Next Gen Nvidia Cards.

[Arkanna]

Thank you so much. I'm hype as shit about these cards. I haven't been this excited... shit... since the old 8800GTX cards, and you remember how fucking beastly those were back then.

Card arrived yesterday and I installed it last night.

I chose the 1070 card I got because I wanted a blower-style cooler without going with a FE card. My case is small so I want the heat exhausted out the back, rather than left in the case. I was concerned about the noise from the fan, but until about 70% fan speed, it's quieter than my case fans. Even at 100% fan speed, the noise isn't that bad. I decided on keeping it at 80% max under load. This keeps the GPU temp around 72-74C under load.

I played The Division for like 4 hours last night. I used to think my 970 was good enough for this game at 1440p. But then I started playing with rogue groups and my FPS would drop heavily in big pvp fights, so I dropped all settings to Medium. This provided enough frames and the game still looked good so w/e. Well, the 1070 has made Ultra settings liquid-smooth at 1440p. I don't want to commit to a before-and-after number, but it feels like my FPS easily doubled.

So, after one day of use, I'm really happy with the purchase so far. I'll be replaying DA3 and Witcher 3 at some point, due to the increased performance. Now, I just need to figure out how I'm gonna get out of the wife's doghouse!

[Kalmado]

Buy her a 1070 too.

[DrClout]

"Bae, I know you're upset but I got you dis!! Yo FPS gonna be 2 stronk!"

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[Arkanna]

Does nVidia make a 1070 vibrator?

[DrClout]

Possibly only at 100% fan speed

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[Melena]

Has any benchmarks on the 480 come out yet?

[Arkanna]

There have been leaks for a couple of weeks now but nothing official that I've seen yet. NDA lifts this week.

[Zetanio]

NDA lifts tomorrow IIRC.

[Jamison]

From what I've read many (most?) of the leaks are with unofficial drivers, too.

[haroldsaxon]

NDA lifts tomorrow IIRC.

I thought it was the 30th

[DrClout]

It's releasing tomorrow. I'm still debating if I should cop 1 of these or the 1070

[Gryffes]

Wait and see what the benchmarks are like tomorrow.
This is gonna be the $/performance king and the go to for 1080p gaming.
If you want 1440p or above then probably a 1070.

[DrClout]

Even though I'm coming from a 560ti, it did have bare minimum 1080p power. I'm looking to get into the 1440p range.

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[Prothescar]

8GB version $269.99 for OC'd reference model. Already sold out on Newegg

[Zetanio]

Review on YouTube released early and it looks pretty weak even for the price point.

[Krandor]

While the 970 it's being compared to is heavily overclocked, it's still a really bad look after previous "leaks" were implying performance around 390/980 level.

So disappointing, guess I'm going with team Green again unless something changes. NDA drops in half an hour.

Edit : Eh, it meets or beats the 390 in a fair number of benchmarks, but still gets stomped by the 980 in basically every benchmark.

[Zetanio]

Outside of a few edge cases it looks like the 980 crushes it by 20% or more FPS wise.

[Gryffes]

The review on youtube is iffy for more than a few reasons, gonna wait for some real benchmarks.

As I say that reviews are coming in:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10446/...x-480-preview/
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages...-review,1.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...s-10,4616.html
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/...eo_card_review

Seems to be that it's better than a 970 for DX12, even/ahead/worse depending on game for DX11.
Hohum.

[Krandor]

Jesus most of those are even worse.

I mean, I guess it's still achieving the goal of being a primarily 1080p focused value card, but those numbers are definitely lower then I would have expected considering DX 12 games are still far and few between.

[Gryffes]

Reading toms review at the end on power consumption makes me feel like this is a NOPE.
At least for a 6pin version it puts more load than it should through your motherboard. 8pin AIBs should be better.

Power usage eg.

390: 366W
970: 302W
480: 250W

Over 2-3 years of use the TCO on a 480 is going to be decent, and it's obviously the new miners card of choice.