GTX 980Ti finally launched - MSRP $649 - Reviews

[skipsneeky2]

bf4 (670 sli) paracel
Avg: 72.855 - Min: 43 - Max: 99

bf4 (980ti single) paracel
Avg: 81.046 - Min: 64 - Max: 115

bf4 (980ti sli) paracel
Avg: 124.492 - Min: 96 - Max: 145

Nice numbers.Guess these are 1440p numbers?For giggles i would love to see what a single one of those could do at 1080p maxed out but no motion blur.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Meh @ Newegg tax. $715 is too much for these cards. I'll wait until Tigerdirect stops gouging and I'll use my 10% off coupon. Then I can grab em for around $541 each with Discover discount/Fatwallet Cash + TD Coupon.

Not saying I got a deal, but I purchased the asus reference model from newegg for msrp ($649). It comes with a copy of Arkham Knight which I should be able to sell for $25. So - net price of 625. Hopefully I can get 250-300 for my evga 780ti super clocked edition, which I bought just under 2 years ago. If so that means I would be roughly 300-350 out of pocket, which isn't bad considering I keep these cards for about 2 years.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Congrats on the twins.
Obvious Asian parent meme aside, you don't get to see this every day:

I'm itching to jump aboard the 4K train myself but I want to see the GPU market after Fury.

 

[moonbogg]

Not to rain on your parade or anything, but as far as I can tell that's not an over 100% increase, but rather a 70-80% increase?

That's true, but the mins are about double or so and the 3dmark GPU score is over 100%, so the theoretical card performance is over 100%. Real world factors bring it down though.

Nice, congrats!

BTW, you did mention that a single 980Ti felt smoother than 670 SLI which shouldn't be that suprrising but did you test 670 SLI with GSync on as well or only the 980Ti because it would make sense to have an apples-to-apples GSync comparison or otherwise you'd be favouring hte 980Ti too much by giving it GSync

Also, with your 144Hz monitor, there is a chance your 3930K is holding back 10% or so of our cards' potential. I think an i7 6700K @ 4.8Ghz would give you that 10% increase, maybe more when it comes to minimum frames. (IVB -> Haswell let's say 8% increase in IPC, then let's say 15% with Skylake and let's say you get 4.8Ghz overclock on Skylake vs. your IVB's 4.3Ghz -> theoretical increase of nearly 40%. Of course it won't translate linearly like that to games but you should get a boost. With $1,300 worth of cards, it's thinking point that your CPU platform may be holding you back).

Thanks man. I love the upgrade. Gsync was on for both and Gsync doesn't help below 70-80fps to make things feel smooth. FPS and high Hz are still king, by far IMO. The 980ti in single mode has no hitching or skipps because they have more Vram, so in that way it is more smooth. Compared to 80+FPS, anything below just feels like crap to me now. 60FPS is the new 30FPS. I've been ruined by high Hz. All tests were 1440p.
Also, yes there is performance being left on the table due to the CPU, but this would be at the upper range of the FPS I would suspect. When the GPUs are loaded, I would expect similar numbers. I will upgrade the platform when I feel its appropriate. I doubt I can hold on any longer than Skylake-E. For now though, I don't desire to invest for the performance to be gained from a Haswell rig. It might turn 120fps into like 135 or something. Not worth it yet to me. I like some wow factor when I upgrade.

moonbogg: First thank you for the test results and CONGRATS. What monster gpus. Those of us who are honest are jealous and drooling.

I just fired up 3dMark Firestrike and got the scores for my rig below. cpu is at 4.4Ghz but gpus are stock (1000 core/1300 memory).

Sorry for no pictures but I'm lousy at uploading the photos

Overall score =17042
Graphics=21683
Physics=20319
Combined=5986

I also checked my result logs when I had these cards in my 3930k rig at 4.6Ghz and here are the results:

Overall=16673
Graphics=21752
Physics=16514
Combined=6093

This gives you an idea of how really powerful your new gpu combo is. WOW!

Thanks again and thanks for posting these numbers. That does put things into perspective. Very interesting to compare like this. Good stuff.

 

[guskline]

moonbogg: Time to update your sig!:awe::biggrin:

 

[Cloudfire777]

EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid review.
Max 50C with additional overclock. Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRqmzRMar8

 

[chimaxi83]

EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid review.
Max 50C with additional overclock. Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRqmzRMar8

Nice, but with water cooling, those temps are to be expected. It's too bad they used a reference PCB, that's some lost potential right there.

Actually now that I see he hit what, 1484 core? Not bad at all. I wonder how high some of the better custom PCBs will go.

 

[MrK6]

Nice, but with water cooling, those temps are to be expected. It's too bad they used a reference PCB, that's some lost potential right there.

Actually now that I see he hit what, 1484 core? Not bad at all. I wonder how high some of the better custom PCBs will go.

We have reference cards right here that are hitting that, not terribly impressive. Hopefully the AIBs do something more interesting with non-reference boards/coolers.

 

[Cloudfire777]

We have reference cards right here that are hitting that, not terribly impressive. Hopefully the AIBs do something more interesting with non-reference boards/coolers.

I bet the reference cooler is LOUD with those clocks. Like it hurts being in the same room as it :biggrin:


Here is a list of 30 announced 980Ti models

 

[iiiankiii]

We have reference cards right here that are hitting that, not terribly impressive. Hopefully the AIBs do something more interesting with non-reference boards/coolers.

Noise, bro. Noise. Custom bios will get it to 1550mhz. However, vrm still needs to be in check. Not sure how the evga backplate and hybrid blower will do to keep vrm low once voltage is push thru it.

 

[MrK6]

I bet the reference cooler is LOUD with those clocks. Like it hurts being in the same room as it :biggrin:


Here is a list of 30 announced 980Ti models

I would assume it gets louder, it's a radial design. badb0y above says "it does get loud but not unbearable," so I'm not sure what you're assumption is based on. Overall the minor factory overclocks put on the cards mean little, the designs and follow-through will however. A decent aftermarket air cooler will do the same as the hybrid with less cost and clutter.

Noise, bro. Noise. Custom bios will get it to 1550mhz. However, vrm still needs to be in check. Not sure how the evga backplate and hybrid blower will do to keep vrm low once voltage is push thru it.

Again, noise is a fan issue, not a water issue. Also if the VRM's are just as gimped as the rest of the 9xx series it shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Innokentij]

The 980TI is gonna hurt my wallet in Norway 6800 Norwegian Krone equals 875.33 US Dollar that is for the cheapest modell with orignal cooler. So 900USD for 3rd party air and probably 1k USD for hybrid solution that i want. *wipes tears* WHY U RUIN OIL USA!

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Noise, bro. Noise. Custom bios will get it to 1550mhz. However, vrm still needs to be in check. Not sure how the evga backplate and hybrid blower will do to keep vrm low once voltage is push thru it.

If the card maker was smart they utilized vrm's that can take the heat. GPU only waterblocks worked fine on some 7950/70/r9 but it really depended on the regulators and capacitors the manufacturers chose to use. Oddly enough, my experience was with cheapest cards that had poor stock cooling solutions but heat capable VRM's. Perfect candidates for redmod

 

[exar333]

I bet the reference cooler is LOUD with those clocks. Like it hurts being in the same room as it :biggrin:


Here is a list of 30 announced 980Ti models

Wow, thanks for posting that!

The Zotac Extreme looks impressive. I wonder how hard you could push that with a full block on H2O?

Stock clocks are impressive...

Edit: Also has 3 DP ports, which is nice too...

 

[badb0y]

I would assume it gets louder, it's a radial design. badb0y above says "it does get loud but not unbearable," so I'm not sure what you're assumption is based on. Overall the minor factory overclocks put on the cards mean little, the designs and follow-through will however. A decent aftermarket air cooler will do the same as the hybrid with less cost and clutter.

Again, noise is a fan issue, not a water issue. Also if the VRM's are just as gimped as the rest of the 9xx series it shouldn't be an issue.

As mentioned above, the card is essentially setting it's own fan curve, I just put my target temperature at 83-84 degrees Celsius and max voltage, power limit, and put core clock slider at +245. Boom, done. Easiest OC I have done in my life.

 

[moonbogg]

That Zotac AMP Extreme has some balls right out of the box. Nice. I'll boost mine to 1200 just to break 20k in firestrike. You know, 'cause fun. Next year all these folks are going to be all like, "check my Pascal bro. 30k firestrike single card pwnage $500.00 win"

 

[Face2Face]

I actually did the last NVIDIA GTX980Ti Hunt today since it was in Raleigh. They posted a street name as a clue (Meridian), and Google maps was showing it in Raleigh (correct spelling), so I got out there super quick, but I noticed the spelling of the street I went to was Meridien, not Meridian. Turns out they gave it away in the next town over (Garner), at the street with correct spelling. I saw that street as an option on Google maps, but didn't think to go because it wasn't in Raleigh... butthurt No 980 Ti for me...

 

[flem]

MSI and Corsair teaming up to build a hybrid water cooled GTX 980Ti. Keep these coming
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=12563

Looks good, BUT not expected to release until AUGUST?!??!?!

It will probably be better than EVGA's Hybrid but another 2 months wait?!

 

[flexy]

Well I guess the chances there ever be an "GTX 980 TI Hunt" in this Spanish cow town of 6000 here is....rather slim.... Sigh...

 

[happy medium]

nevermind answered allready

 

[LTC8K6]

http://wccftech.com/galax-unveils-g...hof-cards-white-colored-highly-modified-pcbs/

That's a wild looking 980Ti...

 

[soccerballtux]

Why buy reference when the Gigabyte G1 and Windforce versions will clock faster and cooler for a tiny premium in another month? By which time 390X will likely be out for comparison?

thing that killed me about my Windforce 670 was I was sooooooo v-core limited. If I could have cranked the V-core to 1.25 or something volts I could have overclocked like 30%. But Nvidia limits you

 

[moonbogg]

Crysis 3 runs great. I remember in one spot I got like 20-25 FPS or so at 1080p, not even fully maxed, and now in that spot I get around 60fps fully maxed with 2X TXAA at 1440p. Game gets around 75fps the rest of the time, sometimes more but rarely less. Mins seem around 60.
Whats odd though is that 60fps and even a little lower dips into the 50's feel very smooth in this game. FC4 is a different story. Anything below 70 feels laggy and terrible. I guess a lot of that has to do with the game engine. Crysis 3 works great though. Quite surprised.
BF4 on my usual TDM server its pegged at 144fps much of the time. Dips to 130 though.

 

[MrTeal]

http://wccftech.com/galax-unveils-g...hof-cards-white-colored-highly-modified-pcbs/

That's a wild looking 980Ti...

It's hard to tell by the crappy pictures, but it looks like eight pairs of IR3550s phase doubled by an IR3599. If that's the case, wow. I've designed and tested 8 phase IR3550, and was able to pull over 400A out of them without anything other than good board airflow. As long as it's well designed and not just a marketing plow, that card should never want for current.

 

[iiiankiii]

Got them in. I'll say that even with a single 980ti, even though FPS was kind of similar to 670SLI is some situations, the 980ti felt much smoother. 670's had hitching and skipping issues, likely due to Vram crapping out. I benched what I had time for. Maybe I'll do Crysis 3 and others later. Pics first, a little GPU pron, and then the benchies. Sorry, no fancy graphs. I rushed this to get it done. See firestrike comparisons as well. Ran in standard free demo mode. SLI enabled for both runs with 670's and 980ti's.

BF4 was benched on 64 players servers, active and nearly full. Settings for both games were totally maxed with 4XAA. Far Cry 4 was all Ultra with 4XAA as well. Far Cry 4 was done with a repeatable run through for more consistency. BF4 was repeated in the same areas, but its multiplayer, so this gives you a real world result but not scientific of course, none of the tests were exactly repeated, so there will be some margin or error.

Drivers updated just tonight. Using latest. No overclocks. All stock. CPU at 4.3ghz as shown in sig.

Ugly, but it works!

bf4 (670 sli) paracel
Avg: 72.855 - Min: 43 - Max: 99

bf4 (980ti single) paracel
Avg: 81.046 - Min: 64 - Max: 115

bf4 (980ti sli) paracel
Avg: 124.492 - Min: 96 - Max: 145



FarCry4 (670 sli)
Avg: 46.617 - Min: 27 - Max: 67

FarCry4 (980ti single)
Avg: 48.951 - Min: 39 - Max: 72

FarCry4 (980ti sli)
Avg: 85.060 - Min: 67 - Max: 112


Very badass cards. Love them. Looking forward to giving them a small OC and checking temps, trying other games and all that. WOOT! Over 100% increase. Not bad.

Not bad. here's what one Titan X at 1557 MHz core and 8200 mhz memory can do with a custom bios 1.275v & 425watt TDP. OS is Windows 10. It's under a full cover water block. I'm pretty sure the GTX 980Ti can hit similar numbers.