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 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.
With DiRT Rally, the GTX 1080 was already capable of breaking 60fps at 4K, so the GTX 1080 Ti just adds to the lead here. Though it’s not for naught; with high refresh rate 4K monitors due a bit later this year, the GTX 1080 Ti will be a good match. Otherwise for high refresh rate 1440p monitors, the GTX 1080 Ti is the first card that should be able to peg those monitors at their full 144Hz refresh rate.
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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.