The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Review: Maxwell Mark 2
by Ryan Smith on September 18, 2014 10:30 PM ESTCompany of Heroes 2
Our second benchmark in our benchmark suite is Relic Games’ Company of Heroes 2, the developer’s World War II Eastern Front themed RTS. For Company of Heroes 2 Relic was kind enough to put together a very strenuous built-in benchmark that was captured from one of the most demanding, snow-bound maps in the game, giving us a great look at CoH2’s performance at its worst. Consequently if a card can do well here then it should have no trouble throughout the rest of the game.
Since CoH2 is not AFR compatible, the best performance you’re going to get out of it is whatever you can get out of a single GPU. In which case the GTX 980 is the fastest card out there for this game. AMD’s R9 290XU does hold up well though; the GTX 980 may have a lead, but AMD is never more than a few percent behind at 4K and 1440p. The lead over the GTX 780 Ti is much more substantial on the other hand at 13% to 22%. So NVIDIA has finally taken this game back from AMD, as it were.
Elsewhere against the GTX 680 this is another very good performance for the GTX 980, with a performance advantage over 80%.
On an absolute basis, at these settings you’re looking at an average framerate in the 40s, which for an RTS will be a solid performance.
However when it comes to minimum framerates, GTX 980 can’t quite stay on top. In every case it is ever so slightly edged out by the R9 290XU by a fraction of a frame per second. AMD seems to weather the hardest drops in framerates just a bit better than NVIDIA does. Though neither card can quite hold the line at 30fps at 1440p and 4K.
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Drunktroop - Sunday, September 21, 2014 - link
It is more like the G92s - 8800GT and 8800GTS 512 than HD4850 IMO.atl - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
In compute benchmark, i would appreciate some digital currency tests pack.Ryan Smith - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
Could you please expand on that request?GPUs have been supplanted by FPGAs and ASICs for both Bitcoin (SHA-25) and Litecoin (scrypt). At this point I'm not convinced cryptocoin processing speeds are going to be relevant.
ABR - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
Maybe not relevant for professional bitcoin miners as such, but a good benchmark of cryptography / big integer number crunching capabilities where a fair amount of effort has gone into optimizing the software for the hardware.Lux88 - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
I want to thank Ryan for using FahBench.rickon66 - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
I'm interested in 4K hardware, currently using 1600P Dell with a 780Ti OC and want to move up to 2160P. I'm hoping this 980 is fully compliant with HDMI 2.0!theMillen - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
you realize that if you're hoping for 2.0 compliance for a 4k monitor, you will want to use displayport.Hrobertgar - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
It sounds silly, but the pictures of the restaurant in the Voxel discussion look exactly like Poncho Villa's in Redondo Beach, Cali. That place was my favorite Mexican restaurant when I lived in Cali, and I always enjoyed Sunday Brunch there.Peichen - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
The one with the blue/white checkered table cloth? Maybe I will remember this when visiting CA in the future.SydneyBlue120d - Friday, September 19, 2014 - link
I'd like to read in future testing how the new cards handle 4K60 footage in both HEVC and VP9 format. Here http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?111230... You can find some 4K materials e.g.