The PC MasterRace has a new king. NVIDIA has announced its latest line-up of GeForce GTX graphocs cards saying, “NVIDIA’s new flagship GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is the most advanced gaming graphics card ever created. Discover unprecedented performance, power efficiency, and gaming experiences—driven by the new NVIDIA Pascal™ architecture. This is the ultimate gaming platform.”
The new cards have a deeper focus on VR and 4K gaming. What’s has everybody’s attention is that NVIDIA is claiming that the GTX1080 is faster than two GTX980 in SLI and faster than the Titan X, making the GTX1080 the faster single GPU ever created, something that definitely surprised us as a lot of people expected this GPU to be slightly more powerful than the GTX980Ti. If the performance graphs are anything to go by, it looks like the GTX1080 should be around 40-30% faster than the GTX980Ti.
One of the key features the 1080 offers is “simultaneous multi-projection,” which helps games look less distorted for multi monitor setups or ultra-wide 21×9 screens. However, the main benefit of this will be seen in VR applications where the rendering process is way more GPU intensive and far less forgiving about low frame-rates.
Another interesting feature is Ansel, a sophisticated tool for taking in-game screenshots. Unlike regular screenshot tools, Ansel hooks directly into the game engine—developer permitting—allowing users to free-roam around a specific scene, rotating the image, cropping it, and applying filters. Even better, because the tool ties directly into the frame buffer, users can take screenshots at resolutions higher than their monitor, up to 61,000 pixels wide. There’s even a mode to take 360-degree screenshots for viewing in VR headsets like the HTC Vive, or via the Nvidia Android app and a Google Cardboard. Games supporting Ansel at launch include The Division, The Witcher 3, and No Man’s Sky.
The GTX 1080 will be available for $599 on May 27 and the GTX 1070 is coming on June 10 for $379.
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