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September 2014
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The editors liked
Class leading Performance
Power efficient
Excellent features
Great overclocking potential
Great performance
Very impressive energy efficiency
Excellent architecture
Overclocks well
Better than the GTX 780 Ti in every regard
Unrivaled power efficiency
Efficient performance
High quality construction
Now includes a backplate
Cheaper than its predecessor's launch price
Improved display output options
Huge overclocking potential
Video memory upgrade – now 4GB
Improved com
Excellent performance
Great port selection
Works quietly
Low power draw
Competitively priced
Great minimum frame rate
Mid
Range pricing
Top
Notch performance
Superb overclocking
Lower power consumption
Breezes through 1080p and 1440p games
Handles most 4K titles
More efficient than rivals
Power efficiency is unmatched in the high end
4GB GDDR5 memory
Masses of overclocking headroom
Quiet
Nvidia reference cards look great
Class leading performance at the price
Launch price of £429.99
£100less than many GTX780Ti prices
The editors didn't like
Physical SLI bridge remains
Can get hot when overclocked (reference design)
Not the fullfat
Performance Maxwell
Won't manage 60fps at highquality 4K
No Nvidiabundled games
Stock cooler thermal throttles a little
Loses a bit of ground at higher resolutions
Demanding games still aren't smooth at 4K
AMD-based competitors offer better bang for your buck
Doesn't set new standards for high-end performance
Still using 28nm process.
A little slower than R9 390X
Strong competition from two AMD cards
You would still need two of them for high frame rates at 4K resolutions.
Published: 2014-09-18, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
Abstract: To be fair though, this isn't our first experience with the Maxwell architecture. With the release of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and its GM107 GPU, NVIDIA put the industry on watch and let us all ponder if they could possibly bring such a design to a high end...
Fastest single-chip card available, Runs cooler and quieter than comparable AMD cards, Requires much less power than comparable AMD cards
Requires two six-pin power connectors, 4K gaming on some games at maximum settings will still require multiple cards
Nvidia's high-end, Maxwell-based card delivers the best performance available from a single-chip gaming graphics card to date, while sipping much less power than the current competition. Just as nice: Its price is competitive with AMD's hotter Radeon R9 ...
Crushes AMD Radeon R9 290X, Outstanding DX11 video games performance, Supports MFAA, FXAA, and TXAA, Supports Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Tripledisplay and 3D Vision Surround support, Cooling fan operates at very quiet acoustic levels, Features HDMI
Very expensive enthusiast product
My ratings begin with performance, where the $549 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 competes against the rest of the market in an unfairly matched comparison. With the launch of GTX 980, NVIDIA will discontinue GTX 780 Ti, 780, and 770. Gamers will most likely com...
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Published: 2014-09-18, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
With a new model there is always a tendency, however much we might try and avoid it, to expect it to blow the old one out of the water and justify its place in the market. After all if it's not any better than the previous one why would they bother?The gr...
Abstract: Earlier this month NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 as their highest-end offerings based on their Maxwell architecture. Since the GTX 750 series debut I have been anxious to see Maxwell succeed Kepler in the high-end space and finally last...
Published: 2014-07-18, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
Abstract: It's been a months-long journey of GTX 800, then GTX 900 rumors, broken embargoes, questions, and anticipation. The GTX 750 Ti saw the debut of NVidia's Maxwell architecture almost 7 months ago, making for one of the first times the company has ever unvei...
Published: 2014-11-05, Author: Wayne , review by: cgmagonline.com
The GTX 980 is a graphics card that can handle any modern game you throw at it, and it will be interesting to see how near future releases such as Grand Theft Auto V and Assassin's Creed Unity will take to this card's robustness...
So here we are at the end of another NVIDIA launch review and one thing is quite evident: the GTX 980 has done a nearly perfect job in emulating the GTX 680’s high points and adds more than a few highlights of its own. Like its spiritual predecessor, the ...
Overclocking (damn), Power consumption, New technologies, Cooling, Low noise, Good looks, Pricing
Sideways move if you have a GTX 780 Ti
And there you have it. As a whole the GTX 980 is a pretty interesting piece of hardware. On several fronts it is truly an amazing piece of hardware. Visually the reference GTX 980 maintains the industrial look that works so well with just about any build,...
Beautiful build quality, Noticeable performance improvements, Incredible power efficiency gains
Competition from GTX 970, Competion from Radeon GPUs, Cooler loud under constant load
The GTX 980 is the high-end card in the newly announced and soon-to-be-more-widely-released Nvidia line-up, for the latest quarter of 2014 and the first half of 2015; there will be an even more powerful twin-GPU card inevitably turn up, and more mid-range...
