The Dark Soul III game's maximum frame rate is fixed to 60 fps. For this reason, all the cards on the chart below come side-by-side in the 1080p resolution.

At 3,840 x 2,160, the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme returned the same 45 FPS result. However, the GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme consumed more power than the GTX 1080 in order to maintain the same result.

The very demanding Assassin's Creed syndicate title always requires high GPU resources in order to be playable. The GeForce GTX 1080 recorded the highest frame rate in all conditions.

At the resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 or lower, the lead of the GTX 1080 over the GTX980 is in the range of 40-50%.

But setting the game's resolution to 4K resolution and the setting to "Very High" , results to a minimal lead of the GTX 1080 over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme. The 6GB of video memory on board of the GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme has kept the card's performance high.

Any GPU would find it hard to cope with 4K gaming of the specific title, so using 2-way SLI would make sense here.

Power consumption

We measured the power consumption of the system during the benchmarks with each GPU. Both idle and maximum power figures we recorded.

The consumption of the GeForce GTX 1080 at idle about 40W, which is 5W less than the idle we recorded for the GTX 980 and 17W less than the idle power consumption we measured with the GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme.

With the GTX 1080 running benchmarks at 1080p, we recorded a an average consumption of 250 ~260W, which is slightly higher number than the consumption of the GeForce GTX 980.

In terms of power-to-performance ratio, the GTX 1080 is a king, as it crashed the GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme and delivered an astonishing benefit compared to the GeForce GTX 980.