3DMark Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our [FutureMark’s] most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
Starting off with our 3DMark testing, there is a little bit of variance across the three tests but we can see that the RTX 2070 Gaming Z is safely faster than the GTX 1080. It pulls a lot closer to the GTX 1080 Ti in Time Spy (a DX12 benchmark) but falls further behind in the DX11 Fire Strike and Fire Strike Ultra benchmarks.