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No-Compromise 4K Gaming, Now Feasible?
With no real expectations, I set out to discover just how fast the 1080 really was.
For the price, the obvious reference points included theTitan X,GTX 980 TiandRadeon R9 Fury X.
Is the GTX 1080 that solution?
So how does the GTX 1080 stack up against existing competition?
The 1080 was also 34% faster than the Fury X. Interestingly, it remained 60% faster than the GTX 980.
But what about AMD, what does the GTX 1080 do to their Fury X?
In short, nothing good.
The GTX 1080 Founders Edition costs just 11% more and is some 30% faster.
Then when when more affordable board partner cards land, the Fury X will have to be dropped further.
Frankly I was expecting about 20% more performance than the Titan X after Nvidia’s announcement.
What I wasn’t sure of was the power consumption.
Those high clocked CUDA cores had me second guessing the 1080’s efficiency.
The GTX 1080 consumes about the same amount of power as theGTX 980.
This is more than remarkable since the Pascal-based card is 60% faster.
So stay tuned, as we plan to check out Gigabyte’s masterpiece in the coming weeks.
Pros:Phenomenal performance, great overclocker, efficiency is top notch.
