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I'm looking forward to seeing this in stores, as I've wanted to build a new machine learning rig for some time. The GTX 1080 just didn't seem like it would do t

I'm looking forward to seeing this in stores, as I've wanted to build a new machine learning rig for some time. The GTX 1080 just didn't seem like it would do the trick, with ostensibly limited software support and all. I'm specifically wondering about FP16 handling though. Single precision FLOPS are never mentioned in the blog, nor on the NVidia page. It would be a shame if the FP16 units on this card were gimped in the same way as the GTX 1080...

xiphias 10y ago
NVIDIA is always publishing just the numbers that it wants to publish. There are still improvements, but they are slowing down.. I'm sure the engineers did their best. The announcement skipped energy usage as well.
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nitrogen 10y ago
The GTX1080 still isn't available anyway, unless you pay an exorbitant sum to a scalper.
- rdl 10y ago
  I've been able to get 1070 and 1080s at retail price by backordering through B&H; they took 2 extra days to ship but NBD.
- Jach 10y ago
  Funny, my friend had no issue getting two of them. The only impossible to get model is gigabyte's xtreme version and it's not even the 'best'.
  - nitrogen 10y ago
    From which vendor, may I ask?
    - Jach 10y ago
      Zotac Extreme.
      - nitrogen 10y ago
        Cool. Who has it in stock?
- Vexs 10y ago
  A month ago you'd be right. As it is, all manufacturers are stocking their cards pretty regularly it you set up notifications for em.
  - nitrogen 10y ago
    I've had notifications set up on Newegg for every variant and I have been notified for only two of the lesser variants, and by the time I check the site it's already out of stock.
kartD 10y ago
I don't think it'll be good. It's probably based on the same chips used in the GTX 1080 which doesn't have the FP16 improvements that GP100 has. I can't be a hundred percent on this since NVIDIA hasn't confirmed. From Anandtech's 1080 review (page 2): "As a result while GP100 has some notable feature/design elements for HPC – things such faster FP64 & FP16 performance, ECC, and significantly greater amounts of shared memory and register file capacity per CUDA core – these elements aren’t present in GP104 (and presumably, future Pascal consumer-focused GPUs)."

xiphias 10y ago

NVIDIA is always publishing just the numbers that it wants to publish. There are still improvements, but they are slowing down.. I'm sure the engineers did their best. The announcement skipped energy usage as well.

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nitrogen 10y ago

The GTX1080 still isn't available anyway, unless you pay an exorbitant sum to a scalper.

rdl 10y ago
I've been able to get 1070 and 1080s at retail price by backordering through B&H; they took 2 extra days to ship but NBD.
Jach 10y ago
Funny, my friend had no issue getting two of them. The only impossible to get model is gigabyte's xtreme version and it's not even the 'best'.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  From which vendor, may I ask?
  - Jach 10y ago
    Zotac Extreme.
    - nitrogen 10y ago
      Cool. Who has it in stock?
Vexs 10y ago
A month ago you'd be right. As it is, all manufacturers are stocking their cards pretty regularly it you set up notifications for em.
- nitrogen 10y ago
  I've had notifications set up on Newegg for every variant and I have been notified for only two of the lesser variants, and by the time I check the site it's already out of stock.

kartD 10y ago

I don't think it'll be good. It's probably based on the same chips used in the GTX 1080 which doesn't have the FP16 improvements that GP100 has. I can't be a hundred percent on this since NVIDIA hasn't confirmed. From Anandtech's 1080 review (page 2): "As a result while GP100 has some notable feature/design elements for HPC – things such faster FP64 & FP16 performance, ECC, and significantly greater amounts of shared memory and register file capacity per CUDA core – these elements aren’t present in GP104 (and presumably, future Pascal consumer-focused GPUs)."