[Techspot] 6 generations of Nvidia compared

[Head1985]

Love seeing this. My 980ti was a solid choice indeed and the decision of skipping Pascal was the best one too

Yeah and he oc memory only to 7400mhz.And crysis3 is sensitive to memory bandwidth.I bet if he oc it to 1500/8000 it would be within 1-2fps of GTX1080 performance.
GTX980TI after OC is beast.

btw those so called reviews that testing GTX980TI at base clock are worthless.How can be GTX1080 42% faster than GTX980Ti in crysis3??They must 100% run 980Ti at 1050Mhz.

 

[Keysplayr]

Yeah and he oc memory only to 7400mhz.And crysis3 is sensitive to memory bandwidth.I bet if he oc it to 1500/8000 it would be within 1-2fps of GTX1080 performance.
GTX980TI after OC is beast.

btw those so called reviews that testing GTX980TI at base clock are worthless.How can be GTX1080 42% faster than GTX980Ti in crysis3??They must 100% run 980Ti at 1050Mhz.

Do you mean they turn off boost clocking when testing?

 

[Qbah]

A really cool article! A very solid and consistent speed bump every generation, well documented too! And here I am still happily chugging along on a 4GB GTX670... Wanted to upgrade recently but reconsidered in the end. Maybe next year Playing Doom right now and it's still a great experience!

 

[Keysplayr]

A really cool article! A very solid and consistent speed bump every generation, well documented too! And here I am still happily chugging along on a 4GB GTX670... Wanted to upgrade recently but reconsidered in the end. Maybe next year Playing Doom right now and it's still a great experience!

But Kepler cant play games anymore.
I exaggerate here, but so does everyone else to perpetuate this meme.
My GTX660 is still pulling along. One of my all time favorite cards for the money.

 

[Qbah]

But Kepler cant play games anymore.
I exaggerate here, but so does everyone else to perpetuate this meme.
My GTX660 is still pulling along. One of my all time favorite cards for the money.

I've installed my 4GB GTX670 on October 26th 2012 It's been over 4 years. My all time favorite card so far - I haven't had a single issue with it that I can remember. And I've been playing every game I wanted so far without issues. Obviously no AA in recent titles, perhaps lower some settings to High here and there. But it's mostly due to the ancient CPU I'm using (bought it in June 2008 - 8.5 years ago! :awe: )

On the other hand, my most hated card was a 7800GT. That thing was so broken, it made my blood boil. So I guess it evens out for nVidia

 

[Pottuvoi]

Considering powerwall it's nice to see performance still being squeezed out from transistors.
Now that interposers are getting more common there should be some nice gains in next few years as well.

 

[Carfax83]

The fact that TechSpot used such an old set of drivers automatically raises suspicion for me. I mean they used the 368.xx which are practically launch drivers, when they should have been using a much newer set. If anything, this likely crippled Pascal because NVidia has definitely optimized their drivers for Pascal over the months.

I know this personally because my GTX 1080 definitely performs noticeably better now using the latest drivers, compared to when I bought it back in July..