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Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you should be aware that Nvidia officially confirmed the GTX 1080Ti last week, sporting a GP102 GPU core with a claimed 35 percent performance advantage over the standard GTX 1080. Reviewers already have their hands on these cards and are preparing reviews, in the meantime though, leakers have been busy with the first GTX 1080Ti benchmark results popping up online today.
Reviews won't be live until later this week but it seems that Chiphell has some Firestrike results ahead of time for 1080p, 1440p and 4K performance. However, as Videocardz point out, the GPU in use here is overclocked to around 2GHz on the GPU core, meaning performance will be slightly ahead of a stock GTX 1080Ti.
In standard Fire Strike running at 1080p, the GTX 1080Ti scored 24,550 points. On Fire Strike Extreme, which runs at 2560×1440, the OC'd GTX 1080Ti scored 14,467 points and finally, in Fire Strike Ultra (4K), this card scored 7,535 points. For comparison, a Founder's Edition GTX 1080 tends to score around 5000 points in Fire Strike Ultra in its stock state.
The only downside here is that Fire Strike is a synthetic benchmark, so we are still unsure just how well this performance will translate into games.
KitGuru Says: Reviews should be with us quite soon so we don't have long to wait to find out how the GTX 1080Ti will perform in games. That said, you could probably just take a look at some Titan X Pascal results for an educated guess. Are any of you planning on picking up a GTX 1080Ti?
I was at one time but now just going to wait for a Volta or Vega card. My current 2 cards will hold me over until then I guess. Mind you my power supply would probably be a lot happier if I was to get one of these cards..:)
beast card i got 16,666 with my gtx 1080 i7 6700k
Although I could afford to jump on a 1080Ti I think it would be better for me to stick with my 1080 6700k config and then do a new system build when the Volta cards hit the market
Vega probably won’t compete. AMD is selling the 1080ti at $699 for a reason….because they know what performance and price point Vega will likely be. Vega is unlikely to top a 1080ti. Unlike GDDR5X, HBM takes up die space…over 30% of it per 8GB. That means if AMD wants to make it a 12GB or more card, which they’ll need to, that’s essentially half of the die space taken up by memory, without even increasing performance at all. So they essentially need almost double the die space in Vega, just to compete with Pascal….and as we know, it’s just not that big of a chip.
Volta probably won’t bring anything to compete with the 1080ti for a year or two.
GDDR5X is about as fast as HBM, and with Nvidia’s memory compression, the effective transfer rate is basically over 1TB/s. Of course with HBM, Nvidia will be able to further increase that speed with compression.
But really, there’s no reason to hold out for vega or volta. The 1080ti is one of the clearest cut enthusiast purchases, it’s a safe purchase.
No. Its priced 200 over what it should be.
Will wait for Vega. May not be as fast but no nvidia tax.
HBM memory is stacked…………
lol I was thinking that about HBM but I’m sure AMD appreciate Joe saving them all the money on market analysis. Why don’t people just wait and see what Vega is capable of. Ryzen has been a huge success….Apart from those people moaning about the few frames dropped in the 140fps+ range?
If nViodia would only support Freesync then I’d get a Ti in a heartbeat! Unfortunately my new LG 38UC99 is Freesynmc so the Fury I bought is only just managing atm. I have to wait for Vega, and hope it’s decent (45-50%+ faster than FuryX)
You’re score is quite low since my PC (i7 2600K + GTX1060 iChill x3) got 12,264
If LiquidSky is able to offer their game streaming services on an ad based revenue model because of Vega, then I’m willing to go out on a limb and say Vega is going to offer some competition to the 1080Ti. I think Vega will be between the 1080 & the 1080ti but will be offered for $150-200 cheaper than the 1080Ti
The Fury X is as fast as a 1070 in some games at 1080p, mostly at 1440p/4k though. Hence its price.