The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Review: Featuring EVGA
by Ryan Smith on September 26, 2014 10:00 AM ESTCrysis: Warhead
Up next is our legacy title for 2014, Crysis: Warhead. The stand-alone expansion to 2007’s Crysis, at over 5 years old Crysis: Warhead can still beat most systems down. Crysis was intended to be future-looking as far as performance and visual quality goes, and it has clearly achieved that. We’ve only finally reached the point where single-GPU cards have come out that can hit 60fps at 1920 with 4xAA, never mind 2560 and beyond.
With the GTX 980 already falling just short of beating the R9 290XU in Crysis: Warhead, this is the only other instance where the GTX 970 isn’t a completely competitive card. Even the EVGA FTW overclock can’t help it catch up to the R9 290, let alone the R9 290XU. Crysis simply calls for more shader power than what the GTX 970 can realistically deliver.
The story is much the same with minimum framerates. Although GTX 970 doesn’t fare any worse relatively speaking, it also doesn’t get to close the gap.
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thesid - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
I have a rig with i2600K and 16gigs of 12800ddr3 ram and a gtx 570, if i upgrade to the 970 gtx will it be bottlenecked by the rest of the components?atl - Friday, January 30, 2015 - link
Under power consumption, i would like to have comparison of GPU only consumption also, not whole system.SeanJ76 - Monday, February 9, 2015 - link
Yeah that 970GTX FTW is a damn good card. I was shocked at how close the performance gap was of the 970 FTW and the 980(although this has always been the case with the FTW versions).sheriff12 - Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - link
I'm MAD! When I first looked at the Gigabyte GTX 970 on amazon.com a month ago, it was $308, now it's $348. Just because sales are good, does that mean they should gouge the consumer for all they can?thelategamer - Friday, May 5, 2017 - link
Here's my honest review of the GTX 970 and upgrading to SLI 970s rather than getting underperforming 1070s and 1080s - http://www.thelategamer.com/video-game-review/late...