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This is a high-quality chip that will get you amazing performance in a quiet, well-built package. To get the 4K they want, both companies are likely planning to deploy visual tricks that gives us a kind of faux 4K that the human eye can’t distinguish from actual 4K.īut you’re getting what you pay for with Nvidia. This is because both Sony and Microsoft are going to try to squeeze 4K rendering from underpowered consoles like the PlayStation 4 Neo and Xbox One Scorpio in the next year. I also think that if 4K is your goal, we may be getting to a point where a lot of performance improvements start coming on the hardware side. Few GPUs match its power, and the one that does (Titan X), is crazy expensive and may not even really get to the solid 4K60 that you want. Conclusionĭespite any concerns about overkill, I think the 1080 is the right high-end card at the moment. In a world like that, the GTX 1080 is perhaps a little much. And I think that’s the new norm as publishers aim to maximize their return on investment.

We’re already seeing with games like Doom that developers want to deliver incredible visuals that run well on just about any modern card.

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Yes, it is powerful enough to get you through the next few generations of games, but I think the 1070 and possibly even 1060 are going to do fine as well if you’re going to play on a 1080p screen. If 4K is something you’re a long way away from investing in because those monitors are still relatively expensive, you may not need the 1080. I’m still happy with these results because I understood the limitation of the card, but you need to know what you aren’t getting with the GTX 1080.

While I’m happy that I can get over that hurdle in some of my favorite multiplayer games, single-player adventures often ran much closer to 45 frames per second.

The GTX 1080 is powerful, but it’s not the 4K60 card you were maybe hoping for. Still not enough for solid 4K at 60 frames per second As you can see, it gets over 60 FPS at 1440 in every single case. Here’s a look at how the 1080 performs at a number of resolutions across a variety of games. Each game was set to 1080p, Ultra settings, and 4X MSAA.

The 1080 blows away even the GTX 980 Ti and anything in the 400-series from AMD in our 12-game test. I tested the card on the same system as I had earlier examined RX 470 and 480 on - with an Intel Core i5-4690K, 16GB of G.Skill DDR3 memory, and Z97-Pro motherboard. I tried both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive games, and the card kept me locked at 90 FPS in every experience I booted up. They work well most of the time, but you’ll see them occasionally stumble to keep up with the most demanding scenes. The GTX 1060 and AMD’s Radeon RX 480 are the new entry-level VR cards. This means that my system - in a Fractal Design R5 case - is just as quiet as it was when I was using a hybrid liquid after-market cooler on my GTX 980 Ti. When it does, the cooling fan quietly dissipates that heat. The 1080 I have rarely climbs into the high 80 degrees centigrade range. That also includes more power with less heat. That’s a big innovation in the 14nm process that powers the Pascal chips - they produce more with less juice. Nvidia lists it as drawing 250 watts of energy. In the rig I’m using, I’m coming off a GTX 980 Ti, which is a great card that required a whole lot of power. I’m testing the Founder’s Edition GTX 1080. Having a card that can deliver that kind of performance in a large portion of the games I play the most justifies the 1080 to me. And I play in 4K in Overwatch, Rocket League, and other multiplayer games, and that gives me a small advantage at making out details at a distance. I knew going into the 1080 that it wouldn’t deliver a solid 4K60, but I’m happy with how well it handles that resolution. Even The Division, which has an unforgiving benchmarking tool, looked great at 4K on the Nvidia G-Sync-capable display while only putting out an average FPS of 42. Games like Fallout 4, Hitman, and GTA V were close enough that when paired with a (still expensive) G-Sync monitor that eliminate screen tearing, everything looked like it was running at a solid 60 FPS. In my testing, I was able to get Doom (2016), Rocket League, and Overwatch over that mark. And the GTX 1080 can actually render many games at 4K and 60 FPS while set to Ultra. This resolution quadruples the number of pixels onscreen and results in a crisper, more realistic image than ever before.

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