What is more important

[Joelbanks5]

What is more important when looking at graphics cards, the VRAM or the clock speed? 

 

Im primarily just comparing the 1080 and 1080ti, is the 1080ti worth the extra vram while it sacrifices some clock speed? I will be using it for gaming.

 

also how long does it normally take for companies like MSI and EVGA to release their versions? 

[79wjd]

Neither. Clock speeds are meaningless when comparing different architectures, and when comparing the same architecture you need to take the number of cores into account. And VRAM doesn't indicate performance (it's just something you need X amount of depending on your resolution/settings).

 

The 1080Ti will likely be about as fast as a Titan X, so still noticeably faster than a 1080. I'd expect after market 1080Tis to launch almost immediately after the 1080Ti is released. 

[grayblizzard]

7 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

What is more important when looking at graphics cards, the VRAM or the clock speed? 

 

Im primarily just comparing the 1080 and 1080ti, is the 1080ti worth the extra vram while it sacrifices some clock speed? I will be using it for gaming.

 

also how long does it normally take for companies like MSI and EVGA to release their versions? 

1080ti will be better at higher resolutions 1080 will be better at lower res

[NTDaws]

Hmm what is more important? Love.

[smokefest]

1 minute ago, Dawson Wehage said:

Hmm what is more important? Love.

Love or sex ?

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, grayblizzard said:

1080ti will be better at higher resolutions 1080 will be better at lower res

The 1080Ti will be better for both since it's much faster. (unless you mean from a price/performance perspective, in which case a 1070 is better at lower resolutions).

[NTDaws]

Just now, smokefest said:

Love or sex ?

Both

[smokefest]

Just now, Dawson Wehage said:

Both

Not an option, gotta chose one !

[NTDaws]

Just now, smokefest said:

Not an option, gotta chose one !

Love

[smokefest]

Just now, Dawson Wehage said:

Love

I have some work to do then

[NTDaws]

Just now, smokefest said:

I have some work to do then

ha same

[smokefest]

1 minute ago, Dawson Wehage said:

ha same

Then I send you some Love From Canada

[NTDaws]

Just now, smokefest said:

Then I send you some Love From Canada

I live in Canada so I send you some love from Alberta 

 

[smokefest]

4 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

I live in Canada so I send you some love from Alberta 

 

Niiiiice i like it, send you some from Quebec Montreal then !! join us and show some love people

[Praesi]

1080ti will be much faster.

 

[EminentSun]

For graphics just go on youtube and look up comparison benchmarks for the cards you are looking at on the games you are going to be playing. The performance delta should give you an idea of which is a better value.

[ARikozuM]

28 minutes ago, smokefest said:

Love or sex ?

Both? Speaking for myself I'd find it meaningless if it were a random person. Seriously. I'll be more inclined to whip out my 3DS and play Pokemon.

 

39 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

What is more important when looking at graphics cards, the VRAM or the clock speed? 

Within the same product line and model, stock clocks can matter, but not with Pascal since an increase of 100Mhz is only about 5%. VRAM is equally unimportant as unless you know for sure that you're going to use more than one of the models' VRAM.

39 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

Im primarily just comparing the 1080 and 1080ti, is the 1080ti worth the extra vram while it sacrifices some clock speed? I will be using it for gaming.

1080 is a good card for 1440@120+ or 2160@60. 1080 Ti (as far as I know) hasn't been announced yet and we'll have to wait for Nvidia's keynote to find out for sure.

39 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

also how long does it normally take for companies like MSI and EVGA to release their versions? 

AIB's usually take a week or two before their models are out and available for sale.

[smokefest]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Both? Speaking for myself I'd find it meaningless if it were a random person. Seriously. I'll be more inclined to whip out my 3DS and play Pokemon.

 

Within the same product line and model, stock clocks can matter, but not with Pascal since an increase of 100Mhz is only about 5%. VRAM is equally unimportant as unless you know for sure that you're going to use more than one of the models' VRAM.

1080 is a good card for 1440@120+ or 2160@60. 1080 Ti (as far as I know) hasn't been announced yet and we'll have to wait for Nvidia's keynote to find out for sure.

AIB's usually take a week or two before their models are out and available for sale.

what means AIB's ? Thank you

[ARikozuM]

Just now, smokefest said:

what means AIB's ? Thank you

Add in boards, basically third parties that makes GPU's.

[Deli]

18 minutes ago, smokefest said:

what means AIB's ? Thank you

 Board partners like MSI, ASUS, EVGA, etc that build non-reference cards.

[Joelbanks5]

2 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Neither. Clock speeds are meaningless when comparing different architectures, and when comparing the same architecture you need to take the number of cores into account. And VRAM doesn't indicate performance (it's just something you need X amount of depending on your resolution/settings).

 

The 1080Ti will likely be about as fast as a Titan X, so still noticeably faster than a 1080. I'd expect after market 1080Tis to launch almost immediately after the 1080Ti is released. 

So cuda cores? I never really understood quite what those do. Can you explain them a little please.

[Joelbanks5]

2 hours ago, smokefest said:

Love or sex ?

Don't know how that go into here but ok.

[79wjd]

8 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

So cuda cores? I never really understood quite what those do. Can you explain them a little please.

Think of a GPU as a CPU with many weak cores. GPUs are vey good at parallelized work (i.e. rendering images). Cuda cores/stream processors are just fancy names for cores.

 

Within an architechture (ex: pascal), you can guesstimate relative performance by comparing the number of cores and the speed they run at. so:

1080 -- 2560 cores @ 1800mhz

Titan XP -- 3548 cores @ 1500mhz

(3548*1500)/(2560*1800) = 1.15, so a Titan XP should be 15%~ faster. (Of course there are other factors like memory bandwidth, and scaling isn't perfect, but it gives a rough estimate)

[smokefest]

3 minutes ago, Joelbanks5 said:

Don't know how that go into here but ok.

Answer the question !!!

[Joelbanks5]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Think of a GPU as a CPU with many weak cores. GPUs are vey good at parallelized work (i.e. rendering images). Cuda cores/stream processors are just fancy names for cores.

 

Within an architechture (ex: pascal), you can guesstimate relative performance by comparing the number of cores and the speed they run at. so:

1080 -- 2560 cores @ 1800mhz

Titan XP -- 3548 cores @ 1500mhz

(3548*1500)/(2560*1800) = 1.15, so a Titan XP should be 15%~ faster. (Of course there are other factors like memory bandwidth and scaling isn't perfect, but it gives a rough estimate)

How much does clock speed matter?

 

is there a noticeable difference?