Performance Benchmarks
3DMark 11 (DX11)
3DMark 11 is a DirectX 11 video card benchmark test for measuring your PC’s gaming performance. 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of DirectX 11 features including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 consistently and reliably tests your PC’s DirectX 11 performance under game-like loads.
I got a great score on the older 3DMark 11. Remember, I running the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme at default and I haven’t even overclocked it yet.
3DMark v2 – Firestrike (DX11)
Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
Another good score using the newer version of 3DMark v2. I got 17,289 on the Firestrike benchmark (DX11).
3DMark v2 – Time Spy (DX12)
3DMark Time Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built “the right way” from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards.
I was hoping to get 7,000+, but I guess the Q170 motherboard may have been the bottleneck here. Nevertheless, the score of 6,893 is very good.
Monster Hunter Online
Monster Hunter Online, NVIDIA and Crytek have joined hands and accomplished this stunning benchmark program.The program is based on client game Monster Hunter Online, and was produced with world’s leading game engine CRYENGINE.A series of advanced technology including Real Time Rendering, Physical Based Shading, Realistic Vegetation Rendering, NVIDIA PhysX Clothing, NVIDIA Hairworks and NVIDIA HBAO+ helped creating such magnificent and realistic hunting environment.
I really love this demo/benchmark. The Cryengine is visually stunning and a great eye-candy. I got a whopping a score of 23,821. Average frame rate was 108.3 fps.
DOOM
Doom is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. It uses id Tech 6 engine which is a multiplatform game engine developed by id Software. It’s one of the first games to use the Vulcan API.
There’s no benchmark feature on DOOM. However, we switched everything to ULTRA settings and monitored the frame rates for 60 seconds in 3 laps/runs. Frame rates averaged 185 FPS, with lows of around 176 FPS, and maxes out at 200 FPS.
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A big thank for this very useful review. I have just buy this BIG card and waiting for her. For information can you tell me wath is the thickness of the thermal pads. Thanks.
“It will be interesting to see how this card (or any other GTX 1080) will perform, when compared against the AMD Radeon RX480”
Is this a joke??? Everybody knows that the 480 is 2 levels behind this card…2×480 won’t even match a 1080.
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Yup, this is not the end of the end of the review. We’ll be testing the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme Edition against other GTX 1080 as well. Plus we will revisit the benchmarks as soon as we have a better OC’ing setup.
Doom uses OpenGL or Vulkan, not DX12 as you put in the benchmark image.
Let me amend it. Thanks for the info.