Zotac Gtx 1080 8gb

[Chadwick Bosse]

Iam using Ubuntu 16.04 with GTX 1080. On my first boot, the screen turn black after I selected Ubuntu in grub. After I added nomodeset, the black screen gone however it only shows the Ubuntu default background image. It can't reach the login screen.

First, make the live USB for Ubuntu. Go into your BIOS settings, and enable both iGPU and the GPU. Plug in your monitor to the HDMI port on the motherboard, and install Ubuntu as normal. After installation, boot Ubuntu and install the nvidia-367 drivers. Once that's done, you can plug your motherboard back into the the GPU and use Ubuntu.

Sounds like to me its a driver issue. Try setting up a live cd and installing nvidia drivers and see if that resolves the issue. Im just guessing at the moment, i would wait for more responses to see if this is a known issue.

If you already have an OS Installed and are upgrading to the GTX 1080, you could boot into the OS Using the older gpu (with the 1080 plugged in), and then install the new drivers. No need for a live OS. Worked for me

The screen turns black because the screen connected to the gpu. Do connect to motherboard before installing the driver. Then, use the nvidia provided download rather than ppa. I solved this issue for my pc, but I don't remember the step correctly.

Not sure if this was asked before, you have my apologies if I'm asking the same question as previous topics, but I'm planning to upgrade my GPU and wanted to get a GTX 1080 (hopefully), and was intrigued about the Zotac GTX 1080 Mini version as it is the cheapest 1080 out there.

I heard I lose a bit when it comes to OC'ing it compared to the bigger sized ones, but what else will I lose? I don't plan to OC anyways... I heard the performance is near identical to the bigger 1080's.

The mini 1080 is kinda a beast. Even crammed into a case it manages to stick close to the bigger cards in overclocking headroom. It does run a bit warmer but it's not enough to really be worried about, you'll be power limited before thermals.

It's possible to run 4 screens from a 1080Ti (3 views + the map at 1920*1080 each) . We do it on the flight simulator at work. I'm not brilliantly versed in hardware or software but I can tell you that you have enough ram and vram to drive 3 screens at 1920x1080 compared with what we use.

Are you possibly power limited? The 1080Ti probably draws more power than your previous card. You may be getting random crashes because of that. I'm surprised the PC doesn't blue screen though in that case.

Hello everyone, I have a Mid-2010 Mac Pro running MacOS Sierra 12.10.5. I purchased an Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics card for 4k video editing and gaming via boot camp after reading about the release of the Pascal drivers for Mac OS. However, I have had intermittent response from the card. I'm powering the card from the pci-e slot (of course) and I'm using a dual mini 6 pin to 8pin cable so I should be getting 225w of power. Now, I have an SSD in bay one, and standard ssds in the other drive bays.

As far as I can see the power requirements for the typical GTX-1080 card are less than 200W e.g. 180W, this is well within the capabilities of the Mac via the PCIe slot at 75W plus the two 6pin connectors each also 75W totalling 225W.

However it also seems that most GTX-1080 cards have a single 8pin socket rather than two 6pin sockets. As such you would need to get an 8pin to two 6pin adapter. If you only plug a single 6pin in to the 8pin socket then it would only get the 75W from the PCIe slot plus 75W from the 6pin cable making only a total of 150W which would be to little.

Note: The GTX-1080Ti needs more power and might it seems exceed the standard power capabilities of the classic Mac Pro meaning you might need to use an external or secondary power supply. Have you mixed up the 1080 and 1080Ti?

I guess I did not realize that I would still not have a boot screen with the GTX 1080. even with the updated drivers I'm just going to buy a stock graphics card (the small Nvidia card that takes up 1 pci-slot) as back up.

"The PC is the world's favorite gaming platform, and our new Pascal GPU architecture will take it to new heights," said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA's PC business. "Our first Pascal gaming GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080, enables incredible realism in gaming and deeply immersive VR experiences, with dramatically improved performance and efficiency. It's the most powerful gaming GPU ever built, and some of our finest work."

Five Marvels of Pascal

NVIDIA engineered the Pascal architecture to handle the massive computing demands of technologies like VR. It incorporates five transformational technologies:

"We were blown away by the performance and features of the GTX 1080," said Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games. "We took scenes from our Paragon game cinematics that were designed to be rendered offline, and rendered them in real time on GTX 1080. It's mind-blowing and we can't wait to see what developers create with UE4 and GTX 1080 in the world of games, automotive design, or architectural visualization -- for both 2D screens and for VR."

VRWorks: A New Level of Presence for VR

To fully immerse users in virtual worlds, the enhanced NVIDIA VRWorks software development kit offers a never before experienced level of "VR presence." It combines what users see, hear and touch with the physical behavior of the environment to convince them that their virtual experience is real.

"GeForce GTX 1080 promises to be the ultimate graphics card for experiencing EVE: Valkyrie," said Hilmar Veigar Ptursson, CEO of CCP Games. "We are looking forward to bringing NVIDIA's new VRWorks features to Valkyrie to take the game's visuals and performance to another level."

Ansel: Capturing the Artistry of Gaming

NVIDIA also announced Ansel, a powerful game capture tool that allows gamers to explore, capture and share the artistry of gaming in ways never before possible.

With Ansel, gamers can compose the gameplay shots they want, pointing the camera in any direction and from any vantage point within a gaming world. They can capture screenshots at up to 32x screen resolution, and then zoom in where they choose without losing fidelity. With photo-filters, they can add effects in real time before taking the perfect shot. And they can capture 360-degree stereo photospheres for viewing in a VR headset or Google Cardboard.

The GeForce GTX 1080 will also be sold in fully configured systems from leading U.S.-based system builders, including AVADirect, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Geekbox, IBUYPOWER, Maingear, Origin PC, Puget Systems, V3 Gaming and Velocity Micro, as well as system integrators outside North America.

Ansel will be available in upcoming releases and patches of games such as Tom Clancy's The Division, The Witness, Lawbreakers, The Witcher 3, Paragon, No Man's Sky, Obduction, Fortnite and Unreal Tournament.

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I have a Dell XPS 13 which I know is a great ultrabook for pairing with eGPUs. I'd like to pair it with either a 1080GTX Ti or 2070/2080 GTX and am wondering what the slimmest / lightest recommendation would be? I have to travel a fair bit and would need to on occasion carry the eGPU with me (I appreciate I am unlikely to find a truly mobile solution!).

@arumiat The VisionTek Mini eGFX works with Nvidia cards just fine. Here's a build I did last week with a GTX 1060. There's another one I used a GTX 1660 Ti. The most powerful Nvidia GPU you can run with this enclosure is RTX 2070 ITX.

Regarding the most portable eGPU, it depends on what you prefer. Some like the all-in-one aspect of the Gigabyte/AORUS Gaming Box. It has a nicely padded travel case included. The VisionTek Mini eGFX has a smaller footprint but has a sizable power brick. The nice thing about eGPU with power delivery is that you can leave the laptop's power adapter at home.

I currently have the 1070GTX in my laptop. I've always been a bit underwhelmed by it's performance (I use it for 3D sculpting in Zbrush, 3D painting in Substance Painter, handling large models in modelling apps and rendering too. I've always found mine to be a bit laggy and thus was looking to the xx80 series.

2. do you think the newer generation, even if it's xx70 series will improve my experience? Looking at a benchmark here it seems as though it's not 1080Ti level it is pretty close

-RTX-2070-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti/4029vs3918

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