NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Video Card Review @ [H]

A good card for the 4k crowd, but unless your at 4k or doing VR I am seeing less need to upgrade the video card. I will wait and see what Vega offers and decide if I really need to replace the old 290x as it does fine for me so far.
 
Nice review...I'm surprised no VR numbers though! I guess it's probably about on-par or slightly better than the Titan there though, as well.
 
Gideon said:
A good card for the 4k crowd, but unless your at 4k or doing VR I am seeing less need to upgrade the video card. I will wait and see what Vega offers and decide if I really need to replace the old 290x as it does fine for me so far.
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Not just for the 4K crowd. This is great for anyone playing above 1080p/60Hz, including 1080p/144Hz.
 
An excellent read. Thank you. I was most disappointed in one respect though: I would have liked you to have included the previous generation - the 980 Ti or Maxwell Titan X.
 
Gideon said:
A good card for the 4k crowd, but unless your at 4k or doing VR I am seeing less need to upgrade the video card. I will wait and see what Vega offers and decide if I really need to replace the old 290x as it does fine for me so far.
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I disagree...this kind of horsepower is still useful for lower res (1080p and 1440p, as examples) with settings cranked and higher refresh rates/FPS. And games aren't getting any less demanding on GPU hardware.
 
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Terpfen said:
Not just for the 4K crowd. This is great for anyone playing above 1080p/60Hz, including 1080p/144Hz.
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I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
 
tbonepat11 said:
Nvidia blew everyone away with the 1080 and did it again without any competition with the 1080ti.... Impressive.

Thankfully we have VR to keep Nvidia pushing forward otherwise they might have pulled an Intel and phoned this one in.
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Unlike CPU GPU keep getting pushed by game developers thankfully, and NVIDIA just keeps scaling down their beastly server GPU anyways so they have lots of competition from intel in that market. We are the lucky beneficiaries of that trickle down competition ;)
 
DejaWiz said:
I disagree...this kind of horsepower is still useful for lower res (1080p and 1440p, as examples) with settings cranked and higher refresh rates/FPS.
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Gideon said:
I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
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Yeah as someone who games with a gtx 1080 @1080 144hz I can say right now the 1080 is CPU limited so a 1080Ti is absolutely overkill at that resolution, but the fact it can do 1440 144hz makes me wished I waited to upgrade my monitor.
 
Well the good thing for us 1080p guys is there should be a price drop coming to the regular 1080 cards, so I'm jumping on one of those here in the next couple of days hopefully...
 
Great review!

This makes me feel WAY better about my pre-order on the 1080ti.
 
50Cal said:
...every reviewer is including AA in their 4k benchmarks and its not needed at 4k.
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That is true for the 27"-30" range where the high DPI makes AA fairly irrelevant. But, a lot of PC enthusiasts these days are taking advantage of the reasonably low response times of the new smart TVs, and at those screen sizes, the jaggies and crawlies often start becoming noticeable again.
 
Thanks for the read!
Any chance in the near future you guys will be benchmarking the TI in SLI?
 
Well this puts a wrench in my upgrade plans. Was going to get a 1080 to upgrade from my radeon 390. Already have a 4k monitor and find its just not good enough for 4k gaming, but wow what an upgrade....
 
Eshelmen said:
Thanks for the read!
Any chance in the near future you guys will be benchmarking the TI in SLI?
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It's not on the board at the moment. I'm going to be bold and say multi-GPU isn't as popular or utilized or even supported as it once was. Maybe it will shift back in the future, I do not know. DX12 complicates things since all the work is now on the developer to implement multi-GPU and driver tweaks or profiles are no longer relevant with that API. But, Vulkan just got multi-GPU support, so we will see.
 
Gideon said:
I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
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Again... high refresh rates at 1080p.
 
Nice review as always, thank you gentlemen. Happy to see Nvidia not sitting on their butts collecting money off of the Founders and (high) 1080 pricing. They also could have gone full tilt and cranked this thing to the moon with little headroom and really done a number on the benchmarks...like a competitor of theirs always does...some day I wonder if Nvidia will. That would be interesting!
 
Gideon said:
I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
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Helps future proof your system.

It's going to take until the 11 series comes out before I can nab me one (two for VRSLI) of these buggers.

Anyone who complains about their 1080s or Titans becoming outdated should realize that sometime in the near future the 1080 Ti will become aged, too. Welcome to PC gaming, it's a not for the faint of heart or wallets.
 
I still don't regret snagging 2 Titan XP's and enjoying the hell out of them for the past several months. (These things crush doing BR encodes with CUDA to my NAS box!)

I'm glad to see other people will now be able to afford to get the same sort of experience I've had all this time, its truly a wonderful thing being able to fire up most games, hit "MAX" and just play without having to fiddle around with things to get it buttery smooth.

So to those of you snagging a 1080ti.... ENJOY!! :)
 
Brent_Justice said:
It's not on the board at the moment. I'm going to be bold and say multi-GPU isn't as popular or utilized or even supported as it once was. Maybe it will shift back in the future, I do not know. DX12 complicates things since all the work is now on the developer to implement multi-GPU and driver tweaks or profiles are no longer relevant with that API. But, Vulkan just got multi-GPU support, so we will see.
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I'm quite pleased to see Vulkan got multi-GPU support. I hope that will cause a shift in the future but the smarter thing to do would be for NVIDIA to redesign SLI so that it just worked at a hardware level like SLI did for the VooDoo 2 cards back in the day. If such a thing is even remotely possible.
 
Gideon said:
I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
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Already been mentioned high fps 1080p.
Also VR users.
And 1080p users who want a 4K upgrade path.

I'm still at 1080p and am getting an AIB version.
 
Pretty impressed with this card based on several reviews I've read. Nearly 980Ti SLI performance at 1440p from a single card at this price point is pretty damn good. We haven't seen this type of price/performance at the top end from nVidia since the 8800GT
 
Gideon said:
I see little reason to buy the card for 1080p when a normal 1080 does that just fine, it makes the 1080ti overkill. As long as a card can stay above 60 fps most people are happy with that. At 1440 and above I see the use for the 1080ti.
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Because more and more gamers aren't playing at 60Hz, they're playing at 144, 165 or even 240Hz. Plus, even at 1080p/60, higher-end settings like increased draw distances, tesellation, and higher levels of AA are still not practical in some games.
 
So if i got this right its the same as the titan for the core count except mission ROPs? How important or how does those missing ROPs affect it? Like what do they do and how does it affect gaming or other GPU tasks?

Anyone know a good place that talks about OC/OV I plan on getting this card and want to see how better cooling and OVing affects clocks.
 
SomeGuy133 said:
So if i got this right its the same as the titan for the core count except mission ROPs? How important or how does those missing ROPs affect it? Like what do they do and how does it affect gaming or other GPU tasks?

Anyone know a good place that talks about OC/OV I plan on getting this card and want to see how better cooling and OVing affects clocks.
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Basically the missing ROPs cause framebuffer swaps to happen more slowly, but the increased memory speed makes up for that.
 
dewbak75 said:
Because more and more gamers aren't playing at 60Hz, they're playing at 144, 165 or even 240Hz. Plus, even at 1080p/60, higher-end settings like increased draw distances, tesellation, and higher levels of AA are still not practical in some games.
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While technically a true statement, I'd like to see some sort of citation that this is becoming anything more than a market niche. Moving from 0.08% of the market to 0.16% is still doubling volume, it's still negligible market penetration.
 
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