Pascal GP104 GPU is a beast
At its special Pascal press event which took place last night, Nvidia has officially unveiled its first Geforce graphics cards based on 16nm FinFET Pascal GP104 GPU, the Geforce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070.
Nvidia's new Pascal GP104 GPU packs a lot of punch, offering up to 9 TFLOPs of compute performance in the form of the Geforce GTX 1080 and featuring GDDR5X memory.
Specification wise, the Geforce GTX 1080 packs four graphics processing clusters (GPCs) with 2560 CUDA cores. The GPU runs at 1607MHz with GPU Boost set at 1733MHz. It is equipped with 8GB of GDDR5X memory. The memory is clocked at 2500MHz (10GHz effective) and with a 256-bit memory interface, adds up to a memory bandwidth of 320GB/s.
What makes the GTX 1080 so special is the fact that it offers the performance of two GTX 980 in SLI but has quite a low 180W TDP and needs only a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector. There is also quite a lot of overclocking headroom as Nvidia already demonstrated a GTX 1080 running at over 2100MHz on reference cooling so we are looking forward to custom factory-overclocked versions from Nvidia AIB partners.
The Geforce GTX 1080 also comes with three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b and one dual-link DVI outputs.
The Geforce GTX 1070 is a bit of a mystery as although it is based on the same GP104 GPU, it is still not clear on how many CUDA cores does it actually pack or the precise clocks. We do know it will be slower as its compute performance is set at 6.5 TFLOPs, which is significantly lower compared to 9 TFLOPs on the GTX 1080.
It also comes with 8GB of memory but a much slower GDDR5 memory, which should be clocked at 2000MHz (8GHz effective), although the precise memory clocks have not been unveiled.
According to Nvidia, the Geforce GTX 1070 ends up faster than the GTX Titan X graphics card, but we are yet to see any real world benchmarks.
According to Nvidia, the new Geforce GTX 1080 will be available on May 27th, with a price set at US $599 for the standard and US $699 for the Founders Edition. The Geforce GTX 1070 comes later, on June 10th, with a price set at US $379 and US $449 for the Founders Edition.
Hopefully we will be able to check out some real world benchmarks soon.
Source: Nvidia.com.
Nvidia's new Pascal GP104 GPU packs a lot of punch, offering up to 9 TFLOPs of compute performance in the form of the Geforce GTX 1080 and featuring GDDR5X memory.
Specification wise, the Geforce GTX 1080 packs four graphics processing clusters (GPCs) with 2560 CUDA cores. The GPU runs at 1607MHz with GPU Boost set at 1733MHz. It is equipped with 8GB of GDDR5X memory. The memory is clocked at 2500MHz (10GHz effective) and with a 256-bit memory interface, adds up to a memory bandwidth of 320GB/s.
What makes the GTX 1080 so special is the fact that it offers the performance of two GTX 980 in SLI but has quite a low 180W TDP and needs only a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector. There is also quite a lot of overclocking headroom as Nvidia already demonstrated a GTX 1080 running at over 2100MHz on reference cooling so we are looking forward to custom factory-overclocked versions from Nvidia AIB partners.
The Geforce GTX 1080 also comes with three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b and one dual-link DVI outputs.
The Geforce GTX 1070 is a bit of a mystery as although it is based on the same GP104 GPU, it is still not clear on how many CUDA cores does it actually pack or the precise clocks. We do know it will be slower as its compute performance is set at 6.5 TFLOPs, which is significantly lower compared to 9 TFLOPs on the GTX 1080.
It also comes with 8GB of memory but a much slower GDDR5 memory, which should be clocked at 2000MHz (8GHz effective), although the precise memory clocks have not been unveiled.
According to Nvidia, the Geforce GTX 1070 ends up faster than the GTX Titan X graphics card, but we are yet to see any real world benchmarks.
According to Nvidia, the new Geforce GTX 1080 will be available on May 27th, with a price set at US $599 for the standard and US $699 for the Founders Edition. The Geforce GTX 1070 comes later, on June 10th, with a price set at US $379 and US $449 for the Founders Edition.
Hopefully we will be able to check out some real world benchmarks soon.
Source: Nvidia.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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