EARLY REPORTS SUGGEST A 25% increase in performance over a 980Ti (at STOCK).
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Nvidia is set to announce their new Pascal-based GeForce graphics cards tomorrow, including a flagship card that's expected to be called the GTX 1080. But before Nvidia can even reveal the specifications of the card, leaked 3DMark benchmarks have been posted by VideoCardz.
Looks like the GTX 1080 is using GDDR5X instead of HBM2.
In 3DMark 11's Performance benchmark, the GTX 1080 posted a graphics score of 27,683, while in 3DMark's Fire Strike Extreme benchmark, the card scored 10,102. Compared to a stock-clocked GTX 980 Ti, the GTX 1080's performance is around 25% faster, although overclocking the 980 Ti can close that gap.
3DMark gives us a sneak peak of the card's specifications too. We're looking at 8 GB of GDDR5X with an effective clock speed around 10,000 MHz (320 GB/s), and a core clock speed that can boost up to a huge 1.8 GHz. The GPU featured on the GTX 1080's board is a Pascal-based GP104 built on a 16nm process, so it's not the fully unlocked GP100 seen on the Tesla P100.
Seems 'okay' to me in terms of performance increase. Goes without saying that those with a GTX 980ti/TitanX already really don't need to upgrade at this time. In fact it wouldn't really make any sense IMHO.
However if you are sporting something like a 780Ti or lower this would be the jump in performance you have been waiting for.
What say you? Are you on the upgrade train yet?