The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2015 6:00 PM ESTFar Cry 4
The next game in our 2015 GPU benchmark suite is Far Cry 4, Ubisoft’s Himalayan action game. A lot like Crysis 3, Far Cry 4 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with Ultra settings thanks to the game’s expansive environments.
For those of you just joining us, the GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan are still neck-and neck. The GTX 980 Ti trails the Titan by no more than 4%, at 1440p and 2560, with the two cards taking the top two spots in our charts for single-GPU cards as one would expect.
On an absolute basis, at 4K Ultra this happens to be another case where the GTX 980 Ti delivers framerates around 40fps, in this case coming in at 40.6fps. Otherwise the GTX 980 Ti is going to come up a hair short of 60fps at medium quality – hitting 59.5fps – and finally going over 70fps at 1440p Ultra.
This also ends up being another case where the GTX 980 Ti looks very good as compared to the GTX 780. Here it beats NVIDIA’s last $649 card by as much as 86% at 1440p, highlighting NVIDIA’s performance gains at this price point over the last 2 years.
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Klimax - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
@zepi: Perfect scaling on non-Intel's fabs doesn't exist as 16/14nm has 20nm metal layer and thus cannot scale as effectively.Refuge - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Distribution costs them more than manufacturing. lolChaser - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
That's pointless. 28nm with (Nvidia at least) is very energy efficient and as seen by this review a steal for the power this card delivers. It's a Titan X at $650.00. You're just desperately trying to find anything you can try and gripe about.Oxford Guy - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
A GPU that expensive only qualifies as a steal if you're Leona Helmsley.mapesdhs - Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - link
2019 says hold my beer. :)Mark_gb - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Nvidia must make a living. No matter who they have to run over in the process. You, me, AMD... Doesn't matter. I imagine that at Nvidia, the mantra is "MUST MAKE MONEY! LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY!", and that it repeats all day long, every day.P. T. Barnum was right... "There's a sucker born every minute."... and we are them.
Michael Bay - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
What a shock that must be, for-profit corporation going about making profit. How dare they.mapesdhs - Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - link
Indeed, quite shocking. :)Personally I hope they make oodles of the stuff, so they can reinvest and make even better tech, because, my heavens, that's how private companies function. :D
It's weird how people complain about companies making profits, yet the very existence & continued success of a company depends on profits (unless of course one is AMD and somehow gets away with year after year of losses without going under).
(btw MB, please stop making crap Transformers movies... ;D Sorry, couldn't resist, hehe...)
FlushedBubblyJock - Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - link
the arabs have been shoring up amd - it's dirty oil money for the crime that amd isfingerbob69 - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
Yeah ...but imagine how pissed you'd be if you'd brought a titan x in the last couple of months!I hope that extra 3% feels good!