Windows Tests Of The GTX 1080 Tip Up, But No Linux

[boffo]

Micheal I would just get a 1070 for the time being, its same card basically just slow version. Is the reason for people to be so very interested in ONLY using Nouveau, Wayland/Mir? or is it just people preferring open source drivers because?

For me it's more like buy Nvidia if you care only about fps in games. But buy intel/amd if you care about the opensource ecosystem. Like wayland, mesa, xorg. They are the one who are actively contributing to the future of the ecosystem. Software like Gnome and Kde are the one who benefit the most of opensource drivers. Basically do what you want but don't buy the foundery edition, wait for the partners.

[theriddick]

Maybe NVIDIA is feeling sorry for AMD's driver performance issues and just doesn't want to give you another chance to trash them? j/k

[boffo]

Maybe NVIDIA is feeling sorry for AMD's driver performance issues and just doesn't want to give you another chance to trash them? j/k

Lol, maybe. Or maybe they didn't like the EGLStream articles.

[bug77]

In the past I've always put this site into the whitelist of ABP.

Now with Pi-Hole the things are complicated.

Any suggestions?

The problem for a while has been that even with ABP disabled, you get no ads if you block JS. And there's a lot of JS Phoronix wants to run on your page.
Maybe there's a way to whitelist trusted advertisers (other than manually), but I haven;t found it yet.

[bug77]

For me it's more like buy Nvidia if you care only about fps in games.

What if you do 3D modelling? What if you want working power management? What if you want to run the latest kernel? Latest X server?
AMD has been closing the gap, but these were all a no go for AMD for the last 10-15 years.

Basically do what you want but don't buy the founders edition, wait for the partners.

I'd say don't buy at all until we see whether the usual initial price gouging is in effect. The cards will be with us in June or July as well.

[johnc]

Personally, I don't have that much of an interest in nouveau, since it doesn't offer much practical (or rather, cost effective) performance for GPUs like this.

I agree, and not only that, but since nvidia provides a good binary driver nouveau seems redundant. It'd be different if nvidia's driver was a trainwreck. But since it's really good, nouveau doesn't interest me much either.

[Nille_kungen]

Maybe Nvidia doesn't have enough cards to send out.
There's rumors that GDDR5X might still have limited availability.
But actually i rather see a real retail card in tests then hand picked reference samples or Founders Edition.
I think it's good that you communicate to readers rather then cave in for Nvidia.
That said I'm more exited about the coming AMD graphics.

[jf33]

If I was Micheal, I'd wait with buying this new card at least until Polaris comes out. The GTX 1080 might be cheaper then (probably not as cheap as the AMD cards though).

[MVinhas]

Probably they don't send you a card because the Linux performance is still horrible with the GTX1080.

[spiridow]

I'd love to see some article discussing the state of hardware decoding for HEVC Main 10 profile (10 bit) support with the GTX 1080. I currently have a GTX 960 and it only supports HEVC Main profile hardware decoding. Software decoding on a i7-6700K for HEVC Main 10 @ 60 fps doesn't cut it

Relevant vdpauinfo output:

Decoder capabilities:

name                        level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1                           0 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_SIMPLE                    3 65536  4080  4080
MPEG2_MAIN                      3 65536  4080  4080
H264_BASELINE                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_MAIN                      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH                      41 65536  4096  4096
VC1_SIMPLE                      1  8190  2048  2048
VC1_MAIN                        2  8190  2048  2048
VC1_ADVANCED                    4  8190  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP                  3  8192  2048  2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP                 5  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE                   0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_MOBILE                    0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER              0  8192  2048  2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P                  0  8192  2048  2048
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE      41 65536  4096  4096
H264_EXTENDED                  41 65536  4096  4096
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH          41 65536  4096  4096
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE       41 65536  4096  4096
HEVC_MAIN                      153 36864  4096  2304
[B]HEVC_MAIN_10                   --- not supported ---[/B]
HEVC_MAIN_STILL                --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12                   --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444                  --- not supported ---

Edit: forgot to mention I was talking about 4k video