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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 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.
Ashes proved amenable to the Palit 1070 Ti – it actually just edge ahead of our Gigabyte GTX 1080 at 1080p. I looked into this closely as it was an interesting result, and it would seem the 1080p benchmark allowed the card to dynamically boost its frequency into the 1900MHz range – which then took the performance just past the 1080.
At 1440p and 4K, though, the load on the GPU is much greater and the Palit card did not boost as high and so the 1080 again edged back ahead.
With the shortage of GDDR5X, I’m wondering if the GTX 1080 is being phased out, because this is (95% of) a GTX 1080 GDDR5. Maybe the endgame is for the 1080 to be discontinued, the GP104s going into 1070 Ti instead, and the GDDR5X to be saved for the 1080 Ti and possibly mid-range Volta cards if the early flagships use GDDR6?