Notiusweb wrote:1080 reasons disappointed in the 1080:
1) 8 GB Vram
2) SLI limitations
3) meh CUDA count
4) repeat 1-3, 360 times
let's counter argument for the sake of keeping conversation:
1. 8GB of vram is 2GB more than 980Ti or any other Titans You could buy in recent years, that mean,s You can power up screens (up to 4x 4K) & still use this card for render with the rest of 6GIgers on Your system
2. SLI limitations doesn't matter for us at all, & then nvidia do allow 4way SLI if You wish (I do not care about Your money & experience, considerign scaling is far from perfect on four or even three cards)
3. cuda count matters as clock speeds compensate performance. Looking from SP number standpoint, this card should be faster than 980TI for same, ..& still offer mroe vram (see note 1)
extra, bonus part, it will iuse less of power, require less connectors (only single 8pin)..so in the end..I see little to no point trashing this card for the sake of enjoyment =)
the problem with Pascal was that hype turned over itself, backfired & left some users unhappy, 'cos nvidia seems to overpromise & under-deliver. However it's first step & in Pascal & nvidia simply trying to buy time before releaseing trully new cards.
even if 1080 was simply shrinked Maxwell rather than trully Pascal based GPU it's still an achivement to meet performance of Higher end chip from previous architecture with entry/mid product here (AMD does the same by the way with their new release).
The msot interesting news comes from AMD though (& considerign the fact OctaneRender will run on AMDs hardware), that's what interests me most =) Team read jsut anounced card for ~200$ giving 5TFLOPs of performance (that's in the range of 980 or 1070) for half the price!
so the future of VR & the same GPU rendering is goign to be interesting..especially few months ahead =) as nvidia will be forced to lower the price if AMD is going to deliver what they are trying to do with their new release =)
