980 SLI performance is where?

[Rofflay]

I really need someone to clarify this as i am going to spend the £200 i had saved and keep my 980 with only 500 hours on it. So alas here is my problem normally we get 50% that is what i require from an upgrade yet i cannot find any information of a 1080 beating 980 SLI or giving double performance.

I looked Firestrike and the only person is Patsy who actually has two scores you can clearly see as a good test example that double was never achieved for him in either of his upgrades. Personally i could never justify that kind of money but here it is compared to my score on my 980 and 4770k at 4300mhz which i get 16403 on GFX 12542 Physics 6348 Combined.


GPU 980 @1622
CPU 4790K 4.4

Graphics Score 16397
Physics Score 12049
Combined Score 6397

Versus


GPU 1080 @2063
CPU 5820k 4.3

Graphics Score 22687
Physics Score 16613
Combined Score 8863

 

[Jono8]

You are comparing a 1622mhz 980...an uber golden chip and one i would doubt is 100% game stable.

 

[Rofflay]

You are comparing a 1622mhz 980...an uber golden chip and one i would doubt is 100% game stable.

You say so but my 980 beat his score with mine around 1550mhz so the score is a good benchmark of performance from a 980. And 16K IS 1080p game stable 16444 will not always work in all games especially 4K but will a 2000mhz 1080 be stable too?

I am still expecting a 32k GFX score from a 1080 overclocked or the default score to be around 24k That would be roughly double the 980 wouldnt it? I forget the stock score of my 980 but i think it was around 12k Firestrike or so. But no what you see here is 2000mhz not even getting 24k. And these cards roll out with 1700mhz boosts etc. So it looks like it is a fair bit behind 980 SLI and thus the only way people will get 980 SLI performance from a 1080 is to keep the 980 at stock (12K) and overclock the 1080 to 2200mhz roughly for (24K) the performance.


Seems like were being fooled? Can you even overclock the 1080 to 2200mhz?

 

[Jono8]

No, stock for stock it is 980 sli performance. Nvidia will never compare overclocked cards and they never claimed it was as fast as two 1600mhz 980's!

My 980 wont even do 1400mhz+ rock solid stable in some games.

I can bench it at 1500mhz or more all day but overclocking isnt worth it for games in my experience. Always one game that comes a long and trips it up.

 

[Rofflay]

Stock 980 v stock 1080 then? Just looking Gamespots version of benchies.

Basically the only way you double framerate on a 980 is in certain games it seems the scaling of SLI will not double framerates anymore. I dont know what to think or do keep or sell and frankly dissapointed with both 1080 and the SLI scaling. In Mordor i would have wanted 69.2fps but what you get is 59.