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 ESTDiRT Rally
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ DiRT Rally. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layered with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, DiRT Rally includes a number of DirectCompute based compute shader effects, and while it’s not the most punishing game in our suite, it still takes a very good card to sustain the 60fps frame rate that driving games are best played at.
Once again, the GTX 1080 is uncontested. Better still, it can crack 60fps at 4K, so gamers there won’t need to make any tradeoffs. And 1440p gamers with high refresh rate monitors should find that the card can come reasonably close to their refresh rate limit.
GTX 1070 is in turn solidly in second place, coming in around 4% ahead of the GTX 980 Ti. However because it’s targeting a level of performance only slightly ahead of the best of the last generation cards, we do see the 28nm Radeon Fury X hang on decently well at 4K, before the GTX 1070 pulls farther ahead at lower resolutions.
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Flunk - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
The "stock" fan setup is the blower. The "founders edition" cards are the base reference cards.prophet001 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Alrighty then. Thanks for the info.bill44 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Where can I find Audio specification, sampling rates etc.? Decoding capabilities?ImSpartacus - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
The timeline is appreciated.tipoo - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Sounds like a good few weeks here, well doneChaotic42 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Thanks for the review. Some things are worth the wait. Turn your phone and computer off and go take a nap. Sounds like you've earned it.zeeBomb - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
An anandtech review takes all the pain away! How am I going to read this casually though? Without all the detailed whachinlmicallitssna1970 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Can you please add Cross Fire benchmarks in the RX480 review ?close - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
But where's the GTX 1070/1080 review? Oh wait... Scratch that.blanarahul - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
"this change in the prefetch size is why the memory controller organization of GP104 is 8x32b instead of 4x64b like GM204, as each memory controller can now read and write 64B segments of data via a single memory channel.*Shouldn't it be the opposite?
"Overall when it comes to HDR on NVIDIA’s display controller, not unlike AMD’s Pascal architecture"
What?!!!