I am looking forward to what Eric Bowen will have to say about the minimum necessary CPU required to push that 1080 to its potential. I watched the NVidia live stream event and was impressed at the claims of massive performance increases along with energy efficiency.
I am guessing that the flagship Broadwell E will be a good match !! NVidia is touting at least a 30% performance increase over Titan X at far less wattage AND cost !! They also claim " insane overclockability". The 9xx series Maxwells did not allow much overclocking.
NVidia claimed a stock clock speed of over 2,000 Mhz and over 5,000Mhz on the memory clock speed for the 1080 !!...all with 8 GB of blazing fast new DDR 5X memory !!
I have to laugh as my not too shabby Asus gaming laptop GPU sports 2GB of plain DDR5 video memory and even overclocked to the max is running at 915 Mhz clock speed and 3,000Mhz on the memory clock speed !!...( stock is 700Mhz and 2,000 Mhz, respectively ).
This new possible CPU and GPU combination on the X99 board is going to be powerful.....no need for multiple graphics cards.
I've seen some benchmarks on the 6950X Broadwell E flagship CPU done with engineering samples and the results indicate a modest performance gain over the 5960X Haswell E flagship CPU of about 10% in multi threaded tasks. Its too bad that the Broadwell E will NOT be offered at a decent price, like NVidia is doing with Pascal. Intel will get an extra $500 for 2 extra cores and a slightly lower clockspeed with overclocking.......only 4.2 to 4.3, so far on the engineering samples. $1,500 for a Broadwell E is going to hurt !
I hope Eric tests this new combination soon ,like he did with Haswell E and posts the results on this forum !!
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However, if you're like me and coming from a 760 card I can have the performance of the beloved 980ti/Titan x for far less money. I'm surprised at the low performance of the titan x! 
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