Kyle deleted my post in his review of the 1080 OC vs 1070 OC vs a STOCK Titan X (stock, really?), and told me to make my own thread.
So here it is!
A much, much better stock vs OC comparison of the 1080, 1070, 980 Ti, 980, and 970. I just noticed that they put a stock Titan X in there as well!
TLDR - if you pick up a 980 Ti for $400 or under and OC it, it will beat an OCed 1070 and come close to stock 1080 performance. And before you say you don't want to buy used, I picked up a brand new 980 Ti Classified from Newegg's Ebay storefront for $410 - deals on the 980 Ti are out there!
EDIT: Here are some tests that I did just to prove that this guy isn't full of it (I used the same settings that Tweaktown used for these, and used their scores for comparison) -
My Heaven score with those settings from Tweaktown's review - min 36.8 and an average of 153.9 which BEATS the stock 1080 (however they didn't do 1070 OC results).
I scored 5 221 in Fire Strike Ultra - there's my FS Ultra which also beats the stock 1080 (again, no 1070 OC result).
I scored 18 327 in Fire Strike - and here's my regular FS which also beats the stock 1080, AND THE 1070 OC by 12.7%
Yes, I'm only looking at the graphics score (click the link, Hard forum automagically did them with my overall score) for the 3DMark tests since comparing total scores is not all that great a measure of GPU unless the GPU is held back by the CPU.
Metro Last Light Redux - 158 FPS, 11% faster than the 1070 OC.
It's true - on average a 980 Ti is 10% faster, OC to OC, than a 1070. And if you have a good 980 Ti OC you'll beat out a stock 1080. A 1080 OC is only 10 to 15% faster than a 980 Ti OC.
So here it is!
A much, much better stock vs OC comparison of the 1080, 1070, 980 Ti, 980, and 970. I just noticed that they put a stock Titan X in there as well!
TLDR - if you pick up a 980 Ti for $400 or under and OC it, it will beat an OCed 1070 and come close to stock 1080 performance. And before you say you don't want to buy used, I picked up a brand new 980 Ti Classified from Newegg's Ebay storefront for $410 - deals on the 980 Ti are out there!
EDIT: Here are some tests that I did just to prove that this guy isn't full of it (I used the same settings that Tweaktown used for these, and used their scores for comparison) -
My Heaven score with those settings from Tweaktown's review - min 36.8 and an average of 153.9 which BEATS the stock 1080 (however they didn't do 1070 OC results).
I scored 5 221 in Fire Strike Ultra - there's my FS Ultra which also beats the stock 1080 (again, no 1070 OC result).
I scored 18 327 in Fire Strike - and here's my regular FS which also beats the stock 1080, AND THE 1070 OC by 12.7%
Yes, I'm only looking at the graphics score (click the link, Hard forum automagically did them with my overall score) for the 3DMark tests since comparing total scores is not all that great a measure of GPU unless the GPU is held back by the CPU.
Metro Last Light Redux - 158 FPS, 11% faster than the 1070 OC.
It's true - on average a 980 Ti is 10% faster, OC to OC, than a 1070. And if you have a good 980 Ti OC you'll beat out a stock 1080. A 1080 OC is only 10 to 15% faster than a 980 Ti OC.
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