EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Classified

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Big, brash and bold, we take a closer look at the EVGA beast.

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{QUOTE]Naysayers will chime in with the considered argument that two GTX 970s in SLI or a Radeon R9 295X2 would be significantly faster and cheaper, but this is not a card for them.[/QUOTE]

Regardless, it might have been more informative to put the similarly priced R9 295X2 into the performance comparisons in place of the older cards. After all, how many "deep-walleted enthusiasts" are shopping for the GTX680?

For non-LN2 enthusiasts, triple BIOS and additional hardware tweaking tools are nice, but I'm not finding this card particularly exceptional when compared to my MSI GTX 980 4G that can reach quite high clocks at stock voltages.

Would be nice to see (even if just for mere curiosity) GPU-Z's ASIC quality numbers for reviewed cards, which is perfectly feasible since both AMD and Nvidia GPUs now support ASIC quality number reports.

Have Hexus got any plans to update the benchmark list with any newer titles? Even BF4 would be more relevant than some of the games listed as these new cards simply smash these titles from a performance standpoint?

m_kinder,

Yes, a totally new suite will be brought into play next month. Watch this space.

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Originally Posted by tribaljet

For non-LN2 enthusiasts, triple BIOS and additional hardware tweaking tools are nice, but I'm not finding this card particularly exceptional when compared to my MSI GTX 980 4G that can reach quite high clocks at stock voltages.

Would be nice to see (even if just for mere curiosity) GPU-Z's ASIC quality numbers for reviewed cards, which is perfectly feasible since both AMD and Nvidia GPUs now support ASIC quality number reports.

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tribaljet,

If that kind of thing interests you, the sample card had a 71.7 per cent ASIC quality, according to GPU-Z.

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Originally Posted by Tarinder

m_kinder,

Yes, a totally new suite will be brought into play next month. Watch this space.

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The red highlighting on graphs is appreciated :)

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Originally Posted by Tarinder

tribaljet,

If that kind of thing interests you, the sample card had a 71.7 per cent ASIC quality, according to GPU-Z.

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Thank you. It does interest me, particularly since apparently there's a 64% minimum recommended ASIC quality for the past 3 Nvidia GPU generations in order for cards to be usable on anything above stock clocks and voltage.

Tarinder,

Any chance you could also mention the raw GPU scores for the Futuremark tests
please? And give links to the results on the 3DMark site? I ask because the CPU
can affect the final score, eg. my 980 ACX 2.0 gives 12038 for Firestrike and
6150 for Firestrike Extreme (result numbers 3206800 and 3206810), but this is
with a 5GHz 2700K. Comparing overall scores is fine of course when one has used
the same test system each time, but it makes it a little harder for readers with
different systems to properly compare.

Not tried oc'ing mine yet, but am very happy with the minimal noise.

Ian.