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Guru3D.com » Review » Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming review 5

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming review 5

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/19/2014 01:17 PM [ 28 comment(s) ]

After the reference review we will now review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 SOC gaming graphics card. Armed with a totally custom design, two 8-pin power feeds and an all new WindForce based cooler this Maxwell based high-end card hauls azzz! The G1 Gaming has 4 GB graphics memory, is energy efficient and factory overclocked for you. You will be surprised by how this card looks, how silent it is and how well it performs.

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LoccOtHaN



Posts: 66
Posted on: 09/19/2014 05:46 AM
Very Good Performance :D Now nV Fans can move from GTX5xx or 6xx and maby even 7xx to 980 or 970 _> Nicely done and OK price -> 550$ is OK for Hi-End
Like ATI they learn a lesson and Give to fans good hardware and its not Overpriced :D

Now im waiting for ATI R390X 20nm :bounce:

orky87
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Posts: 156
Posted on: 09/19/2014 05:55 AM
Ridiculous overclockers. Love it!

Fox2232
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Posts: 11809
Posted on: 09/19/2014 07:35 AM
They are very good, but you can notice something I do not like:
in all benchmarks their performance offset is 10 to 20% only (between 970 and 980). What's wrong with it?
GTX980 has 23% more shaders, 23% more TMUs, 7% higher base clock, 3.2% higher boost clock.
Which actually gives 1.23 * 1.05 = 1.29 ~ 29% boost in processing power.
But both cards are defined by amount of ROPs which is great 64. And that is what makes both cards stand out most.
But if nV gave GTX980 72ROPs it would have been much more powerful without drastic increase in GPU size/TDP.
Wonder if 64 ROPs was effective limit for 256bit bus.
If so, then Ti may have 320bit bus. And therefore 5GB of vRAM.

And I would like to see FCAT comparison with 780(Ti) since those had quite improvement over 770.

And one before last thing is price which remains to be seen here. Last one is AMD's response. I may actually upgrade this time to nV even while I do not like company.

Fox2232
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Posts: 11809
Posted on: 09/19/2014 07:42 AM
Hilbert btw, could you load some benchmark which uses a lot of vRAM on 770/780 and then 970/980?
Since there is new compression, vRAM usage should be bit lower. Wonder if that is measurable.
Thanks.

moab600
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Posts: 6424
Posted on: 09/19/2014 07:48 AM
IMPRESSIVE. price of 980 is a bit high, close to 780ti but heck it so awesome. the GTX 970 is perfect, price is write power is awesome on both of them.

Maxwell is best thing in GPU that happened in a long time, and i've heard nvidia improved compute as well.

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