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 ESTThe Witcher 3
The third game in CD Projekt RED’s expansive RPG series, The Witcher 3 is our RPG benchmark of choice. Utilizing the company’s in-house engine, REDengine 3, The Witcher makes use of an array of DirectX 11 features, all of which combine to make the game both stunning and surprisingly GPU-intensive. Our benchmark is based on an action-heavy in-engine cutscene early in the game, and Hairworks is disabled.
NVIDIA primarily promotes the GTX 1080 Ti as a 4K card, and for good reason. Thanks to Bigger Pascal, NVIDIA finally has the performance to break 60fps on a number of games at 4K, with The Witcher 3 chief among them. At 60.1fps it just makes that mark, with virtually no room to spare.
Overall this game is a strong showing for NVIDIA’s newest card. The GTX 1080 Ti picks up another 32% over the GTX 1080, and 75% over the last-generation GTX 980 Ti.
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Jon Tseng - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
Launch day Anandtech review?My my wonders never cease! :-)
Ryan Smith - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
For my next trick, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.blanarahul - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
Ooh.YukaKun - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
/clapsGood article as usual.
Cheers!
Yaldabaoth - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
Rocky: "Again?"Ryan Smith - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
No doubt about it. I gotta get another hat.Anonymous Blowhard - Thursday, March 9, 2017 - link
And now here's something we hope you'll really like.close - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Quick question: shouldn't the memory clock in the table on the fist page be expressed in Hz instead of bps being a clock and all? Or you could go with throughput but that would be just shy of 500GBps I think...Ryan Smith - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Good question. Because of the various clocks within GDDR5(X)*, memory manufacturers prefer that we list the speed as bandwidth per pin instead of frequency. The end result is that the unit is in bps rather than Hz.* http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10325/GDDR5X_Cloc...
close - Friday, March 10, 2017 - link
Probably due to the QDR part that's not obvious from reading a just the frequency. Thanks.