The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
by Ryan Smith on July 20, 2016 8:45 AM ESTBattlefield 4
One of the older games in our benchmark suite, DICE’s Battlefield 4 remains a staple of MP gaming. Even at its age, Battlefield 4 remained a challenging game in its own right, as very few mass market MP shooters push the envelope on graphics quality right now. As these benchmarks are from single player mode, based on our experiences our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, which means a card needs to be able to average at least 60fps if it’s to be able to hold up in multiplayer.
As a game that has traditionally favored NVIDIA, Battlefield 4 makes for a very clean sweep of the field. The GTX 1080 takes top honors with the GTX 1070 some distance behind it. Notably, the two Pascal cards become the first cards to cross 60fps at 4K, which means that they’re the first cards we can be reasonably sure won’t have framerate dips below 30fps in multiplayer.
Looking at our standard generational comparisons, both GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 improve upon their predecessors by about what we’d expect; 67% and 58% respectively. Or to see how GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 compare, we find that the GTX 1080 leads its cut-down sibling by between 20% and 25%, with the gap increasing with the resolution. This is consistent with what we know about GTX 1080, as its bandwidth advantage means that it’s going to have an easier time pushing pixels at 4K, as the case is here.
Finally, to check in on the GTX 680, we find the GTX 1080 has only improved in performance by 2.8x, which is actually a bit less of a gain than the average. None the less we’ve gone from a card that can’t quite muster 1080p with 4xMSAA to a card that can easily handle 4K without any MSAA.
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Ryan Smith - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
The prices listed are based on checking Newegg daily for the past week. The sub-$429 cards have never been in stock when I've checked.powerarmour - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Lulz how late?jabbadap - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Great thorough review.You have a funny typo on the fast sync page:
" Fast Sync doesn’t replace either Adaptive Sync or G-Sync"
I think you meant Adaptive Vsync, not that VESA standard which nvidia does not support.
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Right you are. Thanks!bill44 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Where can I find a FULL review please?Thanks
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
"Where can I find a FULL review please?"This article was an excerpt of the full review. The complete, 5 volume set on GTX 1080 will be available at your local book store in October. ;-)
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AwesomeAndrewJacksonZA - Thursday, July 21, 2016 - link
Cool! Thanks Ryan! Did you reach your stretch goals on your Kickstarter campaign so that you can afford the scanning electron microscope for great photos?bill44 - Thursday, July 21, 2016 - link
Thanks Ryan.I was on about audio. Not for games, but for my music playback (SACD, DVDA) with different sampling rates that includes 88.2 and 176.4Khz. I can't find FULL specifications for the 100 series GTX cards that include this information, or any decoding capabilities. I was looking for the GTX 1060 for HTPC use with madVR.
Where can I find out about audio and sampling rates? MadVR capabilities?
Ryan Smith - Friday, July 22, 2016 - link
As far as I know, audio capabilities are the same as on the 900 series. Unfortunately I don't have more detail than that right now.