Hardware & Technical GTX 980 - Anandtech Review
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Many news articles and tests in the press specialized appear now. GTX 980 and 970 are two great powerful cards. A true rupture with Kepler. Some weeks still and the prices are going to fall. Perfect for the gamma of ED
Many news articles and tests in the press specialized appear now. GTX 980 and 970 are two great powerful cards. A true rupture with Kepler. Some weeks still and the prices are going to fall. Perfect for the gamma of ED
Seems that way. Looks impressive.
Hexus review Here.
Many readings in perspective. Always pleasant to read the "different opinions" of the specialized press
I have two EVGA SC 980 graphics cards being delivered tomorrow before midday. I have to wait around 10 days for my waterblocks to arrive.
You are also fast to buy, that the new Maxwells are fast
I guess if I want to boost my performance for the Rift with a GTX 970 the best way would be to buy a second one and go SLI.
SLI will bring superior performance in all the domains, certainly. But perhaps test a single card to begin ? And wait that the prices fall ?
I have two EVGA SC 980 graphics cards being delivered tomorrow before midday. I have to wait around 10 days for my waterblocks to arrive.
What blocks did you go for?
I've just ordered a new machine with an Intel i7 4790k 4.0 Ghz CPU, 16GB RAM and a Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 4GB GPU. Should be perfect for ED!
Will be interesting to see the reviews of this one when it gets released
http://www.evga.com/articles/00872/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-970/#2989
http://www.evga.com/articles/00872/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-970/#2989
I went for the EK waterblocks but i cancelled my orders for both the cards and the blocks because im waiting on either the classifieds which will have extra power phases and volt modding support.
Either those in 1 - 2 weeks or i will wait for the Titan X in 4-6 weeks. Titan X is likely to be around £899 or more.
Why not go for the HydroCopper when it is released ?
I had planned to change to watercooled, but these plans are now on hold due to buying a new bathroom !!! (How dull).
i hope the next few graphics drivers improve the performance, i bought my brother one for his birthday and some games are still noticeably laggy at 2560x
I took delivery of the Zotac GTX 980 AMP Extreme today.
I run Elite Dangerous on the DK2 supersampled at 2560x1440. The single 980 achieved 75 FPS consistently in space, and about 60 FPS in large stations, it's a significant step up from my old GTX 680.
All that impressed me a fair amount, what impressed me more was Zotac's cooling solution. It's an air cooled card running 3 x 80 mm fans beneath a sizable aluminium finned heatsink, so I expected it to be fairly noisy. It's not quiet but it's a good few dB lower than when my 680 was flat out and the fans run ~ 10% slower. Further it capped out on the cooling stakes at 69 C, averaging ~63 C most of the time. This is a good 10 C cooler than my old 680.
The card is ~ 2 cm longer than my 680 which may give some mid sized case owners pause, but I had plenty of wriggle room in my HAF x V2.
Considering the 980 is overclocked at a whopping 1440 Mhz (~300 Mhz above stock) boosted, I think it's amazing. It benchmarked on my Advanced 3DMark at a comparable level (within 100 points) to my old 680s in SLI in Firestorm and actually exceeded by old set up for Icestorm Extreme.
I'll certainly be buying a partner for this in the new year.
I run Elite Dangerous on the DK2 supersampled at 2560x1440. The single 980 achieved 75 FPS consistently in space, and about 60 FPS in large stations, it's a significant step up from my old GTX 680.
All that impressed me a fair amount, what impressed me more was Zotac's cooling solution. It's an air cooled card running 3 x 80 mm fans beneath a sizable aluminium finned heatsink, so I expected it to be fairly noisy. It's not quiet but it's a good few dB lower than when my 680 was flat out and the fans run ~ 10% slower. Further it capped out on the cooling stakes at 69 C, averaging ~63 C most of the time. This is a good 10 C cooler than my old 680.
The card is ~ 2 cm longer than my 680 which may give some mid sized case owners pause, but I had plenty of wriggle room in my HAF x V2.
Considering the 980 is overclocked at a whopping 1440 Mhz (~300 Mhz above stock) boosted, I think it's amazing. It benchmarked on my Advanced 3DMark at a comparable level (within 100 points) to my old 680s in SLI in Firestorm and actually exceeded by old set up for Icestorm Extreme.
I'll certainly be buying a partner for this in the new year.
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Typo probably - 75FPS in space and 60FPS at the stations? And do you have VSYNC ON?