Geforce “Pascal” GTX 1080 in performance test

On the night before Saturday, Nvidia is expected to reveal details about the first consumer-oriented graphics cards with the architecture Pascal under the hood. Previous data points to the two models Geforce GTX 1080 and Geforce GTX 1070, where the former has now appeared in synthetic performance tests on the website Videocardz.

The figures come from Futuremark’s test suites 3DMark 11 and 3DMark, where the latter uses the Fire Strike subtest in the preset “Extreme” mode. Nvidia’s newcomer picks out a total score of 8,959 and a graphics score of 10,102. This can be compared to the company’s current worst Geforce GTX 980 Ti, which in the reference version lands around 7,900 graphics points – something that in practice gives Geforce GTX 1080 a performance advantage of just over 25 percent.

In addition to performance figures, the test also reveals certain specifications around the card, where, for example, the graphics processor’s turbo frequency amounts to a sky-high 1,860 MHz. In addition, it appears that the model is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR5X memory running at 5,006 MHz, which gives an effective clock frequency of 10,012 MHz. If previous data on a 256-bit wide memory bus is correct, the memory bandwidth of the Geforce GTX 1080 should be around 320 GB / s.

Leaky radiator design confirmed by Geforce.com

Earlier in the year, images were leaked of what were allegedly the housings for the cooling device on Nvidia’s upcoming graphics card – complete with model names on both cards. These were dismissed by many as false, but were later corroborated by further image leaks from other sources. Now Nvidia has, more or less, confirmed the new radiator design.

Ahead of tonight’s event, the company has updated Geforce.com with a completely new background image that shares many similarities with the previously leaked images on the cooling device, which indicates that the “stealth” -inspired design will be used on the new graphics cards.