The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
by Ryan Smith on May 31, 2015 6:00 PM ESTFar Cry 4
The next game in our 2015 GPU benchmark suite is Far Cry 4, Ubisoft’s Himalayan action game. A lot like Crysis 3, Far Cry 4 can be quite tough on GPUs, especially with Ultra settings thanks to the game’s expansive environments.
For those of you just joining us, the GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan are still neck-and neck. The GTX 980 Ti trails the Titan by no more than 4%, at 1440p and 2560, with the two cards taking the top two spots in our charts for single-GPU cards as one would expect.
On an absolute basis, at 4K Ultra this happens to be another case where the GTX 980 Ti delivers framerates around 40fps, in this case coming in at 40.6fps. Otherwise the GTX 980 Ti is going to come up a hair short of 60fps at medium quality – hitting 59.5fps – and finally going over 70fps at 1440p Ultra.
This also ends up being another case where the GTX 980 Ti looks very good as compared to the GTX 780. Here it beats NVIDIA’s last $649 card by as much as 86% at 1440p, highlighting NVIDIA’s performance gains at this price point over the last 2 years.
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Oxford Guy - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
I'm sure you posted that from your 65nm processor and 80nm GPU.godrilla - Thursday, June 4, 2015 - link
Because next shrink is in the 3d chips plus hbm category and that should be amazing performance leap.Gastec - Sunday, September 4, 2016 - link
Oh yeah, that's "1337 5p34k" for ya! :PWreckage - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
Wait until AMD tries to sell you a rebadge for that much.Rezurecta - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
I don't understand the rage about rebadge all of a sudden. GPU has been doing this for YEARS!Anyway, nice card from Nvidia for a decent price.
dragonsqrrl - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
Don't mix up traditional rebadging and what AMD is doing with their upcoming lineup, it's unprecedented. It's also worrisome, and it's clearly a big problem for AMD. What does it say about the state of the company and their R&D budget that they'll only have 1 new GPU this coming generation? One of the big problems AMD is currently facing, amongst many other things, are their profit margins. In order to compete they're selling larger, more expensive GPU's attached to more complex memory interfaces relative to the competition, and that won't change much this coming generation as a result of these top to bottom rebadges. The situation is really becoming quite analogous to their CPU's, which should raise alarms for any informed enthusiast. It's a less than ideal situation, to put it lightly.Azix - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
If you post this after their launch then maybe I'd understand. As it is their Chips are almost certainly not rebadged because they aren't on TSMC and will include hardware improvements. They maybe be based on hawaii or w/e but not even nvidia managed to put out more than 2 new cards during their major launch last year. Considering this is likely the last year of 28nm launches, it may make sense for them to put out an entire line of modified chips and be done with the 300 series. Keeping it fresh till next year when they can do 2-3 on a smaller process.dragonsqrrl - Sunday, May 31, 2015 - link
"If you post this after their launch then maybe I'd understand."You realize I could just give the exact same response to the rest of your comment. But I won't.
"As it is their Chips are almost certainly not rebadged because they aren't on TSMC and will include hardware improvements.",
That's interesting, I haven't heard anything about AMD switching fabs for the 300 series. Source?
"They maybe be based on hawaii or w/e but not even nvidia managed to put out more than 2 new cards during their major launch last year."
Not quite a straight comparison there, since Nvidia also launched a new architecture with the 750Ti. Thus far we've gotten 4 new GPU's (not just cards) based on Maxwell. And we're not just talking launch here. All indications point to Fiji as the only new GPU of the coming generation for AMD. And what's more, it might not even be an updated architecture. The rest of the lineup will likely be refreshes of Hawaii, Tonga, Pitcairn, and Bonaire, ranging from GCN 1.2-1.0, with at most manufacturing revisions to improve efficiency. Again it's very important to put this in perspective, in the context of what these GPU's will be competing against. They range in feature set, and in power efficiency, none of which is anywhere close to par with Maxwell, and it's going to be very difficult for AMD to compete with this lineup for another generation. It's not a good situation for AMD. "Keeping it fresh"? How you came to spin your conclusion the way you did is beyond me.
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Be nice. The guy is basically telling you at this point.ImSpartacus - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
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