While Nvidia’s latest graphics cards were announced recently, we didn’t know some of the sweet juicy details on specs until now. Thanks to VideoCardz.com, we now know the very particular details about the upcoming 1080’s hardware.
The most important thing to make a note about is the fact that the next generation of graphics cards will be sporting the Pascal GPU architecture, over the the Maxwell seen in the 980’s setup. While it appears that the 980Ti has better memory bandwidth, the GTX not only uses the available bandwidth more efficiently, but it also has a larger Memory Speed, and clock speeds as well. Then you got your TFLOPs, and your 8 GB of GDDR5X… you know you’re in for a good time with the GTX 1080.
So what makes the GTX 1080 an improvement over the GTX 980? It comes to down to delivering the same amount of visual goods for less of a bandwidth cost. Fourth Generation Delta Color Compression delivers 1.7 times the bandwidth of the GTX 980, according to Nvidia. We can also expect a new style of Pascal SLI Bridge, making use of both SLI fingers.
