Nvidia GTX 1080 Performance Review

[LinusTech]

Amazon: http://geni.us/3ujc

NCIX: http://bit.ly/25aBH6v

 

Nvidia has made some pretty bold claims about the GTX 1080... but are those claims accurate? Let's see how it holds up to our slew of tests!

 

 

[Networking Wolf]

So does it support 1080p?

[FirstArmada]

Other written and video reviews can be found in my thread

 

 

[Morgan MLGman]

Great news! Impressive performance. I'm eagerly waiting for AMD's response. This might make things seriously interesting on the GPU market, especially if Polaris is competitive.

[FloRolf]

repost, come on Linus, you know better than that....

[GreezyJeezy]

Repost

[LinusTech]

2 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

repost, come on Linus, you know better than that....

But... but...

[InsanelySecretD]

Now, that's the review I wanted to see first

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Jstone said:

So does it support 1080p?

sadly no, it only supports 480p

[Fulgrim]

Only 4k benchmarks?

 

/sigh

[Aytex]

no 1080p benchmarks

[Djole123]

But can it run Minecraft?

[captain cactus]

Now get this and a 980ti to the same clock speed and run benchmarks again. I wanna see the instructions per clock improvements because at this point I really doubt there are any and the performance improvements we do see mostly come from the increase in core clock speed.

 

Also, what is that Fury X doing there being on par with/beating the Titan X? Last time I checked it was on-par with a 980ti, not with a Titan X.

[michaelocarroll007]

22 minutes ago, Aytex said:

no 1080p benchmarks

idk just my opinion but anyone looking to drop 600+ on a graphics card and playing at 1080p should probably spend there money more equally throughout the build  a 1070 and 1440p High refresh rate maybe? or just get the 1070 if its as good as its sort of been hinted at 

[TFMRealm]

56 minutes ago, LinusTech said:

Amazon: http://geni.us/3ujc

NCIX: http://bit.ly/25aBH6v

 

Nvidia has made some pretty bold claims about the GTX 1080... but are those claims accurate? Let's see how it holds up to our slew of tests!

 

 

But can it run Minesweeper?

[Simon771]

But what score does it get in this becnhmark: 

 

 

For Extreme HD preset  

 

[Aytex]

18 minutes ago, michaelocarroll007 said:

idk just my opinion but anyone looking to drop 600+ on a graphics card and playing at 1080p should probably spend there money more equally throughout the build  a 1070 and 1440p High refresh rate maybe? or just get the 1070 if its as good as its sort of been hinted at 

a 980 ti cant fully max out gta 5 sooo

[Unhelpful]

26 minutes ago, michaelocarroll007 said:

 

You still can't max out all games at 1080p with a 980ti. Someone who plays 1080p and wants a 1080, is probably going to be because they want ZERO DIPS.

[SkilledRebuilds]

A 1080p + DSR Beast to obliterate Supersampled frames until your monitor gets upgraded.

1440p Maxed Out Gameplay with Ample High-FPS to Max out any game or close to it.

4K with Minimal sacrifices to Medium, likely High Details enabled but still less than 60fps in some titles doing so.

 

Then there is the High-HZ refresh argument to be had.

 

Depending on the usage, seems a beast. (Pity about it being clock4clock cycle architecturally same as Maxwell)

[Progressor]

Great review! Seems like an awesome card.

[bill52600]

Did it really open for preorders on Amazon? If so, link?

[sgloux3470]

I'm still debating if it's worth it to sell off my 980's and get one 1080.  It's so similar in performance, but still ultimately a 5-10% downgrade ignoring overclocks.  Depends on how well the 1080 overclocks compared to the 980.  I'd probably be able to sell the cards, buy a 1080 and still have some change left over though.  

 

I'm also concerned about my 980 performance degrading in newer titles relative to the 1080, which is all but inevitable with Nvidia.  I wouldn't be surprised if 980 SLI goes from +5% over a 1080 at 4K to -15% within 6 months.

[Mikius10001]

2 minutes ago, sgloux3470 said:

I'm still debating if it's worth it to sell off my 980's and get one 1080.  It's so similar in performance, but still ultimately a 5-10% downgrade ignoring overclocks.  Depends on how well the 1080 overclocks I guess.  I'd probably be able to sell the cards, buy a 1080 and still have some change left over though.  

 

I'm also concerned about my 980 performance degrading in newer titles relative to the 1080, which is all but inevitable with Nvidia.  I wouldn't be surprised if 980 SLI goes from +5% over a 1080 to -15% within 6 months.

I know that this is very limited info, but Dimitri @ Hardware Canucks was able to get a stable 2126 MHz overclock going on with his 1080. Said it ran like a beast basically.

[sgloux3470]

Just now, Mikius10001 said:

I know that this is very limited info, but Dimitri @ Hardware Canucks was able to get a stable 2126 MHz overclock going on with his 1080. Said it ran like a beast basically.

 

It all depends on how that translates into framerate though. If it can only get 10% more performance even with some crazy high overclock then even a mild 980 overclock can match or exceed that.

 

 

[SkepticKrab]

Where are the overclocking results for this card? Did you get yours to 2GHZ or anywhere close?!?