The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2015 6:00 PM ESTCrysis 3
Still one of our most punishing benchmarks, Crysis 3 needs no introduction. With Crysis 3, Crytek has gone back to trying to kill computers and still holds “most punishing shooter” title in our benchmark suite. Only in a handful of setups can we even run Crysis 3 at its highest (Very High) settings, and that’s still without AA. Crysis 1 was an excellent template for the kind of performance required to drive games for the next few years, and Crysis 3 looks to be much the same for 2015.
Once more we find the GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X virtually tied. Across all settings and resolutions the GTX 980 Ti stays within 97-98% of the Titan’s performance. Consequently GTX Titan X is ever so marginally better, but not enough to make any real difference.
This also means that GTX 980 Ti continues with its very strong lead over the GTX 980. Once more we’re looking at a 26-31% performance advantage for the latest member of the GTX 900 series, in-line with its price premium.
Meanwhile on an absolute basis, as one of our most punishing games this is also a good reminder of why even GM200 cards can’t quite pull off high quality 4K gaming with a single GPU today. Even without MSAA and one step below Crysis 3’s Very High quality settings, the GTX 980 Ti can only muster 40.9fps. If you want to get to 60fps you will need to drop to Low quality, or drop the resolution to 1440p. The latter will get you 83.2fps at the same quality settings, which again highlights GTX 980 Ti’s second strength as a good card for driving high refresh rate 1440p displays.
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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!