Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in the future where descendants of humans (called Post- Humans) and a powerful artificial intelligence (called the Substrate) fight a war for control of a resource known as Turinium.

Players will engage in massive-scale land/air battles by commanding entire armies of their own design. Each game takes place on one area of a planet, with each player starting with a home base (known as a Nexus) and a single construction unit.

We opt for the Extreme quality profile and run the GPU-Focused test using the DX12 game mode.

Note: 4K data showed a performance change likely due to a game update. As such, we removed invalid data and re-tested the Titan X (Pascal) to compare against the GTX 1080 Ti FE. The differences at 1440P and 1080P were within margin of error of the test procedure and therefore the previously gathered data remains.

A clean-sweep of chart-topping results is displayed by the GTX 1080 Ti FE. Thermal throttling didn't have a huge influence on performance at 4K in Ashes of the Singularity. If you want to drive this game with Extreme image quality and at more than 4K60, the GTX 1080 Ti fits the bill.

The increase in performance over GTX 1080 FE is 22% at 1080P (which is hamstrung by CPU bottlenecking) and 30% at 1440P. Though we don't have GTX 1080 FE data at 4K due to a driver change, its performance level is around 15-20 FPS lower than the GTX 1080 Ti FE.

1440P users wanting to upgrade from their ageing AMD R9 Fury X or overclocked GTX 980 Ti can expect a performance increase in the order of 50%.

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