Hello everybody Guru3D is in Texas, attending and covering the Nvidia event of the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080. Yours truly flew in yesterday to witness the announcements you are about to see. The Livestream starred at 6PM PST and has now ended. We also have an active open discussion thread on this product announcement right here. You can click on the read more link if you like to check out photos of the event.
UPDATE- STREAM HAS ENDED
I'll post updates on this launch in this item, if you step in later you can see what has happened though these updates.
20:00 - Arrived at the event, the feed should be live.
20:01 - Alright - the event is crowded, little space for press. Updates will be hard to do. At least there's wifi ;\
20:02 - Jen Hsun, the CEO of NVIDIA takes the stage. Intros Ansil. A video mode built into the driver. Ansil In-game 3D camera mode that much like taking photo's can capture moments inside a game. You can make 360 degrees shots to be used in VR.
20:21 - Introduces NVIDIA VRWORKS audio. API that includes Physx into VR. Path traced audio. Physically modeled traced audio.
20:31 - GeForce GTX 1080 is announced. Pascal based, 16n FinFet design and GDDR5X from Micron is confirmed. Energy efficiency is noted. Most advanced switching power supply ever introduced in the product. Clean power ftw.
20:40 - 1080 is faster than 980 SLI. Faster than Titan X
20:43 - Tim Sweeney from Epic Games takes the stage. Talks about PC gaming platform about being the best, blah blah. Shows a nice demo run on GTX 1080.
20:45 - Something very interesting, the GPU clock of the GTX 1080 runs 2114 MHz in the demo that ran (must be the boost clock). That's very high. The memory runs 5508 MHz on GDDR5X (would be effectuate data-rate). The card seems to run well under 70 Degrees C under load.
The Pascal GPU for the GTX 1080 has 2560 shader processors harbored, like expected.
Simultaneous multi-projection announced as well. Independent viewport detection, no perf losses. Basically is solves warping in a virtualized surround view mode.Multiple monitors surrounding you will give proper picture as if you are looking around in real-world.
Meanshile the specs have been posted of the GeForce GTX 1080:
GPU Engine Specs for the geForce GTX 1080 are:
- 2560 NVIDIA CUDA Cores
- 1607 Base Clock (MHz)
- 1733 Boost Clock (MHz)
- Memory Specs:
- 10 Gbps Memory Speed
- 8 GB GDDR5X Standard Memory Config
- 256-bit Memory Interface Width
- 320 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)
- Technology Support:
- Yes Multi-Projection
- Yes VR Ready
- YesNVIDIA Ansel
- Yes - SLI HB Bridge SupportedNVIDIA SLI® Ready1
- Yes NVIDIA G-SYNC™-Ready
- Yes NVIDIA GameStream™-Ready
- 3.0 NVIDIA GPU Boost™
- 12 API with feature level 12_1Microsoft DirectX
- YesVulkan API
- 4.5OpenGL
- PCIe 3.0Bus Support
- Windows 7-10, Linux, FreeBSDx86OS Certification
- Display Support:
- 7680x4320@60HzMaximum Digital Resolution1
- DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVIStandard Display Connectors
- YesMulti Monitor
- 2.2HDCP
- Graphics Card Dimensions:
- 4.376"Height
- 10.5"Length
- 2-SlotWidth
- Thermal and Power Specs:
- 94Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C)
- 180 WGraphics Card Power (W)
- 500 WRecommended System Power (W)3
- 8-Pin
The GeForce GTX 1080 will offer no less than 9 TFLOPS of single precision perf and is armed with a nice 8GB GDDR5X. The pricing was announced as well and is set at 599 USD, there will be a founders (spcial) edition as well for 699, it is unknown what that precise edition brings to the table as of this moment. The cards will be available starting May 27th.
The GeForce GTX 1070 is announced as well, precise specs are missing at the time of writing this news item. However it will be a product that still offers a good 6.5 TFLOPS of single precision performance and will get 8GB of GDDR5 memory, not GDDR5X. The card as well will be released in a founders edition. The basis model will cost 379 USD and the founders edition is going to cost 449 USD. The GeForce GTX 1070 will reach the market a bit later at June 10th, that might be due to custom AIB partner designs and releases released and showed off right after Computex.
Right guys, the stream has ended, the event is busy, crowded and noisy. It's nearly impossible to edit and write properly from here. Have a browse through the photos for some extra information on the GTX 1070 and 1080 release. Once back in the hotel I will update with a proper news item. Hilbert checkin' out. thanks !
Small update: the founder edition are better binnen products that shoulkd offer better overclock potential. Just so that you guys know.
Click on the thumbnails below to see photos from the event, the GeForce GTX ones also include more details and product photos.
