Nvidia showing at GTC

[SpyderTracks]

Thanks for replying so quickly. I haven't been up to date with technology since I built a PC back in about the year 2000 - it had a cutting edge Voodoo 3DFX card in it!

I had wondered if, with the Octane II Pro having a "desktop" 980, if that meant it was more disposed to swapping it out later but clearly it's not that simple. Is it the case that the chassis is designed with a specific GPU in mind, bearing in mind for example, the heat dissipation?

Then again, it might be that the Octane II Pro in it's current config comes down in price so either way, it's a win!

Although it's a desktop processor it's in an mxm mobile format, they've just used the graphics chip rather than a pcie card as such. Apparently even if it's a standardised mxm format, the chassis is designed around a specific set of mxm boards and some mxm upgrades won't fit a particular chassis.

Octane 2 pro is an absolute beast of a laptop. Vr ready, powerful as hell. It'll serve well for a long while despite the leap that pascal promises I should imagine.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Live feed in link for those interested...

http://wccftech.com/watch-nvidia-special-geforce-pascal-livestream-dx12-vr-gameworks/

Not until 2am tomorrow morning :sweatdrop:

 

[SpyderTracks]

Very quick summary:

1080 - thrashes the Titan x for the same price as the 980 ($599), twice as powerful, beats 980 sli. They ran it flat out with some seriously intense realtime rendering and it maxed out at 67 degrees with a 2.1 GHz clock speed (overclocked with evga precision)! so serious scope for overclocking. Release date of 27th May

1070 - beats the Titan x also, something crazy like $399. Release date of early June (7th I think).

Despite the hardware, there are some serious software improvements aimed at vr and multi screen setups. Basically they've reduced wasted processing power by what's called "simultaneous projection stream" or something, essentially you enable it for vr setups and multi-monitor and frame rates leap up.

There's also physics based audio and haptic engine for vr which sounds very cool.

Also an in game camera control for screen dumps whereby you can change the camera angle to anywhere, adjust gamma/brightness etc, take full 360 dumps for viewing in vr or on a mobile, very cool. Can all be directly pumped to photoshop.

They demo'd the new mirrors edge, new tomb raider, and the division with all settings ramped up and it was sailing at around 70fps.

I'm so excited! It shall be mine.

 

[Oussebon]

I ended up catching the 2nd half after all Apparently I missed 3d surround instagram for Witcher 3 and other titles?

Notes from the Anandtech Live Blog on Nvidia's launch show:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10305/the-nvidia-geforce-2016-liveblog

Some slides apparently showing separately the relative gaming performance, and the relative VR gaming performance:
https://www.techpowerup.com/222279/nvidia-announces-the-geforce-gtx-1080-faster-than-gtx-980-sli


They also emphasised that it will be a "crazy overclocker".

This is why I bought an SLI capable motherboard.