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**Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review Thread**

I wonder how 2x GTX 980Ti's will stack up against 3x GTX 970's ?
Last time I went down from 3 way SLi to SLi was with 3x 670 going for 2x 780 and the 2x 780 actually just was a few percentages faster. I hope the same story will repeat when I get my 2x 980Ti's replacing the 3x 970's.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Def worth going for a Hybrid. If there had been a TX Hybrid at launch I would have gone for that for sure.

These GM200's are hot chips and would love some water.



The Nvidia CEO said the next high end series would be Pascal on 14nm next year. Probably Q2/Q3 2016 time-frame for the different models. Expect full chip (Expensive) early etc (March) and then roll out the full series over the year.

I still think we will see a GTX 960 Ti 3GB 192/Bit/Bus this year but no more higher end cards.
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Thank you for the answer! I guess I shall wait untill closer to February as I'm sure there will be more info by then! Cheers!
 
Gripen90 said:
I wonder how 2x GTX 980Ti's will stack up against 3x GTX 970's ?
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No doubt 2 980Tis will be faster than tri SLI 970s. One 980Ti with a 1400MHz+ OC is already better than 970 SLI and more than two card SLI shows diminishing returns in extra performance. Especially when the 970 is held back by a much weaker memory system than the 980Ti.
 
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RanxZy said:
No doubt 2 980Tis will be faster than tri SLI 970s. One 980Ti with a 1400MHz+ OC is already better than 970 SLI and more than two card SLI shows diminishing returns in extra performance. Especially when the 970 is held back by a much weaker memory system than the 980Ti.
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Which review shows that a OC 980ti is better than 970 SLI? That's awesome if true

Also would the EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0 overclock a lot more than a EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti "Reference Design"?

I'm hoping the Reference design can achieve 1400MHz if it's able to match 970 SLI
 
Rossuk89 said:
Which review shows that a OC 980ti is better than 970 SLI? That's awesome if true

Also would the EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0 overclock a lot more than a EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti "Reference Design"?

I'm hoping the Reference design can achieve 1400MHz if it's able to match 970 SLI
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The 1400MHz GPU speed on OC'ed 980Ti's is the maximum boost clock and not the overclocked base clock. Base clock is 1000MHz and OC'ing it to 1200-1250Mhz should give you a boost clock of around 1400MH.

As for the 980Ti vs 970 SLi i found this review - just scroll to the 2nd section with single 980Ti vs 980/970SLi. You see the 980Ti is darn close to 970SLi and that's with stock clocks.
http://www.maximumpc.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review/
 
Gripen90 said:
The 1400MHz GPU speed on OC'ed 980Ti's is the maximum boost clock and not the overclocked base clock. Base clock is 1000MHz and OC'ing it to 1200-1250Mhz should give you a boost clock of around 1400MH.

As for the 980Ti vs 970 SLi i found this review - just scroll to the 2nd section with single 980Ti vs 980/970SLi. You see the 980Ti is darn close to 970SLi and that's with stock clocks.
http://www.maximumpc.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-review/
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Ah right I understand, so I just gotta increase the Core Clock to 1200MHz and get 1400MHz with the boost clock? I've never OC'd a card before :o

And wow, those results are great..sometimes the 980ti is better than 970 SLI aswell

With some tweaks to settings in games I'm sure this will keep me happy with games at 4k, at least til the next generation of GPU's
 
ciggybumly said:
I'm hoping this is out soon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_NpKlxu9Q0

And can turn the cheaper cards into an evga hybrid for cheaper!!

It's confirmed working for the 980ti and Titan x
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Well it won't be cheaper perse as you have to get a Corsair hydro series cooler and then this addon and considering EVGA are releasing their AIO separately it would be cheaper to go that route in the end.
 
The hydro cooler is already able to be purchased from evga at just over £100, the corsair route will be around £29.99 (same as n780) plus £50 for h55 (can be found cheaper too) so it's approx £20 cheaper than the built in version or buying the hybrid separately.

The other advantage of the corsair one is you could always drop a h100 or 280mm AIO on it for even better performance
 
ciggybumly said:
The hydro cooler is already able to be purchased from evga at just over £100, the corsair route will be around £29.99 (same as n780) plus £50 for h55 (can be found cheaper too) so it's approx £20 cheaper than the built in version or buying the hybrid separately.

The other advantage of the corsair one is you could always drop a h100 or 280mm AIO on it for even better performance
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I think I'd rather just get the EVGA AIO as it's a lot less fiddly plus the temps are awesome on the 980 AIO so I imagine they would be around the same on the 980 Ti and TX :)
 
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