Nvidia GTX 1080 Dominates 980Ti in 3DMark

Now that GTX 1080 samples are running around, we are getting more opportunities to look at the performance of the card. Yesterday, we saw the card stripped down and the PCB laid bare. Today, we’re getting a series of 3DMark Firestrike and 3DMark 11 benchmarks for the first GeForce Pascal card. This follows earlier benchmark releases from before the launch which largely gave the same scores.

As everyone has expected, the GTX 1080 basically murders the GTX 980Ti and Titan X. The GP104 card manages 10367 in Firestrike Extreme and 4998 in Firestrike Ultra. Regular Firestrike Performance is also high at 21828 points. This puts the GTX 1080 at about 20% ahead of the Titan X and even more ahead of the 980Ti and Fury X. GP104 also does well in 3DMark 11, scoring 27683 and 9338 respectively in Performance and Extreme respectively.

Of course, as a synthetic benchmark, 3DMark is designed to scale well with theoretical performance. Even then, the increase in TFLOPs by about 33% isn’t quite mapping out to linear games. As newer drivers come out with better Pascal support, I do expect performance to improve a bit. With such a strong showing, Nvidia looks to have secured their performance crown for now. All that awaits is some real world testing and reviews on May 17th.