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Welcome to the current king of GPUs, Nvidia’s brand new GeForce GTX 1080. Based on its new Pascal architecture, it’s actually quite similar to the older Maxwell architecture in many ways. The main difference is a process shrink; whereas the 980 Ti was stuck on a 28nm process, the new Pascal chips are being built on TSMC’s long overdue 16nm FinFET process. This reduction in transistor size brings several advantages. For starters, Nvidia can cram more transistors into a smaller piece of silicon, making it cheaper to produce (eventually). Secondly, they require less power to run, by about half in fact. But where these transistors really shine is in their speed, as you’ll see in a moment.
As far as specs go, compared to the 980 Ti,…