Also possible to pre-order on nvidias website for 449 i belive. (only for us/canada)
What is it that is the determinating factor of the hashrate? It has 8GB mem, CUDA cores close to an 1080, why shouldnt it be as good as a 1080?
Any hardware pro's that can answer?
Memory is a big factor. GDDR5x in the 1080 compared to GDDR5 in the GTX 1070 TI. It should be what makes or breaks the GPU in terms of mining
Only on the ETH algorithm, nothing else is as picky about memory - but it likely will easily beat the 1070 and MIGHT argue or even beat the 1080ti on ETH mining (the 1070 beats the 1080 on ETH due to that GDDR5X).
It should fall in just a HAIR under the 1080 and easily beat the 1070 on everything else.
My pair of Aorus GTX 1080ti cards (the BASE Aorus, not the higher-clocked version) pull about 780 sol/s at 250 watts (100% tdp), +100 core +150 mem, after a fair bit of tweek testing the core and memory settings seem to be optimal for it on ZCash.
They still pulls 720 at 200 watts TDP (80%) and the "efficiency knee" seems to be somewhere in the 150 watt (620 sol) to 175 watt (680 sol) range.
One is in my game system running Win7, the other in my experimental B250 Mining Pro riser rig running XUbuntu LINUX - but the stats are the same give or take measurement limits.
Even pushing, I've never gotten an Aorus to go much over 70C on 80% fan even with a 90F ambient - and the one in my gaming machine has never gone over 66C or so since it's in an air-conditioned room at around 80F ambient in a case with good airflow.
My Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080ti pulls close to those numbers, but falls down some on the high end as it overheats faster and can't maintain boost as well - and it runs 3-4C hotter unless I pump the fan up to 90% or so.
Up side, it's only 8+6 for power connection instead of 8+8 for the Aorus.
Best I've seen out of a 1070 was around 450 ballpark, some folks have claimed a lot higher but they apparently have had a lot better luck on getting their memory to overclock a lot than I have.