0. Introduction
As a video card player, it is really exciting to use a flagship video card. This time, Aunt made me really use the flagship graphics card ~ ~ ~ ~ suddenly feel that the text can not express the mood at the moment, only with a serious attitude to complete the test, feedback to Aunt and you value friends, but can not live up to those Envy jealousy friends.
1. First to talk about GTX1080
For the background of GTX1080, it is estimated that the slightest understanding of the graphics card should be very clear. NVIDIA officials call GTX1080 the strongest nuclear bomb. So, performance is sure to surprise you. In fact, in the official description of NVIDIA, the word "strongest nuclear bomb" appeared for the first time. This shows that NVIDIA officials really pay attention to this GTX1080. How powerful is GTX1080 in the end?
According to NVIDIA’s official statement, GTX1080’s R&D costs billions of dollars. Truthfully speaking, I’d like to spend billions of dollars to develop a display core. I'm a bit skeptical that if we really spend billions of dollars on developing a display core, the price will be too high. Leaving aside research and development costs that may contain water, to say that everyone is concerned about is the graphics parameters. GTX1080 public version of the core frequency hits 1600MHz for the first time, reaching 1607MHz, and the memory frequency is the first time to reach 10000MHz, such a high frequency in the NVIDIA previous generation flagship graphics card is not seen before. In other words, just the frequency can outperform your graphics card a few streets. The number of CUDA cores reached 2,560. This figure is a bit special. 2560 is exactly ten times the 256 number of GeFoce 256. GeForce 256 is the epoch-making graphics card, GeForce 256 for the first time put forward the CPU dry work to the graphics card, is a milestone in the GeForce series, created a GeForce graphics card generation ~~~~~
Well, talk about GTX1080. Anyway, GTX1080 is a very good graphics card.
1.1 Talk again about the number of frames
Regarding the topic of the number of frames, I do not want to discuss it here. Just want to say is that we generally think that the average number of frames is 30 frames is smooth, in fact, not all right, some FPS games, the number of frames to reach 45 or higher, will be smooth. Therefore, for the player, the average number of frames reaches 60, which can basically be considered as smooth. To achieve this requirement in 1080P is not difficult, if it is 4K, what will happen?
2. The picture rewards you may have seen will love me again
For GTX1080, in fact, I already know that you must have seen it, but for faith, please recharge it.
This is the MSI's GTX 1080. In fact, we all know that the public version of GTX 1080, no matter what brand, the quality is the same, the only difference is the after-sales and accessories.
Turbo radiators are standard on the public version. This kind of turbo radiator heat dissipation performance is certainly not as strong as the non-public version. Why do you have to insist on turbine cooling? It is estimated that NVIDIA believes that the turbo radiator is beneficial to the air duct and makes the interior of the chassis more harmonious.
NVIDIA has been working hard to reduce the power consumption of the graphics card. This time, the power supply interface is an 8pin design. From one aspect, it can be seen that the flagship graphics card is not an electric tiger. Lower power consumption and higher performance have become mainstream.
The backplane has also been added to the public version. It seems that the PCB distortion is indeed a headache problem. It is no wonder that nowadays, the radiator is getting heavier and the PCB is not bent.
SLI bridge interface.
Warranty stickers, no way, can not be removed after the warranty, I recognized ~ ~ ~
This time, the color value of the radiator is higher than that of the conventional radiator of nv. This time, the radiator uses a clear design of the water chestnut. It has a full sense of line and technology, and the heat sink also uses a blackened design. Even more high-end atmosphere, but the overall face value is still somewhat different than the non-public version of the radiator.
VGA has been completely abandoned, do not expect to switch interface. GTX 1080 does not have DVI to VGA chip, so it will not output VGA signal, and it is no good to buy a transfer interface.
The attachments provided by MSI are not very kind and they are just a bit small. They don't match the flagship graphics cards. People have also sent 3DMark and VRMark registration codes, which is worth a few dozen US dollars.
4. Feel the power of the wild! GTX1080 SLI performance test
GTX1080 performance is really great, in the end how powerful? Speak up and test it right away for everyone to see. The first is the theoretical test running score for a single card.
The performance test platform
CPU: i7 3770K OC 4.5GHz
Motherboard: MSI Z77 GAMING 7
Memory: Zhiqi Sniper DDR3 2400 8G2
Graphics: MSI GTX 1080 & Innovision GTX 1080 Super Ice Dragon
Power Supply: White Tiger 850W 80Plus Gold Certified
If you think that the single card GTX 1080 can not meet your game requirements, I feel that the single card GTX 1080 can not play full effect when the game is played and the frame number can not reach more than 60 frames, then, please use the GTX 1080 SLI, feel the GTX1080's prehistoric Power it!
4.1 Opening the Force of the Premature Please Select the Correct Opening Method What Is Needed to Build an SLI?
First, a motherboard that supports SLI. Not all motherboards support SLI. Only SLI-branded motherboards support SLI.
Incidentally, the now hot motherboard that can support the E3 1230 V5 does not support SLI.
Second, video card bridge. The graphics card bridge is a key prop for building SLI. As long as you have a bridge, you can build SLI. What if there is no bridge? Don't expect to build SLI.
This is the bridge of NVIDIA's belief, a treasure price of 499 yuan, expensive thief. If you have enough belief, you can buy this kind of bridge.
If you do not believe enough, this kind of bridge can also be.
Finally, it is the same type of graphics card. It is recommended to select the same memory capacity. SLI is dual-card memory card, so choose the same memory capacity. Almost forgot, the establishment of SLI must use the full power, GTX1080SLI this monster-level SLI, select the rated output power of more than 600W more secure.
After selecting the hardware, you can boot the card after it is installed. After entering the system, the SLI is not enabled by default. You need to enable the NVIDIA Control Panel. In the SLI option, select Enable SLI.
GPU-Z shows that SLI is Enabled, indicating that SLI has been enabled.
4.2 Assassin's Creed: Heroes
Assassin's Creed: Heroes is a game released in November 2015. The game inherits the Assassin's Creed series, but the game screen has a lot of criticisms, and the most tempting ones are game optimization issues.
Even today's top GTX 1080 SLI running "Assassin's Creed: Ao Xiong" in the highest quality fails to reach the 60-frame level, showing how good the game is for video card optimization ~~~~
4.3 "Batman: Agam Knight"
"Batman: Forrest Gump" is an action adventure game made by Rocksteady. It was officially released on June 23, 2015. The game is a new and final piece of the Forrest Gump series. Nine months after the plot was set to Arkham City, the main villain is the Scarecrow. He will unite with many other villains to destroy Gotham City, including the Penguin. Double-sided people, Halle and so on. The biggest feature of the game is the integration of NVIDIA's unique technology, only NVIDIA series graphics cards can open these special effects.
The game test results are a little unexpected. The GTX 1080 SLI score is similar to that of the GTX 1080 single card. It seems that the game is not satisfactory for SLI support.
4.4 Watch Pioneer
"Overwatch" (OW) is a first-person shooter game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, which was launched on May 24, 2016, and is represented by NetEase in mainland China. The number of global players in the game has exceeded one million, and domestic sales are also very impressive. The requirement for the graphics card is not high, but the high-end graphics card is indispensable for playing cool in the highest quality.
The game itself is not very demanding, and if the rendering multiplier is improved, the single-card GTX 1080 is also a bit difficult. The "watching Pioneer" test scene selected the game battle scene, given the relatively large changes in the game play, so many tests were conducted, select a relatively low number of frames drawn into a chart.
4.5 "Wizard 3: Wild Hunting"
"Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" is a role-playing stand-alone game created by CD Projekt RED and adapted by the same name novel by WB Games (NA) and Spike Chunsoft (JP). Released on May 19, 2015, it is the third installment of the "Wizard" series of games. In October 2015, he won the 33rd Golden Rocker Award for Best Drama, Best Visual Design, and Best Game Time, and won the Best Game of the Year Award. The game is called conscience by the media not only because the game is well-crafted and can stand the test, but also because the game is very playable and the picture is very good.
4.6 "Metro: The Last Dawn"
"Metro: The Last Dawn" is an end-of-life sci-fi theme FPS game developed by 4A-Games. It is a work of the "Metro" series and was released on May 14, 2013. The game tells of a civil war for the doomsday device that is enough to destroy humanity. Humans still live in the ground and die. The war between different factions continues, and there are still various variant creatures lurking in the dark at night. The air on the ground is still covered with deadly radiation dust, but it is rumored that the ice begins to melt and the sun begins to penetrate the clouds.
The reason for joining the game test is because the game has added a large number of PhysX operations. Even the top graphics cards are difficult to keep smooth after PhysX is turned on.
It is said that this game is very difficult to play, and so is the fact. In the face of the powerful GTX 1080 SLI, the average number of frames is only 45, not yet reaching 60 frames. It seems that this game has to be really difficult to play with full effects.
4.7 The Wise Moon Blade
"Wizard Moon Blade" is the first 3D martial arts-themed MMORPG game independently developed by Tencent Games. On May 28th, 2015, it was unfathomable to delete files.
"Sky Fighter" is not very good for SLI support. It may be a game lock frame. The effect on the number of frames after the formation of SLI is almost negligible. If you play this game, if you set up SLI, you are wasting silver.
4.8 Radiation 4
"Radiation 4" is a role-playing game developed by Bethesda and released on November 10th, 2015. It is the fourth generation of "Radiation" series of games. This series also includes extended works such as "Radiation Strategy Edition: Brothers of Steel". The game narrated that before the nuclear explosion (200 years ago, the same story as in the previous three generations), the protagonist witnessed the nuclear explosion and was sent to Vault-Tec (Sanctuary Technology) staff to Sanctuary No. 111. 200 years later, the player returned to the surface as the only survivor of Sanctuary 111 and set out on an adventure in downtown Boston.
"Radiation 4" is not low on the graphics card requirements, GTX 1080 SLI can only barely hold 60 frames, and some scenes are also lower than 60 frames.
4.9 God steals 4
The Thief 4 is an action adventure game developed by Eidos Montreal. It was released by Square Enix on February 25th, 2014. The game adopts a first-person perspective, and the intelligent elements of the collection of adventurous elements allow the player to fully control and freely select the way to complete the level and overcome every challenge.
4.10 The Rise of Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider: Rising is a stand-alone game developed by Crystal Dynamics and distributed by Square Enix. This game is Part 15 of Tomb Raider and was officially released in December 2015. In the game, the player controls the protagonist Laura to explore the supernatural phenomena and unknown world that Laura did not believe in before and seek the secret of eternal life. The game map includes multiple locations in the world. The searchable locations will be three times larger than the previous ones. The openness of the map is greater than that of the previous works. It is full of beautiful and dangerous scenes. Compared with the previous work, this book also published a Mandarin version in China.
Game Test Summary
The optimization of graphics cards in some games is not yet fully implemented. You can say that the game requirements are too high, or you can say that the graphics are too advanced to support the game. Judging from historical experience, games play nicely. In addition to the performance of the graphics card, optimization of the game is also very important. Why is the Crysis series known as the graphics killer? In addition to the game's high requirements on the graphics card, the game's optimization of the graphics card is also in place, at least when you use a high-end graphics card, the fluency to obtain the same amount of increase, rather than using the high-end card has not yet obtained the fluency.
"Assassin's Creed: Heroes" and "Batman: Forrest Gump" may be exceptions, and the future does not rule out the existence of similar games. If your high-end graphics card is playing a game, you may have opted for optimization pit.
Regarding the power consumption of the graphics card - the power consumption of this generation of flagship graphics cards has already done very well, do you still think that is enough? Do not take the flagship video card compared with mainstream graphics, NVIDIA is really trying to reduce power consumption and improve energy efficiency. All you have to do is prepare a full power supply for the GTX 1080. How many watts is enough to eat GTX 1080? A rated output of 600w and 80 PLUS gold certification is sufficient. You want to set up SLI? A power supply rated at 800w and 80 PLUS Gold certified can already feed them. The kilowatt power supply looks beautiful, but many people are not stupid, keep a point to buy other accessories.
Test summary
For the performance of GTX 1080, I believe I do not have to say it is very clear to everyone. Since some of the game's support for SLI is still not very good, GTX 1080 SLI has not yet fully displayed its original strength. It is a bit regrettable. However, judging from the results of a variety of games tested, the GTX 1080 SLI can basically achieve a full game effect at 4k resolution and keep the number of frames smooth. This leg is enough for me for several years. Each year, NVIDIA brings a new generation of flagship graphics cards to gamers. Each time it brings performance improvements, and this time it seems that the performance increase is a bit fierce. The popularity of 4K resolution is also a matter of recent years. At present, 4K displays have not yet been universally popularized. 4K resolution playing games is almost a no-brainer for most players, and this time NVIDIA made big moves. The flagship video card popularizes 4K resolution.
The GTX 1080 SLI makes it possible to play games at 4K resolution. Of course, such a price is not low. GTX 1080 SLI to be successfully established, the two cards add up to over 10,000 yuan in price, with power, motherboards and CPU, a set of platforms down to the basic price of 2W soft sister paper. Ordinary players only onlookers? wrong. From the development history of graphics cards, high-end graphics technology will inevitably be popularized to the low-end, that is to say the future of the thousand-level graphics card can also run games smoothly in 4K resolution. But how long does it take? From my point of view, there will be another generation in the future, that is, the GTX 3000 series. The mainstream graphics card should be able to complete this task.
like
1, strong enough performance allows you to easily suppress the mainstream game, 4K resolution can also be no pressure and low swim;
2, better energy consumption ratio, only spend a small amount of electricity for higher game performance;
3, after the formation of SLI performance has been greatly improved, full effect of all play it!
insufficient
1, you can say I believe in lack of, but the public version of the graphics card does not heat enough YY, thermal performance than non-public version;
2, the formation of the GTX 1080 SLI high price is absolutely prohibitive, in order to have a good time, please prepare enough soft sister paper;
3, after the formation of SLI heat will increase dramatically, pay attention to heat.
Buying advice: If you are a public version of your faith, there is nothing wrong with choosing the public version. However, the public version of the video card basically disappeared after a wave. If you do not grab it, then you basically can only choose non-public version of GTX 1080. Truthfully speaking, the non-public version of GTX 1080 is better than the public version of the radiator or the appearance of more, and non-public version is basically the default overclocking, so the conditional players, choose a non-public version will be better.
Finally, with the GTX 1080 SLI game test screenshot ~~~~~
