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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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.