GTX 980 / 970 Discussion

[Amatsubu]

The 970 seems like a fantastic card but I think I'll wait to see whether blokes at AMD do something to take some wind out of Nvidia's sails. My 7850 is struggling a bit but I should manage until 2015. There's nothing worth playing until then anyways (except AC: U or maybe FC4, both of which should still be somewhat playable on my hardware if I don't go bonkers with the settings). I don't even play that much to begin with but I'm quite tempted by GTA V, The Witcher 3 and the rest of the bunch;p

I sort of don't want to buy an another more power-efficient rebrand, especially that 300 quid is quite a bit of dosh to me. 20nm GPUs might not be that far off so I might as well wait some more time. Even if the new cards don't turn out to be that much more powerful, the 970 will hopefully have gone down in price by then;p

 

[pdaboy]

The 970 seems like a fantastic card but I think I'll wait to see whether blokes at AMD do something to take some wind out of Nvidia's sails. My 7850 is struggling a bit but I should manage until 2015. There's nothing worth playing until then anyways (except AC: U or maybe FC4, both of which should still be somewhat playable on my hardware if I don't go bonkers with the settings). I don't even play that much to begin with but I'm quite tempted by GTA V, The Witcher 3 and the rest of the bunch;p

I sort of don't want to buy an another more power-efficient rebrand, especially that 300 quid is quite a bit of dosh to me. 20nm GPUs might not be that far off so I might as well wait some more time. Even if the new cards don't turn out to be that much more powerful, the 970 will hopefully have gone down in price by then;p

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm tempted to upgrade my GTX 670 but theres nothing that I cant play at decent settings so will probably wait it out.

 

[ubersonic]

Why do they make such nice looking blocks when the card faces down?

Personally I always went clear plexi so I could see what was going on in the block lol.

 

[Captain]

Depends on your case

Oh wow that is smart

Personally I always went clear plexi so I could see what was going on in the block lol.

Think it's time i jumped into the W/C world

 

[jamie1414]

Looks fake but news nevertheless.

AIO cooler
http://wccftech.com/gtx-980-water-cooled-aio-bundle-spotted/

Why would an AIO card have fans on it still? That almost looks like someone just shoved some pipes in the side of a normal one for a picture.

 

[ubersonic]

Why would an AIO card have fans on it still? That almost looks like someone just shoved some pipes in the side of a normal one for a picture.

To cool the VRMs/Memory. The GTX580 and GTX680 with AIO's had blowers too.

 

[ChrisD.]

How would the 980 perform compared to my two 280X's?

 

[Boomstick777]

How would the 980 perform compared to my two 280X's?

Better.

 

[ChrisD.]

Sorry, I have two 290X's.

 

[BriT]

Quite slower - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1075?vs=1351

 

[Devious]

Strange how we are expecting to pay a premium for the GTX 970's with the Titan cooler when they arrive, yet the GTX 980's with titan cooler are cheaper than the customs.

 

[thefogo]

Strange how we are expecting to pay a premium for the GTX 970's with the Titan cooler when they arrive, yet the GTX 980's with titan cooler are cheaper than the customs.

Yeah ×_×
Plus I've seen evga offer to sell a titan cooler to a customer for £30. I'd assume the 980 cooler would be cheaper due to lack of a vapour chamber.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Better.

A single 980 is slower that crossfired 7970's/280x's.

 

[Boomstick777]

A single 980 is slower that crossfired 7970's/280x's.

Even at stock the 980 isn't much slower than 2 x 280X's, than factor in not relying on crossfire, more vram, DirectX 12 support etc. To sum it up I would say better.

*Update*

OP says he has 2 x 290X's, so in terms of raw performance no reason to switch to a single 980, so unless OP wants a cooler quieter running PC. Better to wait for the 390X / 980Ti to show up, with more of a performance jump.

 

[Orangey]

Any GCN card has DX12 support.

 

[MrH]

So I got an MSI GTX 970 4G today but sadly I've crashed twice with event viewer showing "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". Is there anything I can do about this?

 

[opethdisciple]

So I got an MSI GTX 970 4G today but sadly I've crashed twice with event viewer showing "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". Is there anything I can do about this?

It's the overclock you've got on the card surely.

 

[varkanoid]

Yeah ×_×
Plus I've seen evga offer to sell a titan cooler to a customer for £30.

where was this ?

 

[MrH]

It's the overclock you've got on the card surely.

Would you suggest simply lowering it or perhaps increasing the voltage slightly to make it stable? My temps and fan speed are great, usually 50 - 60c under load at most. My current overclock was quite modest I thought for the MSI at +230/+300.

 

[thefogo]

where was this ?

Evga forum iirc