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On hand to talk about the new graphics card, answer questions about technologies in the GeForce family including Pascal, SLI, VR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection and more will be Tom Petersen, well known in our community. We have done quite a few awesome live steams with Tom in the past, check them out if you haven't already.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Live Stream
10am PT / 1pm ET – May 17th
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UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! This just in fellow gamers: Tom is going to be providing two GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards to give away during the live stream! We won't be able to ship them until availability hits at the end of May, but two lucky viewers of the live stream will be able to get their paws on the fastest graphics card we have ever tested!! Make sure you are scheduled to be here on May 17th at 10am PT / 1pm ET!!
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fully support H.265? y didn’t
fully support H.265? y didn’t add 8GB VRAM on previous GTX 980?
same reason why 780TI 6GB
same reason why 780TI 6GB does not exist despite there is 780 6GB.
Ask him about what Jen Hsun
Ask him about what Jen Hsun told him backstage and whether he was drunk that day.
Also aboit memory bandwidth and possible bottlenecking and higher gddr5x speeds not being used.
Ask him about what makes him
Ask him about what makes him smile more: the raging nVidiot haters number or the nVidia sales number. :o)
Why does nVidia try to
Why does nVidia try to prevent their cards from running in a virtualized environment? (google “gpu passthrough code 43 error”). There are users who want to do just that, take advantage of the capabilities of modern Intel hardware to game in Windows without having to dual boot.
I know, it’s a small subset of linux users, themselves a small subset of all nVidia customers, but that’s just the point: why persist in annoying even a small fraction of your customers? What’s there to gain?
Are those cards consumer
Are those cards consumer cards, and if so, maybe it’s just Nvidia doing/pulling an Intel, and not wanting users to use GPU virtualization features in the consumer variants. Maybe Nvidia wants that ability reserved for its pro variants that cost more money. That’s classic market segmentation as practiced by a large interest with a large market share.
If you are talking about using Xen/KVM/other Linux based VM software/hypervisor packages and being able to use them on any CPU with the hardware ability to run VM software facilities like Xen/KVM then it sounds more like a GPU driver problem/pull request for the Linux/Kernel or respective VM software facility maker’s code maintainers!
Please note that modern Firepro/Quadro SKUs are getting the same CPU like virtualization functionality into their respective GPUs micro-architectures, and even some PowervVR variants are getting the same virtualization technology to allow multiple OS, and software, instances to obtain virtualized slices of the GPU to have all to themselves!
That passthrough code 43 error looks like a problem for windows 10/earlier and Linux based VM software. So a driver/other bug!
Question:
Will the new High
Question:
Will the new High Bandwidth SLI bridge also work on older generation cards? Or is it exclusively for Pascal.
Thanks
Question:
Will nVidia make an
Question:
Will nVidia make an offer to buy the CPU business (without foundries) of AMD? It could be an opportunity to enter the processor market for cheap while AMD overneed cash to survive for the next 6 months.
Thanks.
One question:
1. Will
One question:
1. Will ‘Simultaneous Multi-Projection’ be added to Maxwell / Kepler? Time frame ?
PS: It is likely to be only driver level support, and i am interested if current users will be able to benefit from it. Things like VR boost, Surround monitor, mixed resolutions, are relevant now. Those 970, 980 and SLI’s are not going anywhere in a hurry. While the WANT factor is big for Pascal, the NEED factor is not, especially if you game on 1080p or 1440p.
I understand that it is bad business model, but so is loosing loyalty of customers. I may just ignore those 15 FPS in the benchmark next time, and vote with my wallet more wisely.
insight: this card is only
insight: this card is only ~20%-25% max faster than a 980Ti in all but VR it seems. again, ask why they went with AMD marketing.
thanks
The A&E firm I work for uses
The A&E firm I work for uses Oculus Rifts to do customer walk throughs of buildings we have designed in Revit. Currently we are using the same towers we design on (i.e. Quadro GPUs). Do you think it makes sense to have purpose built VR Machines for demos? Quadro doesn’t push VR in any of it’s marketing. So in short how does the VR performance of a 1080 compare to something like an M2000 or M4000 series card?
1. When Nvidia launch G-sync
1. When Nvidia launch G-sync 2 where both ULMB and G-sync can work at the same time?
2. Does Simultaneous Multi-Projection work with different curved screens 21:9/16:9 and two monitor setup?
Thanks.
I still don’t understand the
I still don’t understand the pricing. Is $699 the new standard price of the GTX1080? That’s $50 more than 980ti. Is this the way of Nvidia’s new pricing structure?
How is Async compute gonna be
How is Async compute gonna be supported this time?
same as last time, driver support?
or is there a new hardware block that we don’t know
Not sure how to word this
Not sure how to word this properly
1080 uses GDDR5X – What is the anticipated impact of HBM to your current architecture and plans? Given the sizable increase of the performance of the 1080 over the 980, do you anticipate even greater gains with the adoption of HBM2?
I should be home unless
I should be home unless something changes before then.
” fastest graphics card we
” fastest graphics card we have ever tested!! ”
So this is faster than the Radeon Pro Duo??? Or did he mean fastest GPU?
Can you test and supply us
Can you test and supply us with some ethereum mining hashrates?
I’d like to know if Nvidia is
I’d like to know if Nvidia is putting any resources to OpenCL and better driver support for the 10 series.. Performance is lacking way behind Cuda…
ive failed on orderof10, i
ive failed on orderof10, i think ill be lucky here (>‿◠)✌
I’ve done good so far. The
I’ve done good so far. The puzzles that is. Winning the GTX 1080 would be sweet. I don’t mind the wait as it would arrive just in time everything settles down (hopefully).
I do wonder how well it would perform on a 3D HDTV while displaying in stereoscopic. I had to install some foreign drivers for my GTX 285M to work.
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Is Asynchronous Computing
Is Asynchronous Computing supported by the hardware or is just a new driver?
How much performance gain you have coming from a GTX 780 to 1080?
I’d be interested in info on
I’d be interested in info on mid range cards too like the 1060, but yea I guess they can’t talk about that yet.
Very happy with my GTX 960 4GB card. There is not much this card cannot do at 1080p.
I have two questions
I have two questions regarding simultaneous multi-projection.
Q1) How was the decision to only use four view port projections per eye (8 total) while approximating stereo VR arrived at when, according to the presentation, the cards support up to 16 view ports. It seems that 4 view ports will offer only a relatively crude approximation of the elliptical distortion of the lenses.
Additionally it results in the merge boundaries existing in a cross pattern bisecting both the vertical and horizontal axis of the observer.
Q1.a) Was this driven by a limitation that the view ports must use the same dimensions, resolution, and cover angles? If so it feels like a 2×3 wide aspect arrangement would offer a superior approximation. And depending on how it is supported opens the possibility of limited foveal rendering where the outter 4 view ports could be rendered with reduced quality (e.g. disable AA).
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Q1.b) If each view port can have its own resolution then an even better approach would be a 2, 3, 2 pattern.
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Q1.c) Perhaps it was a design decision to simplify implementation across a range of hardware, implying that lower end SKUs might not have support for 16 view ports but will at least retain support for 8? If this is the case could we possibly expect a driver update to support finer approximation patterns for different cards in the future?
Q2) Related to the above. My current surround setup if a 43″ 4K monitor flanked by a pair of 24″ 1920×1200 monitors in portrait, will mixed orientations/resolutions be supported?