I'm considering replacing my current old and completely insufficient GTX 650 with the new GTX 1080 when it becomes available. I'm also going to bite the bullet and upgrade to Windows 10 to take advantage of DirectX 12.

I've also considered a GTX 970 as a replacement but comparing current price to performance of the two, the GTX 1080 wins, hands-down.

However, I'm nowhere near an expert when it comes to GPUs, and I'm afraid that I may be making a mistake or bad assumptions.

My system specs are:
O/S: Windows 7 Pro (moving to Windows 10 Pro)
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, PCIe 2.0 x16
CPU: AMD FX-8350 8-core
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
PSU: Corsair HX750 750-watt

Does anyone see a problem with a GTX 1080 on my system?

Is it overkill, or will the new board be fully utilized?

Thanks.

Should be just fine, I think some work units are CPU limited to some degree but I don't think that means you wouldn't see improvement from a faster GPU, some people might mention the fact that your PCIE is only 2.0, but that should make little difference in x16.

Thanks, Skyler.

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

I'm considering replacing my current old and completely insufficient GTX 650 with the new GTX 1080 when it becomes available. I'm also going to bite the bullet and upgrade to Windows 10 to take advantage of DirectX 12.

I've also considered a GTX 970 as a replacement but comparing current price to performance of the two, the GTX 1080 wins, hands-down.

However, I'm nowhere near an expert when it comes to GPUs, and I'm afraid that I may be making a mistake or bad assumptions.

My system specs are:
O/S: Windows 7 Pro (moving to Windows 10 Pro)
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, PCIe 2.0 x16
CPU: AMD FX-8350 8-core
Memory: 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
PSU: Corsair HX750 750-watt

Does anyone see a problem with a GTX 1080 on my system?

Is it overkill, or will the new board be fully utilized?

Thanks.

Right now they are selling both 1070's and 1080's, most are already sold out or on backorder though. You can check the status here: http://www.nowinstock.net/ Just click on the 1080 or 1070 link. Soon though the secondary market will be free to flood the market with their own versions of these and there should be plenty to go around. Some early reports have said the fan noise can be a bit loud as it changes alot, with some aftermarket programs doing little to change that. One manufacturer is coming out with a water cooled one, all in one package, that should solve that problem though. This thread at Einstein has lots of details about the cards and even some links to some sites that were able to test some of the new cards. NONE though did any testing on running Boinc workunits though:
https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=12101

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

Installing one now. Titan X were quite underwhelming compared to GTX 980s with GPUGRID long runs on a per core/per clock basis. I have a feeling the GTX 1080 might do the same to the future big-die cards. Slower, but not proportionately so. Might be an efficiency buy (980) over a absolute performance buy (980 Ti/Titan X). I expect GTX 1070 to do the same.

NAMD 2.11 500 time steps of stmv (satellite tobacco mosaic virus - million atom)
GTX 1080 --> 54 sec .81 day/ns
GTX 980 --> 71 sec 1.21 day/ns

PS. CUDA 8 dev kit preview was released a couple of days back.

Read through the Einstein thread. Why anyone would buy NVidia cards for running Einstein is beyond me. Maybe the new ones will perform better but I'm skeptical. I run mostly NVidia but that's because I primarily crunch GPUgrid. Have tried them on other projects and generally they're poor performers compared with AMD. Maybe I just haven't found the right project. Are there any other projects in which NV cards perform well?

The benefit of NV cards is that they can run CUDA and OpenCL. AMD/ATI can't do CUDA (without a lot of jiggery pokery and then only poorly). For those who mainly crunch here NV is the way to go and you have a range of backup GPU projects which you can participate on with the same device. NV cards are good at POEM also. They might not be quite as good as ATI but they are very close (probably within 20% for equivalently priced cards). They used to be, and perhaps still are good at some of the maths projects but that's not my scene. Compared to AMD/ATI the NV cards are bad at MW and poor at Einstein, but good at POEM and excellent here. Based on the specs very little will change in that respect. Unless there is something specific in the GTX1080 and perhaps CUDA8 for Einstein (who are presently still Beta running a CUDA5.5app) I can't see anything changing there.

Admin team to upgrade ACEMD - stay tuned.

From host #295749:

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# ECC : Disabled
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# PCI ID : 0000:05:00.0
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The article skgiven pointed out alluded to such compatibility issues. Probably the admins will need a 10xx card in order to iron out the problems.

I have a GTX 1080, but getting computational errors. Any idea when they will fix this?

On folding@home output range from :
GTX 980 : 350-500K PPD
GTX 980ti : 700-850k PPD
GTX 1080 : 750-1000k PPD

If nvidia keep this scaling can we expect...
GTX 1080ti : 1300-1600K PPD

Read through the Einstein thread. Why anyone would buy NVidia cards for running Einstein is beyond me. Maybe the new ones will perform better but I'm skeptical. I run mostly NVidia but that's because I primarily crunch GPUgrid. Have tried them on other projects and generally they're poor performers compared with AMD. Maybe I just haven't found the right project. Are there any other projects in which NV cards perform well?

I'm currently running 15 NVidia GPUs and of course they work great here as they're the only card supported. Are there any projects though that run both AMD and NVidia where NVidia wins? I can't think of any but possibly there's one/some. Of the projects I've tried (many) there's generally a big gap, with AMD coming out on top. Would like to know of a good project to run these cards on when GPUGrid is out of work. From what I can see of the math projects AMD dominates there too. Not an NV basher as I have 15 and am currently running only 2 AMD.

I'm currently running 15 NVidia GPUs and of course they work great here as they're the only card supported. Are there any projects though that run both AMD and NVidia where NVidia wins? I can't think of any but possibly there's one/some. Of the projects I've tried (many) there's generally a big gap, with AMD coming out on top. Would like to know of a good project to run these cards on when GPUGrid is out of work. From what I can see of the math projects AMD dominates there too. Not an NV basher as I have 15 and am currently running only 2 AMD.

Both run well at Prime Grid too with Nvidia being faster on some parts and AMD being faster on others.

The AMD Radeon RX 480 is expected to feature graphics performance levels between the GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 980 graphics card so we can expect some decent numbers from this cost effective solution.

Read through the Einstein thread. Why anyone would buy NVidia cards for running Einstein is beyond me. Maybe the new ones will perform better but I'm skeptical. I run mostly NVidia but that's because I primarily crunch GPUgrid. Have tried them on other projects and generally they're poor performers compared with AMD. Maybe I just haven't found the right project. Are there any other projects in which NV cards perform well?

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

we expect great performance from the GTX1080 but at the moment we don't have any.
As soon as we have them, we need to recompile the code for them and check it.

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

Will wait for the 1080ti Classified and by that time the architecture issues should be worked out.

Does anyone have a GTX 1080 already?

Will wait for the 1080ti Classified and by that time the architecture issues should be worked out.

I keep hoping to get some news, I know if I don't want for the custom cooled ti version I'll really regret it, but not seeing any news will make the 1080gtx tempting once the prices drop.

Picked up an EVGA 1080 on launch day - silly prices here in the UK.

Cool & quiet - I'm using the Founder Edition in a SFF ..... performance is better than a 980Ti (at PrimeGrid anyway)

Any idea when the project will be able to support these card?....

Thanks.

When they get a GTX1080/GTX1070 to work with they need to recompile the app using the latest CUDA 8 dev kit, then perform some in-house alpha testing and then Beta test it here. Might also be compatibility issues with previous generations which would need to be ironed out. My guess is several weeks minimum but possibly after the summer. Don't know if they can run multiple app versions, but would be best to.

Today I've ordered a Gainward GTX 1080 Phoenix, so I hope that things will rev up here, as the Pascals fill the market thus the computers of the potential crunchers in the following weeks.

Eagerly waiting for GPUGrid to support GTX 10 series cards before I trade up.

(Anyone interested in buying a GTX 960 or 970? Or even the 980Ti? Send me a PM if so. I'd love for them to go to another cruncher.)

When they get a GTX1080/GTX1070 to work with they need to recompile the app using the latest CUDA 8 dev kit, then perform some in-house alpha testing and then Beta test it here. Might also be compatibility issues with previous generations which would need to be ironed out. My guess is several weeks minimum but possibly after the summer. Don't know if they can run multiple app versions, but would be best to.

Competition is good for all of us.

Two RX480's should compete enough to reduce 1080 and 1070 prices. Any remaining GTX900 series cards will devalue slightly too, and any future 1060 and below will have direct competition either with the 480 or the 470 or 460.

Competition is good for all of us.

My Gainward GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH card has arrived.

So I've joined the club of the "participants requesting a new app".
I'm offering my help to test the new app when it's ready.
I can also give remote access to the host which the card will reside soon.

My first observations with the GTX 1080 while crunching Einstein@home are the following:
It's boosting to 2025-2038MHz
The Maxwell's memory underclocking problem is present with Pascals
Comparing to the GTX 980Ti @1400MHz:
The power consumption is much less
The processing speed is the same (which is a little bit disappointing, but the E@H app is said to be CUDA5.5 but according to the stderr output it's using CUDA3.2)
I've tried to run single tasks at first, but I've set it to crunch 2 tasks simultaneously overnight.
You can follow the progress of my host here.

My first observations with the GTX 1080 while crunching Einstein@home are the following:
It's boosting to 2025-2038MHz
The Maxwell's memory underclocking problem is present with Pascals
Comparing to the GTX 980Ti @1400MHz:
The power consumption is much less
The processing speed is the same (which is a little bit disappointing, but the E@H app is said to be CUDA5.5 but according to the stderr output it's using CUDA3.2)
I've tried to run single tasks at first, but I've set it to crunch 2 tasks simultaneously overnight.
You can follow the progress of my host here.

Running 2 Parkes PMPS XT units simultaneously picked up about 15% net RAC on my windows 10 computer with 980ti cards the last time I ran them, a little bit less on windows xp computer with the 980ti card, with the Arecibo units the pick up was insignificant for both computers.

I see that you got the card running on windows xp computer, did you have to use any kind of trick to do that?

Out of curiosity I've installed Folding@home on my host with the GTX 1080, and it shows ~1.060.000 PPD while crunching a fah core 0x18 workunit. The total crunching time of this wu is about 2 hours.
GPU usage: 94%
FB usage: 16-17%
GPU temp: 54°C
GPU clock: 2025MHz
MEM clock: 5006MHz

So I've joined the club of the "participants requesting a new app".

In the UK GTX1080 prices have fallen from between £700 and £800 to around £600. Many factors have contributed to the price fall:
The arrival of bespoke (non-founder) editions of the GTX1080,
Increased GTX1080 availability,
The arrival of the GTX1070,
Competition from AMD - despite the 480 only being a mid-range card when playing games it's 'competitive' in cross-fire against a single Pascal. There is also the effect of promotions (not everyone knows what they are doing) and an AMD fan base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVJPbFRDEc
Then there is the forthcoming GTX1060 which is clearly designed to compete (and presumably outperform) an RX480. When released they will drag down the GTX1070 prices and that in turn will drag down the 1080 price a bit. Even the speculation of the card means that many are waiting for it. To sell to those potential customers now the 1070 prices would need to be more attractive.

Note that IMO two RX480's isn't a good option for gamers, but it's an option and because they are better at some games than others, some people will buy them.

So I've joined the club of the "participants requesting a new app".

Same here. I have a 1080 which should be arriving this week and which will be replacing my 980Ti. I have also sold my 970 (1070 should be shipping to me soon), so until GPUGrid gets a new app for Pascal, I'm down to a 960 (which is also up for sale) participating here.

Has anyone donated any of these Pascal cards to the research team yet or are we waiting on the budget on this project to handle that completely? I am willing to donate towards that if needed. I am sure donating towards hardware is cheaper than shipping it from the USA to Spain.

Any update on 1080 support? I have 2 just idling while I'm at work.

Any update on 1080 support? I have 2 just idling while I'm at work.