QOTW: What are your expectations of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti?

[spolsh]

I'm expecting even more hype before it launches ... and isn't as good as was suggested.

[will19565]

Fast, very fast.
Expensive, very expensive.

[SRPlus]

I'm sure the benchmarks will be impressive, but I use my system for 3D production rendering using GPU's not just for gaming, so when I upgrade my GPU's every 2 to 3 years, I want to make sure that the top end hardware goes into the system, so its still a top end system until the next big upgrade in 2 or 3 years time.

So I am going to pass on the GP104 and reluctantly wait for the fully loaded GP100 hopefully next year.

I already passed on upgrading my 4x Titans for Titan X's as it wasn't worth spending 4K just for a 46% performance increase, but 4x Titan Pascal ( hopefully GP100 ) will definitely be worth the upgrade and the wait.

[Tarahumara]

What I hope for is the successor to the GTX 970. The only two games that currently push my gfx is Squad and assetto corsa and I would like to get more headroom to drive those games on my 4K 40" monitor without spending silly money on top of the range cards. If those come with gddr5x or hbm chips won't bother me much but I won't be buying unless we see at least 20% computing performance over current gen 970 for the same price.

[Fluffmeister]

I'm expecting even more hype before it launches ... and isn't as good as was suggested.

Pretty sure that was Fury X.

[jigger]

A TDP of sub 100 watts, add a True Audio chip and FreeSync scaler and incorporate gsync into the card.

[anselhelm]

Same as usual with Nvidia: fast but unreasonably expensive for what it is.

I also won't be surprised if it later turns out that some declared feature is a bit of a lie or doesn't work as intended, but that Nvidia will just shake it off as if it's done no wrong.

Don't get me wrong here: I'm not claiming that the sun shines out of AMD's arse and I'm not trying to say that one company is better than the other or has a monopoly on bad behaviour, but this is what I think of these days when it comes to high-end Nvidia cards.

That said, in the current laptop environment, however, you'll be hard pushed to better them. (My own laptop runs an 850M and it does everything I currently need at highest details settings.)

[idris]

Same as usual with Nvidia: fast but unreasonably expensive for what it is.

I also won't be surprised if it later turns out that some declared feature is a bit of a lie or doesn't work as intended, but that Nvidia will just shake it off as if it's done no wrong.

Don't get me wrong here: I'm not claiming that the sun shines out of AMD's arse and I'm not trying to say that one company is better than the other or has a monopoly on bad behaviour, but this is what I think of these days when it comes to high-end Nvidia cards.

That said, in the current laptop environment, however, you'll be hard pushed to better them. (My own laptop runs an 850M and it does everything I currently need at highest details settings.)

You should be looking forward to Polaris then...

[GravitySmacked]

I'd be surprised if they release the ti version straight away. I'd expect the 1080 first followed by the ti.

[loccothan]

Expect no ACE.

Unfortunately YES becouse Pascal is a PR name and nothing new New.
It will be more efficient Maxwell gen.3 + standard Driver Tweaks and Tricks (and it will be disabled in 980/980Ti of course to milk moar on new GPU's).

[Percy1983]

I expect reviewers will only be allowed to review using certain games and drivers.

Anybody not following these rules will report that AMDs Vega cards will be more power efficient and better performing, which will just be a conspiracy because Nvidia say they have the best cards in there benchmarks and said reviews where using the wrong AMD drivers.

[Agrippa]

Expectations are pointless, so I'll simply wait and see what appears. I'm not upgrading for anything less than a 30% average performance increase and in any case I'm not buying another GDDR5(x) based card at a time when HBM2 is right around the corner.

[Hoonigan]

Slow news day?

Seems like a very general and open question. All we want is MOAR.

[Wrinkly]

I think my 980Ti will hold out until AMD's Vega. Nvidia's lack of support for Adaptive Sync, Gameworks related problems, driver issues and of course devs aiming towards AMD hardware within consoles make Nvidia a poor choice for the future. JFYI I tried the 970 when they launched and got a refund 6months later as my older 290 felt like it did a better job.

[StealyClint]

I really want it to flop big time.

AMD really needs a win and we would all be poorer without AMD around to keep the other players honest.

[Agrippa]

Nvidia's lack of support for Adaptive Sync, Gameworks related problems, driver issues and of course devs aiming towards AMD hardware within consoles make Nvidia a poor choice for the future.

Kind of strange to state that Nvidia is a poor choice for the future, when you/we have no real idea what the future will bring. Nvidia may well be a sub-optimal choice right now, if you mainly play games which favour AMD, but that's about it. As far as the future is concerned, and considering how desperately unreliable the hype from both camps always are, we won't really know a thing until the reviews start coming in.