Not my expertise however, benching is to stress test rendering 3D objects, complexity of detail, shadow, anti-aliasing and etc.
Just cause something else looks better doesn't mean its actually fully utilizing the GPU capabilities. More or less we use the benchmarks to test our overclock for stability.

 
Also giant epeen.
 
 

Lol Nereus, what does that even have to do with anything?

Are you saying that the programmers do this on purpose so people can feel like they have um.. giant.. um... yea..

I think I'm guilty of this, because when I heard that NVIDIA is going to be announcing a new 12GB (titan similar) version of the 1080.  I tried to tear the article up looking for ways in that mine was better lol.

And, for those of you who would like to know:  It sounds like NVIDIA is trying to make a Titan X version of the 1080.
And, they're labelling it as "The power of Titan X for a much lower price"

But, wait wait wait wait just a minute...
The FE and other versions of the 1080 were already more powerful than the Titan X in benchmarks.
And the FTW completely rocked the FE, other versions AND Titan X.

So, don't they mean to say they're releasing something *better* than the Titan X?
I confused...

One of the users went into a little bit of detail on why benchmarks run slower but are less appealing to the eye than games.

Do you have any more on that, BG8780?
I think I'm getting it.  In a benchmark, they just crank everything way up... even stuff that is crunching numbers that you can't see.

Wow, thanks Sean.  I will check it out.
Mafia II used to be my benchmarker actually, but.. it's a little dated now and I use GTAV as a "virtual city" benchmarker.

samnew2288
Lol Nereus, what does that even have to do with anything?

Are you saying that the programmers do this on purpose so people can feel like they have um.. giant.. um... yea..

I think I'm guilty of this, because when I heard that NVIDIA is going to be announcing a new 12GB (titan similar) version of the 1080.  I tried to tear the article up looking for ways in that mine was better lol.

And, for those of you who would like to know:  It sounds like NVIDIA is trying to make a Titan X version of the 1080.
And, they're labelling it as "The power of Titan X for a much lower price"

But, wait wait wait wait just a minute...
The FE and other versions of the 1080 were already more powerful than the Titan X in benchmarks.
And the FTW completely rocked the FE, other versions AND Titan X.

So, don't they mean to say they're releasing something *better* than the Titan X?
I confused...

You are indeed confused. NVidia hired Donald Trump's PR firm, seeing how marvelous a job they are doing making their client look good and make wise decisions. They advised NVidia to name their new flagship product the exact same thing as their former flagship product.
 
So users have taken it into their own hands to disambiguate, by referring to the new Titan X that is based on the Pascal architecture as the Titan XP, and the old Titan X based on Maxwell simply Titan X, or sometimes I've seen Titan XM or whatever.
 
But no, the 1080 FTW doesn't rock the new Titan XP.
 
As to the OP, the benchmarks are designed to test the ability of the gpu using all of its features and really complex environments and details, textures, geometries, what have you. You can't predict game performance from these benchmark results, other than to say if you can raise your benchmark results, you'll probably also see a rise in game performance. That could depend on a lot of things. For example, if you raise your benchmark score by raising your cpu performance, that may not translate into higher fps in a game that isn't cpu bound. But if you raise your benchmark score by overclocking your gpu, you'll probably see a rise in game fps for games that are gpu bound, which is most of them.

Nereus
Also giant epeen.

samnew2288
Lol Nereus, what does that even have to do with anything?

Are you saying that the programmers do this on purpose so people can feel like they have um.. giant.. um... yea..

LOL nope, well ..yes I guess. I meant people like to get their scores as high as they can by overclocking, and then compare scores with others... thus, the higher the score, the more giant the epeen.