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As we mentioned earlier in the review, Nvidia are controlling the launch of their GTX980Ti, which means we have no partner cards right now available to analyse.
A high percentage of KitGuru readers will be waiting to buy a modified GTX980 Ti, so if we only test the GTX980Ti at the modest reference clock speeds, we will likely be showing the card in a worst case scenario. Even though it gave us more work this week, we wanted to also include results from the GTX980 Ti at the maximum overclocked speeds. This should give us a realistic real world indication of what we can expect from overclocked custom cards in the coming months.
As we expected, there is plenty of overclocking headroom available. We managed to push the boost speed from 1,076mhz to 1,349mhz, translating into a substantial 25% overclock. Not to be sneezed at.
Every graph in the review today will have two entry fields for the Nvidia GTX980 Ti. One entry will be reference clocks performance. Next to this will be a yellow arrow pointing upwards with a second entry showing the gains when the clocks are increased to 1349mhz boost /1858mhz memory.
Disappointed kitguru….No 1080p ?
a 980 will already have no issue with 1080p…Anyone who buys a card this powerful has left 1080p behind
I wouldn’t say its overkill for 1440p….I personally have been waiting for a card that can get me great fps at this resolution. Sure a 980 will get me 60 fps in most games…but hell I have a 144hz refresh rate, and I love me some 100+ fps smoothness, even to the point that with my current 770, I crash my settings down just to make things smoother
Why the 21 page format? It’s quite annoying to keep scrolling and clicking. Why not shorten it into a 7 page format, by saying putting the games on one page, the benchmarks on another, the temperature and power efficiency, etc.
Good review though, wasn’t expecting one this soon, and unless AMD pull the stops out with Fury, then looks like I’m finally going to be upgrading for the first time in 4 years now! (had a chronic case of ‘wait-and-see’ syndrome).
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/geforce-gtx-980-ti/buy-gpu advertised for 649.99 on Nvidia’s site
Not really, what if I want to game on max settings for years to come and am still happy with the 1080p resolution?
Not everyone is a resolution whore.
I am going through the same “wait-and-see” syndrome. Pls halp.
Should I wait for Intel Broadwell processors that are coming this fall along with whatever NVIDIA is going to roll out this year (if any)
or should I build a system with a i7 4790K and 980Ti ?
I see almost no sites are testing compute performance for the 980Ti … I assume NVIDIA have forbidden this …
Enjoy holly days kitguru … kEEP READING
Pascal’s not coming till next year…Nvidia’s using HBM2, and a new process for it, so it’s not possible for them to get it out before December.
It all really depends on what you’ve got now, how long you’ve been waiting and how much you want to spend. If you’re rocking a 680/780 I’d say wait. I’m on a practically ancient 1.5GB 580 now, so this is my stop!
Wait a couple weeks to see what AMD does. I’ve never bought from the Red team before, but everything we’re hearing about Fury is making it seem like it’s gonna wipe the floor with the 980Ti (ok, bit of an exaggeration). HBM1 could prove to be huge, and the card is incredibly small and has a hybrid cooling system, which is perfect for the SFF build I’m after.
In terms of Broadwell…honestly, it doesn’t matter. Any i5/i7 will be more than enough, and yes, that extends all the way back to Nehalem.
Are you planning on using it for a bit of mining? (see what I did there?)
I play with an EIZO FORIS FG2421 monitor 240Hz in Turbo Mode and need 240 FPS constantly in 1920×1080.
Só,a GTX 980TI is not enough for some titles such as : GTAV,Witcher3 and só on.
I will wait for Pascal next year.
hate this advert spam crap
Now that is overkill, unless you’re some kind of MLG pro gamer who only plays shooter games in tournament’s. I’d take 4k at 40-60 fps over 240fps at 1080p any day of the week.
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Great review Kitguru
Maxwell Ti is Best GPU for a future proofing 4K gamine solution and its great performance per watt will enable its partners to offer highly overclocked version. Compute performance has no value to gamers whatsoever but the 980Ti 6GB of memory sure does for 4K gaming.