Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 reviews and benchmarks

Dumb questions, but this is one hell of a megathread:

- Everyone's all over preordering the 1080, but can the 1070 be preordered? Is a FE being made of that card? I waaaaaant it.

Not yet and yes. FE is supposed to be $449 and launch on June 10.
 
FUUUUUUUUU! Looks like 1080 won't fit unless I buy a new case.
If these cards are all 6", including the FE, then I'm in the same boat as you. I already ordered 1x EVGA FTW.

I currently have an Air 240, and it really doesn't have space for anything above 5" with power connections.

I'm currently looking at a Node 804, which I may have to buy to fit the card, ugh.
In the case of my car (135i) the chip gives you 55hp, which is roughly a 15% performance increase for 3% of the initial cost of the car. Was it worth it? I mean, I bought the sports coupe for a reason, I didn't NEED the extra power, but if I wasn't concerned with small performance differences I wouldn't have been in the market for that car in the first place.

Meanwhile, I'm going to blame you for egging me on if I wind up modding my BMW. :-)

Hi BMW buddies. :)
 
I'm confused. Do you mean the vertical height of the card, because the prodigy has lots of vertical space. The only place I can imagine it being limited is the card thickness in case it hits the side panel, but there is no way the card is 6" deep

The height is the problem. H100i Fans take up space.

This is not my setup but it's very similar

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Dumb questions, but this is one hell of a megathread:

- Have other non-FE versions been announced yet? (Edit: Never mind, I see ASUS)
more than 25 at this point. There's a table here (page is German but the table is universal).


- Everyone's all over preordering the 1080, but can the 1070 be preordered? Is a FE being made of that card? I waaaaaant it.
There will be a FE of 1070, and just like with 1080 there will probably be a few weeks before non-FEs are released.
 
I think I'll cool my house down to 60F (15-15C) so I can come back later and brag about how my FE runs full boost all day long on stock fan profile.
 
Woah, non-founders cards are already available to preorder? I figured a new thread would've popped up.

£619.99 though? Yikes.
 
I saw that the first batch of custom cards sold out in a rapid pace. The Asus Strix was gone, so I quickly ordered a MSI Gaming X card without checking any technical details, lol.. (Have a MSI 970 Gaming card now, it's good)

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If this date is for real it's coming sooner than I expected.. :)
 
I saw that the first batch of custom cards sold out in a rapid pace. The Asus Strix was gone, so I quickly ordered a MSI Gaming X card without checking any technical details, lol.. (Have a MSI 970 Gaming card now, it's good)

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If this date is for real it's coming sooner than I expected..

I hope you mistakenly put my address down for shipping instead of your own...
 
Teaser - GTX 1080's Tested in SLI
Aftermarket coolers are a good thing as evidenced by the 47c of that second GPU, but the Founders Edition blower-style cooler is still able to get past 2GHz just fine. Both cards had their fans at max speed in this example.

its not boosting any higher relative to base clocks than boost 2.0 tho. im pretty sure the asus isnt hitting 83c or a power limit in that bench.

Edit - its actually boosting far less than maxwell 2 was. the 980ti strix sustains 1380 with an 1190 base clock. the 1080 strix sustains 1898 with a 1759 base clock

That just means that the base clock is relatively higher and there's less variation. 1898 is hardly a bad result when compared to 1380 in any case so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
 
it looking like nvidia built up a lot of false ideas of this cards oc potential. amd did the same shit with the furyx

We don't really know much about their OC potential for the moment. Why don't you wait for AIB reviews at least? Both these and 1070 reviews should be coming very soon.
 
I saw that the first batch of custom cards sold out in a rapid pace. The Asus Strix was gone, so I quickly ordered a MSI Gaming X card without checking any technical details, lol.. (Have a MSI 970 Gaming card now, it's good)

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If this date is for real it's coming sooner than I expected.. :)

That's the card I am holding out for. How much did it cost relative to the Founders Edition, if you don't mind me asking?
 
I've never really paid attention to video card launches before, but are they always this confusing and chaotic?
 
it looking like nvidia built up a lot of false ideas of this cards oc potential. amd did the same shit with the furyx
The Fury X is a card sold as clocking at 1050 Mhz which overclocks to ~1.150 Mhz at best. That's 9.5%.

The 1080 is advertised as a card with a base clock of 1607 MHz and boost clock of 1733 MHz, and with decent cooling people seem to have no issues running it at ~2000 MHz in many workloads -- and we haven't even seen the capabilities of the partner cards yet. That's ~25% over the base clock and ~15% over the boost clock.

I don't think the situation is quite the same.

I've never really paid attention to video card launches before, but are they always this confusing and chaotic?
Maybe I've paid attention to too many, because I don't think it's confusing or chaotic ;). What's confusing you?
 
Bios mods should alleviate the boost throttling we are seeing in the aftermarket cards. I wouldn't worry about it too much if you aren't averse to bios modding.

Have we seen any confirmation on dual bios cards yet?
 
On my 980ti EVGA ACX 2.0 OC'd 1450 I could run the fans at 60% all the time when gaming, and the temp never went over 60, so surely this would apply to the FTW 3.0 I would imagine.....
 
Bios mods should alleviate the boost throttling we are seeing in the aftermarket cards. I wouldn't worry about it too much if you aren't averse to bios modding.

Have we seen any confirmation on dual bios cards yet?

EVGA's FTW has 2 and the Classified 3.
 
So that Strix is looking to be one of the best 1080 value cards yeah? Base clock seems higher, way lower price at $620/640 respectively (for factory overclocked) than the EVGA ones.

This is why I said to wait for asus/msi/gigabyte before buying evga. I remember the evga 970 gtx was the same price(or more) and inferior than my MSI.
 
Yeah considering BIOS modding is likely going to be important for the 1080, I'm definitely going to look for a card with dual BIOS. Looks like the Strix hasn't had dual BIOS in the past.
 
The Fury X is a card sold as clocking at 1050 Mhz which overclocks to ~1.150 Mhz at best. That's 9.5%.

The 1080 is advertised as a card with a base clock of 1607 MHz and boost clock of 1733 MHz, and with decent cooling people seem to have no issues running it at ~2000 MHz in many workloads -- and we haven't even seen the capabilities of the partner cards yet. That's ~25% over the base clock and ~15% over the boost clock.

I don't think the situation is quite the same.


Maybe I've paid attention to too many, because I don't think it's confusing or chaotic ;). What's confusing you?

nvidia showed a ref card running at 2.1 ghz at 64c.
 
I've never really paid attention to video card launches before, but are they always this confusing and chaotic?
No way, I remember feeling totally on top of the 200 series and 700 series launches and this is a different level IMO.
TMaybe I've paid attention to too many, because I don't think it's confusing or chaotic ;). What's confusing you?
Well I'm not surprised that you have, but it is ;) This is how I put it
I'm not gonna lie, I like to consider myself an informed and rational consumer, and I cannot figure out for the fucking life of me when the non-reference cards are meant to be available (i.e. on store shelves), if any can be preordered outside of the UK, or when any of the cards announced ill be shipping (let alone all the different offerings).

Is this all so confusing by design to get people to just buy the FE?
I mean you have "third-party" releases of the FE from just about every manufacturer which general consumers realllllly may not understand is the OEM board, currently listed on Amazon at bonkers prices: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...field-keywords=GTX+1080+&rh=i:aps,k:GTX+1080+

Details on all the custom cards, no less than 18 by my count, were released this morning, but press releases from the manufacturers themselves that don't include a release date at all nor state when preorders will be available, or situations like this one...

From ASUS's press release:
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 will be available worldwide from 27th May, 2016.

From ASUS's PCDIY blog:
Expect the ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 to be available starting June 4.

Meanwhile overclockers.co.uk and Scan have preorder pages up for multiple editions of the custom cards, but retailers serving the U.S. seem to have nary a one.

I understand that there are likely ways to follow these things more closely than I have and the information is probably out there if you know where to look, it's all just a little all over the place from my perspective.
 
When it comes to the actual release date of all these 3rd party cards, then yes, it is kinda confusing.

One Swedish site shows "100+ cards on the way, date soon available" for most of the 3rd party cards. Like, you'd think they'd have the info by now on when shit should be available.
 
From AB thread over at Guru3D:
We're starting to test beta 4 with Hilbert and MSI now and hope to release it in a couple of days. Here is one more new cool feature special for 1070/1080 card owners. Now voltage/frequency curve editor allows you to do the following:

- You may press <L> after selecting any point on the curve with mouse cursor to completely disable GPU dynamic clock frequency/voltage adjustment and lock the core clock frequency and voltage to values defined by the target point. This feature allows you to test graphics card stability independently for each voltage/frequency point of the curve using real 3D applications or any stress test of your choice. In addition to stability testing usage scenario, MSI Afterburner allows you to save a curve with locked point setting to a profile, so you may easily switch between dynamic clock/voltage management and fixed clock/voltage settings in realtime (e.g. to achieve the maximum performance during benchmarking)

Stay tuned.

nvidia showed a ref card running at 2.1 ghz at 64c.

They didn't specify what RPMs the cooler where running on though.
 
Man, I was the 12th person in line a microcenter today in Philly and they only had 10. No biggie, I didnt want a founders edition. Then after constant page refreshing I got an evga FTW in my cart but then it crashed on me and I wasnt able to order. I spent 2 hours trying to order one. ugh.

The one I really want is the Asus Strix as I love my strix 970s. But they arent on sale until June 4th. Im sad its looking like my new broadwell E build will have sli 970s in it to start. First world problems.....
 
So that Strix is looking to be one of the best 1080 value cards yeah? Base clock seems higher, way lower price at $620/640 respectively (for factory overclocked) than the EVGA ones.

Strange - the strix is more expensive than the EVGA FTW on overclockers.

Also, in the spec for the strix, they have this


Any idea what this means? Does it have some kind of adapter in the box to split the HDMI? or just two HDMI outs?

Also has fan headers you can use to connect extra case fans to. Maybe that's something they've done before but it certainly sounds like a good idea
 
Looks like custom cards are showing up here as well.
Almost every card seems to be 799€, except for some reason MSI Gaming X is 859€.
That lone 859 is probably the only accurate price and all the 799's are not final.
 
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