Blender 2.79 Comparison
Intel Core i7-7740K testing with a ASUS PRIME X299-A and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB on Ubuntu 17.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.
GTX 1080
Processor: Intel Core i7-7740K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Intel Kaby Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1607/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-phx-amdgpudc2 (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.69, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
OpenCL Notes: GPU Compute Cores: 2560
System Notes: GPU Compute Cores: 2560.
Blender
GTX 1080
Processor: Intel Core i7-7740K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A, Chipset: Intel Intel Kaby Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1607/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek Generic, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-phx-amdgpudc2 (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.69, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.42, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
OpenCL Notes: GPU Compute Cores: 2560
System Notes: GPU Compute Cores: 2560.
Testing initiated at 16 September 2017 11:19 by user pts.