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Are you buying a GTX 1070/1080?

Are you buying either the GTX 1070 or the GTX 1080?

  • Yes, a GTX 1080 for me.

  • Yes, a GTX 1070 for me.

  • No, and I'm not in the market for a new GPU anytime soon.

  • No, I plan to buy something else instead (please elaborate in thread).

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I'm gonna vote GTX 1070. If Polaris 10 can come close to it's performance for less, then I may go that route. I wanted a reference card, but not sure if I want to pay the premium.
 
Why no option for "I'm going to wait for benchmarks and decide then"?

I might buy a couple, depending on OC performance on water and the actual performance relative to GM200 in games. It will also depend if AIB partners have ref PCBs with their first custom cards. I'm not spending an extra $100 on a reference cooler just to toss it back in the box.
 
Too much conflicting info. How can anyone decide to buy 1070/1080 without independent, proper test reviews?
 
GTX1080, unless something odd happens with reviews the 17th. And since I own a MiniITX system it will obviously be a blower type card.
 
Nothing any time soon. I'll give my $700 per GPU to the big die, high end chips instead of buying the mid range 1080/1070.
 
I'm with the wait for real benchmark crowd.

I'm looking at new monitors currently.

Not shopping for me as I'm just going to advise my son on which gpu to purchase. He's in no real hurry so most likely a mid to late June purchase anyways. I'd imagine by that time we should have at least an idea of the new pecking order.
 
I was truly looking the cut-down GP104 which turned out to be the $449 1070. I was hoping that this would be around +20% of the 980ti for $300 which may seem like a lot but we jumped almost two full nodes so why would I expect less?

nVidia used to at least try to offer this kind of value..

The $300 8800gts was about 40% faster than the outgoing $500+7900gtx with just a half node jump.

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nVidia should be charging $300 for what we think may not even equal last gen's high end. I understand if we were on the same node but this is a cutdown chip that is almost half the size! all a node that is rumored to be getting great yields! It uses normal GDDR5 and a 256-bit bus.

A $300 1070 would have been fairly compelling but now i will be waiting to see what Polaris 10 can delivery under $300 as we have zero new cards to choose from the most popular price bracket on the planet.
 
Waiting for benchmarks and potentially Polaris. I prefer AMD because of Freesync so if Polaris 10 manages to be around 1070 performance then I'll get 2 of them. If not single 1080.
 
swilli89 said:
I was truly looking the cut-down GP104 which turned out to be the $449 1070. I was hoping that this would be around +20% of the 980ti for $300 which may seem like a lot but we jumped almost two full nodes so why would I expect less?

nVidia used to at least try to offer this kind of value..

The $300 8800gts was about 40% faster than the outgoing $500+7900gtx with just a half node jump.

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nVidia should be charging $300 for what we think may not even equal last gen's high end. I understand if we were on the same node but this is a cutdown chip that is almost half the size! all a node that is rumored to be getting great yields! It uses normal GDDR5 and a 256-bit bus.

A $300 1070 would have been fairly compelling but now i will be waiting to see what Polaris 10 can delivery under $300 as we have zero new cards to choose from the most popular price bracket on the planet.
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After the big chips land, we will look back at the 1070 with its old school DDR5 and it might look pretty anemic in hind sight. I get the feeling that card should have been a 1060ti or something.
 
moonbogg said:
After the big chips land, we will look back at the 1070 with its old school DDR5 and it might look pretty anemic in hind sight. I get the feeling that card should have been a 1060ti or something.
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Yeah man a 1060ti at $249-299 would have been sweet. Maybe they could've had the 1080 but with without the GDDR5X downclocked with less memory at $349 and the top end at $449.

Instead everything got pushed up two full benjamins.. that's like 3 or 4 full working days a minimum wage for us working folk 🙁
 
After using all GX104 chips in last 5 years and seeing how they loose performance over competition. i'm now ready for AMD, this will be the first time after 5770 i'll buy a new amd gpu. even if it performs a bit less there's 100% guarantee it will get better.

also i'm not a cow so i won't let nvidia milk me.
 
swilli89 said:
I was truly looking the cut-down GP104 which turned out to be the $449 1070. I was hoping that this would be around +20% of the 980ti for $300 which may seem like a lot but we jumped almost two full nodes so why would I expect less?

nVidia used to at least try to offer this kind of value..

The $300 8800gts was about 40% faster than the outgoing $500+7900gtx with just a half node jump.

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nVidia should be charging $300 for what we think may not even equal last gen's high end. I understand if we were on the same node but this is a cutdown chip that is almost half the size! all a node that is rumored to be getting great yields! It uses normal GDDR5 and a 256-bit bus.

A $300 1070 would have been fairly compelling but now i will be waiting to see what Polaris 10 can delivery under $300 as we have zero new cards to choose from the most popular price bracket on the planet.
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It's nice to reminisce, but those were the days of cheap and frequent node changes. Also, the introduction of unified shaders was, much like Ron Burgundy, "sort of a big deal."

The economic reality suggests that selling chips sized at or north of 300mm2 (at least early in the process cycle) at the margins that the stockholders of these companies demand requires retail prices north of $300. The speculation around Polaris 10 supports this -- 230mm2 chip for $300 or less.

I think the 1070 pricing foreshadows the performance and pricing of Polaris 10 . Assuming Nvidia has a general idea where Polaris 10 is going to wind up (seems pretty likely to me), the pricing of the 1070 indicates that Polaris 10 will not compete in 1070's performance range, but it will be close enough that Nvidia has to price the 1070 ($380) much lower than 1080.

TL-DR - This s**t is more expensive to make than it was in 2006.

That being said, unless the 1070 really sucks, I'll probably get one to replace my 970. I always want to get the x80, but I can never justify the ridiculous price premium.
 
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This node change should have been the biggest performance increase in history right from the start. After reading about pathetic +25% from Nvidia, and mid range Polaris I said fk it. I'm going balls deep into cheap used R9 Fury (will unlock it to Fury X or be a miserable peasant) and I'm not getting milked every year for a mere +20%.

Will jump for Vega in 1,5-2 years but ONLY if Polaris will be in Playstation 4.5. Otherwise I may not even bother - will still have a good card if it goes 20% per year.
 
moonbogg said:
After the big chips land, we will look back at the 1070 with its old school DDR5 and it might look pretty anemic in hind sight. I get the feeling that card should have been a 1060ti or something.
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Oh yes This GTX1070 is 100% renamed 1060TI.Old DDR5 and not DDR5x and 2048 or less SP so it will be just overclocked GTX980.Very very very disappointing.
It is overpriced at 450USD and performance will be pretty bad compare to GTX1080.

I have GTX670 and 970 but i will not buy 1070 this time.I will wait for polaris 10 or vega this time.
 
I am waiting for reviews of both companies' cards.
 
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