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Our newest GPU test procedure has been built with the intention of benchmarking high-end graphics cards. We test at 1920×1080 (1080p), 2560×1440 (1440p), and 3840×2160 (4K UHD) resolutions.
We try to test using the DX12 API if titles offer support. This gives us an interpretation into the graphics card performance hierarchy in the present time and the near future, when DX12 becomes more prevalent. After all, graphics cards of this expense may stay in a gamer's system for a number of product generations/years before being upgraded.
General Test System Notes
- AMD Graphics cards were benchmarked with the AMD Crimson Display Driver 16.11.4.
- Nvidia Graphics cards were benchmarked with the Nvidia Forceware 375.70 driver.
Test System
| CPU |
Intel Core i7 6700K ‘Skylake' (Retail)
Overclocked to 4.4GHz Core, 4.4GHz Cache |
| Motherboard |
ASUS Maximus VIII Hero
|
| Memory |
G.Skill Trident Z
16GB (2x8GB) @ 3000MHz 16-18-18-38-2T |
| Graphics Card |
Varies
|
| System Drive |
Micron M600 256GB SATA 6Gbps SSD
|
| Games Drive | SK hynix SE3010 960GB SATA 6Gbps SSD |
| Chassis | NZXT Phantom 630 (medium fan speed) |
| CPU Cooler |
Corsair H110i GT
|
| Power Supply |
Seasonic SS-760XP 760W Platinum
|
| Operating System |
Windows 10 Professional with Anniversary Update (64-bit)
|
Our test system consists of an overclocked Core i7-6700K processor and 16GB of 3000MHz G.Skill DDR4. High-end hardware is used to eliminate CPU and memory from the bottleneck equation and put the performance onus solely on the GPU being tested.
Comparison Graphics Cards List
AMD RX 480 8GB Reference (1266MHz core / 2000MHz memory)
AMD R9 Fury X (1,050MHz core / 500MHz memory)
Nvidia GTX Titan X (Pascal) (1418MHz core / 1531MHz Boost / 1251MHz memory)
Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming (1696MHz core/ 1835MHz Boost / 1251MHz memory)
ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Gaming A8G (1671MHz core/ 1810MHz Boost / 1251MHz memory)
Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition (1607MHz core/ 1734MHz boost / 1251MHz memory)
Nvidia GTX 1070 Founders Edition (1506MHz core/ 1683MHz boost / 2002MHz memory)
Nvidia GTX Titan X (Maxwell) (1,000MHz core / 1,753MHz memory)
Gigabyte GTX980 Ti XTREME Gaming (1216MHz core / 1800MHz memory)
Nvidia GTX980 Ti Reference (1000MHz core / 1,753MHz memory)
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- VRMark Orange Room & Blue Room (Synthetic)
- Unigine Heaven (DX11 Synthetic)
- Ashes of the Singularity (DX12)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DX12)
- Gears of War 4 (DX12)
- Grand Theft Auto V (DX11)
- Metro Last Light Redux (DX11)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (DX11)
- Total War: Warhammer (DX12)
That is one very unattractive card. One might even say “Fugly.”
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Nice card in a sea of cards of this type but at least it handles the temps very well like you said never going above 60c is very nice. If I was in a market for a 1070 those temps would be very compelling for sure. Sure it don’t have all the whistles and bells of the RGB lighting and if that makes it fugly to some then so be it I guess & yes the lack of LED lighting does appeal to more than a few people out there in a market where everything is RGB LED lit it is nice to see a product that just does what it says & in this case lets you play your games without worrying about anything else.
Dumb question – you’re using MSI Afterburner, so is it possible to alter the fan curve of this card such that it’s at 0% speed at a certain range? Or do the fans actually just refuse to drop to 0 RPM?
GTX 980 Ti AIB cards are still A HELL OF A STRONG GPU! If you use MSI Afterburner – and know how to tweak enough to get your GTX 980 Ti to 1400+ MHZ core at all times when under any load, you are WELL AHEAD of anything a GTX 1070 can accomplish!
If, like me, you are a hardcore tweaker, and have a TOP TIER GTX 980 Ti, such as my Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980 Ti – and you manage 1503 Core, with 8 GHZ Effective VRAM as I have, you are ABOVE Stock FE 1080s! Seriously, in every benchmark I have done comparisons with (ESPECIALLY VR) My G1 980 Ti is TIED OR AHEAD of SOME GTX 1080 results! In the Steam VR Benchmark, I was actually ahead of over HALF of the submitted GTX 1080 results!
In VR – it seems that for all intents and purposes, the GTX 980 Ti when OCed like I have done, is TIED with or AHEAD of most GTX 1080s!
And that REALLY matters to me, as I own the AMAZING HTC Vive!
Also: God I remember how GIGABYTE USED to be the BEST OF THE BEST when it came to the GTX 900/Maxwell series GPUs! The G1 Gaming was STILL TOP TIER- and Gigabyte only built the Gaming Xtreme to blow the Zotac AMP! Extreme out of the water, which it did. But as for build quality and function, for Maxwell ALL Gigabyte G1 Gaming GPUs were THE BEST! My G1 980 Ti is as solid as a Brick front and back, and I feel like I could use the thing to bash a hole in my wall without causing ANY damage to the card!
Move up the the Pascal and Polaris days: G1 Gaming has become mid tier, plasticy and built with mid level components. Gigabyte introduced the new “Aorus” as the top tier, and IT is CHINSY! The Shroud is made of SUCH THIN METAL that in shipping, for Jayz2cents the FIRST one he got was bent so badly that the middle fan could not even spin! Just a few days ago he got another one from Gigabyte, and showed that you can LITERALLY snap pieces off of the shroud without using ANY force! The whole damned card is FLOPPY!
Also everyone who OWN the GTX 1080/1080 Ti Aorus says it has TERRIBLE sag, and again is chinsy as hell!
To me that is SAD! Gigabyte REALLY went ALL OUT on the G1 Gaming Series – and FFS they built a 2 slot cooler that dissipates 600 watts of heat! A cooler that has 5x 8mm and 1x 6mm heatpipes all of which go DIRECTLY over the GPU and the majority of the VRAM chips – and not only is it GORGEOUS – but it is DEADLY EFFECTIVE! Even with my 1503 Core and 8 GHZ VRAM – my card NEVER gets hotter than 67 C in gaming – at which point the fans are at 90% and are just BARELY audible when my AC or room fan is not running!
I actually bought my G1 Gaming GTX 980 Ti early August, 2016 AFTER all the benchmarks had been done! I KNEW people would be dumping their 980 Ti’s (and Fury./Fury X so I thought… But they still sold for $400+ at the time) – so I went onto eBay, and found them selling between $320 and $400 at MOST! For a GPU that I KNEW was more potent than a GTX 1070 – and with proper OCing could reach near GTX 1080 performance – back when an FE 1070 WOULD have cost me $470! And I bid on the AiB models that I knew could OC well, eventually I won my G1 GTX 980 Ti for $355 shipped to my door in BRAND NEW condition! The guy even cleaned it and applied IC diamond which he told me after I won – and I checked to see if it was true. And I was THRILLED when I found I could hit 1500+ Stable after some tweaking to voltage, frequency, fan curves – etc!
Whereas my reference GTX 770 before it – at about 65% my 770 was as loud as my 980 Ti is at 100%
From what I understand, theoretically it SHOULD be possible to drop fans to 0% – unless there is firmware that prevents it in the case of Reference or “Founders Edition” blower style cards. But I would NOT think PNY has the same firmware as a stock FE 1070, besides the overclock, the fans never ramp above 50% or so, whereas an FE card would got up to 65%.
So while I cannot guarantee that it would work, it SHOULD work, though even if it does not work, as long as the firmware allows for 30% fans speed or below, you really are not in danger of wearing the fans out, and at such a speed, you should not be able to hear them at all.