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


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 479.70 |============================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 489.30 |============================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 479.57 |============================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1133.40 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1282.34 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1087.09 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1279.40 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1132.90 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1438.31 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1434.16 |===========================================================


Blender 2.78c
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1443.78 |===========================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 180.80 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 181.05 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 505.04 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 402.08 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 336.49 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 402.66 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 336.79 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1282.49 |===========================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Fishy Cat - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1046.20 |===========================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CUDA
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 473.01 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: OpenCL
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 473.73 |============================================================


Blender 2.79
Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only
Seconds < Lower Is Better
GTX 1080 . 1362.81 |===========================================================