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For the review today we are using the Nvidia Forceware 344.48 and AMD Catalyst 14.9.1 beta drivers. All of the AMD and Nvidia hardware in our reviews today used these drivers, tested between the 20th October and 27th October. We are using one of our brand new test rigs supplied by DINOPC and built to our specifications.
If you want to read more about this, or are interested in buying the same Kitguru Test Rig, check out our article with links on this page. We are using an Asus PB287Q 4k and Apple 30 inch Cinema HD monitor for this review today.
Comparison cards:
MSI GTX980 Gaming 4G (1216mhz core / 1753 mhz memory)
Asus GTX780 Ti Direct CU II OC (954mhz core / 1750 mhz memory)
Nvidia GTX980 Reference (1126 mhz core / 1753mhz memory)
Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X OC (1040 mhz core / 1300 mhz memory)
Palit GTX970 Jetstream OC (1152mhz core / 1753 mhz memory)
MSI GTX970 Gaming 4G (1140 mhz core / 1753 mhz memory)
Palit GTX780 6GB (902 mhz core / 1502mhz memory)
Asus GTX970 StriX OC (1114 mhz core / 1753 mhz memory)
Asus R9 290 Direct CU II OC (1000 mhz core / 1260 mhz memory)
Software:
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley Benchmark
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
3DMark
Fraps Professional
Steam Client
FurMark
Games:
Grid AutoSport
Tomb Raider
Metro Last Light Redux
Thief 2014
All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform generally under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests games across five closely matched runs and then average out the results to get an accurate median figure. If we use scripted benchmarks, they are mentioned on the relevant page.
Game descriptions edited with courtesy from Wikipedia. Credit to Tytaero for his assassinbot image.
holy sht!! this is a monster of a card! im impressed by the temperatures and still decent noise.
Any hint on how hot the VRM’s were? I don’t suppose you could monitor them in GPUz?
you just need an infrared thermometer like the PCE-777
looks cool and is a giant dust trap! lol closed circuit liquid cooling like some amd cards have done would be much better imo
While i want to agree, it will make it harder to fit. Especially if you go for an SLI setup.
They would likely have a fan on there regardless so they can cool the other components such as memory and VRMs. Plus if you have filters on your case, dust shouldn’t be too much of an issue if you set it up properly.
Why does this video card have a name created by a 9 year old Cawwadooty player?
Will an SLI of these fit in an Asus Maximus vii hero board? D:
How the vrm temp under furmark??
How the vrm temp under furmark??
it’s a triple slot card
I meant the depth, when it is in your case, not the thickness.
Thanks though!
just bought 2 of them… can’t wait!!! 😀
D:
Please do tests again with 347.52 this can’t be right. My 970 1557/3888 1.275v gets 13581 in firestrike!!
For about that money I will get me an evga hydro 980 ti, and kick it’s ugly ass.