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okay so in the last week Vince has been blowing up with news and videos geforce gtx 1080 and gtx 1070 breaking unfortunately I don't have a 1080 yet and like many of you will have to wait until the 27th of this month to purchase one it's expected that those who attended the press event last week in the US will be publishing their testing results next week so for now those interested in purchasing a 1080 later this month only having videos marketing material to go by while there is plenty of good info there some of them might be a bit misleading before getting into that let's look at the official specs of the 1080 surprisingly at its heart there are just 2560 cuda cores which is seventeen percent less than the titan x and nine percent less than the 980 TI it is however twenty-five percent more than the gtx 980 making up for a lack of course in the 1080 is the incredible frequency at which these cores operate when compared to the titan axon 980 TI the 1080 runs its cause at least 61 percent faster with a base clock speed of sixteen hundred and seven megahertz the 1080 can boost as high as 17 33 megahertz and that's again 61 percent higher than the previous flagship cards so with each core running around sixty percent faster you quickly begin to understand how the 1080 overcomes having seventeen percent fewer cause than the type NEX next we have the power efficiency this is an area where we're always expecting big things it's been four years now the GPU technology has been stuck on the 28 nanometer process with maxwell pushing that process to its limits with the titan x a reduction in die size down to 16 nanometers combined with less complex GPU design was always going to result in massive power savings I say less complex but it is worth noting that the transistor count stands at 7.2 billion which is ten percent less than the Titan X with thirty eight percent more than the standard GTX 980 the move to the 1600-meter FinFET process allows for the use of smaller faster transistors that can be packed together more densely more densely indeed is the 1080 die size is just 294 millimeters squared that's the same surface area is the gk104 die first used by the gtx 680 a GPU which house does 3.5 billion transistors less than half of that of the 10 d that really is impressive and it also means that the 1080 dies around half the size of the one featured on the tight next and the 980 TI although I don't know exactly how the 1080 will stack up against the existing max well we know that nad has been given a 180 watt TDP rating and a single 8pm power connector so we don't need to speculate too much here it's going to be highly efficient the next big thing to consider is the memory performance which has jump from 7 gigabits per second of the high-end Maxwell cards to 10 gigabits per second for the 1080 in video has achieved this forty three percent increase in memory throughput by opening for the new gddr5 X memory although the memory is faster the 384-bit memory bus of the titan next 980 TI has been downgraded to the same 256-bit bus used by the 980 this means that although the memory is operating considerably faster the 1080 is still limited to a 320 gigabyte per second memory bandwidth so while we do see a forty-three percent increase in bandwidth over the 980 the 1080 sees five percent less bandwidth in the Titan X and gtx 980 TI given its expected performance we can assume the 1080 is still going to be a bit star from memory bandwidth even with the gddr5 x memory with those key specifications in mind let's move on in video release a slide that caused a lot of stir and it showed the 1080 to have twice the performance of the Titan next while delivering three times the efficiency the slide could be a bit misleading however as it's comparing relative vr gaming performance and not typical gaming performance and video has made advancements with pascal over maxwell when it comes to be our rendering with technologies such as simultaneous multi projection so there are bigger gains to be had here therefore when it comes to traditional gaming on a 4k panel for example we don't expect the 1080 to deliver twice the performance of the type next that really would be something particularly given the core specifications instead I expected on average the 1080 will end up being somewhere around twenty to twenty-five percent faster than the tight next which will make it a great deal faster than in videos previous five hundred fifty dollar offering the gtx 980 so the 1080 might not be as fast as some would expect looking at in video slide but even so at twenty percent faster than the type next it's going to be a real beast anyway last but certainly not least there's the issue of the price this is something we already know for a fact the GTX 1080 will cost 600 us or will it custom designed cards from board partners such as they suit gigabyte an msi for example have a suggested retail price of six hundred dollars they should arrive soon after the initial release on the 27th however if you want to preorder the gtx 1080 you'll have to pay a rather hefty 100 dollar price premium for what is now known as a founders edition card there's been a great deal of confusion surrounding the founders edition namely to do with what it actually is in short the founders edition is merely a reference card you know those cards 99% of you have tried to avoid in the past well this time around and Vidya believes their design will be the best and would like to see it on sale for the life of the product at the same time and video doesn't want to compete directly with board partners which is why partners can sell their variants of the card for less if your videos sold their version at the same price as partners versions this would significantly impact the sales of partners and their relationship within video nevertheless it seems as though you'll only be able to purchase a founders edition card upon release in the 27th with Boyd partners restrained from selling anything else in the short term for me though next month's release of the geforce gtx 1070 you will be the one to watch the 1070 should deliver strong performance at a much more realistic price of three hundred and eighty dollars I'm expecting the 1017 to be a superb overclocker as well particularly once and videos board partners get their hands on it also around the corner AMD's pilaris GPUs which are expected to really heat up competition in the mainstream market so might pay to take a step back and wait not only for in videos board partners to release their cards but also to see where AMD has in store for us thanks for joining me for another episode of hardware inbox if you have any questions please leave them in the comments visit our website at hardware and box com I'll see you guys next time you