Nvidia’s new Pascal cards have officially released in South Africa, offering some of the best cost-to-power ratios ever offered by graphics cards.
While we have seen talk of how the GTX 1070 is more powerful than the 980 Ti, do these cards really offer better value than previous generation Nvidia cards?
We took a look at how the new Pascal cards compare to previous Nvidia flagships and whether they really are as powerful as you think.
The table below shows the performance benchmarks of flagship Nvidia GPUs along with the performance increase percentage over the previous generation.
| Card name | Peak Compute (TFLOPS) |
Release price
|
FireStrike Extreme Score | Performance Increase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTX 680 | 3.09 | $500 | 3,226 | N/A |
| GTX 780 | 3.97 | $650 | 4,465 | 38% |
| GTX 980 | 4.61 | $550 | 6,062 | 33% |
| GTX 980 Ti | 5.63 | $650 | 7,781 | 28% |
| GTX 1070 | 6.46 | $380 | 8,327 | 7% (37%)* |
| GTX 1080 | 8.87 | $600 | 10,102 | 21% (70%)* |
*Performance increase over GeForce GTX 980
The newer Pascal cards seem to offer a relatively large leap in performance over previous generations.
The GTX 1070 beat the GTX 980 Ti in performance benchmarks and the GeForce GTX 1080 shows a performance increase of 70% over the GTX 980, the flagship GPU of the previous Maxwell generation.
Have you picked up one of Nvidia’s new Pascal cards? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.
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Something’s wrong with the performance increase column. Not sure if whether it’s supposed to be ‘over GTX 680’ or if the percentages themselves are just wrong, but something is definitely wrong.