Beta-testing GTX 1080s

[The_Stealthy_Shadow]

Today is a good day. My friend Patrick was at Dreamhack the other day, and good ole' Jen-Hsung Huang let him borrow a GTX 1080. For free. (Only for beta-testing purposes however) When he told me that the other day, I was happy for him. He says hes having some great gaming performance over his previous gen 980 Ti, which, I have to say, I'm kind of jealous. (I was a "Founder's Edition", too!) However, he told me that Jen-Hsung said that he can only keep it until next Wednesday and then he has to bring him the benchmark scores back to him so that NVIDIA can verify if their technique is "efficient" (The life of a beta-tester). He can not leak any benchmark scores to publicity, as if he does, he will "spoil" the "Pascal experience" (Even though there's like a dozen articles on leaked Pascal performance) and he will be in big trouble, so unfortunately, I can not share his scores. However, he does get to tell other friends about his beta-testing job, just not leak his scores. That being said, what do you guys think?

[Imakuni]

Gimme OpenCL back, and I'll be happy.

 

That's all I have to say.

[The_Stealthy_Shadow]

6 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Gimme OpenCL back, and I'll be happy.

 

That's all I have to say.

LEL...

[App4that]

I can't wait until the benchmarks for DX12 hit and the hype dies quicker than a may fly.

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, The_Stealthy_Shadow said:

LEL...

(That's because they screwed up OpenCL support with the latest drivers for Maxwell cards, if you didn't get the joke. And there are also some lingering issues ever since day one which were never patched; I would be glad to get rid of them).

[MMKing]

Better performance in what way?

 

Price to performance? The 700USD card will perform approximately 25-30% better than the 650USD 980Ti card.

Power to performance? The 180W card will be in the area of 60-70% more power efficient compared to the 250W 980Ti. Through a combination of lower power consumption and higher performance.

 

The biggest flaw of the 1080 is how slow the memory is. I don't think even Nvidia expected GDDR5X to be such a small incremental increase as is was. The 1070 is releasing with the fastest GDDR5 memory ever guaranteed by either AMD or Nvidia. And it's clocking in at 4000MHZ, or 1GB/s for each of its 256 lanes. The 1080, which allegedly has 38.4% higher TFLOPS (Before you go on about how unreliable this is for checking, it's not that far off when comparing very similar technologies) but only has 25% higher bandwidth. Furthermore, the 980Ti with it's theoretical 5.6 Tflops has 5% higher bandwidth than the 1080, despite the 1080 performing 60% better in theory.

 

1080p? Yes the 1080 will crush the 980Ti. But 1440p and especially 4k? It's not gonna be the landslide people are hyping the 1080 to be.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, MMKing said:

Better performance in what way?

 

Price to performance? The 700USD card will perform approximately 25-30% better than the 650USD 980Ti card.

Power to performance? The 180W card will be in the area of 60-70% more power efficient compared to the 250W 980Ti. Through a combination of lower power consumption and higher performance.

 

The biggest flaw of the 1080 is how slow the memory is. I don't think even Nvidia expected GDDR5X to be such a small incremental increase as is was. The 1070 is releasing with the fastest GDDR5 memory ever guaranteed by either AMD or Nvidia. And it's clocking in at 4000MHZ, or 1GB/s for each of its 256 lanes. The 1080, which allegedly has 38.4% higher TFLOPS (Before you go on about how unreliable this is for checking, it's not that far off when comparing very similar technologies) but only has 25% higher bandwidth. Furthermore, the 980Ti with it's theoretical 5.6 Tflops has 5% higher bandwidth than the 1080, despite the 1080 performing 60% better in theory.

 

1080p? Yes the 1080 will crush the 980Ti. But 1440p and especially 4k? It's not gonna be the landslide people are hyping the 1080 to be.

Wanna put a bet on that? Anything under 10 fps is not crushing anything.