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 ESTThe Witcher 3
The third game in CD Projekt RED’s expansive RPG series, The Witcher 3 is our RPG benchmark of choice. Utilizing the company’s in-house engine, REDengine 3, The Witcher makes use of an array of DirectX 11 features, all of which combine to make the game both stunning and surprisingly GPU-intensive. Our benchmark is based on an action-heavy in-engine cutscene early in the game, and Hairworks is disabled.
The GTX 1080 never doesn’t lead in our benchmarks, but The Witcher 3 is another strong showing for the card. At 44fps for 4K, it’s three-quarters of the way to 60fps, with gives us a reasonably playable framerate even at these high quality settings. However to get 60fps you’ll still have to back off on the quality settings or resolution. Meanwhile the GTX 1070, although capable of better than 30fps at 4K, is more at home at 1440p, where the card just cracks 60fps.
Looking at the generational comparisons, the Pascal cards are about average under The Witcher 3. GTX 1080 leads GTX 980 by an average of 66%, and GTX 1070 leads GTX 970 by 58%. Similarly, the gap between the two Pascal cards is pretty typical at 24% in favor of the GTX 1080.
Finally, checking in on poor Kepler, we find GTX 680 at 31.3fps at 1080p, as compared to GTX 1080’s 100.3fps. This gives NVIDIA’s latest flagship a 3.2x advantage over its 4 year old predecessor.
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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?!!!