The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
by Ryan Smith on July 20, 2016 8:45 AM ESTDiRT Rally
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ DiRT Rally. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layered with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, DiRT Rally includes a number of DirectCompute based compute shader effects, and while it’s not the most punishing game in our suite, it still takes a very good card to sustain the 60fps frame rate that driving games are best played at.
Once again, the GTX 1080 is uncontested. Better still, it can crack 60fps at 4K, so gamers there won’t need to make any tradeoffs. And 1440p gamers with high refresh rate monitors should find that the card can come reasonably close to their refresh rate limit.
GTX 1070 is in turn solidly in second place, coming in around 4% ahead of the GTX 980 Ti. However because it’s targeting a level of performance only slightly ahead of the best of the last generation cards, we do see the 28nm Radeon Fury X hang on decently well at 4K, before the GTX 1070 pulls farther ahead at lower resolutions.
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Ryan Smith - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
To follow: GTX 1060 Review (hopefully Friday), RX 480 Architecture Writeup/Review, and at some point RX 470 and RX 460 are still due.Chillin1248 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Nice, don't worry about the rushers. There are plenty of day one reviewers, but few go into depth the way that makes it interesting.retrospooty - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Agreed, this is a good review, as the video card reviews here usually are... Agreed about rushing as well. A lot of sites have less thorough stuff out in 1-2 days... I am guessing that Ryan and the others at Anandtech have regular day jobs and doing these reviews and articles is done on their own time. If that is the case, 2 months seems right. If I am incorrect in that assumption and this is a full time job, then they should be coming out with articles alot faster.JoshHo - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Currently for mobile the only full time editor is Matt Humrick.AndrewJacksonZA - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Thank you Ryan. I look forward to more and reliable information about the 470 and especially the 460.prophet001 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Hi All, I was just wondering if it's worth it to get the FE 1080 or just go with the regular one. Does the stock fan setup offer better thermals than the blower setup?Teknobug - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
FE is a ripoffImSpartacus - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
It's literally just the reference card. It's not a bad reference design, but it's generally considered a poor value for enthusiasts.HomeworldFound - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
A reference design is very useful if you're watercooling though.trab - Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - link
Depends if your custom board has any actual changes, it may just be the reference board with a custom cooler, so it would make no difference. Of course it would also be cheaper to boot.