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Hi,

Tried to find any thread on the new Nvidia cards but nothing came up, so sorry if it's already being discussed somewhere.

The new 1080 Ti cards from Nvidia look very juicy. Especially if you are in to gaming as well. I was just wondering how safe it
is to preorder these. I know a lot of 1080 owners had to wait a while before their cards would work in Octane but since it
is already supporting the Pascal cards I'm figuring the 1080 Ti will work. True or false? I am going to keep one of my 980 Ti cards
in my machine just to be safe.

I heard some rumours here on the board a while ago that better support/performance for the Pascal cards will come in the next big Octane
update. Can't find a legit source for it though (aoktar or Otoy) so was also wondering on the stats of that.

Cheers

1080Tis basically TitanX - both cards based on the same chip, but new card has less vram, bit better cooling. 1080Ti should be compatible right away with some simple driver update. Optimizations are already done, OctaneRender was rewritten to take advantage of Cuda8, gains are very minimal, but..then if You compare speed of the card using PT kernel, new Pascal cards fly on it! All in all 1080Ti is great card offering great value 7 as mentioned if You're into games that's something worth amount nvidia asks for it - overall most of us were expecting that card to be at least 100 or 200$ more expensive.

Sounds good. I'll do the upgrade then once the non reference cards start popping up.

Tnx!

why non reference?

Hi,
I am wondering if The 1080(ti) reference cards will to be used sticking them with 2,3 or 4 on a mobo without any slot space berween them? Ofcourse it is allways better to have a slot spaced for the airflow, but some cards can perform well sticked together like the 'old' 580 classified, and I also see configs on youtube with 4 cards, like this vid below with quad 980, but these are no reference cards.
@Chrmez, The 980Jetstream card sounds like a card that might be able to be spaced close to each other.. Do you or have you tried?
I used to have triple 780ti spaced together but the temps got too high, so I needed to seperate them with slot space.
Cheers

rappet wrote:Hi,
I am wondering if The 1080(ti) reference cards will to be used sticking them with 2,3 or 4 on a mobo without any slot space berween them?

Is stacking GPUs side by side generally safe if they're all hybrids?

puppydust wrote:

rappet wrote:Hi,
I am wondering if The 1080(ti) reference cards will to be used sticking them with 2,3 or 4 on a mobo without any slot space berween them?

Is stacking GPUs side by side generally safe if they're all hybrids?

hybrids work flawless side by side, reference cooler equipped cards good enough, while non reference (dual triple fan versions) with chunky backplates are really struggling to keep without throttling (efectivelly loosing render speed).

glimpse wrote:why non reference?

In the past they have been faster, better cooling and cheaper. There's really no reason to go reference unless you want a blower style card
or you just want to be first.

Just checked eBay and more used 980Ti Hybrids are popping up, presumably because of the 1080Ti announcement.. they can be had for as little as US$370 or so.

Been trying to find performance data for 1080ti, this is the only thing i can find

https://vk.com/octanerender?z=photo-179 ... 3_00%2Frev