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 ESTHitman
The final game in our 2016 benchmark suite is the 2016 edition of Hitman, the latest title in the stealth-action franchise. The game offers two rendering paths: DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, with the latter being the case of DirectX 12 being added after the fact. As with past Hitman games, the latest proves to have a good mix of scenery and high model counts to stress modern video cards.
Wrapping things up on the gaming side, we have Hitman. While several DX11 games have added DX12 over the last year, Hitman is perhaps the most interesting case both for driver optimization purposes, and just what the developers have been able to wring out. For the latest generation of cards, the game’s DX12 performance is more or less a wash; it’s not consistently better than DX11 in GPU-bound scenarios. However once we get CPU-bound, the threading and CPU overhead improvements of DX12 make themselves felt, improving performance on even the all-powerful GTX 1080 Ti at 1440p.
By the numbers then, under DX12 the GTX 1080 Ti picks up 24% over the GTX 1080, which is actually a smaller than average gain. Against the GTX 980 Ti however, NVIDIA’s latest card leads by 83%, making for a very strong generational improvement.
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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.