Nvidia Pascal GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 May 6th Launch To Include Battlefield 5 Showcase

Over the weekend news broke of Nvidia preparing to announce its GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards on May 6th.According to a report fromsweclockers.com published today, Nvidia’s hardware announcement is likely to be paired with a major game announcement as well, Battlefield 5

According to the latest information, the event on May 6th will include an introduction of Pascal GP104 based graphics cards .This includes the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 – not official names by any means – which will replace Nvidia’s current high-end lineup comprised of the GTX 980 Ti, GTX 980 and GTX 970. This is in addition to a Battlefield 5 showcase, likely running on Nvidia’s new graphics cards.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 And GTX 1070 Graphics Cards Paper Launching May 6th With Battlefield 5 Showcase – Availability In June

It has been quite a long while since DICE launched Battlefield 4 and gamers have been eagerly awaiting a sequel ever since. It was confirmed recently that Battlefield 5 is set to release this year, with the first ever look at the game scheduled for Friday this week.

The Battlefield 5 world premiere event is scheduled for May 6th, the very same day Nvidia is set to announce / paper launch its upcoming Pascal GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards. According to Sweclockers.com this is not a coincidence by any chance, rather a coordinated effort between Nvidia and EA to announce Pascal alongside Battleifled 5.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Specs & Performance

Over the past couple of weeks it’s been confirmed that the GTX 1080 featuring the GP104-400 GPU will feature GDDR5X memory chips, while the GTX 1070 featuring the GP104-200 GPU will feature 8Gbps GDDR5 memory chips. Die shots of the GPU have been leaked numerous times and show a roughly 320mm² chip. Which according to theenormously detailed look at the inner-workings of the Pascal architecture that Nvidia revealed last month indicates that the we’re likely looking at a 2560 CUDA core chip.

That, in addition to the performance per core improvements that Nvidia has achieved through many tweaks to the architecture and the considerable clock speed gains over Maxwell which we’ve seen with the Tesla P100 – 33% – means that we’re easily looking at a sizable improvement per core compared to Maxwell. Putting the GTX 1080 comfortably ahead of the GTX 980 Ti.