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 ESTRise of the Tomb Raider
Starting things off in our benchmark suite is the built-in benchmark for Rise of the Tomb Raider, the latest iteration in the long-running action-adventure gaming series. One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 4 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
As we’re looking at the highest of high-end cards here, the performance comparisons are pretty straightforward. There’s the GTX 1080 Ti versus the GTX 1080, and then for owners with older cards looking for an upgrade, there’s the GTX 1080 Ti versus the GTX 980 Ti and GTX 780 Ti. It goes without saying that the GTX 1080 Ti is the fastest card that is (or tomorrow will be) on the market, so the only outstanding question is just how much faster NVIDIA’s latest card really is.
As you’d expect, the GTX 1080 Ti’s performance lead is dependent in part on the resolution tested. The higher the resolution the more GPU-bound a game is, and the more opportunity there is for the card to stretch its 3GB advantage in VRAM. In the case of Tomb Raider, the GTX 1080 Ti ends up being 33% faster than the GTX 1080 at 4K, and 26% faster at 1440p.
Otherwise against the 28nm GTX 980 Ti and GTX 780 Ti, the performance gains become very large very quickly. The GTX 1080 Ti holds a 70% lead over the GTX 980 here at 4K, and it’s a full 2.6x faster than the GTX 780 Ti. The end result is that whereas the GTX 980 Ti was the first card to crack 30fps at 4K on Tomb Raider, the GTX 1080 Ti is the first card that can actually average 60fps or better.
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deathtollwrx - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - link
I upgraded from aAsus 1080GTX 8oc and it made a huge difference for me.
OW was 110 fps now running about 155
OldManMcNasty - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Ok is it me but why are all the games old AF? AND why is the 800-pound gorilla named BF1 missing from just about every review?stardude82 - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Quick search pulls up many BF1 benchmarks for the 1080 Ti...bill44 - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Thanks Ryan, nice review.Still missing info/specs on Audio (inc. supported sampling rates), which, I suspect, you still not have at hand.
I have asked about this in the past.
hughw - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Does the 1080 Ti have dual DMA channels as the Titan X does?MarkieGcolor - Saturday, March 11, 2017 - link
Nvidia is so gay. I don't understand why people complain that intel's chips slowly optimize over the years. You seriously want your hardware to depreciate 50% every year?Meteor2 - Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - link
That's one way to look at it! But lose the homophobia.prateekprakash - Sunday, March 12, 2017 - link
Hi,After going through the well written review, I think: wouldn't it be nice if AIB partners (atleast one of them) released a blower type card with 3 slots, so that it could include a heftier heatsink, yet exhaust heat out? That way I could consider putting it in a congested chassis and not worrying about thermal throttling. PS: here in India, my zotac gtx 1060 mini reaches 78° c even in open air!
PocketNuke - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
GP106-GP102 have the same 4x int8 performance according to this article:https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mixed-p...
panicp - Sunday, October 15, 2017 - link
I have a GTX 1080Ti and to date, I've been using FSX which apparently devotes more use to the CPU than the GPU. I've just loaded P3D - and it really does look super smooth. The temp maxed out around 85 degs - and my monitoring software was having kittens showing me temps in the RED zone.Can thus GPU continue to run at this temp indefinitely? For unlimited hours?
Is it going to damage the card in the long run?
I'd appreciate your kind advice.