Gigabyte G1 Gaming GeForce GTX 980 4GB Review

Performance Summary

With our reviews stuffed full of a large number of benchmarks and games at different resolutions and using different settings it can be difficult to get a feel for the overall performance of a graphics card we are testing. As a result we’ve created a performance summary metric. The metric is simple, but my explanation isn’t, if you’re interested in that explanation then see the test systems and procedures page.

From our testing we’ve seen that some benchmarks gave a significant boost with the G1 Gaming GTX 980 compared to the reference model, so benchmarks gave a much smaller boost. The overall effect is that the reference GTX 980 is about 7% slower than the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980. The GTX 780 Ti GHz edition also manages to sneak ahead by a couple of percent thanks to its driver maturity and high clock speeds.