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Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming
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.
Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming - 09/19/2014 03:28 AM
Next to the flagship product we also test the more budget Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 SOC gaming graphics card. The product does not vary much from the 980 other than a chunk of performance. This card...
Review: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming OC - 09/19/2014 03:28 AM
Join us as we review the new MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming OC edition. This affordable model comes with the new TwinFrozr V cooler. The GM204-200 chip is smacked onto a custom PCB surrounded with Milita...
Review: Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti KalmX - 09/16/2014 10:19 AM
We review the Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti KalmX. Palit's offering is the most silent of them all, as it uses passive cooling. That's right, just a big heatsink is being used. The KalmX runs reference c...
Review: Corsair Graphite Series 780T - 09/11/2014 04:49 PM
We review the new Corsair Graphite Series 780T full tower PC case. The aesthetics are fairly impressive with a big design, large see through window, latched doors, magnetic top and front mesh panels a...
Review: Plextor M6 Pro 256GB SSD - 09/09/2014 04:31 PM
We put the new Plextor M6 Pro SSD to the test in a review. Plextor recently released this new addition to their SSD lineup. The series is to compete with Samsung and Micron mostly. This SSD series is ...
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#4916266 Posted on: 09/19/2014 04:55 AM
Ridiculous overclockers. Love it!
Ridiculous overclockers. Love it!
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#4916318 Posted on: 09/19/2014 06:35 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.
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.
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#4916324 Posted on: 09/19/2014 06:42 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.
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.
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#4916326 Posted on: 09/19/2014 06:48 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.
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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Very Good Performance
Like ATI they learn a lesson and Give to fans good hardware and its not Overpriced
Now im waiting for ATI R390X 20nm