Just goes to show how the PC industry has been gimped by DX7-11 and OpenGL for decades. Just imagine if we had closer to the metal APIs like Mantle, DX12, Vulkan 10-20 years ago. Also, goes to show just how serial and one deminsional all modern NV GPUs were all this time. Fury X smashing GTX1070 by almost 30% is an insane result. I hope Volta is a true next gen NV architecture from NV because it's clear the future is parallel compute and greater simultaneous utilization of all the GPU resources. As more games use Vulkan/DX12, it will become beneficial to abandon 'serial' GPU designs since all the DX12 games snow the first true Vulkan result show there is little to no extra benefit to be extracted for serial GPU architectures from next gen APIs. Once again, NV will ride the tails of 2016-2018 with little consequences since software keeps lagging behind next gen parallel hardware.
In TPU's latest charts, at 1440p the $700 780Ti has now fallen behind a $400 R9 290, $500-650 780 can't beat a $300 280X, $550 980 loses to the $430 390X.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_1070_SC/24.html
That means the "outdated" GCN architecture has outlasted GTX 600, 700 and 900 series. If 980Ti didn't overclock well, it would also fall to the Fury X. Just shows how remarkably future proof the GCN architecture was!