The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2015 6:00 PM ESTTotal War: Attila
The second strategy game in our benchmark suite, Total War: Attila is the latest game in the Total War franchise. Total War games have traditionally been a mix of CPU and GPU bottlenecks, so it takes a good system on both ends of the equation to do well here. In this case the game comes with a built-in benchmark that plays out over a large area with a fortress in the middle, making it a good GPU stress test.
Switching out to another strategy game, even given Attila’s significant GPU requirements at higher settings, GTX 980 Ti still doesn’t falter. It trails GTX Titan X by just 2% at all settings.
That said, on an absolute basis even GTX Titan X couldn't get past 30fps here at 4K with max quality settings, so the GTX 980 Ti is going to fare no better.. To get single card performance above 30fps we have to drop a notch to the “Quality” setting, which gets the GTX 980 Ti up to 44.2fps. In any case, at these settings the GTX 980 Ti makes easy work of the single-GPU competition, beating the GTX 980 once again by 28%+.
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Daroller - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
I had a GTX690, and I run SLI TITAN X. I've been running dual GPU setups for as long as they've been available. Dual GPU IS a hindrance. You'd have to be blind, stupid, or a rabid fanboy to claim otherwise. The 295x2 isn't exempt from that just because you dislike NV and harbor a not so secret love for AMD.Laststop311 - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Yea cause using dual GPU's just sucks. Just adds a bunch more complexities and problems to everything. Always get 1 of the largest, fastest single gpu's you can get.Kutark - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
I guess if by crush you mean thermally crush. Then yes, you're absolutely correct. I mean, why not have a portable nuclear reactor nearby to power your video card!mapesdhs - Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - link
Hope you enjoy your power bill, heat, worse stuttering, etc., and the numerous CF fails for all sorts of scenarios. I checked some forums, lots of moans about 15.5 for CF support.poohbear - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Why didn't u include witcher 3 in the benchmarks? It's the latest graphics intensive game for sure & looks gorgeous!kyuu - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
It JUST came out. A significant portion of this review was probably carried out before it was even released. Not to mention its already had two patches that affect performance substantially.Oxford Guy - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
It looks horribly watered-down compared with the earlier demo, probably because they wanted so much to keep the VRAM requirements really low.chizow - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
@Ryan Any word on when we might see some SLI results? I know this is generally dependent on limited review samples, but vendors will probably start sending you cards soon yeah?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
Not any time soon.NA1NSXR - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Those revised 970/980 prices are stingy.