Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Review

[logainofhades]

Even with perfect 100% scaling, I would say the 1080ti would still beat it.

 

[dstarr3]

Wondering how the card compares to @x 970 (SLI) at 4k?....

This is performing about on par with SLI 980 Ti. Two 970s don't stand a chance.

 

[timf79]

There is a no doubt the 1080 TI will be faster, but the question is how much?
As in worth to spend the price difference between selling used 970's to a mew 1080 TI?

 

[anbello262]

Wondering how the card compares to @x 970 (SLI) at 4k?....

From my understanding, SLI gtx 970 is not very far from a single 980ti on average, so you have quite a good comparison there.

 

[FormatC]

Aquaduct + Mora 3 waiting for UPS ... next week i should get the water block and the "illusion" ehhm active backplate
I hope the 2100 will work for me too^^

The decision, to use a backplate for additional cooling or not, depends at the performance of your water cooling. I have a max. Delta of 7-8K between water (Out) and the GPU (what is very close to the max. possible), the socket on the PCB is below 45°C and the VRM block not hotter than 55°C. Heat emission into the case inner is in my case a bad suggestion, because I try to transport the heat only over the water. With a delta above 10 Kelvin it can make sense.

 

[Ricardo Javier]

Excellent reeview as always but this time they missed the professional applications! Could you include them please?

 

[JPCM2014]

"Exakt ab 116% ist übrigens bereits das Limit-Flag für die Power gesetzt"
So they stole 4% of power to give us less OC and make custom cards more attractive? So the dual MOS FETs are only for a cooler card?
I hope there will be an alternative to the shound mod(bios mod?)

 

[billyboy999]

I wonder if the memory module that is "missing" is different for each board, as the exact memory controller/module disabled is different for each GPU.

 

[FormatC]

"Exakt ab 116% ist übrigens bereits das Limit-Flag für die Power gesetzt"
So they stole 4% of power to give us less OC and make custom cards more attractive? So the dual MOS FETs are only for a cooler card?I hope there will be an alternative to the shound mod(bios mod?)

The same shunt mod as for Titan X Pascal

Done. Up to 2,1 GHz stable

 

[DerekA_C]

FORMATC you managed to overclock that thing by 41.9% that is insane and extremely rare on any kind of chip. I'm thinking I will be getting one I bet at 2.1ghz it is able to push any game at 4k ultra at this point in time.

 

[FormatC]

Wait for the review today

 

[loki1944]

Somewhat underwhelming @4k, sometimes only 10FPS faster than a GTX 1080. Was expecting bigger gains in heavy hitting games @4K.

 

[hughw]

Does the GTX 1080 Ti have dual DMA engines for overlapping data transfer?

 

[67168]

Until my 780 died just this past Friday, I was going to hold out until pascal refresh or volta, but now since I'm stuck with using an old 560 ti, I'm going to be pulling the trigger on either a 1080 or 1080 ti soon. I'm leaning toward the latter, for both the future proof aspect and because I can't stop imagining how sweet a 2K ultra-wide like an X34P would be sitting on my desk.
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Edit: Even though my 1080 ti is scheduled to arrive today, after popping my 780 in the oven for eleven minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit (without the ACX cooler), it's working great again. Even have a 100Mhz overclock.

 

[Thunderballs]

This is an excellent card. I have bought a second 1080 and am noow GTX 1080 SLI and 1440p.

Personally I prefer the flexibility of having the two cards as I can sell one or both on and have benefited from the price drop in the second hand market.

SLI not a problem for me in the games I play.

 

[RoyalPredator]

This whole article is a BS. I have REF 980Ti and get better results on same settings.
Is it a paid Pascal advertising or what did I just read? -.-'

 

[FormatC]

And I'm Jesus and I can walk over the water.
You can write us a lot... Ok, mostly BS.

The 980 Ti Reference is significant slower

 

[loki1944]

This whole article is a BS. I have REF 980Ti and get better results on same settings.
Is it a paid Pascal advertising or what did I just read? -.-'

LOL. You must have a prototype 1080Ti O/C then.

 

[TechyInAZ]

This whole article is a BS. I have REF 980Ti and get better results on same settings.
Is it a paid Pascal advertising or what did I just read? -.-'

How does that saying go......"It isn't true until you give us proof."

 

[FormatC]

I wave no idea which pills he got, but hey - I need this awesome stuff too.

 

[RoyalPredator]

Crap? Sure, if you say so....
Somehow it can still OC up to most non-reference card values, with the only drawback of bit louder noise. Which I don't care about since its still not annoying to me and I use headset as well.

And an another thing which is may unique on my side is that I own a Silverstone RV01 case, where the whole motherboard is rotated. Somehow "supercooler" cards doesn't really work, meanwhile blower card do the job nicely.

 

[FormatC]

My wife is using a 980 Ti Reference in a Lian Li O7S and this card will be removed soon.
It is simply too noisy and a little bit too slow for current games in 4K.

(while stressing it)

 

[loki1944]

Crap? Sure, if you say so....
Somehow it can still OC up to most non-reference card values, with the only drawback of bit louder noise. Which I don't care about since its still not annoying to me and I use headset as well.

And an another thing which is may unique on my side is that I own a Silverstone RV01 case, where the whole motherboard is rotated. Somehow "supercooler" cards doesn't really work, meanwhile blower card do the job nicely.

I'm with you, I have to chuckle at the hate leveled towards reference cards. They're perfectly fine. But there's just no way a 980Ti can come close to a 1080Ti. A 1080, possibly with insane overclocking, but a 1080Ti, nope.

 

[RoyalPredator]

@ FormatC That's true, but no single card will run the newest top-graphics games in 4K with every detail maxed.
For that, SLI is the way. I'm not really onto 4K anyway as long as I see the gap between pixels even at the best available screens at the stores, from my confort distance.
I will bother with it when PPI reaches 400. Until that, AA will be my friend.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

This is an excellent card. I have bought a second 1080 and am now GTX 1080 SLI and 1440p.

Personally I prefer the flexibility of having the two cards as I can sell one or both on and have benefited from the price drop in the second hand market.

SLI not a problem for me in the games I play.

The problem for SLI w/ 10xx series id SLI isn't what it was with 9xx series, For 9xx, scaling at 1440p, was over 70% in TPUs 16 game test suite. With 10xx, it's just 18% and with 1440p it's just 30% which makes it very hard to justify the additional expense. At 4k, it's over 50%.

Why is this ? Possibilities include:

a) GPU advancements have been as much as 50+% generation to generation where each CPU generation has averaged < 5% since 2011. This has resulted in the GPU being less of a bottleneck than it once was.

b) With the 1070 / 1080 being the only SLI capable cards, and no competition from AMD as yet, improved SLI performance will impact the sales of only 1 card ... the 1080 ... and soon the 1080 Ti once the non reference cards come out. Improved SLI performance therefore would therefore cut into nVidia's bottom line as it would mean more 1070s sold and less 1080 / 1080 Tis sold and the more expensive cards have higher profit margins.

The Asus Strix is 3% faster than the reference 1080 Ti and let's look at what happens under load:

The Asus (blue line) maintains a stable 1925 core speed whereas the reference card throttles and after about 1.5 minutes, is unable to get anywhere near that with cores ranging between 1660 and 1770. All that spiking is the source of stuttering seen on screen.

Tis is basically a repeat of what we have seen with every FE card. TPU has the FE at 84C under load; the Strix version is at 69C. Throttling occurs at 82C and the FE again throttles right outta the box.