**Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / 980 Review Thread**

[shamus21]

It was this morning, but customers have ravaged our stocks, 100's more in next week though.

Your not still playing with 970/980 cards are you Gibbo ., time you went home and take one with you.

 

[Finners]

My 290 at 1250Mhz is 3fps behind on Graphics test 1 and 4fps behind on graphics test 2.

And that's with a 350Mhz ( 28% ) lower core clock.

Up my 290 framerate by 25% and I end up 12fps in front in graphics test 1 and 8fps in front.

I thin if AMD sort the power consumption and overclock ceiling they'll easily be able to handle these new Nvidia cards.

Need to do it quick though, 6 months down the line will be to late.

What voltage offset are you running on your 290 out of curiosity? I dont want to go over 100mv really and that only nets me 1150

 

[Buckster]

not bad at all those 970 clocks - about 18% faster in Firestrike Extreme than my mid-overclock 290 Tri-X

 

[Buckster]

actually just did a power test - did show how hungry the 290 was with just a +63mV bump in power

in desktop/idle 180W

running Valley 500W

!! eek

 

[Nexus18]

Plus the price on 970 just to rub salt into the wound .

TBF, the 290's at their current prices on ocuk are still cheaper once you factor in the free games you get.

I got £36 for my games when I bought my 290 a few months ago and now you have the choice of alien isolation and a few other newer/upcoming games so people will probably get at least £45/50 for the games alone thus bringing the 290's down to about £200-210.

 

[gomola]

I Removed, no swearing, fully star out swear words, final warning, next time will be a suspension - stulid. hate you nvidia

 

[Boomstick777]

TBF, the 290's at their current prices on ocuk are still cheaper once you factor in the free games you get.

I got £36 for my games when I bought my 290 a few months ago and now you have the choice of alien isolation and a few other newer/upcoming games so people will probably get at least £45/50 for the games alone thus bringing the 290's down to about £200-210.

They have the advantage of operating as a space heater in the winter months as well.

Heating aside though, for gaming performance VS price the GTX 970 is king.

 

[Gregster]

The 970 sure is a decent price and when the dust settles, they will be even better.

OT, I love The Evil Dead - Is that where your name comes from Boom?

 

[Boomstick777]

The 970 sure is a decent price and when the dust settles, they will be even better.

OT, I love The Evil Dead - Is that where your name comes from Boom?

Yeah, always loved Evil Dead, Army of Darkness ftw !

 

[bradUK]

Baby Jesus weeps when you quote images that big.

+1

 

[Buckster]

how come a lot of the reviews only review at 1900 and 2560 with 0xAA

who runs 0xAA ?

 

[Gregster]

Nice to see this thread and the others playing nice. Only the occasional AMD fan trying to justify AMD

 

[Buckster]

hope thats not targeted at me ?

I think its a great set of cards - I'd definately get one if I was in market at moment

would the difference in performance be as great as shown if tests were run with 4xAA and 8xAA - and I'm not targeting the 290/290x specifically - more so the 780/780Ti

 

[Nexus18]

Nice to see this thread and the others playing nice. Only the occasional AMD fan trying to justify AMD

TBH, there have been FAR more digs at AMD than nvidia in these threads

Only really seen one or two people slating the 9xx serious cards and not necessarily because they are AMD fans...

edit:

also hope that isn't aimed at me either!

Only points I have brought up are about power consumption in general and how everyone seems to really care about that now and the price to performance area with the 290 being a decent bit cheaper once you sell the games on.

 

[tayto_0]

The AMD boys are always well behaved

 

[new boy]

I've been considering the 970 today at work, but have decided it was a stupid idea, as my 7950 still does everything I need it to do @1080p. maybe I cant get my 120fps a lot of the time, but I'm not as impressed with 120Hz as I thought I would be anyway.

Going to wait a gen or 2 then upgrade to new higher res monitor with g-sync / freesync / whatever else is cool, and drop a wad of cash on a 20nm card to run it I think. Damn that day is gunna be sweet...

 

[shankly1985]

Nice to see this thread and the others playing nice. Only the occasional AMD fan trying to justify AMD

And it would stay playing nice. It's post like this baiting to get other users to reply back, just like now. And then it goes OT etc.

Coming from an underboss I would expect better posts from you than this Greg. You not ment to be setting standards?

 

[Kaapstad]

Nice to see this thread and the others playing nice. Only the occasional AMD fan trying to justify AMD

Some people take it way too seriously, it is only PC parts we are talking about here and there are more important things in life.

Spoiler

Like GM200.

 

[Geeman1979]

And it would stay playing nice. It's post like this baiting to get other users to reply back, just like now. And then it goes OT etc.

Coming from an underboss I would expect better posts from you than this Greg. You not ment to be setting standards?

Then be the bigger man and don't bite

 

[Reaper 392]

Possibly a dumb question, but why are people asking for comparisons between the 970, 980 and 290 at the same clock speed? Surely the only fair comparison is to turn them both up as high as they can go on air or water and see who wins, since no one is going to intentionally downclock their cards to match what the competitors can get