I am a ti guy LOLz :cool:
I feel a little stupid buying the 980ti because I was maxing out 2K setting with my 780ti. I may never buy another GPU again the way games are developed nowadays. A year ago, the 1080 would have made me want to compete with the pac. I feel the same with Intel. Maybe I am just getting older (wiser).
Nice post Nate152

Hey sk2play and Janne71

I don't regret upgrading to the Matrix-P 980 TI, it's about 15 frames per second faster than 680's in sli. I game at the same resolution as you (sk2play) 2560 x 1600 at 60 FPS, it can max out most games with ultra settings (NO AA) except for crysis 3, that's the only game I have that can't keep a constant 60FPS.

I suspect the 980 Ti and 1070 are very close performance wise, with both overclocked to the max I see the 1070 pulling ahead by a few frames as it can overclock a little beyond 2GHz.

A single 1070 will max out most games at 1440p, any game that uses the cryengine 3 game engine such as crysis 3 will give it a challenge. It looks like it's struggling with assassins creed unity too but over all the 1070 looks like a good choice for 1440p.

The 1080 is quite the beast beating the Titan X and 1070 by around 15 FPS.

It's not exactly same as GTX970/980.
Difference between GTX1070 and GTX1080 is little bigger than with Maxwell.

No doubt GTX1080 SLI will be perfect gaming configuration for 2016/2017. Off course for 1440p and 4K resolution.
Even when big Pascal show up can't reach same speed. TPU done some review ASUS GTX1080 FE SLI
and you will see that scaling is almost 100% compare to single card..
Example Crysis 3 4k, single GTX1080 35fps, GTX1080 SLI 70fps, GTA5 4K, single 47fps, SLI 94 fps, Far Cry Primal 4K SINGLE 40 fps., SLI 77 fps.
Problem is in some games as Just Cause 3 where no SLI support probably. In similar situation customers only could disable single card.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_SLI/1.html

i7-6850K/RV10E-GTX1080 SLI is winner combination from my perspective for these period until Volta show up with Skylake Extreme.

According to your numbers sli scaling is great with pascal and is what we like to see, I wonder if they used an HB (High Bandwidth) sli bridge and if it actually improves performance.

The real win for 10xx if you are comparing 1070/1080 and 980ti is heat/power. The 8G vs 6G memory is also a win for the 1070 (or 1080), but a longer term one as few were even near the 6G range right now)

Despite all the complaints about thermal throttling, the reality of 1080 is that it is MUCH more efficient than maxwell. The thermal throttle issues are entirely a function of trying to keep the blower silent. 1070 doesn't have these issue to nearly the same degree owing to fewer cores enabled (less heat produced even at the same frequency)

With 1080, if you manually crank the fans to 70%, you can run full-bore SLI 4K at mid 60'sC temps (I say so because that's what is going on in my 6700 right now 😉 ) No thermal throttle, ~1830MHz clock, rock steady on both cards.

Apples:Apples, the Pascal family is going to use a lot less power which means a lot less heat. Nvidia made an overly aggressive acoustic trade-off because they were "close" to having a silent reference card, but not close enough. There is talk of a BIOS rev to address this.

In terms of performance for games 980Ti non-reference (i.e. overclocked) is going to be in the same ballpark as OC'd 1070 and stock 1080. 1080 OC is obviously going to give you more room to run.

Price and availability is the wild-card right now. If 1080/1070 were plentiful, then 980ti would be cheap, but here we are doing the other thing (10xx not available, so 980ti not cheap).

Hi cekim,

You have a power house with two 1080's. 🙂

Do you have an HB sli bridge and does it improve performance, if so by how much?