I watched the unveiling of the cards via streaming and I was kinda impressed by some things:
One really interesting idea was the "Simultaneous multi-projection" that corrects the perspective view when using 3 monitors warped around you. That seems like a very nice tech to use.
Another cool thing was the "Single Pass Stereo" that increased the fps of VR by ~1.5X (when they were viewing the monster at ~68fps then turned it on and it bumped the fps to around ~96fps
"ANSEL" is kinda nice I suppose, but I wouldn't see myself using it regularly
One thing that was really surprising is when they were showcasing that real time rendering of characters and they showed the Clock speed running at 2114 MHz, and Air cooled only at 67C!!
And I suppose in the end, alot of questions and speculation still remain, such as whether the 1080 is indeed 2X faster than the Titan X, are the performance gains based on the normal or boost clock or the crazily overclocked 2114 MHz, and is that 67C!! "air cooled" a normal fan cooling, for all we know it could have been in a cold area or have an AC blowing on it and it could still be called "air cooled"
Also the specified 180W TDP is quite impressive for this performance range, and DP 1.4 is something new on this card
As for the whole "DX12 performance", yes there was not a single mention whether the card would be properly implementing asynchronous compute in the conference, however on Nvidia's news site (
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-quantum-leap-in-gaming:-nvidia-introduces-geforce-gtx-1080), they state on the 4th "marvel of pascal":
"
New asynchronous compute advances improve efficiency and gaming performance"
Will 1080 be faster than a 980Ti(overclocked atleast)? is the 1070 indeed faster than a Titan X? are these performance gain claims based only on VR or in actual normal game performance? DX12 performance? difference between the normal and founder edition?
We'll just have to wait until the cards release and tech sites to benchmark and review the cards!
If the gains are as good as they say for games I might be looking to get a 1070 or 1080 for my first pc build.
BONUS: DOOM running on the 1080 at ultra settings using Vulkan API
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3LaLJoo0s, check the frame rate(keep watching and see what happens)