re: Nvidia 1080 & 1070

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980Tis for $550

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I'll sell 2x980Tis with EK WBs/BPs for $500/ea. Serious talk.

Edt: New Low Price!

How many of you bitching about Nvida's practices own a damn iPhone? Apple does the same shite yet I bet you give them a pass.

Android.

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Just ordered two for trials here in the office..we've been using the 980 on a few machines, but for that price point we might go mass upgrade

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Using gaming cards for Autodesk Suite apps?

Yeah if you don't need double-precision FPU performance, it doesn't matter.

Looks like some reviews are in and all of the sites are using even more hyperbole than the folks at the Nvidia presentation.

PC Gamer

"If you're a gamer looking for something that will handle 4K gaming at nearly maxed out quality, the GTX 1080 is the card to get. Or if you want a GPU that has at least a reasonable chance of making use of a 1440p 144Hz G-Sync display, or a curved ultrawide 3440x1440 100Hz display, again: this is the card to get. It delivers everything Nvidia promised, and there's likely room for further improvements via driver updates—this is version 1.0 of the Pascal drivers, after all."
Check out the full PC Gamer review

Anandtech

"I think it's safe to say that NVIDIA intends to start off the 16nm/14nm generation with a bang. As the first high-end card of this generation the GTX 1080 sets new marks for overall performance and for power efficiency, thanks to the combination of TSMC's 16nm FinFET process and NVIDIA's Pascal architecture. Translating this into numbers, at 4K we're looking at 30% performance gain versus the GTX 980 and a 70% performance gain over the GTX 980, amounting to a very significant jump in efficiency and performance over the Maxwell generation."
See the Anandtech GTX 1080 preview

Engadget

"If you have the cash, and need the most powerful video card on the market, you can't go wrong with the GTX 1080. It's built precisely for the things gamers are focused on today: 4K and VR. It's not just an incremental upgrade for NVIDIA: It's a dramatic leap forward."
Read more in the full Engadget review

Tom's Hardware

"Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 delivers incredible performance at a particularly opportune time. While the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and its principal competition, AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X, both achieve playable frame rates at 4K, they still force you to either compromise quality or add a second GPU for the kind of performance high-end gamers want to see."
Check out the Tom's Hardware review

Eurogamer

"From our perspective, the big takeaway is this: Titan X and its cheaper GTX 980 Ti counterpart are still monstrously fast gaming GPUs. They're the cards we've gone to for testing when we need what seems like a bottomless pit of graphics power. If the upcoming GTX 1070 is priced correctly and offers equivalent performance, we're in for a real treat. But the GTX 1080 isn't just a little faster - it's a lot faster. And assuming its simultaneous multi-projection technology is indeed integrated into upcoming VR titles, the performance increase there could very well match the 2x Titan X claims that Nvidia made at its recent press event."
See more in the full Eurogamer review

Ars Technica

"And yet, the high-water mark by which we must judge the GTX 1080 is set by Nvidia. The 1080 is good value, because the Titan X and 980 Ti were so expensive to begin with. The performance gains are excellent, because there's no company around that can (currently) challenge them. For all the innovation that's been put into the 1080, for all the hard work that's gone into its design—and I don't doubt for a moment that a lot of hard work has been put into it—it's hard to shake the feeling that, if there were true competition at this level, we'd be looking at a very different product to kick off the 16nm generation."
Check out the full Ars Technica review

I'm sure some AMD site will try and find flaws but so far, those are some top notch reviews. Haven't had a chance to look at any of the actual data yet.

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"If you're a gamer looking for something that will handle 4K gaming at nearly maxed out quality, the GTX 1080 is the card to get.

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AMD is crap as long as optimization Favors Nvidia/Intel.