Palit GeForce GTX 980Ti Super Jetstream Review

1. Introduction2. Palit GeForce GTX 980Ti Super Jetstream3. High Res Gallery4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Vantage6. 3DMark 117. 3DMark8. Unigine Heaven Benchmark9. Grid AutoSport (1440p)10. Grid AutoSport (Ultra HD 4K)11. Tomb Raider (1440p)12. Tomb Raider (Ultra HD 4K)13. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (1440p)14. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Ultra HD 4K)15. Grand Theft Auto 5 (1440p)16. Grand Theft Auto 5 (Ultra HD 4k)17. Metro Last Light Redux (1440p)18. Metro Last Light Redux (Ultra HD 4K)19. Thermal Dynamics/IR Thermometer Readings20. Acoustics Performance21. Overclocking22. Power Consumption23. Closing Thoughts24. View All Pages

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Polish: Wiedźmin 3: Dziki Gon) is an action role-playing video game set in an open world environment, developed by Polish video game developer CD Projekt RED. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concludes the story of the witcher Geralt of Rivia, the series’ protagonist, whose story to date has been covered in the previous versions. Continuing from The Witcher 2, the ones who sought to use Geralt are now gone. Geralt seeks to move on with his own life, embarking on a new and personal mission whilst the world order itself is coming to a change.

Geralt’s new mission comes in dark times as the mysterious and otherworldly army known as the Wild Hunt invades the Northern Kingdoms, leaving only blood soaked earth and fiery ruin in its wake; and it seems the Witcher is the key to stopping their cataclysmic rampage. (Wikipedia).

We test with the highest image quality settings, although I have disabled the Nvidia Hairworks option specifically as it does kill frame rate on many cards. Graphics Preset is on ULTRA and Postprocessing is on HIGH.

I have played The Witcher 3 for around 85 hours and I have completed the single player campaign. I tested the game today by playing 4 different save game stages for 5 minutes each, then averaging the frame rate results for a real world indication of performance – one of the map sections we tested is one of the most demanding in the game and our results can be considered strictly ‘worst case'. The Witcher 3 is a dynamic world, so it is important to run tests multiple times to remove any discrepancies.

This is one of the greatest PC games ever released in my opinion, so I spent around a total of 48 hours benchmarking it for this review alone – it should be on your must have list, if you don't have it already.

At Ultra HD 4K with these ultra high image quality settings, the Witcher 3 proves difficult for a single card to power. The Palit GTX980 Ti Super JetStream scores well, averaging 42 frames per second. Some image quality settings could be reduced further to improve the minimum frame rate.

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