GTX 1080 Ti Review - AMAZING
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,470 words · ~7 min read
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we all knew it was coming when NVIDIA announced the GTX 1080 last year there
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was already speculation that the GTX 1080 TI would launch
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shortly and I guess they were running on
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valve time though in their defense that is still quite a bit better than AMD
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time at this point so here we are then 10 months later and we finally got the
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latest Titan killer from NVIDIA and at
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rough half the cost get
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amped hp's new Omen X lineup comes
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equipped with Intel's 7th generation core i7 processor check it out at the
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link in the video description so the GPU Market has been
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pretty quiet lately and for good reason
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there just hasn't really been much in the way of direct competition between
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our beloved red and green Giants since
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NVIDIA has stuck to the high end for their 160 nanometer product launches and
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AMD's been busy building out their mid-range and budget lineup thankfully
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for those of us who are interested in the high-end NVIDIA has graciously
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decided that they're just Plum old sick of selling gp102 video cards for over
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$1,000 and turned it up to 11 with the
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GTX 1080 TI the founders Edition flavor
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of which they've sent over for our evaluation it's got 11 gigs of GDDR 5x
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memory at 11 gbit per second ah I see
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what they did there which is 1 gab less
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than the Titan XP but at a higher speed to substantially increased memory
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throughput good thing too because we go from a 384-bit memory bus down to
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352bit it has the same number of Cuda cores at
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3584 and while they share the same
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transistor count of 12 million the 1080
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TI's cores boost up to a rated 1582 MHz
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instead of 1531 so far so good but what the 1080 TI
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lacks compared to the Titan XP and I
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mean aside from the DVI port that they ditched in favor of more exhaust room
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for the fan is RS I mean to be clear it
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has them just fewer we go from 96 down
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to 88 while also losing 256 kilobytes of
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level 2 cash which is a part of what allows NVIDIA to build the 1080 TI for
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less but how is that going to affect
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performance is it possible that this time Titan XP owner ERS will get to
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continue to enjoy a performance Advantage however small in return for
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that Hefty early adopter tax they paid
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well in our lineup is the Titan XP the
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new kids little brother GTX 1080 the
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last gen GTX 980 TI that it directly
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replaces and for Giggles since you can't even really buy one we've also included
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AMD's fastest GPU to date the Radeon R9
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Fury X so that then is business as usual
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but wait there's something different our
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Intel test bench we'll have a core i7
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7700k and our AMD test bench whoa two
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test benches we'll have a ryzen 7 1800x on a
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Gigabyte orus ax370 gaming 5 because Max
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dropped our ASUS Crosshair 6 no why both
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you might ask well because if you've been waiting for ryzen and the GTX 1080
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TI to drop in order to start your next
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upgrade or new build well you're probably also waiting for benchmarks
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that combine the two so don't worry then hypothetical viewer we've got you
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covered we'll kick things off with DSX mankind divided indirect X11 on the AMD
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platform our 1080 TI was neck and neck with the Titan XP and on our Intel bench
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actually Beat It Out moving into DirectX
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12 we see the NVIDIA lineup stumble somewhat with the 1080 TI appearing to
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take one of the smallest hits along with the Titan XP meanwhile the fury X gained
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some frames good news for all the Forward Thinking AMD users out there
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Rise of the Tomb Raider in direct X11 mode sees the 1080ti pull ahead of the
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pack on the Intel system while it falls slightly behind on AMD with this story
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ending about the same way that DSX did
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with a modest performance drop in directx12 mode in for Honor on the other
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hand the 1080ti pulls ahead on both test
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benches with the older 980 TI and fury X
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virtually tied at the bottom and Grand Theft Auto 5 tells the same Gangland
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tale though it clearly favors the extra threads available on ryzen with a
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significantly higher minimum frame rate on that platform versus Intel Doom
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meanwhile found the opposite was true ripping and tearing with fewer threads
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and placing our 1080 TI in both tests
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within the margin of error of the Titan XP rounding out our game tests then is
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Crisis 3 which seemed to perform about on par between our platforms and exactly
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the same on our ryzen bench 3D Mark pitches in for our
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synthetic benchmarks here finding the 1080 TI at the top of the pile in both
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fir strike Ultra and time spy and our ryzen bench performing better overall
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thanks to 3D Mark favoring higher core counts over per thread performance at
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least to a point the 1080 TI matches our
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Titan xp's thermals pretty closely which
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in spite of NVIDIA's marketing about two times larger airflow path which doesn't
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really work that way is no surprise
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given that it runs the same gp102 GPU and is rated at the same 250 W TDP we
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found that it idled slightly warmer than the Titan XP while at full burn it
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maintained 85° at 2300 to 2385 MHz on
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the core thanks to GPU Boost 2.0 okay then so clearly the 1080 TI is
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a powerful card though at $700 like it freaking better be more
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importantly is it a good value well
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compared to the Titan XP it certainly is but then again what wouldn't be
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so how does it hold up against the rest of our test stable well to find out
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we've compiled the average FPS for each of our game tests then divided the
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available cards by their brand new price or the unavailable ones by the going
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rate on eBay as well as the last price we can find for them new so on both test
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benches the 1080 TI FPS per dollar works out to about
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84 very similar actually a little better
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than the GTX 1080 TI with the 980 TI and
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the fury X both looking great if you're buying them used but definitely not as
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good if you uh go by what we used to have to pay for that kind of performance
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which I suppose gives us our conclusion then at 699 us the 1080 TI is only cheap
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if you wipe your butt with AMD RX 480s
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and game on a recreation of the compensator 2.0 but it trades blows with
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the Titan XP as the fastest video card we've ever seen and more importantly it
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actually holds its own when it comes to FPS per dollar to not perhaps compared
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to lower tier products like the aforementioned rx480 but certainly among
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