The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2015 6:00 PM ESTGRID Autosport
For the racing game in our benchmark suite we have Codemasters’ GRID Autosport. Codemasters continues to set the bar for graphical fidelity in racing games, delivering realistic looking environments with layed with additional graphical effects. Based on their in-house EGO engine, GRID Autosport includes a DirectCompute based advanced lighting system in its highest quality settings, which incurs a significant performance penalty on lower-end cards but does a good job of emulating more realistic lighting within the game world.
As was the case with all of our other games so far, our racing benchmark of choice does no better in separating the two GM200 cards, with GTX 980 Ti yet again trailing GTX Titan X by no more than 3%. Even with everything cranked up to max, the GTX 980 Ti makes easy work of GRID at 4K, hitting 70.6fps at 4K Ultra and making it the cheapest card to crack 60fps. This also continues to be a solid lead for the GTX 980 Ti over the GTX 980 and GTX 780, beating the two cards by 28% and 76% respectively at 4K.
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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!