-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
GTX 980 / 970 Discussion
- Thread starter Fruitbooter
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 6 Feb 2010
- Posts
- 14,582
It's only an upgrade if you want lower power consumption and heat instead of performance increase.
If you were in the market for a new card, then I would say yea the 970 would be a good card to buy; but for people that already own 290 or 780 series, from performance side point of view there's little reason to move to the 970/980, unless selling their existing cards alone is enough to fully fund the new cards.
Last edited:
Soldato
Do I stick with my 1205mhz out of the box TI or DSR it and get 2 x 970 SLI?
Soldato
Thats kinda what I'm after just dont want a slower setup doing so.
Caporegime
970 SLI will destroy a single TI and for not much more money either.
Been reading and 970 SLI looks very good value/performance. Would be cheaper for me to get another 290 but I think these would be cooler as I'll be on air
Associate
Man I am SO torn !... sell my 3x GTX 780 3GB ref cards and get Gainward 3x GTX 970 4GB with the old 670/680 series ref cooler ... A bit more performance or equal but a lot lower powerbill !
Associate
SLI increasingly seems to be the way forward for price/performance.
Soldato
Are these not yet more rehashes of the same tech then? I was under the impression they were?
Soldato
What will the temps of an SLI 970 setup be like with the cards stacked up upon each other, no gap....
Soldato
they are new maxwell chips at 28nm
they are better temps lower power consumption with plenty of headroom for overclocking.
If you own 780ti's it's not really worth the hit but then they are the 770 successor not the 780ti successor.
they are better temps lower power consumption with plenty of headroom for overclocking.
If you own 780ti's it's not really worth the hit but then they are the 770 successor not the 780ti successor.
Associate
So my next hunt is for waterblocks... anyone else looking ?
Soldato
- Joined
- 6 Feb 2010
- Posts
- 14,582
The 970 may or may not be slower than the 290x depending on the game and situations/settings and how high it can clock (silicon lottery). But all in all judging from the benchmarks, you shouldn't lose performance to very noticable level under actualy gaming even in the worst case scenerio.
But one thing though, looking beyond the frame rate, I don't think reviews have got round to measuring frame time of the new cards yet, particularly for SLI?
Soldato
As a SFF PC gamer,some of the effiencies are nice as long as it is matched by pricing - will need to see how much the GTX960 will cost and how it will perform TBH.
However,the thing is though as I mentioned in the deleted thread it is no wonder a GTX980 could do well against the GTX780TI/R9 290X. The latter two have a whole load of transistors dedicated towards DP which has made the chips larger and consume more power while doing nothing for gaming performance,whereas they are fighting an evolved GK104 which is far better optimised for the job TBH. Even the larger memory buses have been dictated more towards certain commerical usage too.
Soldato
