GTX 970 and GTX 980 is officially launched

[Cloudfire777]

Misc:
http://videocardz.com/52552/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-and-gtx-970-press-slides-pictures-charts
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-2-1-2-released
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/maxwell-architecture-gtx-980-970
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970

Reviews:
GTX 980 Reference - Kitguru
GTX 980 Reference - Techpowerup
MSI GTX 970 OC - Guru3D
GTX 980 and GTX 970 - Hardware.info
Asus Strix GTX 970 OC - Techpowerup
Gigabyte G1 GTX 980 - Guru3D
Gigabyte G1 GTX 970 and GTX 980 - Techspot
GTX 970 SLI - Techpowerup
GTX 980 SLI, 3way and 4way - Hardware.info
GTX 980 Reference and Gigabyte and Zotac GTX 970 - HardwareHeaven
EVGA GTX 970 ACX - Techpowerup
GTX 970 and GTX 980 - Techreport
GTX 970 and GTX 980 - HotHardware
GTX 980 Reference - HardwareCanucks
GTX 970 and GTX 980 - PCPer
GTX 980 Reference - BitTech
Gigabyte GTX 970 and GTX 980 Windforce - Tomshardware
GTX 980 Reference - Hexus
MSI GTX 970 Twin FrozrV - TweakTown
GTX 980 Reference - Tweaktown
GTX 970 and GTX 980 + SLI - ComputerBase
GTX 970 and GT 980 - Sweclockers
GTX 970 and GTX 980 - HardwareLuxx
GTX 980 Reference - Alienbabeltech

 

[JohnWayne74]

980 looks great

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Pretty decent, though not exactly amazing.

 

[sontin]

Ha, Luxmark 2.0 result. So, nVidia fixed their "OpenCL" performance.

Half the power and more performance than the 290X...
That is Core2Duo all over again.

 

[ShintaiDK]

GTX980 for me, thats simply an amazing card with its power efficiency. 165W and beats a GTX780TI.

Only shame is I need the blower version in my MiniITX.

 

[Enigmoid]

Looks pretty decent. 15% over 780Ti for the 980, 970 matches 290X.

Pricing determines everything as usual.

 

[96Firebird]

Only shame is I need the blower version in my MiniITX.

Shouldn't be a problem with the Titan cooler.

They must really turn the fan speed down on the 980 to get such high temperatures @ such low power consumption. Wonder how the acoustics will compare.

 

[Skurge]

So..... You guys still think it will be less than 650? Its an amazing achievement.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Shouldn't be a problem with the Titan cooler.

They must really turn the fan speed down on the 980 to get such high temperatures @ such low power consumption. Wonder how the acoustics will compare.

Thats the bright side. 165W TDP with a 250W cooler.

I am also quite sure it will be much more quiet than my 195W TDP GTX680 blower card.

Now its just a question of whats in stock tomorrow.

 

[Cloudfire777]

GTX 970 runs almost 30C cooler than R9 290X and draw 130W less and they perform the same. GTX 970 will sell for $299-$350 and R9 290X sell for $500.

Yeah, AMD got some work to do

 

[sontin]

The reference blower of the GTX680 was a step down from the GTX580 version. The Titan cooler is so much better.

 

[Gloomy]

They benched vs. a really slow 780Ti...

It's a decent card, but come on now.

 

[JohnWayne74]

ATI has gotta be concerned, the 970 is pretty much on part with the 290X, that's an issue they need to resolve very fast.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Thats same amazing power consumption and temperature numbers... 970 might just be the card Ive been waiting for, though Im still tempted to wait for a node change :| (how much longer?)

 

[Cloudfire777]

They benched vs. a really slow 780Ti...

It's a decent card, but come on now.

Its the reference GTX 780 Ti. They just wrote down the base clock instead of boost clock.
928MHz is base clock

 

[nvgpu]

So basically, AMD will have to sell a very expensive Hawaii 290X with high BOM costs(currently at $449) at equal or lower than 970's launch price and have to cut 290's price below 970's launch price.

Wonder if they rather discontinue Hawaii than to lose money selling it at significant discounts?

 

[Attic]

Nice!

Wasn't expecting reviews to pop till tomorrow AM.

 

[sontin]

The Inno GTX970 card:

http://videocardz.com/52524/first-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-and-gtx-970-review-leaks-out

 

[Face2Face]

Huge difference in temps with the 970 and 980...

 

[realibrad]

so from this review 1080 980 beats the 290x by 16% and at 1440 by 14%. Now if the price is good, this very appealing to me.

If the price of the card is 500, that puts it right around 14% more expensive than the 290x then its a little less appealing. I doubt the 290x will stay at its current price point. If the 980 starts at 500, and the price of the 290x goes down to say 375, that makes the 290x cheaper by 25% and that to me would be the better buy. if the 980 comes in under 500 then this could get very interesting.

 

[Pandora's Box]

I wonder if the 970 is the new 8800GT :biggrin:

 

[Attic]

290x numbers look off based around firestrike gpu score frame.

I recall doing ~11000 on 290x stock. I'm at 11,340 on $350 R9 290 card in sig. The 970 and 980 get gpu score 10907 and 10908 respectively from this source. Oddly similar to each other. Whereas in firestrike extreme the 980 gains 20% seperation from the 970. The 980 gains similar seperation on that specific bench from the 780ti.

Anyone with a 780ti want to post up some numbers of firestrike and firestrike extreme?

Will need other reviews before I get too cozy. 970 at $329 if some of these numbers hold would be mmmm G-R-E-A-T-!-!-! If it can clock, then watch out.

 

[skipsneeky2]

The Titan cooler on that 970 works wonders, that card loads so much cooler then my 770 with its Zotac Amp! cooler. Titan cooler on the 970 is some serious op.:biggrin:

 

[fleshconsumed]

I think I'll keep my 290 even though these cards are clearly better. The physical size or Inno 970 card is impressive - 290x like performance in a compact card package.

 

[Termie]

The most important take-away for me is that the 980 is only 15% faster than the 970. It had seemed based on specs that it could be more than that.

Note that the GTX 780 they tested has a 140MHz overclock, making it faster than the 780 Ti, and therefore making these benches less useful than they seem. The 970 should not be benched against a faster card than the 980 is benched against.