GTX 1080 benchmarks leak: not much faster than a 980 Ti

[asim1999]

According the Videocardz, and overclocked 980 Ti scores around the same as the new 1080 with around 8700 points on Firestrike Extreme. So 980 Ti users who are holding their breath and wanted to upgrade, there is now more reason to keep your card for longer

 

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The second benchmark we have is from FireStrike Extreme, which as you probably already know is rendered at 2560×1440 resolution. This is actually the first benchmark where you will see 1.860 GHz clock. In this scenario GTX 1080 is faster than typical overclocked GTX 980 Ti (~8700 points). However if we compare it GTX 980 Ti running at almost the same frequency (1.8GHz with LN2 cooling), GTX 1080 is actually much slower clock to clock (link)

Also NVIDIA has officially teased the new cooler design that was rumoured. Love it or hate it, it is confirmed for the reference cards:

 

Also NVIDIA has confirmed the GTX 1080 launch for tomorrow:

 

 

Please leave your comments below and let me know what you think!

Sources:

http://videocardz.com/59572/nvidia-special-event-may-6th-geforce-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070-announcement

http://videocardz.com/59583/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-cooler-confirmed

http://videocardz.com/59558/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-3dmark-benchmarks

 

 

[alexyy]

Kinda make sense if the 1080 is priced like a the 980 was then it's a very good jump if you ask me.

[asim1999]

1 minute ago, alexyy said:

Kinda make sense if the 1080 is priced like a the 980 was then it's a very good jump if you ask me.

True, i might sell my 980 now as i already have a 980 Ti 

[Nena Trinity]

Not bad but is it better than 480X?

[Bananasplit_00]

now it all comes down to the price of the card, if its priced less then the 980TI which it probably will, then this is probably going to be super popular

[goaway]

1 minute ago, alexyy said:

Kinda make sense if the 1080 is priced like a the 980 was then it's a very good jump if you ask me.

Especially since it beats it on stock settings. Speaking of which, look at that core clock 1860MHz!! Looking forward to 2GHz oc's

[Telebubbies]

I am not surprised that that 1080 is not better than the other cards... 

[-BirdiE-]

So, the 1080 is likely going to be cheaper than the 980ti, draw less power than the 980ti, and it would take a LN2 cooled 980ti to beat it at stock?

Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

[alexyy]

4 minutes ago, larsi239 said:

Especially since it beats it on stock settings. Speaking of which, look at that core clock 1860MHz!! Looking forward to 2GHz oc's

Also with a stock ivy bridge i7, not sure how much the cpu would effect the score with firestrike,  we could see even more gains.

[SurvivorNVL]

Oooh.  That's nice.  Now I must wait for the 1080ti.

[Revinval]

And welcome to the green and red team focusing on improvements before focusing on chip size its almost like both sides won't have performance dominance big chips this year. I guess all the AMD hate for being upfront was unwarranted.

[GoodBytes]

Yea, not surprised. It has faster GPU memory so it should help a bit in 4K gaming and VR, but that is about it.

Pascal is really Maxwell 2.0. It probably has full DirectX12 support, as well as improved Vulkan support, and more power efficient. The rest is just a minor performance increase, mostly because the architecture is pretty much the same.

 

Volta is really a new architecture, and that would be 2017-2018 launch.

 

[asim1999]

1 minute ago, gFrenken97 said:

Love all these rumors and expectations every year, has it not been the same every single year since the 680?

True, NVIDIA's performance upgrades look like this:

GTX 1080= GTX 980 Ti

GTX 1070 + GTX 980 

GTX 780 Ti = GTX 980

GTX 780 = GTX 970

and so on 

[-BirdiE-]

6 minutes ago, asim1999 said:

True, NVIDIA's performance upgrades look like this:

GTX 1080= GTX 980 Ti

GTX 1070 + GTX 980 

GTX 780 Ti = GTX 980

GTX 780 = GTX 970

and so on 

Yeah. That's pretty much how it's gone, but according to this the 1080 outperforms an overclocked 980ti at stock. Probably a slightly larger than normal performance bump over the 980ti due to the node change, but probably not enough to justify ditching your 980ti for a 1080 if you already own one.

[Megahurt]

So about the same as the 980 vs 780Ti when it launched, how unsurprising.

[VagabondWraith]

Those core clocks are insane. Definite 2+ GHz OC coming with AIB partners. And GDDR5X which nobody thought it would have. Wonder if AMD will have X or be stuck with regular GDDR5.

 

This is cool for people with 970/980 cards, but not much sense for Ti/TX owners.

 

Hoping there'll be 120Hz 4K G-Sync by the time GP100 rolls around. If not, I'll go with 1440p 144Hz G-Sync + Pascal Titan or Ti.

[AlexGoesHigh]

Regardless of performance, an almost 2ghz non OC clock is badass, that a big jump on the clocks side of thing.

[Citadelen]

If the rumors about the 480(X) are true, and these ones are as well, then Nvidia is in a bit of a pickle. AMD would be very close to the 1080 with something like a 380(X), that would cost a lot less and have a much smaller die size.

[thexzenon]

That's expected, but still nice to see it beats out an OC'd 980Ti (although not by a significant margin), it will of course perform even better when overclocked (can we get a 2GHz sticker with the GPUs? ). I just hope it will be priced somewhere under $500. Maybe AMD will force them to lower their prices a bit, I really need a new GPU. 

 

19 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Volta is really a new architecture, and that would be 2017-2018 launch.

Shouldn't Pascal last until 2017, making Volta a (mid?) 2018 launch?

[GoodBytes]

5 minutes ago, crisro996 said:

That's expected, but still nice to see it beats out an OC'd 980Ti (although not by a significant margin), it will of course perform even better when overclocked (can we get a 2GHz sticker with the GPUs? ). I just hope it will be priced somewhere under $500. Maybe AMD will force them to lower their prices a bit, I really need a new GPU. 

 

Shouldn't Pascal last until 2017, making Volta a (mid?) 2018 launch?

Volta will probably be end of 2017 or mid 2018...

From the information I have, it would be sometimes in 2018, as Volta is still in the works. A new team should or has already started working on the GPU architecture following Volta (So, that means we will have Volta, Volta 2.0, then the new architecture). It takes approximately 5-6 years to make a new GPU architecture. So GPU manufactures usually have 2 teams working on the next GPU, and switching roles. One will work on the next architecture, the other the refresh model (upgraded, more power efficient, bug fixes, tweaked, boosted clock specs, die shrink, etc. But not a new architecture).

 

[jaggysnake57]

if this is priced the same or close to a 980 then from a 970 this is good upgrade

 

[Thony]

Cant wait for tomorrow ! Hope they have new presenter because that ResidentSleeper 2 words repeating guy was terrrible at Dev conference.

[captain cactus]

So if the 1080 gets 8GB, does that mean the 1080Ti gets, what, 12GB? And a Titan X replacement with 24GB?

 

I mean, it's nice nVidia stepped up their VRAM game. AMD has been one step ahead in that regard. 680 launched with 2GB, 7970 had 3GB. 780 had 3GB, 290X had 4GB. Now we see both 290x and 390(X) with 8GB of VRAM so it's nice to see a non-Ti card with a buttload of VRAM.

[asim1999]

Just now, lots of unexplainable lag said:

So if the 1080 gets 8GB, does that mean the 1080Ti gets, what, 12GB? And a Titan X replacement with 24GB?

 

I mean, it's nice nVidia stepped up their VRAM game. AMD has been one step ahead in that regard. 680 launched with 2GB, 7970 had 3GB. 780 had 3GB, 290X had 4GB. Now we see both 290x and 390(X) with 8GB of VRAM so it's nice to see a non-Ti card with a buttload of VRAM.

It should have more. The GP100 chip comes with 16GB VRAM default. so chances are that is what the 1080 Ti will have and the Pascal Titan could have as much as 32GB 

[SteveGrabowski0]

If it doesn't have any overclocking headroom that would really suck. But I never understood this argument with say GTX 970 vs GTX 980. You could overclock the 970 to nearly 980 levels if you got a good card, but you could overclock the 980 too. A 26% improvement stock for stock is right in line with what we saw for GTX 680 vs GTX 580 at launch. Not trying to be an Nvidia fanboy or anything, this will be a real fail on their part if stock clocks are pushing the limits of the card, and I'll probably wait for Vega if that's the case.