Pascal Gaming Cards to Ship in July

[MrKambo]

I found an article on another news site while browsing the web, i've no idea if its a credible source but they are from Taiwan so it sounds legit. I thought everyone here may find it momentarily interesting and then just troll each other with speculative nonsense about vram for long enough to get a decent amount of views and keep anything actually interesting or integral to building a community out of the recent threads list.

Anyway I digress, the source states nVidia will reveal their upcoming GTX 1080 and 1070 GPU's at Computex in 7 weeks time and plans to begin shipping their Pascal cards in July. The cards will feature a die shrink to 16nm and a new memory standard which should promise an incremental increase in efficiency. Making any further comments on these rumors extracted from nVidia's projected roadmap would be purely speculative and hold no real value but perhaps we will finally see a generation of GPU's in which a single card is truly capable of 4k gaming.

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[Feronix]

Ooooh nice find!

 

[Tolemac]

Well found MrKambo it looks like this year is going to be interesting for the graphics card market

 

[Dicehunter]

Unless the upcoming 1080 at stock can bring at least a 30% performance increase over an overclocked 980 Ti @ 1500/8000, Then I'll be waiting for GP100 but looking at it logically, Doubling your transistor count will more than likely give over a 30% performance boost.......I hope ^_^

 

[Kushiro]

At stock prob not. Would still rather wait for the ti or whatnot even if it does surpass the 980ti by said margins.

 

[Dicehunter]

At stock prob not. Would still rather wait for the ti or whatnot even if it does surpass the 980ti by said margins.

If Asus bring out a 1080 Matrix Platinum I will not be able to resist ^_^

 

[Kushiro]

I can actually see that happening. Asus should allow for custom emblems or Leds or at least make one with dicey on it. It already has owner(s) before even being released.

Though it would seem Asus likes to give their buyers a chance to experience buyers remorse. Every time I buy the matrix model the next best thing comes out soon after.

 

[Dicehunter]

I can actually see that happening. Asus should allow for custom emblems or Leds or at least make one with dicey on it. It already has owner(s) before even being released.

Dicey on it ? ^_^

If Asus don't allow for manual control of the ROG LED on the side then there is something badly wrong as people have been screaming from the rooftops for it since the very first Matrix card came out.

 

[Kushiro]

What can I say. Big guys dont listen very often.

Otherwise MSI wouldnt have yellow permanently on their lightn8 ng series, rather Leds instead. That way at least it wouldnt only match with their so called godlike boards etc.

 

[MrKambo]

If Asus bring out a 1080 Matrix Platinum I will not be able to resist ^_^

Try not to blow this one up

I cant wait either, the excitement is so real!

Im just sitting here patiently waiting, im hoping the Titan variant is hella beast! I'd love to grab 2 of them

Also hoping AIB's keep the cards clean, starting to get well annoyed with silly dragon logo's and more RGB's than Morohoshi car!

 

[Doomslayer]

Try not to blow this one up

I cant wait either, the excitement is so real!

Im just sitting here patiently waiting, im hoping the Titan variant is hella beast! I'd love to grab 2 of them

Also hoping AIB's keep the cards clean, starting to get well annoyed with silly dragon logo's and more RGB's than Morohoshi car!

I think there going to go crazy namely MSI lol

 

[JR23]

What can I say. Big guys dont listen very often.

Otherwise MSI wouldnt have yellow permanently on their lightn8 ng series, rather Leds instead. That way at least it wouldnt only match with their so called godlike boards etc.

It makes more sense than having a copper themed Matrix Platinum which matches a limited production run motherboard. At least the LIGHTNING fits in with the XPOWER which has been available the entire time is practically the same board minus the dragons and killer LAN and costs £100 less.

Personally I would expect the 1080 perform roughly on par with a 980Ti and enter the market at a similar price ~£550. That's just the way things go! Even if it could be better it will release at a perfectly controlled point so the price/performance remains constant with the previous series EOL price.

JR

 

[MrKambo]

I think there going to go crazy namely MSI lol

Hi we're MSI heres a GTX1080 with 16 dragon logo' per fan, and there's a total of 3 92mm fans, also we've redesigned heat pipes to match the skeleton of a legit dragon, just in case you wasnt convinced that more dragons mean more power, in the box we've included a 6ft blow up dragon which glows 16million different colours

We've named this the MSI GTX1080 Super Hype Mad Dragon Bare RGB Pointless Lightening Thunder Fire Edition, and retails at a small £6 Million!

 

[Doomslayer]

Hi we're MSI heres a GTX1080 with 16 dragon logo' per fan, and there's a total of 3 92mm fans, also we've redesigned heat pipes to match the skeleton of a legit dragon, just in case you wasnt convinced that more dragons mean more power, in the box we've included a 6ft blow up dragon which glows 16million different colours

We've named this the MSI GTX1080 Super Hype Mad Dragon Bare RGB Pointless Lightening Thunder Fire Edition, and retails at a small £6 Million!

hahahahaha

I reckon that some of them namely MSI is going to find away of putting silly RGB onto the GPU and more dragons like you said. as well all know MSI would be silly enough to do it.

 

[JR23]

I think it's highly possible they could just put perpendicular mount 8-pins on the face of the PCB, extended the width of the card by 1" and turn the edge into a giant RGB LED strip.

Asus will most likely just get confused and make an orange ROG card with an owl on it and an epic overclocking card with the weirdest shape PCB possible, full red and black insanity and call it a Strix.

EVGA might bang out an ACX3.0 with a slightly more adventurous curvy shroud, 2000x stronger fan blades and clean white Lighting behind all the logo's that looks sick. Then do a classified which is sick big version with more power delivery than nvidia will allow anyone else to get away with and the most sorted BIOS in the industry, because well, screw listening to nvidia when you outsell everyone.

Galax can see if they can save money on screws and just use 2 on the core and one in the middle of the VRM's, outsource the shroud to some chinese kids who make the plastic accessories for christmas crackers. While making the heatsink even bigger so it definitely will break every PCIe slot you hang it off.

Gigabyte can just do the same with of fitting an 8000W cooler (at 250°C delta but that's irrelevant), writing all the text upside down, maybe inverted like an ambulance.

Who else is there?

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

I think it's highly possible they could just put perpendicular mount 8-pins on the face of the PCB, extended the width of the card by 1" and turn the edge into a giant RGB LED strip.

Asus will most likely just get confused and make an orange ROG card with an owl on it and an epic overclocking card with the weirdest shape PCB possible, full red and black insanity and call it a Strix.

EVGA might bang out an ACX3.0 with a slightly more adventurous curvy shroud, 2000x stronger fan blades and clean white Lighting behind all the logo's that looks sick. Then do a classified which is sick big version with more power delivery than nvidia will allow anyone else to get away with and the most sorted BIOS in the industry, because well, screw listening to nvidia when you outsell everyone.

Galax can see if they can save money on screws and just use 2 on the core and one in the middle of the VRM's, outsource the shroud to some chinese kids who make the plastic accessories for christmas crackers. While making the heatsink even bigger so it definitely will break every PCIe slot you hang it off.

Gigabyte can just do the same with of fitting an 8000W cooler (at 250°C delta but that's irrelevant), writing all the text upside down, maybe inverted like an ambulance.

Who else is there?

JR

IMO hands down that EVGA will make the best looking one they have proven that for the last 2 gens EVGA doesn't go over the top like other companies namely MSI lol

 

[JR23]

IMO hands down that EVGA will make the best looking one they have proven that for the last 2 gens EVGA doesn't go over the top like other companies namely MSI lol

Actually of the previous generation the Matrix Platinum was my favorite, now the shroud doesn't fit it just looks a bit messy, the grey on it is nice though. The original ACX had too many QC issues but it's great they are all sorted now. EVGA win at a lot of things, I hope they don't change their ethos too much.

ASUS and MSI have great potential to make phenomenal cards, the TFV, Strix, Lightning and kind of the Matrix Platinum were all very good. I just doubt that I will like them, but maybe we will be surprised. One thing is certain though, MSI will not cut the dragon count.

JR

 

[MrKambo]

I think it's highly possible they could just put perpendicular mount 8-pins on the face of the PCB, extended the width of the card by 1" and turn the edge into a giant RGB LED strip.

Asus will most likely just get confused and make an orange ROG card with an owl on it and an epic overclocking card with the weirdest shape PCB possible, full red and black insanity and call it a Strix.

EVGA might bang out an ACX3.0 with a slightly more adventurous curvy shroud, 2000x stronger fan blades and clean white Lighting behind all the logo's that looks sick. Then do a classified which is sick big version with more power delivery than nvidia will allow anyone else to get away with and the most sorted BIOS in the industry, because well, screw listening to nvidia when you outsell everyone.

Galax can see if they can save money on screws and just use 2 on the core and one in the middle of the VRM's, outsource the shroud to some chinese kids who make the plastic accessories for christmas crackers. While making the heatsink even bigger so it definitely will break every PCIe slot you hang it off.

Gigabyte can just do the same with of fitting an 8000W cooler (at 250°C delta but that's irrelevant), writing all the text upside down, maybe inverted like an ambulance.

Who else is there?

JR

ASUS cards will be DOA lets face it!

EVGA will come through again with decent clean semi-neutral design, and tbh i've had 3 of there ACX cooled cards and 2 different variants of the Classified coolers, im actually running their 980Ti SC+ ACX Cooled cards with the backplate, and they're good, keep my temps at 65-68 while heavy gaming.

Galax might as well just liquidate, unless they go next level insane clean without silly shroud designs!

Gigabyte Windforce G1 Gaming RGB Upside Down Edition, with a cooler so big it just counter productive!

Inno3D, will do a another air boss edition which will need someone physically holding the card in a case and just look like utter poo!

Zotac will do a AMP Omega Alpha Kappa Zeta Epsilon Fire Storm edition, that will just sell because it has a awesome name & mega warrenty, but then again ive seen alot of people having decent OC's on them

 

[Dicehunter]

Try not to blow this one up

I cant wait either, the excitement is so real!

Im just sitting here patiently waiting, im hoping the Titan variant is hella beast! I'd love to grab 2 of them

Also hoping AIB's keep the cards clean, starting to get well annoyed with silly dragon logo's and more RGB's than Morohoshi car!

The first 780 Ti MP I bought was faulty, No doubt about it as putting 50MHz on the core and the tiniest amount of voltage should not brick it ergo faulty.

The first 980 Ti MP I had was plugged in for around 2 or so hours, Never did any overclocking, Only installed the drivers and in the middle of reading an email something by the 8 pin went pop and spewed forth some black brimstone looking stuff.

According to 8Pack it was a VRM short caused by a fault.

The only thing I hope Asus do though is let us change that damn logo colour !!! ^_^