Digital Foundry tests the GTX 1080

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CGI-Quality said:

JRPGfan said:

A 1080 GTX is overkill unless you plan to game at higher resoultions.

People say this with every new GPU release. At 1080p, it is effecient and ideal. If it's "plenty more than someone needs", that is a good thing.

Anyone who buys this card for 1080P gaming is silly.
With that said... This is the kind of card you can use to take advantage of Downscaling, even on a 1080P panel.

vivster said:

Turkish said:
So much for all the self proclaimed experts who thought it was only a minor upgrade over the 980Ti. "bbuuut It's only gonna be 10% faster" "bbuuut HBM2, Big Pascal next year!" all excuses to make them feel good about their outdated cards.

Next year we'll start hearing rumours about Volta, and those people will look silly. "Wait for Volta, the next big thing". Might as well never buy a gpu.

It kinda stayed true though. The 1080 is not a big enough improvement over the 980ti to upgrade. Volta will not release before 2018 and Big Volta may as well be not available before the end of 2018 or even 2019.

Upgrading now to a 1080 would be silly when there is a 1080ti on the Horizon which is significantly more powerful and the only thing able to tide us over to Big Volta.

Benchmarks I saw... The 1080 was able to beat SLI 980 Ti's in some games, that's a pretty big improvement in my eyes... And considering how new this Architecture is, expect it to be the main focus of driver performance improvements.

Still waiting on Anandtech to do a deep and thorough analysis of the architecture though, to see what is ticking under the hood, Pascal is showing that it isn't a slouch, considering this isn't the top-end card and it is beating the likes of Titan and Fury X.

The other part of this is of course... Overclocking. Reports are trickling in that people have been able to hit 2.1 - 2.2Ghz on the core clock, which is freaking nuts, they are seeing performance gains of 20-30% straight out of the box, gets me excited to see what people can do with some voltage and cooling mods, will we finally see a 3ghz GPU this year?

Hopefully AMD can be competitive with Polaris.