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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TallestJon96 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Still Waiting on that 960 review :)All kidding aside I'm I'm sure Il'll enjoy this review. Probably buy a 1080 in 2-3 weeks
Sandcat - Thursday, July 21, 2016 - link
Mea culpa.Armus19 - Thursday, July 21, 2016 - link
Could you pretty please do the usual HTPC credentials test for 1070, 1080 and 1060 and RX 480 as well pretty please? Otherwise a great review.Xajel - Thursday, July 21, 2016 - link
I hope to add to this list a new revisit for Hardware Decoding+Encoding capabilities for these new GPU's in comparison to Intel QuickSync and pure Software solutions...JBVertexx - Friday, July 22, 2016 - link
Still waiting..... I've been checking all afternoon.....JBVertexx - Friday, July 22, 2016 - link
For the 1060 review, that is.....colinisation - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Lovely stuff as always chaps, to the complaints quality takes time.There goes my evening.
i4mt3hwin - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
"As of the time this paragraph was written, Newegg only has a single GTX 1080 in stock, a Founders Edition card at $499."Should be $699
osxandwindows - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Finally!jsntech - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Nice review.On page /30 (Power, Temp, etc.):
"...there is a real increate in power..."