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Pemalite said:
Scisca said:

The reason why SLI/CrossFire is so badly supported is that... it's not worth it. Not for you, for the companies. Check the Steam stats for the number of gamers using multiple GPUs - it's laughable. This makes investing money and working hours into perfecting the drivers not worth it. These engineers could be doing something that's actually beneficial. I guess that's what you get for being too ahead of the curve...

Steam doesn't show statistics for systems with Multiple GPU's.

Ugh. Well maybe it's not Steam, but I have seen stats about it and it's a tiny number - my point still stands. Multiple GPUs' support isn't worth it for nVidia and AMD. Most people use one card and want games to look good on it.



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Scisca said:
Pemalite said:

Steam doesn't show statistics for systems with Multiple GPU's.

Ugh. Well maybe it's not Steam, but I have seen stats about it and it's a tiny number - my point still stands. Multiple GPUs' support isn't worth it for nVidia and AMD. Most people use one card and want games to look good on it.

To be fair. Most people don't have a "card" at all. They use integrated graphics. In-fact, Intel has the majority of the PC's graphics hardware marketshare.

Multiple GPU's is worth it, because AMD and nVidia make a TON of cash from it, thanks to professional markets, you know... Those who build GPU server farms, simulations, stock markets, design, rendering... And that flows down into the consumer space, where a little bit of extra effort can sell you more high-end cards. - And they are high-end, majority of SLi/Crossfire systems use high-end, high profit hardware, where sheer volume of sales isn't as important.

And untill AMD, nVidia or some other large platform like Steam lets us know of the % of systems that has crossfire/SLI, then it's all just theory's.



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The final specs and official slides of the GTX 1080 have been leaked:

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Final Specifications and Launch Presentation

http://videocardz.com/59962/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-final-specifications-and-launch-presentation

NVIDIA GTX 1080 is the first graphics card from GeForce 1000, or as NVIDIA calls it 10 Series, based on 16nm FinFET architecture called Pascal. New card is clocked at 1607 MHz with boost clock up to 1733 MHz, however actual clock will vary depending on application.

NVIDIA GTX 1080 is equipped with one 8-pin power connectors and TDP is rated at 180W, and from what I heard, actual power consumption should not exceed this value in gaming.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Specifications
May 15th 2016GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX 980 TiGeForce GTX 980
Fabrication Node 16nm FinFET 28nm 28nm
Architecture Pascal Maxwell Maxwell
Die Size 314 mm2 601 mm2 398 mm2
GPU  GP104-400 GM200-310 GM204-400
Transistors 7.2 b 8.0 b 5.2 b
Transistors per mm2 ~22.9 m ~13.3 m ~13.1 m
Streaming Multiprocessors 20  22 16
CUDA Cores 2560 2816 2048
TMUs 160 176 128
ROPs 64 96 64
TFLOPs 8.2 TFLOPs 5.6 TFLOPs 4.6 TFLOPS
Memory Type 8GB GDDR5X 6GB GDDR5 4GB GDDR5
Base Clock 1607 MHz 1000 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost Clock  1733 MHz 1076 MHz 1216 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Clock 10000 MHz 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Memory Bus 256-bit 384-bit 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth 320 GB/s 337 GB/s 224 GB/s
TDP 180W 250W 165W 
Power Connectors 1x 8pin 1x 6pin + 1x 8pin 2x 6pin
MSRP $599
$699 FE
$649 $549

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 160 TMUs and 64 ROPs. This was actually confirmed earlier by GPU-Z update, but today our knowledge is based on official GPU diagram, which looks like this:

As you can see Pascal GP104 is split into four blocks (Graphics Processing Clusters), each GPC has 5 Streaming Multiprocessors and each SM has two blocks of 64 CUDA cores, so this gives us total of 2560 CUDA Cores. As a side note, GP100 only has one block of 64 CUDAs per SM.

Interestingly the number of ROPs has not changed since GTX 980, which means GTX 980 Ti still has 32 ROPs more, and therefore GTX 1080 has 64 ROPs.

The die area of GP104 GPU is 314 mm2, which is right in-between GM204 and GM206. Despite smaller GPU we have 2 billion transistors more than GM204. Also the density of transistors increased by 10 million per mm2 to almost 23 million.

Check out the link for more details and slides.



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Need Anandtech to break it down. - I mean. How is nVidia achieving that memory compression?



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The 1080 reviews are out!

Anandtech (preview with game benchmarks): http://www.anandtech.com/show/10326/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-preview

ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/05/nvidia-gtx-1080-review/

DigitalFoundry: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review

GamersNexus: http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2438-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-founders-edition-review-and-fps-benchmark

Guru3D: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,1.html

HardOCP: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/05/17/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1080_founders_edition_review#

Hexus: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/92846-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-founders-edition-16nm-pascal/

HotHardware: http://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal-gpu-review

KitGuru: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Nvidia-Geforce-Grafikkarte-255598/Specials/Benchmark-Test-Video-1195464/

OverclockersClub: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/nvidia_geforcegtx_1080_founders_edition/

PCGamesHardware (in german): http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Nvidia-Geforce-Grafikkarte-255598/Specials/Benchmark-Test-Video-1195464/

PCPerspective: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-GTX-1080-8GB-Founders-Edition-Review-GP104-Brings-Pascal-Gamers

PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3071037/hardware/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review-the-most-badass-graphics-card-ever-created.html

TechPowerUp: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/

TechSpot: http://www.techspot.com/review/1174-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080/

Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,4572.html



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So the first reviews on my trusted review site are out and it seems an overclocked 1080 is about 20% above an overclocked 980ti.

That's really not enough to switch at all. The Titan/1080ti should be a no-brainer though.



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vivster said:

So the first reviews on my trusted review site are out and it seems an overclocked 1080 is about 20% above an overclocked 980ti.

That's really not enough to switch at all. The Titan/1080ti should be a no-brainer though.

What site and at what resolution?



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JEMC said:
vivster said:

So the first reviews on my trusted review site are out and it seems an overclocked 1080 is about 20% above an overclocked 980ti.

That's really not enough to switch at all. The Titan/1080ti should be a no-brainer though.

What site and at what resolution?

Computerbase.de and 1440p. Some games run above and some below the 20%.

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/geforce-gtx-1080-test/7/#abschnitt_benchmarks_in_2560__1440_und_1920__1080



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vivster said:
JEMC said:

What site and at what resolution?

Computerbase.de and 1440p. Some games run above and some below the 20%.

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/geforce-gtx-1080-test/7/#abschnitt_benchmarks_in_2560__1440_und_1920__1080

The 1080 doesn't seem to benefit a lot from the overclock, although I don't see how far they went with the OC.



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