There has been a lot of rumors about Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080's reviews. For weeks now, news about it circulates the Internet world, which made a lot of anticipation from the gamers and enthusiasts. Some group of people even made successful reviews that really enticed them to pre-order and have some for their own even if the unit is not yet on the market. Well, here is news that puts extra excitement to those who are following Nvidia's fastest GPU ever made.
According to a post via Forbes, Nvidia claimed that GeForce GTX 1080 is the new king because of its impressive generational leap that is incredible on its own. The GeForce GTX 1080 consistently outpaces the Titan X by a significant margin. Its clock speed is 42 percent faster than that of the GTX 980. The GTX 1080 has a base clock of 1607 MHZ, while the GTX 980 has 1216 MHZ. Talking about the 3D MARK FIRE STRIKE benchmarking, it shows that the GTX 1080 is the best compared to the GTX 980, the Titan X and AMD's Radeon Fury X -- outperforming each by 52 percent, 17 percent and 23 percent, respectively. See the figure comparison here. Read also here.
According to Gamespot, the GeForce GTX 1080 uses a new video RAM built by Micron. It is called GDDR5X-the fastest GDDR memory on the market to date. It also uses Nvidia's new Pascal architecture. This means that it is the company's most efficient architecture to date. The new 16nm FinFet production process allows the card's clock to run really high. It also uses 8GB that is doubled than that of the GTX 980.
According to Anandtech, Nvidia is stretching out its launching of the GTX 1080 a bit more. The launching will be on May 27. This makes it more interesting. The anticipation creates that great excitement.
