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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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..."