By Kevin Lee
After a mountain of rumors and a big revealing leak, Nvidia’s next generation Pascal graphics cards are here at long last.
Nvidia pulled with wraps of two graphics cards, introducing the GTX 1080 to replace the current Nvidia GTX 980 Maxwell card that rocked the 2015 PC gaming world. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder of Nvidia, explained the 1080 took over two years of development and over a billion to design.
The new GTX 1080 card utilized Nvidia’s new 14nm finfet transistor process and GDDR5X video memory, supplanting the GDDR5 memory standard used in all modern GPUs. Despite all the power behind it, the Nvidia GTX 1080 still sips power at only 209mV of electricity.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as Huang claims the Nvidia GTX 1080 is faster than a pair of GTX 980s in SLI configuration and even a single Nvidia GTX Titan X. In fact,t he GTX 1080 offers twice the performance and three times the efficiency of Nvida’s flagship card
Aside from the new graphics hardware, Nvidia also announced VR Audio works for a more immersive sound space. Huang explained the new addition to Nvidia VRWorks API, will allow developers to introduce a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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