The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition Review: Bigger Pascal for Better Performance
by Ryan Smith on March 9, 2017 9:00 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.
NVIDIA primarily promotes the GTX 1080 Ti as a 4K card, and for good reason. Thanks to Bigger Pascal, NVIDIA finally has the performance to break 60fps on a number of games at 4K, with The Witcher 3 chief among them. At 60.1fps it just makes that mark, with virtually no room to spare.
Overall this game is a strong showing for NVIDIA’s newest card. The GTX 1080 Ti picks up another 32% over the GTX 1080, and 75% over the last-generation GTX 980 Ti.
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eddman - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Adjusted for inflation: http://i.imgur.com/ZZnTS5V.pngMeteor2 - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Great charts!mapesdhs - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Except they excude the Titans, Fury, etc.eddman - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
I, personally, made these charts.No titans because they are very niche cards for those gamers who cannot wait and/or have more money than sense. The following Ti variants perform almost as good as the titan cards anyway.
No radeons because this is an nvidia-only chart. I should've titled it as such. I focused on nvidia because ATI/AMD usually don't price their cards so high.
mapesdhs - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Ok on the Radeon angled, shoulda realised it was NV only. :DHowever, your description of those who buy Titans cannot be anything than your own opinion, and what you don't realise is that for many store owners it's these very top-tier cards which bring in the majority of their important profit margins. They make far less on the mainstream cards. They enthusiast market is extremely important, whether or not one individually regards the products as being relevant for one's own needs. You need to be objective here.
mapesdhs - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Sorry for the typos... am on a train, wobbly kybd. :D Is this site ever gonna get modern and allow editing??...eddman - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
I think I am being objective. Titan cards do not fit into the regular geforce range. They are like an early pass. Wait a few months and you can have a Ti that performs the same at a much lower price.If nvidia never released a similar performing Ti card, I would've included them.
eddman - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Also I don't see how stores and their profits has anything to do with that.Mr Perfect - Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - link
Nice work on those charts.So there where a couple years where top tier cards where $400 or less. Inflation number normalize that price a fair bit though.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
Those days are long-gone, and not just because of profit taking. 16/14nm FinFET GPUs are astonishingly expensive to design and fab. The masks are in the millions, and now everything has to be double-patterned.