opticalmace
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Check the gigabyte site?
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 reviews and benchmarks
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Check the gigabyte site?
Baloonatic
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So the EVGA SC is like £40 cheaper than the MSI Gaming X version on ebuyer. Any particular reason not to go for the EVGA?
Do you adjust the sliders as the program is running or do you have to restart it whenever you like to make a change? I'm assuming you're using MSI afterburner?
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
I've had some time to find my stable overclock on my MSI Gaming X.
I looks like I'm stable at +170 core clock and +600 Memory clock. So 2151MHz and 5605MHz. However, the card throttles down to 2115-2126.
I looks like I'm stable at +170 core clock and +600 Memory clock. So 2151MHz and 5605MHz. However, the card throttles down to 2115-2126.
What application are we talking about here? I'll probably have a Gaming X in my case next week, I don't care if I need to install something to squeeze a bit more MHz from this beast
I restart whenever I make a change.
Im getting weird results though. Currently it doesnt seem I can go above +95 on the core without ungine valley crashing halfway through the benchmark. I also cant seem to OC the memory at all without me losing ~2FPS to my average framerate in the bench.
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
There are plenty of overclocking apps but MSI afterburner tends to be the most popular. There aren't custom bios for the cards yet so just OCing core and memory clocks atm.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
I only had memory issues when going +700, would lose 2-3 fps, at 600 seems to be the sweet spot.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
Are you seeing that reading on the afterburner overlay? I've noticed on the valleys readout it's 100mhz higher for clock, I can't get past +107 without artefacting or crashing on my X.
Are you use ungine valley or heaven? I cant even up the memory by +10 without getting an FPS drop....
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
I'm watching the afterburner hardware monitor. I disable the afterburner overlay because in my previous life I had trouble with it causing crashing.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
Valley, not ran heaven yet.
I just let it loop and raise clocks in larger chunks at first, then smaller steps down once I notice any anomalies.
Baloonatic
Member
To ask more stupid questions, I'm abit confused about the power connectors. If the card has 1 x 6-pin and 1 x 8-pin, do you actually need power going to both? Or do you use the 8-pin to get max performance or...?
You need to connect all of them.
(Not that most of these cards actually need enough power to warrant 8+6 configurations -- or even more silly 8+8 ones!)
Saintruski
Unconfirmed Member
MSIs website won't load for me but the SC is an 8 pin with a 5+1 power phase which is really the same in power delivery as the stock or founders edition. Idk what the gaming X is but if you care about overclocking headroom those are the specs you compare and may be where the extra 40 dollars comes from. But if you really don't care about overclocking there really won't be any point in spending more, no.
Baloonatic
Member
Alright thanks, been out of putting a PC together for a while. Currently have an SLI 780ti setup and I think those cards might 2 x 8-pin anyway so it isn't an issue. Have so many spare cables anyway.
Cheers! Few weeks until any of this hits the UK anyway so hopefully there will be a few more reviews to check out.
Karak
Member
LOL I am getting like 4560 on mine ha. Ok time to troubleshoot that shit.
petran79
Banned
Got the MSI card. GTX660 could not cope with an Intel i7 4790K. MSI card did fit the case but there was an issue. 8-pin cable would not fit because of the case frame. The part where the HDD and BD-ROM were mounted. 6-pin cable did fit just. Too small space between the frame and the cards PSU. Fortunately middle part was empty, since BD-ROM and HDD were in the upper and lower part.
Had to bend the frame with some pincers in order to open more space. Now card fits. I decided to leave the case open for better airflow. Card is huge
Tried some benchmarks. At least 3x times the performance of the GTX660 in older games. Tried Metro 2033 benchmark but even that card would struggle since game is unoptimised. Still 40 fps at the most demanding settings is OK, compared to the 15 fps I got with the other card.
GTAIV now is limited at 800x600 resolution! It says that card exceeds the game limits. Propably because game does not recognize 8 GB GPUs.
Most important feature for me was MadVR video renderer. GTX660 got over 70 % GPU load and system would hang after half an hour. Anything more and it would have 97% GPU load and freeze after 5-10 minutes. 1080 got 15% GPU load on the same settings and 37% on max settings (NNEDI). Huge difference.
Satisfied with the card. This the last step I am willing to take for PC gaming. After 6-8 years, I'd opt for a laptop instead
Had to bend the frame with some pincers in order to open more space. Now card fits. I decided to leave the case open for better airflow. Card is huge
Tried some benchmarks. At least 3x times the performance of the GTX660 in older games. Tried Metro 2033 benchmark but even that card would struggle since game is unoptimised. Still 40 fps at the most demanding settings is OK, compared to the 15 fps I got with the other card.
GTAIV now is limited at 800x600 resolution! It says that card exceeds the game limits. Propably because game does not recognize 8 GB GPUs.
Most important feature for me was MadVR video renderer. GTX660 got over 70 % GPU load and system would hang after half an hour. Anything more and it would have 97% GPU load and freeze after 5-10 minutes. 1080 got 15% GPU load on the same settings and 37% on max settings (NNEDI). Huge difference.
Satisfied with the card. This the last step I am willing to take for PC gaming. After 6-8 years, I'd opt for a laptop instead
ShogunDarius
Member
I asked this in the downsampling thread but i'll ask it here too
Whats the best Res to downsample from to 1080P when using a GTX 1080 that recent games would have no trouble supporting via DSR? I want a stable 60FPS and 120Hz.
Whats the best Res to downsample from to 1080P when using a GTX 1080 that recent games would have no trouble supporting via DSR? I want a stable 60FPS and 120Hz.
cyen
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Depends from game to game, the heavy hitters dsr from 1440p and lighter games like forza apex you can do 4k60.
ShogunDarius
Member
is 3K feasible? is it worth doing? Or should I downsample from 1440P?
cyen
Member
I have a 1440p monitor and it really depends on the game, i can dowsample forza from 5k at 60fps but doom is not exactly 60fps at 4k, witcher 3 is 60fps at 1440p (hair works off) and about 40fps at 4k.
Dirt rally is ok for 4k60fps same for overwatch but the division cannot sustain 60fps at 1440p when maxed out.
A few of us posted our 3Dmark scores earlier in the thread. Check them out. Could you post yours and tell us which model you have?
Karak
Member
Ya sorry I saw the old scores but was asking those who haven't posted but are here and might be searching for the same fix many of us are. Talking to other folks it looks like a number of people are getting wonky results on both the standlone and steam version.
Founders 1080
i75820k at 3.9ghz
16g of Corsair 2400 ddr4
Base and boost normal for now. Score of 4856 in GFX section which it looks like others are getting more than 5 times that?
3dmark is uninstalled right now as I am doing another wipe.
ShogunDarius
Member
so it really is game by game, hopefully as dx12 gets more polished as do the drivers for the 1080 it might get better
Yikes. Have you checked if Windows or your Bios is set to power saver mode by any chance? What's your GPU utilization at while running 3Dmark?
ShogunDarius
Member
Did a bit of research downsampling from 3K is a bad idea
Karak
Member
No power savings anywhere and I am pegged at 99-100%
ShogunDarius
Member
you could have badly lost the silicon lottery?
Dreams-Visions
Member
FWIW, I've seen a bunch of unimpressive Firestrike scores in reviews. They have not reflected the performance in games tested. I wouldn't do formats and reloads on account of a synthetic benchmark. What does performance in your actual games look like compared to your 980?
Karak
Member
Less to around the 980 maybe sometimes a bit more but its hard to tell. I am have been bouncing around playing every game., But I will say that it doesn't show the jump or anywhere near that the cost and others reporting it should be showing.
Weirdly enough Heaven 4.0 scores is dead on with what others have reported with working cards
Are the offsets on core and memory based on the factory overclock or the reference? Eg on a reference card the base clock is 1607 and the boost is 1733. On the gigabyte g1 the base is 1695 and the boost 1835 (in gaming mode). So if I do eg +50 on the core am I getting 1657 or 1885? And does it affect the boost too?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Offsets are based on the factory overclock. Offset is only for your reference, no pun intended. You can monitor the actual clock speeds you hold with Afterburner or something like that.
Did you uh remember to plug in the 8-pin PCI-e power connector?
Did you uh remember to plug in the 8-pin PCI-e power connector?
Karak
Member
yes indeed Good question though! But ya
Herr Starr
Member
Are you sure you're running the basic Firestrike and not Extreme or Ultra versions?
opticalmace
Member
Can you link us the benchmark result? Also, I would try uninstalling your graphics drivers (and use DDU in safe mode) and then reinstalling. Could be a driver conflict.
ShogunDarius
Member
How do you unnstall drivers? does this require geforce control to be uninstalled? currently on 670s drivers, do I need to uninstall them?
does the 1080 come with the 368.39 - WHQL drivers?
does the 1080 come with the 368.39 - WHQL drivers?
Karak
Member
Normal and if I run anything i can still see others scores mine are 1/2 to 1/4th everyone elses with like for like machines. While the 980 I just had in here less than 8 hours ago was posting a bit better than most.
Correct I did all that in the first post. This would be the 9th time actually. Using DDU in safe mode as normal.
Actually now that I think about. Just going to return it. Nothing is worth this shit. Maybe wait a gen the 980 is good enough.
ShogunDarius
Member
So my Gigabyte G1 has started doing this:
it just randomly flickers like that. I really don't want to send this back. I've barely had it over a week
yeah, that definitely looks faulty. Check to see if your cable to your monitor is loose though or even try a different cable entirely
Someone I know is building their new PC live on Twitch, MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X.
https://www.twitch.tv/fourplayerpodcast
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dc3k
Member
Just checked the cable. So far so good after unplugging it and plugging it in again. Fingers crossed! I do have another one that I accidentally bought when I bought the monitor, so I'll try that next if all else fails.
You bought it somewhere that allows returns of opened graphics cards?
Also, I take that you've checked for throttling already.
Karak
Member
Yep mine was a bad card. Grabbed the other and its doing completely normal numbers. So odd. Good thing I got two. Boxing this up and sending it back and for now gonna be running 1.