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 ESTDiRT Rally
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ DiRT Rally. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layered with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, DiRT Rally includes a number of DirectCompute based compute shader effects, and while it’s not the most punishing game in our suite, it still takes a very good card to sustain the 60fps frame rate that driving games are best played at.
With DiRT Rally, the GTX 1080 was already capable of breaking 60fps at 4K, so the GTX 1080 Ti just adds to the lead here. Though it’s not for naught; with high refresh rate 4K monitors due a bit later this year, the GTX 1080 Ti will be a good match. Otherwise for high refresh rate 1440p monitors, the GTX 1080 Ti is the first card that should be able to peg those monitors at their full 144Hz refresh rate.
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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.