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hey guys Matt here once again and today I'm an update a rather follow up to the recent GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 770 videos about three weeks ago now we got our first look at the 1080 performance and well it was pretty mighty in fact the 1080 was so impressive then Nvidia has seemingly gotten away with asking an unbelievable $100 premium for the reference card and has it pretty well sold out everywhere given the popularity of the $700 part I expect the four hundred and fifty dollar Founders edition of the GTX 1072 also sell like hotcakes of course we have first look at the gtx 1070 performance last week and again it was very impressive stuff as it stands in terms of price versus performance there's nothing that can touch the 10:17 it is that good that said AMD's recent announcement of a $200 R X 480 might change that later this month so be sure to stay tuned as I'll be amongst the first to bring you those results and I'm expecting good things getting back to the 10 70s some of you noticed that the first batch of benchmark results weren't consistent across the web although in my opinion the GTX 1070 looked great now video as well as testing done by others some showed it to be even more impressive at first I put this down to the fact that we benchmarked after a 20 minute warm-up period which sees the boost quite reduced by reasonable margin however now having had much more time to mess around with the GTX 970 it appears most of the lost performance was a result of the early beta driver I used in some games the 1070 performed as it should well in others it was quite a bit slower around 10% slower at times anyway I held off making any updates with a newer better driver and went straight to the official whq L driver the driver in question is the new g-force game ready three six eight point three nine WH QL driver which should now be publicly available with official certified drivers for both the GTX 1080 and 1070 all games previously tested have been retested at 1080p 1440p and 4k now for this video I'm taking a slightly different approach and depending on how well received it is by you guys will determine how I create these massive benchmark videos going forward whereas the gtx 1070 video for example features eleven and a half minutes of graphs covering two wrestle Lucian's across 22 games this video would much shorter don't panic I've still benchmarked over 20 games at three popular resolutions and all the graphs can be found at the hardware and box website which will be linked in the video description below the difference being that this time I'll discuss the individual results for just five games at a single resolution we should reduce the benchmark discussion to a few minutes after which I'm gonna heavily analyze the data from all 20-plus games across the multiple resolutions and look at how the various GPUs sucked up most of you seem to really enjoy the data break down towards the end of the 1080 and 1070 videos so this is what I'll be focusing on this time before I jump into the benchmarks here are a few quick notes all tests were conducted using my GPU test rig which is built inside the corsair carbide 600c with an Intel Core i7 6700 K clocked and locked at 4.5 gigahertz for a full list of the system specs please check the video description you'll also find a detailed video index there as well finally this time the gtx 1070 and 1080 benchmarks were conducted after a 10-minute warmup period as this is sufficient time to get these cards after their maximum working temperature as always I'm using reference AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards unless specified picking which five games to look at wasn't easy though ultimately it doesn't really matter as the conclusion will be based on the 20-plus games the graphs of which can be found in the written review that said let's take a look at the results from The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and here we find the 1080 averaging 74 FPS while the 1070 average 60 FPS making it just 19% slower the 1080 might have been 24% slower than a pair of 980ti graphics cards but it was 19% faster than the Titan X and 21% faster than a single 980ti meanwhile the 1070 was just 3% slower than the Titan X and 2 percent slower than the 980ti despite smashing the 970 by an incredible 76 percent margin rise of the Tomb Raider presented little challenge of the 1080 here we see an average of 110 fps making it a 33% faster than the 1070 that said the 1070 was still 5 percent faster than Titan X and 11% faster than the gtx 980ti it also crushed the fury X by 28% margin and the i-93 90 by 57 percent margin Star Wars Battlefront there's another game that provide a little challenge to the 1080 of 1440p so we found an average of 98 FP the 1070 was also very impressive with 77 FPS placing it between the Titan X and the 980ti this meant the 1070 was 4% faster than the fury ax 31% faster than the r9 390 and 48 percent faster than the GTX 970 yet again we find the 1080 delivering well over 100 FPS at 1440p this time 125 FPS in Doom using the maximum in-game quality settings the 1070 was also very powerful averaging 96 FPS making it 2 percent faster than the Titan X 7 percent faster than the 980 TI and 20% faster than the fury x one of the more demanding titles we test with this Tom Clancy's the division and here the 1080 does drop down to an average of 76 FPS which is of course still extremely smooth as the framerate never dropped below 60 fps the 1070 was able to average 61 fps though at times duds dip to 48 fps although this isn't the kind of game where that's going to be an issue the division played very well here the 1080 was 25% faster than the Titan X while the 1070 matched the type next making is slightly faster than the fury acts and 980ti graphics cards this is where Nvidia's new 16 nanometer FinFET GPUs really shine efficiency despite significantly outperforming the Titan X the 1080 consumed considerably less power the same is true for the 1070 which provided tight next performance and a fraction of the power cost okay so this time around rather than go through all 20 plus games individually let's take a look at the results averaged out across a number of GPU comparisons just took a serious amount of time to put together so I hope you guys enjoy the results let's get to it shall we first let's take a look at the geforce gtx 1070 data when testing at 1080p the 1070 was an average to 17% slower than the 1080 though keep in mind the faster 1080 is likely running into CPU bottlenecks than some of these titles even with the 6700 K clock to 4.5 gigahertz the 1070 does lag a little further behind the 1080 or 1440p is the more powerful graphics card is able to stretch its legs a little more at this higher resolution still it should be just 20% slower is an impressive result for the considerably more affordable graphics card compared to the Titan X the 1070 was an average 4% faster at 1080p losing out early in Star Wars Battlefront armor Anna and The Witcher it's 1070 enjoyed strong winds and hitman ashes of the singularity and call of duty black ops 3 the 1070 is now just 3% faster on average when compared to the Titan X of 1440p that said not a great deal has changed here over the 1080p results up against the 980ti the 1070 was an average 7% faster at 1080p the only game with his 1070 lagged behind was The Witcher 3 by slim 4% margin other than that the 1070 was able to put the 980ti in its rearview mirrors the 1070 is now 8 percent faster on average when compared to the 980ti 1440p again this is similar to the 1080p result and a good showing for the 1070 now for the comparison I'm sure all of you Chi CX 970 owners are interested in at 1080p the 1070 was on average 50% faster than the 917 at times it was up to 61 percent faster in games such as Far Cry primal and hitman ARMA 3 was the only game where we didn't see 30% plus gains and this is likely down to a CPU bottleneck at 1080p the 1070 managed to extend its lead over the 970 at 1440 payouts with 55% margin with the CPU bottleneck removed the 1070 is now a great deal faster in ARMA 3 like GTX 970 owners those rocking in AI 939 is standard gain a significant boost in performance when upgrading to the 1070 on average we saw a 51 percent boost unsurprisingly the only games to see minimal gains were ashes of the singularity and hitman both AMD sponsored DirectX 12 titles that make good use of async compute the 1070 was an average 46% faster than the unknow and 390 or 1440p one of the main reasons the 390 was able to slightly recover at this high resolution is down to the AMD driver overhead issue that plagues the Radeon graphics cards and DirectX 11 titles at lower resolutions comparing the 1070 to the fury X at 1080p we find that in videos new mid-range graphics card was an average 16% faster again the only weaknesses here seen when testing with ashes of the singularity and hitman moving to 1440p the 1070 is now 11% faster than the fury acts and again it's really just those two DirectX 12 titles that are its undoing this graph highlights were so great and horrible about multi-gpu at the same time when working well we see the 980ti sli graphics cards have no trouble besting the 1080 however when sli scales poorly or is broken entirely the for mrs. less-than-desirable give an SLI only worked well in a few of the 20 plus games tested the 1080 was able to come out on top of that battle surprisingly the 1080 is able to pull slightly further ahead of the 980ti sli cards at 4k extending the margin just 7% on average when compared to a single 980ti the 1080 was considerably faster providing 35% more performance on average the 1080 was again dominant over the 980ti 4k this time winning by 33% margin on average when compared to the standard 980 the 1080 was an average 69% faster of 1440p which is obviously a considerable margin and great news for current 980 owners looking to upgrade the 1080 is able to extend its lead over the 980 at 4k and as it's now 72% faster on average the 1080 made short work of the fury X of 1440p as it provided 39% more performance now at 4k the margin between the 1080 and fury acts is reduced slightly as the 1080 is now 33% faster on average well there you have a complete breakdown of the GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 using the release date WH QL drivers for now it looks like your video has the $400 + GPU market all sewn up so it'll be interesting to see what kind of damage AMD can do in the lower price tiers later this month as mentioned earlier for those interested I've uploaded all the graphs to our website the hardware in box comm here you'll find the individual results for each game across three resolutions tested please let me know if you prefer this style where I spend more time making comparisons or do you prefer me to include all the individual game data I'm your host Matt as always and remember to hit subscribe to get release day coverage of all the upcoming graphics cards our support