GTX 1080 Overclocking

[Vaporizer]

Lets not forget he is not using the card in a case while doing this. Just think how bad the temps will be in a case, those setting he did will not really work and he only did it for a short time. Who only games for 5mins?

Benchmarkers from Review sites are only gaming 2-5 Minutes per GFX card. So this is a very relevant peer group that sells your cards with the data they produce.

 

[Silverforce11]

I think this whole backlash would be much less if JHH did not stand on stage and say things like:

"65C, cool as a cucumber!" or "crazy good over-clocker". I'm sure it's his job to hype it up, but it gave people the wrong expectations (Joe Macri moment anyone?).

It's clearly not 65C and the inability to hold it's boost clocks for longer than 10 minutes is not a good over-clocker by any standards, yeah, even compared to Fury X's crap OC, at least it doesn't throttle it's OC clocks after a short while.

However, I expect it to sell out anyway so it doesn't really matter. $ talks and NV is great at making $ by getting gamers to ditch out a premium for what is just a standard (sub standard even) reference card..

@Vaporizer
Your point is very valid, how benchmark sites get their data could be very misleading, as gamers read the reviews and expect a certain level of performance. Such as the 1080 boosting to 1.89ghz for the first few minutes of a benchmark, to throttling down to 1.62ghz after a short gaming session. The potential performance delta is huge. It's something review sites need to be more careful with.

 

[CrazyElf]

Another example is the MSI Lightning boards..

Reference designs have historically contained 6 high quality phases. NVIDIA have just dropped this down to 5.

I'm actually wondering if we will have a situation like Fermi, where on the GTX 570, the VRMs on the reference board were known to blow. Perhaps the maximum current on the Mosfets is why they limited the power draw?


For anyone interested, the EVGA GTX 1080 Classified:

Unlike the Founder's edition, this PCB is actually worth paying a premium over. Those are DirectFET Mosfets - not just more phases, but better quality.


Still, it's best to wait if you can for Vega and large Pascal (especially the cut down version).

I suspect that because these Nvidia GPUs don't have a hardware scheduler and true async, AMD's GPUs this time will age better.