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The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Review - Comment Thread

Dark Knight said:
Well Canada Computers already has it at about $999 (before taxes) for a pre-order which I am assuming is the Founders Edition and the 1070 for $799 (before taxes).
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God I really hope the GTX 1080 doesn't come in at $899CAD. I will not be very happy at all. That is some serious pillaging.
 
SKYMTL said:
Still working on it. I had a bunch of questions that needed to be answered before posting.
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Looking forward to more detail on this, particularly Fast Sync. I read about it here:
Hey World, Meet The New Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 | Gizmodo Australia
and it sounds like it's going to be available to older gen cards too. It sounds really good; low latency and no tearing same as pointed out in your graphical chart on the under construction part of the review. I look forward to your comments SKYMTL because it's confusing me where Fast Sync fits into the picture with G-Sync. It sounds like Fast Sync does what G-Sync does but on the video card. I didn't think that was an option which was why we got G-Sync/Freesync in the first place. If it does produce a similar result via the GPU itself where does that put spending more money on a monitor that has G-Sync if Fast Sync is coming to older cards too?

And on a purely aesthetic note... Am I the only one not crazy about the new shroud? I don't really like the angular design. I prefer the old straight streamlined one. Anyhoo :whistle:
 
Lysrin said:
And on a purely aesthetic note... Am I the only one not crazy about the new shroud? I don't really like the angular design. I prefer the old straight streamlined one. Anyhoo :whistle:
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I don't like it either especially seeing as how the previous shroud design was around ever since the GTX 690 and kept consistent with the GK110 series and Maxwell reference designs. From a purely aesthetic point of view it reminds me of an attempt to make it more futuristic or sophisticated as a design perhaps to differentiate it from the previous architectures.
 
Yeah, I really have to question the possibility of a $1K consumer card. We've had some pretty major price creep over the last decade when it comes to the top tier of single GPU offerings.

Going back all the way to the earliest available consumer PC products we've seen either price savings from one generation to the next or at the very least greatly increased performance at the same(ish) price point as previous generations, $1K is where a top of the line dual GPU offering belongs, not a single.
 
Well, the 1080 is a good upgrade for both my 290's. Heck, if the 1070 has most of the performance of the 1080 with at least $150 CAN difference - i can settle with that instead.

Although with my 290's, i can still rock QHD res with about 68+ fps(ish) on most games. The Crimson software is another story :angry2:


edit: QHD, not UHD
 
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Exellent review, thanks! This card looks to be an absolute beast!

This is going to bring on a glut of cheap 980ti's. I know the performance jump is there for the new cards, but I can't bring myself to spend $1000 on a video card anymore. Especially for 1440p, since a 980ti runs that resolution fantastically. And when you factor in a g-sync monitor... just too much money to drop on a new card right now.
 
Caldezar said:
Exellent review, thanks! This card looks to be an absolute beast!

This is going to bring on a glut of cheap 980ti's. I know the performance jump is there for the new cards, but I can't bring myself to spend $1000 on a video card anymore. Especially for 1440p, since a 980ti runs that resolution fantastically. And when you factor in a g-sync monitor... just too much money to drop on a new card right now.
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I think all we can do right now is wait until EVGA, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and so on come out with their customer cards to see where the pricing truly lies. Founder cards are a joke.
 
Hate said:
I've seen claims from several people online that the 1080 is priced at $1100 in Canada.
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Including Canada Computers with their preorder cost at $999. $1100 is approximately with taxes ($1128 with taxes included).
 
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