we all knew it was coming when NVIDIA announced the GTX 1080 last year there
was already speculation that the GTX 1080 TI would launch
shortly and I guess they were running on
valve time though in their defense that is still quite a bit better than AMD
time at this point so here we are then 10 months later and we finally got the
latest Titan killer from NVIDIA and at
rough half the cost get
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link in the video description so the GPU Market has been
pretty quiet lately and for good reason
there just hasn't really been much in the way of direct competition between
our beloved red and green Giants since
NVIDIA has stuck to the high end for their 160 nanometer product launches and
AMD's been busy building out their mid-range and budget lineup thankfully
for those of us who are interested in the high-end NVIDIA has graciously
decided that they're just Plum old sick of selling gp102 video cards for over
$1,000 and turned it up to 11 with the
GTX 1080 TI the founders Edition flavor
of which they've sent over for our evaluation it's got 11 gigs of GDDR 5x
memory at 11 gbit per second ah I see
what they did there which is 1 gab less
than the Titan XP but at a higher speed to substantially increased memory
throughput good thing too because we go from a 384-bit memory bus down to
352bit it has the same number of Cuda cores at
3584 and while they share the same
transistor count of 12 million the 1080
TI's cores boost up to a rated 1582 MHz
instead of 1531 so far so good but what the 1080 TI
lacks compared to the Titan XP and I
mean aside from the DVI port that they ditched in favor of more exhaust room
for the fan is RS I mean to be clear it
has them just fewer we go from 96 down
to 88 while also losing 256 kilobytes of
level 2 cash which is a part of what allows NVIDIA to build the 1080 TI for
less but how is that going to affect
performance is it possible that this time Titan XP owner ERS will get to
continue to enjoy a performance Advantage however small in return for
that Hefty early adopter tax they paid
well in our lineup is the Titan XP the
new kids little brother GTX 1080 the
last gen GTX 980 TI that it directly
replaces and for Giggles since you can't even really buy one we've also included
AMD's fastest GPU to date the Radeon R9
Fury X so that then is business as usual
but wait there's something different our
Intel test bench we'll have a core i7
7700k and our AMD test bench whoa two
test benches we'll have a ryzen 7 1800x on a
Gigabyte orus ax370 gaming 5 because Max
dropped our ASUS Crosshair 6 no why both
you might ask well because if you've been waiting for ryzen and the GTX 1080
TI to drop in order to start your next
upgrade or new build well you're probably also waiting for benchmarks
that combine the two so don't worry then hypothetical viewer we've got you
covered we'll kick things off with DSX mankind divided indirect X11 on the AMD
platform our 1080 TI was neck and neck with the Titan XP and on our Intel bench
actually Beat It Out moving into DirectX
12 we see the NVIDIA lineup stumble somewhat with the 1080 TI appearing to
take one of the smallest hits along with the Titan XP meanwhile the fury X gained
some frames good news for all the Forward Thinking AMD users out there
Rise of the Tomb Raider in direct X11 mode sees the 1080ti pull ahead of the
pack on the Intel system while it falls slightly behind on AMD with this story
ending about the same way that DSX did
with a modest performance drop in directx12 mode in for Honor on the other
hand the 1080ti pulls ahead on both test
benches with the older 980 TI and fury X
virtually tied at the bottom and Grand Theft Auto 5 tells the same Gangland
tale though it clearly favors the extra threads available on ryzen with a
significantly higher minimum frame rate on that platform versus Intel Doom
meanwhile found the opposite was true ripping and tearing with fewer threads
and placing our 1080 TI in both tests
within the margin of error of the Titan XP rounding out our game tests then is
Crisis 3 which seemed to perform about on par between our platforms and exactly
the same on our ryzen bench 3D Mark pitches in for our
synthetic benchmarks here finding the 1080 TI at the top of the pile in both
fir strike Ultra and time spy and our ryzen bench performing better overall
thanks to 3D Mark favoring higher core counts over per thread performance at
least to a point the 1080 TI matches our
Titan xp's thermals pretty closely which
in spite of NVIDIA's marketing about two times larger airflow path which doesn't
really work that way is no surprise
given that it runs the same gp102 GPU and is rated at the same 250 W TDP we
found that it idled slightly warmer than the Titan XP while at full burn it
maintained 85° at 2300 to 2385 MHz on
the core thanks to GPU Boost 2.0 okay then so clearly the 1080 TI is
a powerful card though at $700 like it freaking better be more
importantly is it a good value well
compared to the Titan XP it certainly is but then again what wouldn't be
so how does it hold up against the rest of our test stable well to find out
we've compiled the average FPS for each of our game tests then divided the
available cards by their brand new price or the unavailable ones by the going
rate on eBay as well as the last price we can find for them new so on both test
benches the 1080 TI FPS per dollar works out to about
84 very similar actually a little better
than the GTX 1080 TI with the 980 TI and
the fury X both looking great if you're buying them used but definitely not as
good if you uh go by what we used to have to pay for that kind of performance
which I suppose gives us our conclusion then at 699 us the 1080 TI is only cheap
if you wipe your butt with AMD RX 480s
and game on a recreation of the compensator 2.0 but it trades blows with
the Titan XP as the fastest video card we've ever seen and more importantly it
actually holds its own when it comes to FPS per dollar to not perhaps compared
to lower tier products like the aforementioned rx480 but certainly among
other top tier gpus which is pretty cool
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