**Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review Thread**

[Muska]

The G1 is a teriffic card looking at the review.

 

[Kaapstad]

• All video card results are obtained on this exact system with exactly the same configuration.
• All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
• AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.

That's what the review states, either way they are good results

The FPS are too high for them to be using max settings on all the games.

A lot of those games I have got and have benched @2160p.

 

[Phixsator]

The FPS are too high for them to be using max settings on all the games.

A lot of those games I have got and have benched @2160p.

The cards used in the bench was OCed to a minimum of 1400 on the core. i think the g1 was in the 1500 ballpark..

 

[andybird123]

However, this seems to be a recurring theme in reviews;

Idle fan noise is fantastic as the card completely turns its fans off in idle, media playback, and light gaming (up to 60°C). With full-on gaming running, the card tends to be a bit noisy, though.While it is quieter than the NVIDIA reference design, it is still not as quiet as I would have expected

I had one on preorder, but with the videos and reviews like this all saying its a touch on the annoying/whiney side, I'm waiting on the msi gaming to make a decision

 

[Wrinkly]

I swapped my order (again) from EVGA Hybrid back to the original G1. Thanks OCuk for a fast & friendly service.

 

[shiver]

I swapped my order (again) from EVGA Hybrid back to the original G1. Thanks OCuk for a fast & friendly service.

How come? Because of lead times?

 

[spikerules]

This may be a stupid question, but would a water-cooled 980Ti OC'd be as fast as stock 980SLI? I've had enough of SLI and so I'm contemplating going the single water-cooled 980Ti route...

 

[Wrinkly]

How come? Because of lead times?

G1 just looks to be a better card with decent memory / VRM cooling and additional power delivery.

I am sure the EVGA hybrid is a great card but I feel I'd be spending more time looking inside my case (HAF XB) than at the screen just incase it sprung a leak.

Next year we should have a die shrink from both AMD and Nvidia which will probably have me selling this card. I think an air cooler will sell better than a hybrid.

 

[ubersonic]

with the videos and reviews like this all saying its a touch on the annoying/whiney side, I'm waiting on the msi gaming to make a decision

I'm in the same boat, well except also waiting on reviews for the ASUS Strix.

 

[snips86x]

G1 looks nice but previous cards have been noisy

 

[se_vietboi]

So the G1 was the better card after all XD

 

[delpy8]

that's me ordered the g1 for delivery tomorrow BUT it was an extra £10 and no FREE Batman game although its free with most of the other 980ti ,double penalty

 

[D3K]

How is giga's software for their cards? I've not been happy with their mobo software (app center) so reluctant to buy any more hardware from them.

 

[delpy8]

How is giga's software for their cards? I've not been happy with their mobo software (app center) so reluctant to buy any more hardware from them.

I would not let the software (oc guru) put you off buying the gigabyte card as I would use afterburner or evga precision

 

[ubersonic]

G1 looks nice but previous cards have been noisy

JayzTwoCents reviewed it yesterday, also included sequential noise tests vs 980ti and Titan-X reference coolers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2-gCXscH04

Of course you have to have heard a 980ti or Titan-X cooler to form a comparison basis (as the actual volume depends on your volume setting) but I thought it was quite quiet at full load.

 

[Kaapstad]

The cards used in the bench was OCed to a minimum of 1400 on the core. i think the g1 was in the 1500 ballpark..

That would still not be enough to get anywhere close to some of those scores.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

The cards used in the bench was OCed to a minimum of 1400 on the core. i think the g1 was in the 1500 ballpark..

That would still not be enough to get anywhere close to some of those scores.

As in Max settings, but Hairworks off and the like. One thing I dislike about many reviewers. They say max settings*

*Some features disabled.


The thing that really really annoys me are these tests are on an open bench. Besides benchmarkers who runs an open bench system?
Once the cards are inside a chassis the sound is different and temperatures.

My two reference cooler superclocked 980Tis have never sounded that loud( posted a video of them running Firestrike at 1440p), and the benefit is that in SLI they exhaust the hot hair out of the chassis. While folks with even the ACX are reporting 1 card out of 2 is about as hot as a reference cooler in SLI.

Then we also had that video with the G1 running Ryse sounding so much louder/squealier as well.

Don't get me wrong, after market coolers are awesome; especially if you're just using one. My ACX2.0 980 was as quiet as the G1 there, but my reference cooler cards also don't sound nearly as bad as shown in JayzTwoCents' video( probably because they're ina chassis and I don't sit with my head/mic right next to them ). Even after marathon gaming sessions like this weekend where I blazed through the Witcher 2.

EDIT: As usual my Corsair H110GT's stock fans are far louder than the two GPUs

 

[ubersonic]

EDIT: As usual my Corsair H110GT's stock fans are far louder than the two GPUs

You are running an overclocked i7 hex though, i'm not trying to be a jerk but saying the reference GPUs aren't loud because they are being drowned out by other fans is like saying the jackhammer isn't loud if you have ear defenders on.

If you had quieter CPU cooling you would definitely be able to hear the GPUs and how much louder they are that aftermarket.

This was the issue I had with the VRM fan on the 980 Hybrid, at load it was drowned out by the radiator fan and game noise, but at idle it was the loudest thing in the computer and annoyed me to the point I changed GPU lol.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

You are running an overclocked i7 hex though, i'm not trying to be a jerk but saying the reference GPUs aren't loud because they are being drowned out by other fans is like saying the jackhammer isn't loud if you have ear defenders on.

If you had quieter CPU cooling you would definitely be able to hear the GPUs and how much louder they are that aftermarket.

This was the issue I had with the VRM fan on the 980 Hybrid, at load it was drowned out by the radiator fan and game noise, but at idle it was the loudest thing in the computer and annoyed me to the point I changed GPU lol.

Talk about over exaggerating, I owned the EVGA 980 ACX card before these, and the CPU is hardly hairdryer, let alone jackhammer loudness. You actually sound like the exact opposite of other folks here that say a 1-1 fan profile is nice a quiet if you have loud enough headphones on.

CPU fans are only 1200rpm( quiet mode ), on a 280mm radiator. Hardly very loud already. The CPU may be overclocked, but the voltage was also never touched, temps are grand.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/corsair_h110i_gt_review,12.html

At both idle and load the Corsair H110iGT is louder than my Reference cards.

Running Firestrike at 1440p with the mic where my chair is at the desk
My entire system under constant Firestrike runs averaged around 35 with peaks to 39-40db

Even under gaming,and benchmarking the cards aren't nearly as noisy as shown in the G1 review. Why you may ask?
It's simple, they're in a chassis, and the mic isn't shoved right against them.

The only time I've gotten them to sound as bad as the JayzTwoCents video is when I tried a 1-1 fan profile on them.

 

[Phixsator]

Sound is a bit subjective. What i find extremely loud about the 980ti reference may be a god send for anyone who is use to the noise of something like the 4870x2 blower fan..or just the 290x reference perhaps?