Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

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Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk. Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:

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We set Quality to ‘Ultra’, Tessellation to ‘disabled’, Anti-Aliasing to 2x and the resolution to 2560×1440 (1440p).

GTX 1080 Ti takes second place to the Titan XP in Unigine's Heaven benchmark, largely due to thermal throttling induced by the Founder's Edition cooler. We ran this test at a higher fan speed to eliminate thermal throttling and registered a score of 142.8 FPS for the GTX 1080 Ti.

However, that's not how the card performs out of the box so it's not the performance displayed on the chart. Compared to the GTX 1080 at reference frequencies, GTX 1080 Ti is 41% faster in this test.

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