Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013’s Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.

It uses a Direct X 12 capable engine.

At 1080p and 1440p, we use the Very High quality preset and 2x SSAA. At 4K we disable AA completely. The DirectX 12 API is used. Numbers are taken from the benchmark's Geothermal Valley test.

Another chart-topping display from the GTX 1080 Ti FE when it comes to Rise of The Tomb Raider in its DX12 mode. The game is playable at its highest – Very High – image quality settings at all three resolutions. You can even throw some SSAA into the mix at 1440P while maintaining an average above 60FPS on the GTX 1080 Ti.

The GTX 1080 Ti's 11GB of VRAM proved useful (to an extent) in ROTTR as we saw usage peaking just above 8GB at 4K.

The performance improvement from GTX 1080 FE to GTX 1080 Ti FE is 33% at 1080P, 37% at 1440P, and 36% at 4K. R9 Fury X users can expect a performance improvement close to 90% at 4K by switching to the GTX 1080 Ti FE. That number sits at 74% for 4K gamers with a reference-clocked GTX 980 Ti. Not a bad improvement in the space of one generation, to say the least.

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