NVIDIA's GTX 1080 GPU is faster than Titan X, lands May 27

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NVIDIA gave us a taste of its new Pascal architecture with the P100 graphics card last month, which is aimed at servers for heavy duty computing. Now, it's ready to show off how that technology will be adapted for consumers with its new GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. As you'd expect, it's fast: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that it's faster than its current performance king, the $1,000 Titan X, as well as three times as power efficient. That's particularly impressive since it's the successor to NVIDIA's GTX 980, which retails for around $600.


The 1080 is also faster than two GTX 980 cards running together using SLI technology. Like the P100, it's built with a new 16nm FinFET (a type of 3D transistor) manufacturing process, which makes it more power efficient, on top of just being faster.

The GTX 1080 is the "largest GPU endeavor, largest chip endeavor, largest processor endeavor, in the history of humanity," said NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. He added that the R&D budget for the new card was "several billion dollars" over the span of more than two years. "I'm pretty sure you can go to Mars [for that]," he said.

NVIDIA is basically positioning the GTX 1080 as the gamer's dream card. Prior to its unveiling, Huang showed off several new titles like The Division and Rise of the Tomb Raider running at max settings in a high resolution over 60 frames per second. He later revealed that all of the games were running on the new card, to the delight of the entire crowd.

A demo of Epic's Paragon made it clear just how fast the 1080 is. When Huang pulled up the GPU's stats, it was running at 2.1 GHz and the memory was running at 5.5 GHz. That's faster than any GPU today, except for one of its last generation cards with liquid nitrogen cooling. Most remarkable? The 1080 was just just relying on air cooling. It was running at 67 celsius, which I initially thought was a bit high based on video cards I've had in the past. But I was judging based on idle temperatures -- video cards today typically reach around 65c under load.

Among other new technology, the 1080 offers "simultaneous multi-projection," which helps games look less distorted for triple monitor setups or ultra-wide 21x9 screens. It also makes the card more efficient at VR rendering (which is far less forgiving about low frame-rates). Huang says the 1080 is twice as fast as the Titan X when using the multi-projection feature to render VR.

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j0shPosted:

What sorts of things would you use a card like this for?!

SeamPosted:

At $600 a great price as well

VayaPosted:

I heard it would be extremely cheap? to buy too?

gtapro151Posted:

Supervisor There is no way it's faster than the Titan X


yes, But a titan x is not really meant for gaming.

KatsumiChanPosted:

Supervisor There is no way it's faster than the Titan X


There's no way something with much higher clock speeds and faster memory could ever be faster.

OC of 2.2Ghz @ 67c xD

gtapro151Posted:

the long wait for the ti begins :/ sold my 980 tis today

MickersPosted:

Rather impressive, will have to see reviews first though.

TickldPosted:

Might wait for the ti version before I upgrade

MovieTheatreButterPosted:

Wow. The GTX 1080 is faster than the Titan X. Holy Balls. Good thing I didn't get a Titan X because I'll be buying this for sure!

EternityPosted:

GT-R
Supervisor There is no way it's faster than the Titan X


The fact that pascal is a die shrink means there is a way that its faster. In fact it would be pretty damn disappointing if it weren't.


On top of that, in the keynote address he went over it's performance: 2x performance and 3x efficiency over the Titan X. In addition, the GTX1070 is ALSO faster than a Titan X. Not as fast as the 1080, but still faster.

OT: Seeing as I'm building my first computer this summer, these cards couldn't have come at a better time. I'll definitely be getting one!