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fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

We'll see.

The 980 also looked like a let down from the Titan Black because of its lower specs (on paper), and yet it gave roughly a 15% increase in performance. And the new Pascal consumer parts would run at extremely high frequencies.

I'm confident we can see a 40% increase once they launch.

A good half of Maxwell's improvement came from being able to run at higher clockspeeds and the other half was IPC ... 

Pascal does not have the benefit of the former this time around when it's already pushing the thermal limit of a 300 watt TDP and an overclocked GM200 chip can clock almost just as high as Pascal ... 

Consumer Pascal will run quite a bit faster than Maxwell parts.

Nvidia (and AMD) Pro line of products always run at lower speed than consumer variants, yet the P100 runs at 1328/1480 MHz. The stock frequencies of Maxwell's 980Ti are 1000/1075MHz and the 980 ones are 1126/1216MHz. It's not too far fetched to think that the GTX 1080 will achieve a boost clock of 1500MHz at stock speeds.

With that and the advantages that the new architecture could bring (there must be a good reason to shift the focus to more SMs rather than more cores per SM), I keep saying that the 1080/1070 will bring a nice upgrade over not only the 980/970 but also the 980Ti.

Guess I'm going to be the optimistic one here.