm a moron who doesn't really know how to read these reviews with any semblance of accuracy. Are we happy with how the 1080 is looking? I'm looking to upgrade my R9 290.

 

[Luigiv]

Meh? The performance is much better than expected! It has 36% average gains on the 980Ti.

Misleading

Misleading how? You're chart shows a the 1080 has 31.5% gain over the 980ti. Whilst that is a little less less than the 35%-36% gain Alexious's chart shows, it's also worth noting it's not an apples to apples comparison. Your chart is only 1080p whilst his is only 1440p and 4K (also neither of you show what software is being actually being benchmarked).

 

[icecold1983]

Hey, so I'm a moron who doesn't really know how to read these reviews with any semblance of accuracy. Are we happy with how the 1080 is looking? I'm looking to upgrade my R9 290.

its somewhat better than what the pessimists were expecting, and somewhat worse than what the optimists were expecting.

 

[MikeE21286]

Hey, so I'm a moron who doesn't really know how to read these reviews with any semblance of accuracy. Are we happy with how the 1080 is looking? I'm looking to upgrade my R9 290.

Depends on who you ask. I think overall yes.

 

[mephixto]

its somewhat better than what the pessimists were expecting, and somewhat worse than what the optimists were expecting.

wat?? It met my expectations and it's gonna be even better when the AIB cards hit in June.

 

[Gitaroo]

does the hardware support asyncrunous compute? Hows its DX12 performance? Any quantum break benchmark?

 

[KurtSloane]

Custom cooler 1080ti or Vega will be my next card, the quality of Pascal evident in the 1080 makes me very excited for full fat Pascal with the Ti / X variant.

4k/60 will be almost guaranteed.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Misleading how? You're chart shows a the 1080 has 31.5% gain over the 980ti. Whilst that is a little less less than the 35%-36% gain Alexious's chart shows, it's also worth noting it's not an apples to apples comparison. Your chart is only 1080p whilst his is only 1440p and 4K (also neither of you actually show what software is being actually being benchmarked).

Looks like 24% to me. Tech power up has charts for other resolutions and they are all pretty similar.

 

[Plasmid]

I've had my 970 for a year. May dive into a 1080 at $499 or just wait for a 4k 60fps card to release in two years.

Any news on the 1070?

 

[icecold1983]

does the hardware support asyncrunous compute? Hows its DX12 performance? Any quantum break benchmark?

the only async compute bench shows a 3% gain on pascal rather than the 3% drop on maxwel

 

[Smooth Operator]

I got an older 600 series card, waiting to see what the 1070 benches look like. I assume it will be a substantial step up regardless.

Same boat, the 1080 is a little bit too expensive for me in Europe imo :/

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Hmmm... do I flip my Titan X now to maximize resale value and pick up a 1080 or wait for for Pascal Titan?

I game on a 1440p 144hz GSYNC monitor and HTC Vive if that helps.

I'd flip it. Quick-fast.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I've had my 970 for a year. May dive into a 1080 at $499 or just wait for a 4k 60fps card to release in two years.

Any news on the 1070?

june

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

The most interesting thing for me about the GP104 launch is what it means for the GP102/100. GTX 1080 + 40% is enticing.

Did no-one bench Crysis 3? Must be too trivial finally. RIP.

Anand did at 4K.

Gets about 35fps.

 

[chromatic9]

does the hardware support asyncrunous compute? Hows its DX12 performance? Any quantum break benchmark?

QB Bench
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru.../72619-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review-19.html

 

[Vuze]

Yeah, +1 for Quantum Break benches. Anywhere?

E: Nvm lol

Should be a somewhat decent experience with the upcoming Gsync patch.

 

[Makareu]

We need a stickied post enforcing how relative percentage comparison works.

 

[mrklaw]

it seems like a decent upgrade from a 980. If you have a 970, I'd guess you bought because of value for money, so the 1080 is nice to look at but out of many peoples' price range. Hopefully 1070 will be 50-60% faster than a 970, and the pricing in the UK not quite so insane as the 1080 FE

 

[dmr87]

Imagine what for example Gigabyte will be able to do with a 1080.

 

[dr_rus]

Looks like 24% to me. Tech power up has charts for other resolutions and they are all pretty similar.

They compute their percents differently. TPU's 100% is 1080 performance while HardOCP's 100% is the 980Ti's performance (and 980's/Fury's).

If 1080 is 100 fps then 75% of it's performance is 75 fps.
At the same time, 100-75=25, 75/25=3 or 33% of 75. So 75+33%=100 fps.

 

[Deputy Dangle]

Holy shit at this card almost doubling the 970's performance. Really can't wait to see how the 1070 fares as that's more in my ideal price range.

 

[razgriz417]

At $599 the 1080 seems like a great value, other than that, it stays around the same level of a 980/980Ti with current prices.

Really want to see where the 1070 falls in this chart

 

[jett]

I thought this video from Digital Foundry was interesting:

DirectX11 vs Direct12 performance

What is DX12 supposed to bring exactly, aside from forcing us to update to Windows 10 and beyond?

 

[Bananajama]

I'm not convinced its handling DX12 efficiently reading a few reviews.
Think I'll sit back and wait see some more hands on reviews/AMD offering

 

[Ocelott]

Everyone is worried about 4k60fps and I am over here just wanting to run Ultra on my ROGP348Q.

http://techgage.com/article/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review-a-look-at-4k-ultra-wide-gaming/3/

Looks good to me.

 

[mrklaw]

Hmmm, don't know who in their right mind would buy the $699 Founders Edition when the cooling and power delivery is so lackluster and also noisey, and not wait for the superior non-reference.

Some of the reviewers fear that $699 will be the baseline though of the non-ref cards too.

the standard ones might be a bit lower, but Nvidia has basically handed everyone a free $100 buffer to play with for their factory OC/custom cooler cards. I don't think many will go over it (except for things like kingpin cards) but I don't think you'll see many cards at $599 for a while either.

Which all sours things a bit for me. It is an x80 card with nice performance improvements over the 980, but really its priced like a 980ti and there the performance difference makes it a little less attractive.

 

[Luigiv]

Looks like 24% to me. Tech power up has charts for other resolutions and they are all pretty similar.

Lol I knew this was coming. Let's learn to maths together. To calculate a gain from the given numbers, we need to switch baseline so that the 980ti is 100% and the 1080 is a number bigger than that. So to do that: 100/76 * 100% gives us 131.5%, hence the 1080 is a 31.5% gain over the 980ti.

 

[lightchris]

Looks like 24% to me.

The 980 Ti is 24% slower than a 1080. The 1080 is 31.5% faster than a 980 Ti. That's how percentage calculation works.

 

[nubbe]

Seems like OC in real world use is worthless on the reference cooler

The 1080 hits its temperature target by dropping the GPU's clock rate. During a gaming loop, it falls all the way down to its base frequency, leaving nothing left of GPU Boost. This gets even worse during our stress test, where the core clock dips below the 1607MHz that is supposed to be the GeForce GTX 1080’s floor.

 

[mrklaw]

any sites doing decent mid-resolution and/or VR benchmarks, rather than 4k? I'd like to see results for VR generally and also 3440x1440 res.