NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Performance Review: Pascal, The New King
Shadow of Mordor And Thief Performance
Monolith’s surprisingly fun Orc-slaying title Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, delivers a ton of visual fidelity even at the lowest quality settings. So, to maximize eye candy the eye-candy on these high-end graphics cards, we ran the game’s Ultra quality benchmark routine at a couple of resolutions, topping out at 4K--excuse us, 3840x2160 for the sticklers out there. All of the games graphics-related options were enabled, along with FXAA and Camera Blur...
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
At this point, we're starting to sound like a broken record, but the numbers are what they are. Once again, the GeForce GTX 1080 outpaced all of the other cards at both resolutions. It's lead over the Titan X opens up to about 24% here at the higher resolution, and pushed the framerate well into playable territory.
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Thief
Hey, look at that! The GeForce GTX 1080 outperformed every other card we tested, yet again, at both resolutions. Its lead isn't massive over the next-best performing card -- the factory-overclocked 980 Ti -- but the GTX 1080 is fastest nonetheless. The GTX 1080 beats the Fury X by about 23% and the Titan X by 25% at the higher resolution.
The GeForce GTX 1080's frametimes are smooth as silk here as well. The Radeon exhibited a number of perceptible spikes in this game, but the GeForces were consistent throughout the entire run, save for a single blip at the very beginning.
