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I have been very impressed with Nvidia's GTX980Ti reference card. The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ takes the class leading performance and pushes it to the next level. The ACX 2.0+ cooler is a very proficient implementation, reducing temperatures over Nvidia's reference design by 11c, while also lowering noise emissions. Always a good thing.
While some may argue, we do feel the GTX980Ti is overkill for 1080p or even 1440p gaming – the GTX980 is more than capable and will leave you enough money left over to get other goodies. If you want to game at 1600p or 4K then the more expensive GTX980Ti makes for a wise investment, especially when you factor in the extra 2GB of memory. Obviously if you are running a 120hz or 144hz monitor then this ‘overkill' argument changes a little.
Ultra HD 4K still proves a challenge even for these high end boards, although the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ will power most Direct X 11 titles at this resolution if you are willing to drop a few image quality settings, or are happy with 30-40 frames per second.
We know more serious gamers want a constant 60+frames per second and they will need to double the expense by opting for an SLI configuration. It will probably be the next generation of Nvidia graphics cards before a single GPU will be able to hold a constant 60+ frames per second at 4K with the highest image quality settings enabled.
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Pros:
- noticeably faster than the GTX980Ti reference card.
- built for 4K gaming.
- quality backplate.
- 11c cooler than reference design.
- another 12% of headroom from the core when manually tweaked.
- no coil whine.
Cons:
- Titan X is only £200 more expensive and has 12GB of GDDR5 memory.
- GDDR5 memory isn't overclocked.
KitGuru says: The EVGA GTX980Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ is a monster graphics card and is a noticeable improvement on the reference Nvidia card. It is faster and runs much quieter without any hint of coil whine.
Sweet jeeeeesus. Incredible performance, really didn’t expect the Ti to be as good as it obvioulsy is!
Kinda sucks it can’t do silent idle 🙁 that’s something the Gaming/Strix have in their favour.
Uh it idles at 29c that’s silent idle…. since it’s below 60c
This review sucks.
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I was curious about this card. It’s nice to see that it’s got the goods to keep cool and effecient, but I’ll be more interested to see the prices after AMD drops the fury into play. I’m hoping to see this card for around $550 currently $700 in the US.
Why do reviews at 4k with things like 4x msaa enabled in GTA 5 (when it’s known msaa is a performance killer nor is it needed at 4k) and hairworks on in Witcher 3?
Do tests showing more reasonable settings that people are going to be using the damn game with.
what the hell happened to the R9 295x in the Withcher III ??
No Crossfire support, I assume.
so how is it that Nvidia manages to get drivers ready for the newest games and release them on the day but AMD have to wait a week or so before their drivers are released ? Are Nvidia paying for early code access I wonder ??
actually no .. the card is just terrible in some games. I just sold one for this exact reason. witcher runs fine in some areas while other areas give you 12fps. crap card.
Not really , they just produce better hardware. Look at Dirt Rally for example. Its an AMD sponsored game and yet if you own an AMD GPU your stuck with dotted transparent textures. Team red just can’t get their driver team to produce decent drivers. Project Cars , Witcher ,Dirt Rally , Most new titles have serious issues with crossfire and the 200 series cards.
The reason for this is terrible VRAM. Yes, it has 512-bit interface and the 980ti has only 386-bit interface, but Delta-Colour-Compreesion (DCC – Gen 3) helps massively.
I agree with you. I am 100% Nvidia and always will be untill AMD starts to sort out their drivers. Trouble is everytime I mention this to AMD (or on any AMD related article) I get nothing but abuse from over-zealous FanBoys who can’t see the true facts because of the rose-tinted glasses they seem to view everything through…
Temperature Sound level
EVGA’s ACX 2.0+ fan turns off below 60°C, generating 0dB of noise.
Suck my ass OK.
The results shown here are the same as the 290X, which is what happens when AMD doesn’t have a crossfire driver ready.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. And why no 1440p benchmarks instead of 1600p? Who the hell uses a 1600p monitor???
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really? 65° in game? mmmm
If you spend $500 on a card you want max settings on everything.
Nop if you want max settings you’ll need 2 card at 1200$ that the price for max settings.
If you spend 400$ on a ps4 you’ll get only 1080P
I troll but today developper got high end pc with tri or quad sli and professionnal graphics card to developpe the game, cause if you buy a quad sli, you want to be able to use it at full power. Not only using 20% of that fabulous power !
For me i want my card to be fully used at this price !
Amd suck that’s all, if amd do great processors and graphic card, amd/ati will be the number one in the market, you want perfomance ? intel/nvidia !
We just replaced two (3) 980 STRIX with 2 of these cards. At a +150 core 75 + mem 102 power target it beated our way more overclocked 3-Way SLI. These cards are actually okay. Take a look at them here, there is some pictures and also of the 3DMark results in comparison. http://computer.bazoom.com/dk/galleri/8503-stationaer-asus-rog-blackredmetal-extreme