Nvidia GTX 1080 and 1070 - Launch Event Recap - Austin, Texas
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,797 words · ~8 min read
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so NVIDIA brought us to Austin Texas and launched the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 early
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enough that they would give people time to Hype up before computex they told us
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nothing about this trip beforehand and I knew nothing on my way
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down so the first thing they did was bring us to a ranch a massive gorgeous
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30 acre ranch they had tons of cool stuff there like ATV rides riding horses
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going fishing kaying ski shooting tons
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of stuff it was fantastic but it still didn't have anything to do with graphics
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cards so I interviewed a horse and asked him what he thought about the GTX 1080
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so Marvin what kind of like how many transistors do you think it's going to
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have what about like Cuda cor memory
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speed memory bandwidth okay and what do you think
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about like the overall like kind of Batmobile aesthetic that we saw leaked
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on the NVIDIA website interesting I think Marvin
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actually might have better insights than some of the reviewers
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here check this
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out now that is one smart horse isn't he
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if you've seen the live stream if you know the specs of this card you know
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that he's pretty damn accurate but let's compare his accuracy to other various
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Tech reviewers in the space and see what they expected from the GTX
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1080 all right Jay what are your predictions for the GTX 1080 well first
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Luke I'd like to welcome you to my study
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uh I think the GTX 1080 man I don't know what to expect but
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I think obviously it's meant for 1080p gaming I mean clearly it's in the name
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right so for all of you 4K and QD Enthusiast we'll get you next time I I'm
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going to use a demonstration here so the GTX 1080 I think will be a lot like this
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dessert here lovely dessert first off it's provided by NVIDIA so there's
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obviously a correlation right there second we're expecting the new Pascal
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technology including C can you can you
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call that Coos I don't know how to pronounce that Coos yeah chip on wafer
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on substrate you can see the layers of this K striations within there uh that's
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that's obviously representing that and then you have this which is just a piece of
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chocolate well they're dropping a lot of hints here this life vest
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uh is sort of a representative of the mark marketing hype you better be ready
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for this raging River that's coming and then we've got this River over here it's
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about uh Knee Deep which is about indicative of the performance increase I
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expect all right anony what predictions do you have for the GTX 1080 hot next
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performance within a smaller package less power uh a good price and AMD is
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going to it's going to hurt it's going to be Pascal of course I would expect
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gddr5 or 5x I don't think hbm2 will be on this quite yet Yi's not there yet
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that's really the main part of my projections right now all right Kyle so
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what do you expect from the GTX 1080 I think the real question Luke is what
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does the GTX 1080 expect from me what do most people expect from me
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these days Paul absolutely nothing that's correct
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okay so as you can probably tell enthusiasm wasn't super high most people
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were kind of making jokes and not expecting a massive amount they're
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expecting something good but not something groundbreaking and then the
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event was actually kind of impressive so
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I gathered some guys came back to the hotel room and we had a discussion about
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it the discussion was almost an hour long
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so a lot of it's going to be cut out but here's here's some highlights well I
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think usually when you're talking about a new launch you're looking at I don't
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maybe Intel's gotten us too used to expecting a 10 to 15% performance boost
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per yeah so the numbers at least that
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we're seeing from Nidia as far as performance compared to last generation
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spe specifically like Titan X I mean it's insane the fact that you could get
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a 1070 for 300 how much is it 3 379
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379 that's better than a Titan X right now I mean that's that's reference 1070
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is better than the Titan X and you know there's going to be board partner versions yeah but I was most shocked at
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the fact that so you and I speculated like what are they going to compare it to are they going to Benchmark it
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against 680 are they maybe 780 I thought
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at the most it would be 780 they came right out of the shoot with the 980 and
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then went there and said it's faster than Titan X they literally obsoleted
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their current offerings entirely 2980s
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in SLI that was crazy that was nuts when they put that up you do have to remember
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that their charts are a little bit cherry-picked so they they would do
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things like it was faster but then the
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the xaxis is wattage and then in like
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this one it's like strictly PR VR performance they never talked very
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specifically about like d DX yeah they
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didn't talk about DX in the slightest uh we talked to them afterwards right and
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they said a 25% bump compared to 980 TI
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and Titan x 2560 Cuda easy to remember
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2560 by this is all yeah uh this is for
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the 1080 yes we don't have these specs for the 1070 1607 MHz base clock that
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gives you 8.2 terap flops at base 17 33
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MHz boost clock for 8.9 Tera flops 320
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GB per second is the memory is is the memory throughput 256bit 8 GB of gddr5x
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and 180 W listed power with a single eight ping connector that's the most
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impressive part to me like how they're able to go from having this car that uses so
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much power like a like a Titan X it's hot and it's loud and it can use a lot
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of power but it's it's really fast I've gone down to a single yeah that's just
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well I jokingly tweeted during the event you know that I personally I don't care
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about power consumption give me all the FPS I'm okay with a power hog um but
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this is this might be the first time where I'm actually excited about the TDP
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reduction because I with obviously with three Titan Nexes and a water loop and
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massive radiators I still deal with a lot of heat and any any amount of heat
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that I can reduce now I is only bonus
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yeah and you said the event like when when they're doing that whatever demo
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that was where they were just spitting around the guy and whatnot um that was
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only running at 67° yeah when they brought up Precision
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X overlay um it showed
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2114 MHz which we are we are kind of
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speculating that's going to be like the founders Edition yeah the founder card
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um but at at and memory was overclocked to
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11,6 yeah effective 11,000 11,000 sorry
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11, MHz R5 like just considering
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potential overclocks for whatever the
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found like we don't know yet either we don't know if what we're shown is a
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Founders Edition yet right we're speculating just because of how far
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percentage wise that is but so much Headroom like 16 to 1700 MHz Basin boost
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but up to over 2,000 and this is fairly
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early and then what like we're talking about before what they showed us we
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don't know if that's if the fers Edition has two Ain connectors that haven't said
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anything about the temperature shown was 67 C so unless they had this thing with
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like some sort of an air conditioner blowing directly on it yeah what the f
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is up with that temperature and that overclock yeah and like we're in Texas
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so it's not like it was almost 90° to you're sunburned I'm super sunburned and
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like wow okay that's pretty bad what do you guys think aesthetically of the C
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because going into this the the photos that we saw from the like whatever
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Factory that it leaked from and then the leak they had the leak they had looked
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way like I thought there was going to be
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massive cut in chunks and stuff it's
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actually somewhat subtle what you a lot less Transformers life it looks like I
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was waiting for that to like just transform but it looks way cleaner I
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feel like clean I feel like I would have liked to have seen a more radical cooler
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design change since it's such a radical new new innovation for them in terms of
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16 NM you know um I I think we've kind
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of the cooler I'm disappointed in I like the new angles and stuff hopefully maybe
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that'll allow some more air to get in there for you know reference style multi
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you know GPU configs uh but I don't know
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we've seen the same cooler now for like four years a long time all right guys
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hopefully you enjoyed that it is 3:30 in the morning and I haven't even started
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editing this yet and I have to wake up at
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6 how is that going to work I'm probably not going to sleep
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anyways I'm going to release another video tomorrow with probably more
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in-depth like Hands-On stuff about the different Technologies and stuff that
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they talked about hopefully I can get more information on the founders Edition
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