GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Overview | Specification (Specs)| Testing – Is it Good for Gaming?

GeForce GTX 980 Ti - Is it Good for Gaming

GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Overview | Specification (Specs)| Testing – Is it Good for Gaming? – After the release in September 2014 of the next flagship model GeForce GTX 980, the computer world had no doubts that the 980th “titanium” model would soon be born. But only a little over eight months later, the “greens” introduced their new video card NVIDIA GeForce 980 You. Note that AMD has nothing to oppose to the new product that has appeared at the time of its release.

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Overview | Specification (Specs)| Testing – Is it Good for Gaming?

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Taking a look at the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 graphics card that released back in 2014 for $549. In this video I test 12 popular games in 2020! Despite its age, is it still a capable GPU in 2020? Let’s find out!

The GTX 980 is 6 years old… Can I Still Buy The GTX 980 for Gaming

Those who follow the emergence of new graphics adapters from NVIDIA know that shortly before the announcement of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, the manufacturer released the world’s most powerful single-chip video card for the summer of 2015 – the GeForce GTX TITAN X. This model is based on a graphics core marked GM200 , built on NVIDIA’s latest Maxwell microarchitecture. And the new model GeForce 980 Ti is, in fact, a slightly “cut down” version of TITAN X. Naturally, as a result of this, the price of the new product is also “cut down”. However, here we see an interesting picture – the final performance of the 980 Ti is not much lower than that of the TITAN X, but the price has been reduced quite significantly. But first things first.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti – Titan X performance, much lower price

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti – Titan X performance, much lower price

The appearance of the reference sample is practically no different from TITAN X, except for the color of the casing. The 980 Ti is light.

As for the cooling system, everything here is also familiar to us – a closed cooler and a radiator with an evaporation chamber. We met this constructive solution in the top models of the 700 series.

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The new model has three DisplayPort connectors and one each for HDMI and Dual-Link DVI-I. The graphics card supports all current NVIDIA technologies – SLI®, G-Sync™, GameStream™, ShadowPlay™, 2.0 GPU Boost™, Super Resolution Technology, GameWorks™, OpenGL 4.5. Microsoft DirectX 12 API is also supported, with a subsequent upgrade to 12.1.

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Now let’s look at the technical characteristics of the last three flagships from NVIDIA.

GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Specification (Specs)

 GeForce GTX 980 TiGeForce GTX TITAN XGeForce GTX 980
Chip code nameGM200GM200GM204
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0Maxwell 2.0Maxwell 2.0
Technical process28 nm28nm28nm
Number of transistors8 billion8 billion5.2 billion
GPU clock frequency, MHz: base / Boost1000/10701000/10701126/1216
Texture Units (TMU)176192128
Universal Processors281630722048
Rasterization units (ROP)969664
Video memory typeGDDR5GDDR5GDDR5
Video memory size6 GB12 GB4 GB
Bus width, bit384384256
Effective memory frequency7000 MHz7000 MHz7000 MHz
InterfacePCI-Express 3.0PCI-Express 3.0PCI-Express 3.0
Power consumption250 W250 W165 W
GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Specification (Specs)

So, when comparing the novelty with TITAN X, we see only a decrease in texture units, the number of CUDA cores and the amount of video memory. The test results show that this “cutoff” did not affect the performance of the GTX 980 Ti that much. So, when tested in 3DMark 11, the new video card scores 22070 points. For comparison, the GTX TITAN X scores 22980 and the GTX 980 scores 17980.

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Now let’s give the results of testing in popular demanding games on the average number of FPSquestion_mark. The maximum quality of graphics was set with a resolution of 2560×1440 px.

Test of the latest NVIDIA flagships in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Maximum settings at a resolution of 1920×1080

Test of the latest NVIDIA flagships in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Maximum settings at a resolution of 1920×1080

Let’s summarize. The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is definitely the perfect solution for PC gaming at FullHD and WQHD resolutions. The difference in performance between the last two flagships is so small that their difference in price is, to put it mildly, surprising. At the start of sales, the Titan X was valued by the manufacturer at $999, while the 980 Ti at $649. In Russia, as of June 2015, the average price in online stores for TITAN X is 69,000 rubles, and for GTX 980 Ti – 43,000 rubles.

Someone may have a question – what to choose? Ours, so to speak, IMHO will be the following. If you need a graphics card for games with FullHD and WQHD resolution, then the choice in favor of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is very obvious in our opinion. It is more than enough for the most demanding modern games, and the price in this case looks much more attractive. Although, perhaps someone is ready to overpay three and a half hundred dollars for a few FPS and become the owner of the most powerful video card in the world in the face of the GeForce GTX TITAN X. The final choice is always yours.


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