Alright after a month with my 1080 I can solidly say Pascal is horrible. On average it gets 11 FPS more than my 980ti did. It consumes less power but that doesn't justify dropping almost $600 if you upgraded from a 980ti. It also really help understand how bad 1070s are. Obviously if you are buying new into it with a budget get the 1080 over the 980ti but to upgrade from maxwell to pascal no way.
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I upgraded from a pair of 770s in SLI (trading blows with the 980ti in benchmarks) to a 1070 and had a 5FPS improvement. It does use about 400W less than the SLI setup did though.
It does a hell of a lot better than the older cards when it comes to VR, or so they say. But who gives a damn about VR really?
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Ok, I was under the impression when they launched that a 1070 was very equal to a 980Ti(in your case 770's in sli(but imo 1 card is always better than 2 given the choice of similar performance)) so, if you got a 1070 you could expect similar performance, right?
I was also under the impression that a 1080 was faster than a 980Ti but the 980Ti still has 300ish more cuda cores so overclocking has greater effect.
I quote from hardware unboxed ~1 year ago from hardware canucks youtube video:
"Nope, the 1080 isn't intended as an upgrade option for 980 Ti owners, naturally that will be the upcoming 1080 Ti. The 1080 is designed to replace the 980 and offers those users a nice 60% performance boost. The 980 Ti also overclock to perform within 10% of the 1080 in most games."
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Even the 1080ti isn't that impressive for the price. I think it's the reviewers who made the 1080 seem like a god tier card everyone should have. They would show stock reference design 980tis at 1100Mhz when in reality any 980ti can hit 1400mhz and the better ones can push 1550mhz. Then the graphs look horrible and the 1070 is behind last gen and the 1080 looks mediocre. I didn't buy the card as it was from an RMA when my 980ti died but overall it is very meh. I like the lower power usage and it is great for mining but not the kind of hype people were saying a couple months ago. I sorta want VEGA to throw a wrench into the GPU game as I feel Volta will be the same ole Nvidia slap more VRAM on and brute force perf with clock speeds.
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I agree with you, have been using my brother's new 1080ti we got after RMA'ing a 980ti and the retailer offered if we paid a difference to send a 1080ti so he took it.
Quite frankly I know I kept the same monitor and 2560x1080p80hz isn't the right resolution for it but my user experience has no changed at all from my Maxwell TITAN X.
Therefore I am strong to believe unless you're going 4k yes a good Maxwell card is still more than enough.
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@Dan Castellaneta Depending who you'd ask it would even claim the 1070 was a 980ti killer, sweet innocence. And It is very true a lot of youtube content was focused on making the 1080 some sort of amazing jump in performance and maybe it really were? But nVidia opt to through all the gains in power efficiency which people like me don't care about
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Yeah @Dan Castellaneta has the right idea. A couple months after the 1070s came out people said they were the greatest and killed the 980tis. Well now I see more and more people say they are on par or the 980ti is slightly better if OCed. The 1070s are also more expensive then the 970s was and it is now in the same position as the 970 was. I guess this is Nvidia's tock cycle when they just improve on the generation but they marketed it as a new generation and the higher clock speeds awed enough people to hype it up. Honestly though if a 980ti was running at 2000mhz the Titan XP wouldn't stand a chance. That's why I feel like Pascal is a flop.
