nVidia confirms it is unveiling new Pascal GPUs tomorrow

[Chalenge]

There are leaked benchmarks out there and at least one of them is in English. It shows that the 1080 is leaps ahead of the Titan X, and if the ratio of performance holds between the 1080 and 1070 as it did for the 980/970 cards, then the 1070 will also bench higher than the Titan X.

We are still at least a week away from legitimate benchmark tests and on-hand reviews, and it may be as much as two weeks to coincide with the 1080 release. It just depends on the Nvidia embargo in place.

You have to realize that at this point there is no driver for these cards and so benchmarks are questionable at best.

[GScholz]

I'm looking to replace my 780Ti with a 10-series card. Might still keep the 780 as a dedicated physX card...

[BoilerDown]

A bunch of actual reviews hit the web yesterday.  Looks like 30% better performance than the 980Ti from the reference design 1080.

My concern is that after years of doing hard launches (while AMD consistently does paper launches), why is Nvidia doing a paper launch too? 

I'd be really cautious about pre-ordering this one.  Wait for the reviews of the non-reference designs before buying anything.  This is probably just Nvidia's marketing department making a stupid mistake, but it could be an actual problem.

[Gman]

My shop just got the pre-shipment info, they have cards from eVGA, MSI, and Asus for the founders edition coming next week, all listed at 699$ USD as per the pricing we've been given so far.  I have 2 of the eVGAs paid for already, just waiting now.

[Chalenge]

I really did intend to bypass this release, but the whole "you can't three-way SLI" misinformation floating around has me willing to visit Frye's. It really is just a matter of applying for an enthusiast key and going from there. Have to think about this some more, but I think the 1080Ti can't get here soon enough.

[bortas1]

   I have seen the benchmarks and was wondering which game comes closest to ah2 or 3 when they test those out?

[Chalenge]

As far as AH3 goes (as it is at this moment) I have it on good authority that if you have two GTX 980s in SLI that there will be a performance LOSS with the GTX 1080 if all you use is a single card, but only if you are playing at 4k. In other words, the GTX 1080 will NOT play AH3 at 4k with everything on any better than the GTX 980s in SLI. It will save you power, obviously.

So I'm waiting on HBM2. All I want is AH3 with everything on to run at 4k @ 60fps. If that means waiting on Volta (another two years) then so be it.

[Gman]

I'll test that this weekend, I'll still have my 980 sli setup and will have 2 1080s, so I'll try all combinations of 980/sli/1080/sli with AH3/beta and see what happens at various resolutions, I can run 1080p and 1440p on 27 and 34" lcds and 4k on our 28" Acer.

[Chalenge]

Looking forward to seeing those benchmarks!