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Offline Gman

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More 1070 GTX/Pascal info out
« on: May 17, 2016, 01:02:20 PM »
http://wccftech.com/gtx-1070-1920-cuda-cores/

Looks like this will be the card to buy for best bang/$.  By far.  Very close to the 1080 performance, and at 379$ vs the 699$ for the 1080 coming out in 10 days, it's a huge, huge bargain.  IMO 1070 SLI will be a very effective option, basically 50$ more than the founders edition card for the 1080 (nobody knows when the 599$ ref card will come out, and all the other brands will have higher pricing than that, with various options and doo dads, so 699$ for the founders/etc is a more realistic 1080 price).

Lots of reviews out today now that the NDA is lifted on the 1080 - pretty good performance across the board, and it is indeed faster than 980sli in many, many tests (not all, but most), and is a good 30 to 50% faster than the 980ti/Titan in many as well.  Well worth it.  Also, a TON less power drawn, which means less heat.  This opens up a lot of options too in terms of power supplies. 

Still, the 1070 I think will be a huge seller.  While I'm planning on getting 2 1080s right out of the gate in a couple weeks or less, I'm also going to grab a 1070 out of interests sake, and build a mini/micro system with that card and some leftover parts (need to pick a small case still).  Titan performance out of a 379$ card.  Great for VR users, big time.   Also, the reason I bring up 1070SLI as a great option is that many players here run 3 screen (HTC has said as much as well based on their data).  Nvidia has really improved how surround/3screen works and looks, and having 2 1070s will allow 3 screen users to truly push their panels to max performance/fps IMO, for a price not much more than a single 1080.

Offline bortas1

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Re: More 1070 GTX/Pascal info out
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2016, 03:29:16 PM »
 :salute guess im waiting till june  for the  1070. :cheers:

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Re: More 1070 GTX/Pascal info out
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2016, 10:57:13 PM »
I agree, as far as TFLOPS/$, but overall power is where I put my money and neither of these cards offer enough. Not yet. If they offer a 1080Ti with HBM2, then maybe so. The early reports indicated a card with 16GB and even 24GB of memory, so what happened? I think they decided it was time to get something to market so they could continue the push for even more power. The 1070 certainly disappoints when it comes to CUDA cores, but there is actually very little else known at this point. Of course, the manufacturers may come up with some impressive clocks, but I was more memory, faster memory, and maybe even the next iteration (whatever that is).

I like what they have done, but it feels like an interim step, so I want to wait for the shock-and-awe release.
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Offline MADe

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Re: More 1070 GTX/Pascal info out
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2016, 04:44:15 PM »
stop you guys are killing me.
 :salute

I want 1, match it up with the Broadwell-E, 12+GB ram, SSD, 64 bit OS........................... ..............

getting a woody just thinking about it :x
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