A 980ti at 1500/8000Mhz reaches 21500 graphics score in Fire Strike, sometimes higher, which is just shy of that 1080 benchmark. It's not just games that show the 1080 being only ahead of an overclocked 980ti by a relatively small margin. Of course, you similarly overclock a 1080 and that gap widens again. But still, a 980ti at 1500/8000Mhz hits 136FPS in BF3 while a 1080 at stock hits 137FPS at 1440p. That is the same performance. Other games show anywhere from a 0-10% difference. The overclocked 980ti will hit around 85 FPS in GTA V while the 1080 will hit 91, a small but calculable difference. The Witcher 3 shows the 980ti hitting around 55-60 FPS while the 1080 hits around 70-75FPS, a bigger difference there. This is all using Techpowerup reviews of the Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming 980ti and 1080 reviews, which were published a few months apart. Obviously the 1080 will improve as new drivers are released, but that is what we have now. Also, DX12 games shows the 1080 clearly taking the lead over the 980ti by a comfortable margin. From Anandtech, at 4K in Hitman, the 1080 is well ahead of the 980ti. The same goes for Ashes of the Singularity.