3x GTX 970 versus 2x GTX 980Ti

[Gripen90]

Yesterday I got my 2x GTX 980Ti's and I have really been excited to see how they would hold up against 3x GTX 970, and in case you were wondering too I thought I would share them results with you all.



The system:
MSI X99S SLi Krait Edition
Intel Core i7 5820K [email protected]
16GB Crucial BallistiX DDR4 2400MHz CL16 Quad Channel
Intel Series 120GB SSD
Kinston V300 240GB SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower 1500w
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit


Results with 3x Gainward GTX 970 4GB 1051@1251MHz GPU, 3506@3900MHz Vram. nVidia Forceware 350.12

3DM Fire Strike Standard
SCORE 23214 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(3x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 34121
Physics Score 16243
Combined Score 8431
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4590576

3DM Fire Strike Xtreme
SCORE 13240 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(3x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 16334
Physics Score 16261
Combined Score 4905
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4609799

3DM Fire Strike 4K
SCORE 7521 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(3x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 8035
Physics Score 16209
Combined Score 3295

Unigine Heaven 4.0 1080P max settings.

Unigine Valley 1080p Extreme HD

Results with 2x MSI GTX 980Ti 6GB 1000@1250MHz GPU, 3506@3890MHz Vram. nVidia Forceware 353.06


3DM Fire Strike Standard
Score 24364 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti(2x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 37072
Physics Score 16335
Combined Score 8599
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5067669

3DM Fire Strike Xtreme
Score 15222 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti(2x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor 15222
Graphics Score 17709
Physics Score 16257
Combined Score 7085
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5067712

3DM Fire Strike 4K
Score 8556 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti(2x) and Intel Core i7-5820K Processor
Graphics Score 8933
Physics Score 16319
Combined Score 4215
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7305475

Unigine Heaven 4.0 1080P max settings.

Unigine Valley 1080p Extreme HD

I'm quite impressed who the 2x 980Ti's can handle 3x 970s - I had expected a lot closer run between them.

I will be going through some games also before shipping the 970's to new homes

 

[vintage-x]

Nice boost.

How about in games though? Is there much of a difference in minimum frame rates?

 

[Gripen90]

Nice boost.

How about in games though? Is there much of a difference in minimum frame rates?

Still running through the games list, but I can tell now already that in The Witcher III at 1440p with Hairworks enabled and all to the max I get less ms latency when travelling in and out of woods. I expect that is due to more Vram. Else FPS are higher in all games and so it the minimum FPS in a majority of them

 

[opethdisciple]

I would expect you to have seen a boost. 2 way sli scales better than 3 way, and 2 970's are the same as a single 980ti. So if scalling was perfect you have 3 970's vs 4 970's.

No contest!

 

[africanos23]

Mind running a few AAA benches for me when you have time ?

4K (DSR) as you have a 1440p monitor (just disable G-Sync to get it working with SLI)

Everything maxed including AA

Dying Light
Shadow of Mordor
COD AW
GTA V

 

[Strife212]

The 980Tis will absolutely smash the 970s , I say this as a former user of SLI 970.

Also even if the 970s bench well, they stutter and play like crap at 4K.

 

[mahius]

980ti vs 970 SLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4RyNNlKbJw

I'm going for a single 970 though (the new AMD cards are filthy rebrands and not worth the money it seems from today's leaked benchmarks). I'll go all out on a beefy Pascal with the die-shrink. Fingers crossed OCUK get the MSI on the daily deal soon, I can't stand loud cards.

 

[Gripen90]

I would expect you to have seen a boost. 2 way sli scales better than 3 way, and 2 970's are the same as a single 980ti. So if scalling was perfect you have 3 970's vs 4 970's.

No contest!

Well actually I have had excellent scaling on my 3x 970's - just like the 3x780/670/580/470/280's before them I will throw in a 3rd 980Ti when finances allow it

Mind running a few AAA benches for me when you have time ?

4K (DSR) as you have a 1440p monitor (just disable G-Sync to get it working with SLI)

Everything maxed including AA

Dying Light
Shadow of Mordor
COD AW
GTA V

I have The Witcher, COD AW as "newer" AAA titles - really I'm not much into most AAA titles. GTA I lost interest in with release of San Andreas (favorite were GTA London and Vice City), I'll take them for a spin in genuine 4K on my Samsung 4K screen.

The 980Tis will absolutely smash the 970s , I say this as a former user of SLI 970.

Also even if the 970s bench well, they stutter and play like crap at 4K.

Well I had 3x 970 and they did exceptionally well in 4K