NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review - The Fastest Gaming Graphics Card Yet

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 09, 2017, 09:00 AM EDT

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 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 game's graphics-related options were enabled, along with FXAA and Camera Blur...

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Performance

Glorious Orc-Slaying Vengeance

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Things are pretty tight in this test, but the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti still manages to take the lead. The Titan X is right on its tail, but the standard GeForce GTX 1080 and Radeon R9 Fury X are left in the dust.

Tom Clancy's The Division

DirectX 12 Gaming Performance

Tom Clancy’s The Division is a gorgeous, open-world, third-person shooter developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The game features DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 support, with an array of advanced graphics techniques. Its built-in benchmark reports average frames per second, along with a typical frames per second number, which is an average of the fastest 99% of frames. We ran the game using its DX12 code path, with in-game image quality options set to their Ultra pre-set.

Tom Clancy's The Division

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The new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti outperformed every other card we tested, yet again, at both resolutions. Its lead is fairly significant versus the standard GTX 1080, but there is only a tiny gap separating it from the Titan X.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, pascal, (nasdaq:nvda), gtx 1080 ti, geforce-gtx-1080-ti

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com