Nvidia announces Geforce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 - faster than GTX Titan X

It has been a long journey full of rumors. The district name Pascal was already revealed in 2014, and in the last six months, new information has been pouring in. Now, however, it’s finally time for a new generation of graphics cards, and first out is Nvidia.

During Dreamhack Austin in Texas, USA, the company takes the opportunity to show two graphics cards – Geforce GTX 1070 and Geforce GTX 1080. Common denominators are above all the circuit GP104 in the Pascal family, a replacement for GM204 from generation Maxwell.

The new architecture has been honed on several levels and, according to Nvidia, provides better performance per CUDA core and record high energy efficiency. A big news is that the production takes place with a 16 nm FinFET process, which allows Nvidia to pack the 7.2 billion transistors in GP104 almost twice as tightly as in its predecessor Maxwell.

	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	GTX 980 Ti	GTX 980	GTX 970
Technical	16 nm FinFET	16 nm FinFET	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
GPU	GP104	GP104	GM200	GM204	GM204
Transistors	7,2 md	7,2 md	8 md	5,2 md	5,2 md
Computational power	9,0 TFLOPS	6,5 TFLOPS	5,6 TFLOPS	4,6 TFLOPS	3,9 TFLOPS
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
CUDA cores	2 560 st.	2 048 st.	2 816 st.	2 048 st.	1 664 st.
Bass frequency	1 607 MHz	–	1 000 MHz	1 126 MHz	1 050 MHz
Turbo frequency	1 733 MHz	–	1 075 MHz	1 216 MHz	1 178 MHz
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	384-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	10 012 MHz	8 000 MHz	7 012 MHz	7 000 MHz	7 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s	256 GB/s	336,6 GB/s	224 GB/s	224 GB/s
Power supply	8-pin	8-pin	6+8-pin	6+6-pin	6+6-pin
Outputs	3 st. DP 1.4 1 st. HDMI 1 st. DVI-I	3 st. DP 1.4 1 st. HDMI 1 st. DVI-I	3 st. DP 1.2 1 st. HDMI 1 st. DVI-I	3 st. DP 1.2 1 st. HDMI 1 st. DVI-I	3 st. DP 1.2 1 st. HDMI 1 st. DVI-I
TDP	180 W	150 W	250 W	165 W	148 W
Approximate price	6,100 kr	3,900 kr	Deleted	Deleted	Deleted

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First out is the Geforce GTX 1080, which uses all 2,560 CUDA cores in the GP104. The model gets a base frequency of 1,607 MHz and a turbo frequency of 1,733 MHz – a real step up from the Geforce GTX 980 in generation Maxwell. When overclocking, frequencies a bit above the 2 GHz line are fully possible with only air cooling according to Nvidia, which was also demonstrated during the event.

The graphics circuit is flanked by 8 GB GDDR5X memory at 10 GHz on a 256-bit bus, for a bandwidth of 320 GB / s. The total computing capacity is set at 9.0 TFLOPS – significantly higher than 6.14 TFLOPS for the current flagship Geforce GTX Titan X. Geforce GTX 1080 has a TDP value of 180 watts, where extra power is provided via a single 8-pin PCI Express.

Next up is the Geforce GTX 1070, the successor to today’s best-selling GTX 970. Nvidia keeps the clock frequencies to itself, but like its big brother, it’s GP104 – though scaled down to 2,048 CUDA cores. The circuit is flanked by 8 GB of GDDR5 memory at 8,000 MHz for a bandwidth of 256 GB / s.

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The total computing capacity is set at 6.5 TFLOPS – just over 6.14 TFLOPS for the GTX Titan X. The Geforce GTX 1070 has a stated TDP value of 150 watts, where extra power is provided via a single 8-pin PCI Express.

Other news include technology Simultaneous Multi Projection, which allows graphics cards in the Pascal family to render different views of the same scene. The purpose is above all VR – to be able to show separate images for the left and right eye with high performance. In total, Nvidia believes that the Geforce GTX 1080 will be up to three times more powerful in VR compared to the direct predecessor GTX 980.

Nvidia is also taking the opportunity to launch the new SLI bridge SLI HB, with double bandwidth compared to the equivalent for generation Maxwell. According to the company, this means better performance scaling with more graphics cards. However, the SLI HB is only compatible with the Geforce GTX 1080 – the scaled-down GTX 1070 continues to use the standard bridge from previous generations.

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Both newcomers come in Nvidia’s recent reference design under the name Founder’s Edition. This includes an updated cooler with a more angular look, as well as connections in the form of a single HDMI 2.0b, a single DVI connector and three Displayport 1.4 – the latter with capacity for 4K UHD resolution in 120 Hz.

Geforce GTX 1080 launches it May 27. The recommended price tag is 599 dollars, corresponding to approximately 6,100 kronor including VAT. The special variant Founder’s Edition goes for $ 699, equivalent to approximately SEK 7,100 including VAT.

Little brother Geforce GTX 1070 launches it June 10. The recommended price tag is 379 dollars, corresponding to approximately 3,900 kronor including VAT. The special variant Founder’s Edition goes for 449 dollars, corresponding to approximately 4,600 kronor including VAT.