AIDA64 Engineer FLOPS results next, and for the Single-Precision result it’s looking a little more like a new generation of card, though not too far ahead of the strong XFX Fury X with 4Gb of HBM.
We test a lot and have a good number of graphics cards in and out of the office and most of the time we need to give the XFX R9 390X DD a mention, it has a habit of turning up in a set of results unexpectedly, maybe we should just expect it from now on. The Double-Precision result for this card is the best of all the cards, not just the AMD cards.
FLOPS is important for any computer system, despite being a synthetic measure. A lot of numbers get banded around when the PR machine are in action, but to see 9144 FLOPS Single-Precision performance is encouraging. From a Double-Precision point of view, it is the best of the Nvidia GPU cores on test, but still it lags behind all of the AMD GPU cores.
The Single-Precision result is, in our understanding, the GDDR5X high speed attributes allowing for an excellent 32-bit performance, but the lack of a wider memory bus doesn’t help the GDDR5X show its true potential. However, this is only with the technology in mind, the GTX 1080 still manages almost a 50% jump in 64-bit floating-point performance, it’s just a little hidden by the perpetually superb AMD memory management.
EVGA Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8
Performance - 9.5
Price - 8.5
Consumer Experience - 9.5
8.9
Nvidia may have dropped the ball a little with the release drivers, and the subsequent drivers that game to fix the issues, but there's no doubt, the Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition is a stellar performance, and the VGA GTX 1080 Founders Edition exercises the GPU core perfectly.