Pascal NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1000 Series Blender 2.78a
Fresh NVIDIA CUDA Linux benchmarks with Blender by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


GeForce GTX 1050: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2048MB (1316/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1341/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

GeForce GTX 1060: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6144MB (1506/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

GeForce GTX 1070: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1504/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

GeForce GTX 1080: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8192MB (1596/5005MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.4-040804-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 375.10, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

gtx980ti_Mate_Cuda: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI H170I PRO AC (MS-7995) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-22M + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB (999/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 8260

	OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.8.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Blender 2.78a
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GeForce GTX 1050 .... 389.91 |=================================================
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 342.35 |===========================================
GeForce GTX 1060 .... 233.76 |=============================
GeForce GTX 1070 .... 176.70 |======================
GeForce GTX 1080 .... 173.50 |======================
gtx980ti_Mate_Cuda .. 203.60 |==========================


Blender 2.78a
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GeForce GTX 1050 .... 1039.88 |================================================
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 896.74  |=========================================
GeForce GTX 1060 .... 668.05  |===============================
GeForce GTX 1070 .... 467.24  |======================
GeForce GTX 1080 .... 395.97  |==================
gtx980ti_Mate_Cuda .. 483.85  |======================


Blender 2.78a
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GeForce GTX 1050 .... 769.75 |=================================================
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 686.23 |============================================
GeForce GTX 1060 .... 457.75 |=============================
GeForce GTX 1070 .... 350.05 |======================
GeForce GTX 1080 .... 360.32 |=======================
gtx980ti_Mate_Cuda .. 445.68 |============================


Blender 2.78a
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GeForce GTX 1050 .... 1545.24 |================================================
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti . 1343.71 |==========================================
GeForce GTX 1060 .... 933.85  |=============================
GeForce GTX 1070 .... 694.91  |======================
GeForce GTX 1080 .... 633.20  |====================
gtx980ti_Mate_Cuda .. 914.76  |============================