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over the past month or so a few of you have pointed out my old family flagship GTX 480 is sitting on the shelves behind me just by being watch probably the least impressive flagship product to come from the Green Team in recent memory many of us still seem to have fond memories of the only graphics card to double as a George Foreman grill anyway having spotted the old fellow many of you requested by bench market in the latest games just for fun as hilarious as it would be throwing 1.3 teraflops of processing power the latest and greatest titles i've come up with a slightly different idea that tastes that idea and turns into a much more interesting test since I have a reference GTX for 85 86 87 89 80 and now a 1080 why not do a comparison between the various X 80 Series GPUs released over the past six years well that's exactly what I've done Before we jump to the benchmarks let's see how these various GPUs compare on paper here we can see clearly just how complex the GeForce architecture has become over the past six years the X 80 series now features a little over five times more CUDA cores when compared to 2010 s GTX 480 yet despite that the die size is now 40% smaller and includes more than twice as many transistors many of you will no doubt be quick to point out the $500 MSRP of the early GTX 480 580 and 680 graphics cards all of which were the single GPU flagship models of the time then Along Came the GTX 780 and pricing got a bit out of control thankfully AMD did eventually come to the party with their world-beating Radeon r9 290x and at $550 they forced him video to re-evaluate pricing the result was a new $500 MSRP for the GTX 780 the same asking price of the previous X 80 models a year after the GTX 780 price dropped the GTX 980 landed and at $550 the release to MSRP again crept up a little still given the extra performance and improved efficiency most took the $50 premium on the chin and got on with it now with this year's release of the Pascal based GT x 1080 we faced a similar situation with no direct competition inside Nvidia bumped the MSRP by 50 dollars giving us what will eventually be a $600 1080 again performance and efficiency has been improved in fact much more so than any time the previous six years so how easily can that extra fifty dollars over the nine 80 or 100 dollars over the older models be justified let's move on to find out as usual the results have been recorded using my GPU test system built inside the corsair carbide 600 C the processor of choice is the Intel Core i7 6700 K clocked and locked at 4.5 gigahertz to try and avoid any CPU bottlenecks although I have tested at both 1080p in 1440p in an effort to keep the video as short as possible I'll be only discussing this 1440p results here those interested in the 1080p data can refer to the written review the link for which will be provided in the video description first up me a battlefield forum here we see a nice 71% performance gain from the 480 to the 680 skipping the 580 of course then from the 680 to the 980 you will see a smaller 44% margin however from the 980 to the 1080 you would see a huge 86% leap in performance for an average frame rate of 110 fps this time we see a 68% performance jump from the 980 to the 1080 of Star Wars Battlefront at 1440p that's an impressive result when you consider the fact that the 980 was 42% faster than the 780 which is 24% faster than the 680 the GTX 480 averaged just 20 fps in black ops 3 of course this GPU was never designed with resolutions such as 1440p in mind at least now when playing titles from 2015 onwards the 580 was 30% faster while the 680 was just 15% faster again the 780 provided a 20% boost in performance though it was the 980 that made a truly massive step here offering an 83 percent performance increase it's difficult to say if these gains are down to the refine GPU architecture or a lack of driver optimization for the 780 along with the GPUs that came before it I suspect it's a bit of both really the driver is possibly playing a greater role in this title unlike black ops 3 we see a more even playing field in Tom Clancy's the division the GTX 1080 was 69% faster than the 980 while the 980 was 36% faster than the 787 and he led the 680 by a 32% margin and the 60d was also 32% faster than the 580 which cry the 480 by 46 percent margin we see some pretty huge gains from the one architecture to the next in Just Cause 3 and given the games history with AMD and NVIDIA drivers we're going to put most of these performance differences down the driver optimization the fermi base 480 and 580 were extremely slow 38% slower than the GTX 680 in fact although the 780 was 21% faster than the sixth eighth year it was still 39% slower than the GTX 980 finally the 1080 provided a nice 58 percent performance boost over the 980 the performance of the fermi based GPUs here looks very primal they're just a few frames away from throwing rocks the GTX 680 was 92 percent faster than the 580 while the 780 delivered a further 32 percent bump in performance going from the 780 to the 980 net is 39 percent more performance and finally from the 980 to the 1080 so a 70 percent increase in performance from the GTX 580 on we consistently saw large performance games 82% when going from the 580 to the 680 48% from the 680 to the 780 and 43% from the 780 to the 980 finally the 1080 provided a 67 percent performance boost over the 980 when testing with The Witcher 3 we see very consistent gains from one GPU to the next however the largest gains can be seen when upgrading from the 480 to the 580 here an 88% performance increase the seem then from the 780 to the 980 Lanza's 52% more performance and finally from the 1982 the 1080 s is a further 57 percent performance gain having now looked at eight modern games let's take a flashback to 2010 s Metro 2033 a game released the same year as the GTX 480 M 580 testing at 1440 pcs the 580 averages 31 fps making it 19 percent faster than the 480 the 680 was 32 percent faster than the 580 while the 680 was another 29% faster the 980 was 28% faster than the 780 while the 1080 provided a further 56 percent performance boost over the 980 the power figures on screen are based on entire system draw which includes not just the graphics card but also my 6700 K test system as you can see the 480 was a bit of a power Pig causing the system to draw up to 291 watts under load the 580 allowed for a 10 watt reduction while the new 1080 25% less power while delivering worlds more performance in fact the 1080 consume just 7 watts more than the 980 now we know it to be around 60% faster on average well that was an interesting trip down memory lane it's hard to believe that the ones king of the Nvidia Hill looks so pathetic today I'm of course talking about the GTX 480 and yes I get that at 6 years old now but I can recall some pretty impressive performance back in the day when playing games such as battlefield bad company 2 for example taking a look at the performance across the nine games tested we find some interesting results looking back to 2010 when the GTX 580 was released it was found to be 25 to 30 percent faster than the 480 at the time those figures are in line with what we found today using the latest drivers testing with modern games the GTX 680 was also around 40 percent faster than the 580 so that's again in line with what we've found here meanwhile the 780 was around 25 to 30 percent faster than the 680 and we found here was an average 29 percent faster now for the interesting stat when the GTX 980 was first introduced I believe was around 25 to 30 percent faster than the vanilla GTX 780 in today's games we found that the margins grown somewhat to a little over 40% this comes down to the fact that in today's games NVIDIA has been heavily optimizing for Maxwell while forgetting Kepler for the most part this does however make the 67 percent performance game for the Pascal based 1080 of the 980 all the more impressive as history has shown us you can expect this margin to grow slightly as in video shifts focus towards Pascal for upcoming titles just to be clear I'm not trying to suggest that the new Pascal GDX 1080 is over 60 percent faster than the Maxwell based GeForce 900 series the titan axon in particular 980ti bridged the gap between these two series and with the 980ti costing just $50 more when comparing MSRP s there isn't much in it the 980ti overclocks much better - so there's that to keep in mind as well this was merely a comparison between GeForce xad GPUs for the Titan X 980ti and 1080 comparison please check out my main 1080 and 1070 video where I compare all these graphics cards in over 20 games thanks for joining me again we're boxed I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time