Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 reviews and benchmarks

I just grabbed an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme IV for my Titan X.

It has 3 fans.

They make all the difference.

They are blowing the dissipated heat in larger quanitities / volume away from the heatsink as well as cooling the heat sink down with cool air being pushed over the fins. More / larger fans rather than a higher RPM smaller fan will be generally cooler and quieter if you have a nice airflow in your case.

Did you like the installation?
I'd do it again for the next Titan. Difference is magnificient.
 
My FTW finally got shipped and should arrive tomorrow or Saturday. Got the confirmation three hours after ordering one from EVGA themselves... well I guess my buddy who is 150th-ish in the etailer queue will gladly take it =)
 
My FTW finally got shipped and should arrive tomorrow or Saturday. Got the confirmation three hours after ordering one from EVGA themselves... well I guess my buddy who is 150th-ish in the etailer queue will gladly take it =)

Yeah after waiting and waiting, I ended up having 2 cards that would have landed 24 hours apart. Decided to refuse delivery on one of them.
 
STRIX in stock at Amazon for the 649 price not the 699 newegg wants. GO GO GO

Thing disappeared a second before I checked out. ):

Edit: Refreshed a minute ago with it in stock and grabbed it!
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Is their a definitive 1080 card that is the clear winner of the bunch? I see a lot of EVGA fans but I know that is because they have the greater market share and customer service.
 
Is their a definitive 1080 card that is the clear winner of the bunch? I see a lot of EVGA fans but I know that is because they have the greater market share and customer service.

I think that the Zotac Amp! Extreme is the fastest so far, it has a 1911MHz boost clock and a 10.8GHz clock on the VRAM out of the box. That VRAM overclock gives it a memory transfer rate of 345.6 GBps compared to the 320 found on most other cards.

Edit: And it also has a 5 year warranty too!
 
EVGA Classified clocks are same as FTW, FAIL.

In other words, it's exactly the same as it was in the 980Ti generation. Don't see how that's a fail.

The card offers more power phases for people who want to pursue crazy overclocking. That's what the card is.
 
never had a problem with them and i order most if not all my computer parts from them.

A mate of mine told me not to use them, but I thought I'd try. Anyway they said that the GTX 1080 EVGA ACX 3.0 vanilla was in stock and ready to ship, so I ordered only to find out it's not shipping the next day, and the reason they said it was in stock is because they had actual numbers they were receiving, on a certain date....hmmm the date came and it still wasn't sent!

How the hell could they say it was in stock? I'd never would have wasted my time buying it and then chasing a refund based on lies, it's just a really bad tactic to get your money, awful way to do business.
 
My inno3D 1080 arrived yesterday. It's the "cheap" (and reasonably sized) Twin X2, not one of the larger iChill models.

With very little tweaking I got it stable at sustained 2050 MHz in VR and less challenging games, and settling at ~1950 MHz in the most demanding scenarios. Memory sits at 5.4 GHz (haven't tried more). I'm pretty happy with it.

Also, it came with a decent mouse pad as well as licenses for the full versions of 3DMark and VRMark, none of which I expected, so that's nice. Oh, and the box i smaller than for my previous 970 even though the card is quite a bit larger :P
 
GAF-

I ordered a 1080 FTW yesterday from Newegg at 3:29pm PST.

It shipped today.

It arrives tomorrow.

Did I get insanely lucky or is stock becoming more readily available?
 
GAF-

I ordered a 1080 FTW yesterday from Newegg at 3:29pm PST.

It shipped today.

It arrives tomorrow.

Did I get insanely lucky or is stock becoming more readily available?
Considering I backordered it on Newegg a few hours before you and have gotten nothing, I'd say you got very lucky. Or I'm very unlucky.
 
My inno3D 1080 arrived yesterday. It's the "cheap" (and reasonably sized) Twin X2, not one of the larger iChill models.

With very little tweaking I got it stable at sustained 2050 MHz in VR and less challenging games, and settling at ~1950 MHz in the most demanding scenarios. Memory sits at 5.4 GHz (haven't tried more). I'm pretty happy with it.

Also, it came with a decent mouse pad as well as licenses for the full versions of 3DMark and VRMark, none of which I expected, so that's nice. Oh, and the box i smaller than for my previous 970 even though the card is quite a bit larger :P

Damn, the Gaming X just came with some stickers.
 
So before I left sunny 'norn iron' for Florida I emailed the Best Buy that I would be closest too as i wanted to pick up a 1080 while on holiday and would be paying in cash. I was assured that I would be able to put an order in a customer service and pay in cash (I didnt want to order online with a CC). Arrived and a few days later decided to head to BB where I was told 'nope'.... Great news as I have already sold my 970...

Well anyway after all that I managed to find the one 'bricks and mortar' store in the area that had one in stock, a Microsoft store of all places.

Now I just have to 'enjoy' the rest of my three week holiday... while looking at this card... oh boy!

Anyway the card is an Asus Founders Edition, I had managed to get all my cash before UK decided is shit the bed and leave the EU (i.e. before the $ / £ rate went to shit), it cost me about £500.
 
GAF-

I ordered a 1080 FTW yesterday from Newegg at 3:29pm PST.

It shipped today.

It arrives tomorrow.

Did I get insanely lucky or is stock becoming more readily available?

Considering I ordered the same thing from them when it was in stock over a week ago, and I paid for expedited shipping and rush processing or whatever bullshit.. And it took 9 days to get here.. I think it's luck.

I refused the delivery. I'm done with Newegg.
 
Considering I ordered the same thing from them when it was in stock over a week ago, and I paid for expedited shipping and rush processing or whatever bullshit.. And it took 9 days to get here.. I think it's luck.

I refused the delivery. I'm done with Newegg.

real talk. fuck Newegg.
 
Just thought I'd share my result running Firestrike with GTX 1080 & an i5 3570K:

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I thought I'd get better results actually, but maybe my CPU is a bottle-neck?

Also it keeps showing quite low clocks for my GPU memory speed in the final results. Once it showed 667, and now it shows:

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Anyone seen the same behavior?
 
YES! Shipping notification finally. Wednesday!!!
2 weeks from now, free Amazon shipping is SOOOOO SLOW
Still waiting on mine... Says its slated to ship today but no notification yet.
 
Just thought I'd share my result running Firestrike with GTX 1080 & an i5 3570K:

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I thought I'd get better results actually, but maybe my CPU is a bottle-neck?

Also it keeps showing quite low clocks for my GPU memory speed in the final results. Once it showed 667, and now it shows:

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Anyone seen the same behavior?

Run Firestrike Extreme and Ultra. If your 3570K is at stock it will bottleneck a 1080 at high framerate.
 
Does anyone have an idea why 3dmark is displaying an incorrect core clock speed, I believe it's something I noticed with my 980ti as well. Whenever I overclock the core speed it seems to display a default value of 600MHz, is this normal behaviour?

Anyway I've started the overclocking process and so far I'm looking at an increase of 15% over the 980ti. Boost clock of the 1080 was upped by 70MHz

Edit: looping heaven didn't produce any issues with the +70MHz increase, but now I'm all of a sudden getting display driver crashes on desktop.

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Does anyone have an idea why 3dmark is displaying an incorrect core clock speed, I believe it's something I noticed with my 980ti as well. Whenever I overclock the core speed it seems to display a default value of 600MHz, is this normal behaviour?

Anyway I've started the overclocking process and so far I'm looking at an increase of 15% over the 980ti. Boost clock of the 1080 was upped by 70MHz

Edit: looping heaven didn't produce any issues with the +70MHz increase, but now I'm all of a sudden getting display driver crashes on desktop.

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Don't care about the clock 3dmark shows, it doesnt report it correctly (probably because of boost clocks).

Just thought I'd share my result running Firestrike with GTX 1080 & an i5 3570K:

HTWqT99.jpg


I thought I'd get better results actually, but maybe my CPU is a bottle-neck?

Also it keeps showing quite low clocks for my GPU memory speed in the final results. Once it showed 667, and now it shows:

L6X2dBL.jpg


Anyone seen the same behavior?

Your GPU score is pretty much where it should be, total score is very CPU dependent.
 
Gave up on my Amazon order for the FTW and went ahead and preordered the Sea Hawk. A hybrid is more of what I need anyway for my tiny case. Hopefully it will actually ship soon. I really want to get back to my racing games but in VR.
 
Not sure about cancelling orders but just to throw another choice of card in your direction you might want to take a look at the Zotac Amp Extreme too. It's got a boost clock of 1911MHz and has the VRAM overclocked to 10.8GHz giving you 345.6 GBps of memory bandwidth.

Ebuyer will have them in stock on Friday apparently and will set you back £672.99, 23 quid cheaper than the same card from Overclockers (who also don't currently have them in stock).

That VRAM overclock out of the box combined with its boost speed should make it the fastest card out there, although I haven't seen any reviews yet. Zotac seem confident about the reliability of it too, they've given it a 5 year warranty. :Oo

Thanks for the heads up. I did try my luck with that site but I don't think they ship to where I live (Iceland). I ended up getting the Palit Super Jetstream as it was in stock at Overclockers and looks like a reasonably good choice (not that I have much to choose from at this point). It has already been sent on its way so only a few days until I get it in my hands, hopefully. I'll post my results overclocking the card when it arrives. The Zotac did look good though.
 
Finally got my EVGA Superclocked 1080, and it's the best! I'm coming off an R9 290 (and a defective one, at that), and the switch was dead easy. Literally took like 45 minutes all in. This card is actually a bit smaller too, which was a pleasant surprise.

Tried out DOOM and Witcher 3 just for kicks, and box can be maxed out with zero hitches in framerate, even with that stupid hairworks thing on.

Now the next step is to get a 4K TV, because my current 1080p 60hz TV makes it so games cap out at 60FPS. Can't have that!
 
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