GTX 1080 performance benchmarks leak!

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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.
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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.
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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?
 
I do need to upgrade because my current PC just isn't capable of modern day gaming. However, on a price to performance scale, something like a R9 290 or GTX 970 is a much better purchase, IMO.
 
Officially announced.

GTX 1080 will be 25% faster than Titan X at 180W TDP, 30% lower than Titan X...WOW! 8GB of GDDR5X, 9 TF's of raw compute power. 599 MSRP. As soon as EK releases a water block count me in!!! Time to retire the 780 Ti.

Nvidia are saying that 1080 is faster than 980 SLI, that is an astronomical increase in performance. Remember this card is the successor to the 980, so we should be comparing it to the 980, not the 980 Ti or the Titan X essentially. This isn't the flagship GPU core. The flagship core is going to be straight scary.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/92675-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-unveiled-599-table-topping-perf/
 
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VaLLiancE said:
I want it darn it!
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At this point I honestly don't give a s*** about HBM, we saw how well it worked for the Fury X which was slower than 980 Ti across the board at almost every resolution. The only big benefit is that since the memory is on die it can make for very small PCB's.
 
That's AMD... I expect a 20+% performance increase with the 1080ti/Titan over the 1080 and that will be a worthy upgrade over my 980ti.
 
VaLLiancE said:
That's AMD... I expect a 20+% performance increase with the 1080ti/Titan over the 1080 and that will be a worthy upgrade over my 980ti.
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I personally just don't see the performance benefit at this point in time, and if I upgrade every 2-3 years my next card after 1080 will be a HBM card. I run at 2560x1440, I don't really need anything faster than 1080 for a couple years, and by that time. I will upgrade lol. I think the benefits of HBM will start to really shine when we start playing at resolutions beyond 4K.
 
Most of the credible Pascal rumors came true. 1070 is around 980Ti, 1080 is 20~30% faster than 980Ti. Now I'm just hoping Polaris rumors are true as well; 1070/980Ti level of performance in $300-350.
 
I really, really want that GTX 1080.

Pray AMD can deliver something better or they're about to get annihilated for another 2-3 years.
 
VaLLiancE said:
wait bro wait!
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I'm holding strong, but I can't promise anything. My hope is that AMD comes out swinging, announcing their newness and shows actual benchmarks or whatever, something worthwhile to get me to jump ship.
 
I didn't want to splurge on anything current, so I've got a GTX 950 for purely temporary reasons until this next set of cards drops. It basically only has a GPU (which I picked up used) so that I could set everything up and make sure everything else is working.

My laptop outperforms it.
 
pravus said:
I didn't want to splurge on anything current, so I've got a GTX 950 for purely temporary reasons until this next set of cards drops. It basically only has a GPU (which I picked up used) so that I could set everything up and make sure everything else is working.

My laptop outperforms it.
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Well maybe the 1080's with aftermarket coolers will be a good buy?
If they give a significant increase over the standard 1080's I might not wait lol
 
Finally, TDP dropped for the first time in five years! Hopefully this becomes the trend moving forward given the growth in tablets and laptops of recent years.
 
Eww Vulken. That's like counterproductive to the purpose of a GeForce 1080. From what I've seen from other games, the new OpenGL API isn't a convincing alternative to DirectX.
 
VaLLiancE said:
That's AMD... I expect a 20+% performance increase with the 1080ti/Titan over the 1080 and that will be a worthy upgrade over my 980ti.
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I will be honest straight out of the gate and say I am not too up to date on HBM2.

Having said that, my understanding is that while the 50-60% bandwidth increase is good, it is hard to predict how that will translate to better performance, mostly due to the bandwidth to performance ratio not being 1:1.

I would imagine performance increases are going to be more noticeable the higher resolution you play at. People at 1080P or 1440p...maybe even 2k might not notice much improvement, but people playing at 4k and eventually 8K might benefit greatly. This obviously assumes that cards will come with more than 4GB Vram...which is all I have seen AMD shown off.

The biggest obvious and immediate benefits of HBM2 seem to be power consumption and smaller size. Both of which have been needed for a while now.

I am curious as to what the production cost is of HBM2 in comparison to GDDR5. Is it higher, lower or the same? The fact that it seems to be only coming to flagship cards would suggest it is more costly, but it could just be a business strategy I guess.
 
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Just for reference, the GTX 1080 is ~7 billion transistors.

The big daddy card coming next year, which will feature HBM2, is rumored to have up to 17 billion transistors, 16GB vram etc etc. Besides it having faster bandwidth, a substantial power bump might be a good reason to hold out for both.

I cannot wait that long though.
 
pravus said:
Just for reference, the GTX 1080 is ~7 billion transistors.

The big daddy card coming next year, which will feature HBM2, is rumored to have up to 17 billion transistors, 16GB vram etc etc. Besides it having faster bandwidth, a substantial power bump might be a good reason to hold out for both.

I cannot wait that long though.
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and a big daddy it will be, it's going to be completely scary how fast 'big' pascal is going to be. At this time though Nvidia has no reason to release it. I am sure they will wait for AMD to release their "Fury" edition card to counter, just like they have in the past.
 
pravus said:
I'm holding strong, but I can't promise anything. My hope is that AMD comes out swinging, announcing their newness and shows actual benchmarks or whatever, something worthwhile to get me to jump ship.
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Now I'll do a kind of rumor round-up for next AMD GPU. Take it with a grain of salt.

AMD does not have a card to counter GTX 1080 as of yet, mostly because AMD just chose not to release GDDR5X product at Polaris launch. When it comes to discrete GPU market, AMD is focusing on an "affordable VR solution." Something cheap yet fast. The key product here is Polaris 10 + GDDR5, which is just like GTX 1070 in terms of components and performance. The key here is it is rumored to be priced around $300-350. I'm mostly interested in this one. If the $300-350 and 980Ti level of performance turns out to be true, this is the one to go with.
 
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Word is the 1080 goes on sale for 600 bucks. Great price for a card that's faster than a Titan. If I wasn't in the middle of starting a job, getting a new place and my first car, I'd be on it. Goddamn priorities.
 
So I am hearing about 4K@43fps with The Witcher 3 maxed.... I get about that if not more now.
Unless the models with after market coolers give me 17 fps more....I will just wait for 1080ti/Titan.
 
I've got a 780ti so I'm definitely upgrading but I'm going to try to wait to see wait and see what the board partners come up with. The card already looks solid but in the hands of asus, evga or gigabyte, oh boy.
 
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Now I'll do a kind of rumor round-up for next AMD GPU. Take it with a grain of salt.

AMD does not have a card to counter GTX 1080 as of yet, mostly because AMD just chose not to release GDDR5X product at Polaris launch. When it comes to discrete GPU market, AMD is focusing on an "affordable VR solution." Something cheap yet fast. The key product here is Polaris 10 + GDDR5, which is just like GTX 1070 in terms of components and performance. The key here is it is rumored to be priced around $300-350. I'm mostly interested in this one. If the $300-350 and 980Ti level of performance turns out to be true, this is the one to go with.
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Any hints at when the new Polaris cards would hit? I'm going to need a new card and was thinking just a 390 for now but if it would be that performance for the same price as a 390 then I could wait.
 
VaLLiancE said:
So I am hearing about 4K@43fps with The Witcher 3 maxed.... I get about that if not more now.
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43+ fps at 4k maxed? Is that with hairworks enabled? I'm running the same basic reference 980ti as you and I'm nowhere near 43fps, more like low to mid 30s with a mild overclock..enter Novigrad and it tanks.

What's your firestrike score if you don't mind me asking? Impressive numbers man...
 
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