(WCCF) NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080 and 1070 Paper Launching May 6th

[Sauron]

I'll wait for a real source, thank you very much

[Big-G]

38 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I doubt they'll have enough GDDR5X for the cards.

Might go low volume initially like when Fury/X released

[Memories4K]

2 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

While I understand this was a joke, the 970 did actually launch with 4GB of VRAM. The usability of that extra memory is debatable, but it does have 4GB of memory, so the joke kinda fails. 

I have since updated my post to better reflect how fresh my memes are, thank you based mod

[SteveGrabowski0]

4 hours ago, Commander Llama said:

Well I don't know about epic. Maybe. My 780Ti was just a few frames shy of 980 performance, so it's not the most insane notion that they end up almost equal. But yeah new smaller process and new type of memory and blah blah blah. I'm hoping the 1080 has a 15% boost over the 980Ti.

The 680 gave 25% better framerate than the 580 at launch, and the 580 was the Titan X equivalent for Fermi, so a 15% improvement off a node shrink would be really depressing. Especially with GP104 looking like it's about 320mm^2 when GK104 on the GTX 680 was only 294mm^2.

[Stefan1024]

They paper launched the P100 more about 10 month before they start mass shipment. So I don't count on getting a pascal card in my hands soon.

[Commander Llama]

14 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

The 680 gave 25% better framerate than the 580 at launch, and the 580 was the Titan X equivalent for Fermi, so a 15% improvement off a node shrink would be really depressing. Especially with GP104 looking like it's about 320mm^2 when GK104 on the GTX 680 was only 294mm^2.

I'm all for much higher percentage!

[SteveGrabowski0]

13 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

They paper launched the P100 more about 10 month before they start mass shipment. So I don't count on getting a pascal card in my hands soon.

Man I hope not. I hope that's just a function of trying to create a huge 610mm^2 die and of using the $127,000 deep learning machines to subsidize the growing pains on the16nm process.

[ericlee30]

14 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

They paper launched the P100 more about 10 month before they start mass shipment. So I don't count on getting a pascal card in my hands soon.

I agree, I have 4 980ti's and 2 970's to play around with tell the p100 comes to the market. I have plenty of power to keep me busy tell then

[Tomsen]

Please use the 'Remove Format' function if you are going to copy paste an article to avoid all the shit integrated HTML that makes it a horror to read.

 

20 hours ago, awesomeness10120 said:

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The exact date of Nvidia Editor’s Event has finally leaked out. The event will be held on the 6th of May 2016 and will be closed to the public eye, with a vetted list of editors invited.

That is not what a paper-launch is. Someone is fiddling with the terms..

We only have to speculate why..

 

(if so AMD paper-launched polaris back in december last year..)

[Citadelen]

I'm most interested in the TDP and RRP. With such high dies these chips will be selling for quite a bit, or Nvidia releases them at the same prices as last gen and makes a lot less of off them.

Whatever they sell for AMD will still be making more per GPU.

[Stefan1024]

8 hours ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Man I hope not. I hope that's just a function of trying to create a huge 610mm^2 die and of using the $127,000 deep learning machines to subsidize the growing pains on the16nm process.

I don't say it takes so long. I assume it will not, but it can be easely 3-4 month before we get the frist cards.

[Lethal Seraph]

We will have to see. It's gonna be a while before they'll release a Hall of Fame pascal before I'll replace mine anyway.

[matrix07012]

17 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

While I understand this was a joke, the 970 did actually launch with 4GB of VRAM. The usability of that extra memory is debatable, but it does have 4GB of memory, so the joke kinda fails. 

You are right. It has 4GB of VRAM, but it is divided into 2 segments. 3.5GB with a 256-bit bus and 0.5GB with a 96-bit bus which bottlenecks the whole card when playing on higher resolution.

[79wjd]

3 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

You are right. It has 4GB of VRAM, but it is divided into 2 segments. 3.5GB with a 256-bit bus and 0.5GB with a 96-bit bus which bottlenecks the whole card when playing on higher resolution.

Except it's not that simple. You can still use 4gb of vram and not have any performance impact. A lot comes down to how the specific game handles things and how lucky you are.

[2FA]

5 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Except it's not that simple. You can still use 4gb of vram and not have any performance impact. A lot comes down to how the specific game handles things and how lucky you are.

Maybe not FPS wise but it will definitely affect frame times if the game relies heavily upon moving data in and out VRAM pretty quickly.

[79wjd]

10 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Maybe not FPS wise but it will definitely affect frame times if the game relies heavily upon moving data in and out VRAM pretty quickly.

Again, a lot depends on the specific game and the users luck. Back when it was first discovered there was a pretty big split between people who actually had an issue and people who didn't even when playing the same game at the same settings on similar hardware.

[GoZone]

This is why I am still getting a GTX 960 in the next two months.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I think Pascal must be really close, because the fire sale on Maxwell looks like it's beginning. I'm on newegg's mailing list, and some of the offers they just emailed me today included:

 

MSI GeForce GTX 980TI GAMING 6G GOLDEN EDITION - $555

MSI GeForce GTX 980TI 6GD5 V1 - $546

MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5T OC - $380

MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G LE - $270

 

It's like 10 different MSI Maxwell cards on discount. The first 3 have either a $25 or $30 rebate factored into the prices I posted, the 970 has no rebate.

[SteveGrabowski0]

It's happening Friday, and Nvidia is indicating it will indeed be the 1000 series.

 

http://videocardz.com/59517/nvidia-teases-geforce-1000-series-with-order-of-10-campaign