Nvidia formally announces GTX 1000-series GPUs

[OWGKID]

Nvidia's CEO announced the GTX 1000 GPUs (feat. the GTX 1080) at Dreamhack, Austin, Texas on 6th May. The GTX 1080 will be available in two editions, the standard (599$) and "Founder's edition" (699$) on May 27th.

GTX 1080 specs:

• 16 nm FinFET process
• 8 GB GDDR5X memory (10 Gbps)
• 1600 MHz core clock @ 180 W
• Can run at 2000 MHz with just 67 C ???
• 2560 CUDA cores along with improved asynchronous compute capability
• 9 TFLOPS compute capability

GeForce GTX 1080 article

[Art Blade]

now we need games that support those specs and then we need to buy one of those cards. Or two. :-D

[nexor]

"We" !!! ???  :o

The 900 Series already cost about 7 Thousand....   :-\\

[OWGKID]

 Aww, that's bad :-\\ Do you need a GPU upgrade Nex?

[Binnatics]

I love it when they start to talk about teraflops ^-^

That sounds just so gawd-daimn-nerdy! to me >:D

[OWGKID]

 :-D

[Art Blade]

 :-D

[OWGKID]

The "Big Pascal" (likely a Titan successor will have up to 1Tb/s memory speed)  :o

[nexor]

Aww, that's bad :-\\ Do you need a GPU upgrade Nex?

Yeah, like I need a sore tooth  :-(

[OWGKID]

Maybe the prices will drop ;)

[PZ]

My 980 which felt so new, seemingly so recently, now feels like an old sock needing replacement.  8-X

Just kidding - I'll beat this one to death until a game I want comes out it can't handle.

[nexor]

I just checked my supplier's pricelist on the ASUS® GeForce® GTX 980 Ti GPU, and as a re-seller I pay ZAR 12 346.00 excluding 14% VAT
Re-sellers are allowed up to 20% mark-up which put's it around ZAR 17 000.00 including VAT   :o
Can you imagine what the GTX 1080 is gonna cost   ???? ????

[Binnatics]

Strange Nex; a good asus GTX980 Ti costs like 12400 ZAR overhere ???? (well, in euros of course but after the exchange calculations :-D)

[fragger]

We're gonna get gouged again... The "standard" GTX 1080 is expected to retail for about AUD $1,000, which equates to around US $737. Why do we have to pay so much more? One word: "government". Another word: @#$%&.

I won't be in a position to inflict that level of hurt on my wallet for a while, not for a frivolous computer component that I can get by without.

Hopefully the prices won't take too long to drop. I'm still using my ageing GForce GT 545, but it actually serves me surprisingly well, considering.

[nexor]

That's just problem fragger, the price never drops, and it'll be out dated by the time one can afford to buy it   :o

[Art Blade]

"outdated" is relative. If you buy that card when you can afford it, just buy games from the same time and you'll be on top of it all.  :)

[mandru]

This happens every time I buy a new top of the line card.  ::)

[nexor]

Mostly I try to get a card that's about midway, still affordable and can manage some high tech games.

[Art Blade]

this time is the first time I got a somewhat good card while it was recent (GTX980).

[OWGKID]

...we need to buy one of those cards. Or two. :-D

SLI monster? Sounds great  :-D >:D

[nexor]

Don't know how cost of living in Europe would compare to South Africa Art, but a ASUS GeForce GTX 980 GPU card is priced at  ZAR 13,400.00 which is a big bite out of the pocket when the average salary is around ZAR 40,000.00 pm, specially if one has to replace it every time the devs design a new Hi-tech game
just to give you an idea, the latest cheapest 2016 Toyota Corolla 1.3 is priced at ZAR 280,000.00
and an average 3 bedroom house in a middle class neighbourhood will cost about ZAR 1,500.000

[Art Blade]

nexor, it's hard to come by those numbers for Germany but I found a GTX980 costs around 500€ and our average monthly net wages in 2015 were 2,225€ and that Toyota ranges at around 8,500€. Average prices for a house cannot easily be estimated as we have a wide range. For instance, I found a number for average rents per square metre of 8€ while around where I live it's more like 14€, making a 3-bedroom house (erm, are there additional living rooms or do you live in bedrooms?  :-() ) a tad hard to calculate. Let's say in a middle class area, a 3-room flat with 100m² was comparable in size to your example, we'd pay 800€ on average but here (or, "in big cities") we pay 1,400€. Those rents may vary greatly. A rule of thumb is that you should spend no more than 1/3 of your income on housing if you have a car but obviously may spend more if you don't own a car. So generally speaking, I think your numbers compare to ours except you seem to pay a hell of a lot more for that car. Around twice as much in absolute numbers (if you ignore the currency but compare the price to the average income)

I think you produced a typo regarding that house for "1,500.000" -- there is one digit too many after the decimal point. I don't think it's 1,500.00 so is it 15,000.00 more like? That's what I assume.

edit: Unless you meant buying a house, here the price for buying is 1,000 times the renting price per square metre given in my example. Which is why I rent rather than buy. If I were to buy my flat, it would mean that I would have to spend around 80 years living in it at a monthly rent of 1/1000 the price per m² I bought it for until I payed it off completely. Which is ridiculous :)

[nexor]

Just saw an add for a house, 3 Bedrooms, kitchen, TV Room and dining area,
the house is 238m2 and the stand 444m2, the house is inside a "secure complex"
or a cluster of which you don't own the stand Price, ZAR 1,900,000.00

[Binnatics]

This year they will sell the most expensive Penthouse ever in Amsterdam. Price; €25.000.000,- which would be ZAR427.292.067,29 :-D

[nexor]

Darn it, and I just bought a new jet!!    :-D