Graphics Pascal and Polaris Discussion Thread

You will probably be able to buy some aftermarket passive cooler for it

 

+1

i'm never buying a GPU with a stock fan again, i'll probably fork out for one of those fancy EVGA cards... or anything else that keeps it cool and quiet.

also rocking GTX 970

 

Mine are going under water so cooler type is secondary. I'll likely grab 1 or 2 1070's while waiting for the 600mm² beast to come along.

 

I can't wait to see what happens in the mobile GPU scene. I'm guessing double the performance.

 

On the contrary, I would not consider a non-reference PCB other than for a very specific purpose (e.g. a 'ITX length' card). When well designed (e.g. the NVTTM-style coolers) a 'reference' blower will be cooler, and thus quieter, than an open cooler unless you case has enough fans to overcome the deficiencies of an open cooler dumping hot air into the same chamber it intakes air from. Bad blower coolers will always be bad though: OEM blowers are pretty much universally abysmal, as have been AMDs recent blowers (to the point they stopped bothering for the R9 series and just went AIO or OEM-only).

 

It's horses for courses, really. If I had a nice big case with a sufficient number of exhaust fans, then I'd probably go for a third-party cooler that dumps heat into the case. On the other hand, I prefer small form factors so a decent blower is a better bet as it exhausts directly out of the case. Fortunately the standard nVidia blower is a lot, lot better than the old school style blowers.

 

Dont get your hopes up mobile wise nvidia have been very poor, the 880m has issues nvidia never adressed it.
980m has some issues with recent drivers and sli wise it still poor

 

http://videocardz.com/59725/nvidia-gtx-1080-polaris-10-11-directx12-benchmarks

More benchmarks in.

 

Still no real world benchmarks, I think we should wait until the 20th of May for any NDA to be lifted and see some proper reviews and custom GPUs.

 

Completely depends on the OEM. In my experience if you buy one without an MXM; a custom designed PCB/BIOS then Nvidia will take extra time to make a driver just for it (or ignore certain driver releases). Or if it has Optimus that's a driver PITA. Don't buy Optimus stuff. There's far more variation than their desktop cards that just 'work'.

Also, that Founders Edition looks like just stock cooler and that's that. $100 markup early adopter tax. Maybe to appease OEMs who complain Nvidia stock parts don't offer enough differentiation for them.

 

Well, my 970m is still amazing me with its capabilities.

 

Looking at those benchmarks, can someone please translate - how actually fast it is?

Supposed to be faster than GTX980 in SLI, faster than Titan X.. So definitely faster than GTX980Ti.
But how much faster? 20%? 30%?

 

For the hundreth time today. It's only as fast as two 980s in VR.

 

No one really knows because there are only a couple of benchmarks and some marketing slides. Need to wait for the reviews.

 

Can you say it again?

 

I can't help but think that it's not going to be quite as fast as we are lead to believe.

 

You know what, Nvidia's claim of "first FF GPU" is so false they're actually last:

Apple's A9: PowerVR on TSMC 16FF and Samsung 14FF
Samsung Exynos: Mali on 14FF
Intel Broadwell (since 2014): Intel GPU on 14FF; even Iris Pro w/ eDRAM
AMD Polaris 10 live-demo (Dec 2015): GloFo 14FF

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

After watching many videos and finding a really cool Scottish bloke who broke it all down I am beginning to think the same.

Let me see if I can find the video.



I urge any one still confused over what Nvidia have said and done to watch that video.

 

Given that as of today, 2x 980s in VR is the exact same speed as one 980 in VR, that statement is worthless for all practical purposes. There is one single program available today that actually has VR SLI implemented, and that is Nvidia's VR SLI demo.

As with every single GPU launch in history: wait for benchmarks before trying to compare GPU performance. Without actual testing, any discussion is just hot air.

 

+1 to THAT