NVIDIA Pascal

[ToxicBug]

Getting announced tomorrow at 18:00 PST. I think it deserves its own thread now.

Bonus: First NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 3DMark Benchmarks

[DTS]

Will an 8 GB Pascal series be better than a 16 GB Titan?

[Captain]

meh

[Don Carlos]

Well if I'm going AM4 it would be rude not to get get a 1080ti

[ToxicBug]

Well if I'm going AM4 it would be rude not to get get a 1080ti

GTX 1080 Ti not coming out yet.

[phantasmagoria]

It'll cost a fortune

[Transient]

Looking forward to the price drop of the 970 before too long...

[ToxicBug]

Looking forward to the price drop of the 970 before too long...

Zing!

Folks who say wait for pascal, mean wait for current top-end shit for cheaper. Not consume all the new overpriced shit

What about DX12 support?

[phantasmagoria]

pretty sure all the 9x cards have full DX12 support, not sure tho.

[losCHUNK]

Although it does, articles I've seen suggest it takes a performance hit. The 970 anyway.

[ToxicBug]

pretty sure all the 9x cards have full DX12 support, not sure tho.

Indeed, officially GM20x is tier 12_1.

At the same time, it looks like it has some issues. Also, DX12 support is a complicated topic right now.

Overall, we'll just have to wait and see. Nobody knows if GP10x has hardware async compute support either.

[Eraser]

Looking forward to the price drop of the 970 before too long...

Zing!

Folks who say wait for pascal, mean wait for current top-end shit for cheaper. Not consume all the new overpriced shit

Yeah it's the same thing for me. I'm holding out buying a new PC until I see what the new hardware does to the pricing of 970s and 980 Ti's
I'm playing currently playing Overwatch on a laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 8850M. Sure, everything's set to low, running at 720p and I'm capping it at 30fps, but it rarely drops below 25fps and the game is generally very well playable. The thing is, if you throw a 970 at it, I'm sure it'll run at 1080p with everything high at a smooth 60fps. There seems very little reason right now to get anything faster than a 980Ti these days. It's sad, but having PS4 and XB1 as primary target platforms does this to PC gaming.

[Don Carlos]

I have a 970 at the momemt with a shed load of RAM and a 5ghz processor but DOOM still ran better on my PS4 than on my PC. I will likely end up shelling out £350 on the 1070 rather than £650 on the 1080ti

[AndyW]

Every time i read or hear about Nvidia Pascal this video pops up in my Head...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2gqWzj8k0

[Don Carlos]

I have a 970 at the momemt with a shed load of RAM and a 5ghz processor but DOOM still ran better on my PS4 than on my PC.

No it didn't.

edit: Or no, it won't. To be more precise

HQ Ambient Occlusion. Anti-Aliasing. Higher textures. Run a PC game on medium/high, with no other additions and aye, that's yer console version.

The quality was negligible given the fast paced nature of the game. There isn't a lot of standing around looking at stuff. I think you'd be surprised at a side by side.

[ToxicBug]

Yeah it's the same thing for me. I'm holding out buying a new PC until I see what the new hardware does to the pricing of 970s and 980 Ti's
I'm playing currently playing Overwatch on a laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 8850M. Sure, everything's set to low, running at 720p and I'm capping it at 30fps, but it rarely drops below 25fps and the game is generally very well playable. The thing is, if you throw a 970 at it, I'm sure it'll run at 1080p with everything high at a smooth 60fps. There seems very little reason right now to get anything faster than a 980Ti these days. It's sad, but having PS4 and XB1 as primary target platforms does this to PC gaming.

For 1080p yes. 4K or 3x 1440p is a different story. Need 2x 980 Ti minimum.

[Eraser]

Yeah but that's excessive. No sane person would go for 3 monitors like that

[AndyW]

3x1440 is perfect for racing sims, for a flight sim you even could use 5 screens

[ToxicBug]

[phantasmagoria]

If it's as good as they say then that's super cheap compared to the previous generation on launch. wish I'd waited before I got my 980Ti now

[mrd]

Is that what video cards look like nowadays? wtf

[AndyW]

Looks like some Home-shopping-tv tool for cutting veggies, nicer-dicer-1080

[ToxicBug]

If it's as good as they say then that's super cheap compared to the previous generation on launch. wish I'd waited before I got my 980Ti now

GTX 980 launched at $549 USD.

[SoM]

the 1080 is faster then a titan and at this price, DAMN

i'll be building a new PC very soon, got me a nice fat check

[phantasmagoria]

If it's as good as they say then that's super cheap compared to the previous generation on launch. wish I'd waited before I got my 980Ti now >:(

GTX 980 launched at $549 USD.

Huh, you're right, I remember them being dearer. ..Guess I'm getting confused with the Titan X.