Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB in review

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Using the same benchmark sequence and detail settings allows us to compare today's measurement results and data with those from our test of the Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) 12GB. This is relevant because Nvidia addressed multiple performance improvements for DirectX-12 and Vulcan-based games at a recent press representative workshop.

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti slips past the Titan X (Pascal) and works out a 30 percent performance advantage over the normal GTX 1080; on the GTX 980 Ti, it is even a whopping 76 percent.

To return to the above sales, the Titan X is now almost 12 percent faster than the first test in August 2016. In the meantime, Nvidia has not only optimized drivers, but we have also upgraded our test platform from a Core i7-6700K to a Core i7-7700K. So let's take a look at the 4K results, as platform performance is even less important there.

The Titan X is now almost 14 percent faster than in August, so it looks like Nvidia has made positive changes – either through its drivers or through a collaboration with id. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also benefits from these changes and is again faster than the Titan X (Pascal).

More resources ensure that the GTX 1080 Ti outperforms the normal GTX 1080 by 34 percent – and is a whopping 88 percent faster than the last generation GeForce GTX 980 Ti. And AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X, thanks to the higher resolution that can beat both the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX 1070, the GTX 1080 Ti has a 68 percent lead over the Fiji-based AMD flagship.

Fortunately, all cards under Ultra HD are fast enough to deliver a reasonably fluid gaming performance that our Unevenness index classifies as acceptable playability.

Grand Theft Auto V (DX11)

We have made our Grand Theft Auto V benchmark even more challenging by using 4x MSAA (instead of 2x) and 4x Reflection MSAA (instead of off). The rest of the settings are set to the respective maximum value.

This time the Titan X (Pascal) secures the first place – albeit with only a few FPS advantage. The GTX 1080 Ti is still 26 percent faster than the GTX 1080 and 65 percent faster than the older GTX 980 Ti.

As we saw last year, DirectX 12 tends to put AMD's Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture in a positive light. Radeon cards, on the other hand, typically don't do as well in DirectX-11 titles. Consequently, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in GTA V – the first DX11 title in our course – is establishing its largest lead of 89 percent to date on the Radeon R9 Fury X.

The lead of the new GeForce card on AMD's aged flagship grows to a staggering 95 percent as it switches to 4K resolution. Nvidia's two top graphics cards are playable, but the Radeon card is not.

Thanks to the higher resolution, the GTX 1080 Ti can push its way past the Titan X (Pascal) again and increase its distance to the regular GTX 1080 to almost 36 percent.

Hitman (DX12)

In our Hitman benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is equivalent to the Titan X and delivers an average frame rate 14 percent higher than the GTX 1080.

Our Unevenness Index shows fairly fluid performance for all six candidates, even with ultra-detail settings. So go to the 4K benchmark and its more onerous workload!

Thanks to its higher clock speed, the GTX 1080 Ti can work out a small advantage on the Titan X (Pascal) at the higher graphics load. Their lead over the normal GTX 1080 grows to a whopping 30 percent.

All graphics cards tested today deliver more or less playable frame rates. But the top-rated GTX 1080 Ti is more than 81 percent faster than its predecessor, the GTX 980 Ti. Especially in the 4K range, the huge difference is.

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