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Then and Now: 6 Generations of GeForce Graphics Compared

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With the GeForce GTX 980 celebrating its second birthday soon, in the world of GPUs that puts it squarely over the hill. To further confirm that notion, we have its successor: the new GeForce GTX 1080 offers 60% more performance at what should eventually be a $50 price premium.

This feature is a follow up to the 'Then and Now' article we published two years ago, shortly after the GTX 980's release, when we looked at 5 generations of flagship GeForce GPUs. The idea is to give you a performance perspective of multiple graphics card generations spanning several years. Whether you are looking to upgrade from an older GPU or simply appreciate the statistical significance of the data presented, last time we were able to gather that in five years we had seen close to a 3x bump in graphics horsepower.
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http://www.techspot.com/article/1191-nvidia-geforce-six-generations-tested/


Some interesting benchmarks to see how gpu power has evolved over the generations.
 
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Nvidia should be celebrated for their incredible progress as a company and their brilliant products.

No one can doubt that their 80% market share is truly deserved.
 
Mayh3M said:
Nvidia should be celebrated for their incredible progress as a company and their brilliant products.

No one can doubt that their 80% market share is truly deserved.
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Their products are good, as are their rivals. The engineers of both companies should be applauded.
As a company, however, NVIDIA has consistently felt playing dirty is appropriate, from ruining their own users experience to trying to achieve vendor lockin against open standards they helped create. This is no way takes away from the quality of their products, but the company itself doesn't seem a good candidate for celebrating.

If one day they stop these practises I'll happily celebrate the transformation.
 
David Bisset said:
Their products are good, as are their rivals. The engineers of both companies should be applauded.
As a company, however, NVIDIA has consistently felt playing dirty is appropriate, from ruining their own users experience to trying to achieve vendor lockin against open standards they helped create. This is no way takes away from the quality of their products, but the company itself doesn't seem a good candidate for celebrating.

If one day they stop these practises I'll happily celebrate the transformation.
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Indeed and just like Apple who are dropping the headphone jack.
 
Always good to see how performance over the generations has been and how it is. A good read that for a change, thanks Razor :)
 
Great improvement, and i only just realised looking at those comparisons that the 680 was a new nm fab.

I was still learning a lot back when the 680 came out and ended up with 2 x 4gb 680's, which later went under water as my first journey into water cooling, and i have to say i was very impressed.

I'm now onto my Xtreme 980ti which i am very pleased with, but i don't think an uprgrade is needed yet. Unless i needed more fps.

Great article.
 
Good increases overall, It'd be nice to see a similar AMD article, Also an article comparing both brands gen over gen would be great if anyone knows of one.
 
I was surprised at the power consumption figures. My memory of my old 480 was that it was a power hungry, hot running beast to be tamed yet they show it to have the same power draw as a 980ti.
 
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I was surprised at the power consumption figures. My memory of my old 480 was that it was a power hungry, hot running beast to be tamed yet they show it to have the same power draw as a 980ti.
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I remember my system drawing over 800watts with SLI GTX 580

Am sure I remember the power draw being far less With my SLI 780ti...:confused: but I did uprade my CPU / motherboard /memory when I bought my 780ti's
 
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The jump in performace is huge, but intresresting to note that the 580 (and to an extent the 480) can still hit 60fps in a lot of modern games!
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My mate had an aging 460, he recently bought another one for £20 and put them in SLI. The 2 460s in SLI play pretty much all the games he wants @ 1080p without problems (Overwatch on Ultra @ 100FPS).

And this is the reason why I'd never spend £500 on a GPU. If you're not going to take advantage of all the extra power at the time of purchase, your money has been wasted.
 
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