Digital Foundry tests the GTX 1080

[vivster]

Turkish said:

vivster said:

Where did you get Spring from? I expect it sooner than that.

First of all the wait for the Big Pascal is a lot shorter than the wait from Big Pascal to Big Volta. I also expect a bigger performance increase from 1080 to Big Pascal than from 980ti to 1080, which is barely 20% on average at 1440p. When Big Pascal hits the market we won't know shit about Volta. So the perfect time to buy it.

But all that doesn't really matter since 1080 is just too small of an increase to make it worthwhile, especially because I plan to go SLI. Going SLI with sub High End is stupid. Big Pascal is the only sensible way to go unless you either got money to burn or need a new GPU right now.

The neverending cycle stops when I buy Pascal and then wait if Big Volta is good enough to upgrade.

Titans always release in Spring, I expect the new one to come out around March, that's 9 months from now, it is also expect that HBM2 is gonna be ready in Q1 2017. A few months after the new Titan I expect the 1080Ti when HBM2 becomes more readily available, kinda like how it went with big Maxwell.

Fact is you're not gonna see a new $599-699 level card from Nvidia until at least next year. The 1080 has a 30% performance increase compared to Titan X at 1440p as well, that's a lot, you're not gonna see a 50% boost over that with the 1080Ti. Hell, when was the last time you saw a 50% boost? The flagship Maxwell is also "only" 30% faster than the flagship Kepler.

If you have a 980ti, you should wait. But for those of us with a 970 or lower, it's a perfect upgrade that should last us until Volta.

Never said anything else. 1080 is a great update to the 980 but not to the 980ti. I don't care a lot about price, so whichever Big Pascal is first I will get. And from 980ti to Big Pascal it's easily 50%, which is all I want.