Nvidia Pascal GPU has 17 billion transistors

[RolloTheGreat]

Wow, I'm finding GTX 1080 to be extremely bandwidth-starved in most of the current demanding games:

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/gefor...r-gtx-1080
http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/gefor...ark-part-1
http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/gefor...ark-part-2
http://www.computerbase.de/2016-05/gefor...ark-part-3

Are any of you guys surprised by this?  Even more aggressive bandwidth compression that Pascal brings isn't enough.  

The memory is overclocked by 10% (from 5000 to 5500MHz, or 11000MHz effective)..  while the core is left alone.

AC Syndicate is showing an 8% increase in performance.
Far Cry Primal shows a whopping 9% increase.
GTA V also shows 8% increase.
Heroes VIII - also 8%
The Division - 8%

15 games out of 21 tested show 5% or greater increase in performance.

All of this owing to a 10% increase in memory bandwidth ALONE????

This is incredibly hard to ignore.  

I'm hoping that the site didn't accidentally turn up the power limit from 100% to say, 120% or something like that?  Even the fan profile could've been accidentally tweaked - it's very easy to overlook one of these things, as overclocking utility programs usually save the fan profile which is usually automatically applied the next time the program is launched.  

Yet, I don't think ComputerBase is that dumb to overlook such things.  Perhaps another site will go over this, unless I missed one.  Reading Techreport now..

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVID...80/16.html

Over 30% faster at Far Cry Primal at 4K, 40fps vs 30fps on a Titan X.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVID...80/17.html

Same thing at GTAV, 45fps vs 35fps.

With our 4K GSync monitors, this difference is HUGE.

Memory bandwidth or no, this is the single GPU to have and my only question is whether I order Founders on Day 1 or can hold out for custom.