Nvidia unveils $699 GTX 1080 Ti

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groveChuck

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This looks like a pretty impressive card for the money. Or in general... :thumbup:

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, the new top consumer graphics card from Nvidia, will go on sale March 10 starting at $699.

Nvidia says the new card is 35 percent faster than the GTX 1080, and even faster than the company’s $1,200 Titan X.

The card features 3,584 CUDA cores and 11 GB of GDDR5X video memory running at 11 Gbps.

The card also reworks the already efficient cooling system found in previous GTX cards using a new high-airflow thermal solution.
Nvidia says that the card also has a new seven-phase power design with 14 high-efficiency dualFETs that deliver better power efficiency at the highest usage and power levels.


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Pre-orders on the Nvidia store begin March 2 at 8 a.m. PT. :grin:


http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/1/14775710/nvidia-gtx-1080-ti
 
It does look great, but I'm much more excited by AMD's new Ryzen processors: after so many years, it's great to have competition in the CPU market as well. Waiting for some Premiere benchmarks before I pull the trigger.
 
Agreed. AMD seems to have stepped up their game lately. Initial reports on the Ryzen seems fantastic, and I really hope the Radeon Vega graphics card will be competitive too. Great to have some competition again.
 
One issue with Ryzen to be aware of is that memory is limited to 64GB.
That may be sufficient for most situations but when you do heavy video processing with 4k and up it may become an issue.
 
The reviews are in (gaming tests at this point)

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,4972-8.html
What results is a card capable of smooth performance at 3840x2160, in many games with the quality settings max’ed out.
It tears through 1440p too, if you prefer gaming on a fast-refresh display, or want to give G-Sync a spin.
We have VR titles in the lab that cause a GTX 1070 to trip up. In time, they’ll start overwhelming 1080s as well, necessitating something like the 1080 Ti to maintain a constant 90 Hz.

When a room full of experienced reviewers hears a price that makes them all look at each other, muttering “wow,” then you know the product’s going to do well.
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers frame rates we could have predicted at a price that caught us by surprise.
Equally relevant is the pressure that 1080 Ti puts on the old guard. GeForce GTX 1080 cards are already selling for $500 online, and the Founders Edition board dropped to $550 on Nvidia’s own site. GeForce GTX 1070s aren’t any cheaper yet, but that move could be waiting in the wings once Radeon RX Vega makes itself known.

Oh, right. Vega. We already know so much about what AMD’s next-generation flagship can do. And yet we’re still waiting for some indication of what it can do.
It’s hard for us to imagine a scenario where Radeon RX Vega delivers notably better performance per dollar than what we just tested.
But we invite AMD to prove us wrong. Really. AMD, please.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-review/
Once again, Nvidia has the fastest gaming graphics card on the market. Of course, it already did in the form of the Titan X. And even if you wrote that off on account of its ludicrous price, the GTX 1080 was still faster than anything available from AMD.

That Nvidia released the GTX 1080 Ti when it had no competition on the market is either a sharp preemptive strike at AMD's upcoming Vega architecture (the word on the street is that it's performing almost as well as a GTX 1080), or an indication that AMD's development cycle is so far behind that it made more sense to just drive another nail into the coffin.
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Newegg had it for $699, but are already out of stock...https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...MATCH&Description=GTX+1080+Ti&N=-1&isNodeId=1
 
Cool stuff Chuck. I find Puget System's testing reports to be rather interesting, with tests that fit our needs. Here's a link to what they posted last week:

Premiere Pro CC 2017 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Performance

Introduction
Whenever a new product is launched, the main question everyone wants answered is exactly how well they perform in the specific applications they use. In the case of video cards like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, there are plenty of reviews available online but the majority focus on gaming and only perform token (if any) testing for professional applications like Premiere Pro.

To help you decide if the GTX 1080 Ti is a good choice to use in your Premiere Pro workstation we will be comparing it to the GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and Titan X video cards in a variety of tasks:

Rendering previews (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K H.264 (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K DNxHR HQ
Exporting to 8K H.265

If you would like to skip right to the conclusion section to see our final thoughts on the GTX 1080 Ti, feel free to do so!
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...017-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-11GB-Performance-912/
(spoiler: they like it).


And speaking of Ryzen:

Premiere Pro CC 2017 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X & 1800X Performance

There are a wide variety of tasks we could test in Premiere Pro, but in this article we will specifically be looking at:

Rendering previews (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K H.264 (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K DNxHR HQ
Exporting to 8K H.265
Performing a Warp Stabilize Analysis
[big snip]
Overall, our take on Ryzen for Premiere Pro is that while it presents some interesting opportunities and can be competitive with Intel for many tasks, it doesn't quite earn a place on our Premiere Pro recommended systems. This isn't to say that a Ryzen workstation might not be the right fit for you, but there are a couple of reasons that (right now) it just barely misses the mark for us:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...zen-7-1700X-1800X-Performance-909/#Conclusion

Not the final word. But a fairly informed word, I think...
 
Thanks for sharing Jim! That is super helpful.

I really wish the review benchmarked more than the 1080 series. It would be much more helpful to see how it compared to older GPUS such as GTX 970/980, all the way back to the 6xx series (670/680).

Hopefully they can publish some findings there!
 
filmguy123 said:
Thanks for sharing Jim! That is super helpful.

I really wish the review benchmarked more than the 1080 series. It would be much more helpful to see how it compared to older GPUS...
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Dig through their site (it's sensibly organized). You can find articles comparing the earlier (ie- non-Ti) 10xx series GPUs to earlier ones...I think with similar tests to the ones used in the articles linked above. And they you can extrapolate.

The Puget Sound articles and tests are good marketing for them. I just wish their workstations weren't so expensive...
 
Jim Feeley said:
And speaking of Ryzen:

Premiere Pro CC 2017 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X & 1800X Performance

There are a wide variety of tasks we could test in Premiere Pro, but in this article we will specifically be looking at:

Rendering previews (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K H.264 (standard and VR projects)
Exporting to 4K DNxHR HQ
Exporting to 8K H.265
Performing a Warp Stabilize Analysis
[big snip]
Overall, our take on Ryzen for Premiere Pro is that while it presents some interesting opportunities and can be competitive with Intel for many tasks, it doesn't quite earn a place on our Premiere Pro recommended systems. This isn't to say that a Ryzen workstation might not be the right fit for you, but there are a couple of reasons that (right now) it just barely misses the mark for us:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...zen-7-1700X-1800X-Performance-909/#Conclusion

Not the final word. But a fairly informed word, I think...
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It's great that Puget got to benchmark the ryzen processors, but I really have different views from them. They seem completely unconcerned by price.

They find that a $400 Ryzen matches the $1000 i7 6900K for rendering and exporting tasks, but AMD falls behind in warp stabilizer. I think that's a very nice result, and would never use it to conclude that Ryzen doesn't earn a place in my recommended systems.

In any case: they don't test how responsive Premiere is while actually editing. I can't buy Ryzen until I'm sure it's just as fast as a $400 intel processor while scrubbing in Premiere, with 4k H.264 footage (in my case, XAVC-S) and some GPU-accelerated effects applied.
 
^ Looks nice. Thanks!

(OK now I'm starting to look for excuses NOT to upgrade my workstation, the wallet burn is getting real!!) :)
 
The initial specs from the 1080ti are very impressive. I've got a Zotac 980ti AMP Extreme card and I think it might have to find a new home. Definitely going to wait for Zotac or another company to make one of their fancy special edition cards that have the engine running at a higher frequency than stock. Unfortunately, it looks like my Intel i7-5820k might now be a bottleneck.
 
Jim Feeley said:
Cool stuff Chuck. I find Puget System's testing reports to be rather interesting, with tests that fit our needs. Here's a link to what they posted last week:
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Great report, Jim. Thanks!

DLD said:
I hope Chuck doesn't mind shared spaces. So, as long as we're on the hardware talk, here's more info on Intel Optane SSD's which just began to ship in quantities.
https://arstechnica.com/information...ptane-ssd-375gb-that-you-can-also-use-as-ram/
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It's all about sharing info, and the more info, the better, right? If it's truly as fast as they claim, that's incredible!
Though at 375GB for $1520, well, let's wait for the price to come down a little...
I looked at OWC's SSDs on PCIe card a while back, but never got one.
 
groveChuck said:
... It's all about sharing info, and the more info, the better, right? .
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Nah, it's all about the yellow squares underneath our screen names.

Anywho, here's a piece on how Optane drives might be used along the traditional spinning hard drive discs.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/intel-optane-memory-hopes-aging-161504596.html

From I recall reading when Intel and Micron announced the technology, some high end camera manufacturers were seriously inquiring about it despite Intel/Micron's assertions that commercial applications would receive a priority. The X-Point performance seems to be for the short and high speed transfers of data rather than for the heavy number crunching server farms. If so, they might be tailor made for the next generation of the high end 8K cameras.

But I might need those with the greater knowledge of hardware to elucidate me on this further.
 
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