Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB “Maxwell” (28nm) Review
Ryan Martin / 10 years ago
Unigine Valley
“Valley Benchmark is a new GPU stress-testing tool from the developers of the very popular and highly acclaimed Heaven Benchmark. The forest-covered valley surrounded by vast mountains amazes with its scale from a bird’s-eye view and is extremely detailed down to every leaf and flower petal. This non-synthetic benchmark powered by the state-of-the art UNIGINE Engine showcases a comprehensive set of cutting-edge graphics technologies with a dynamic environment and fully interactive modes available to the end user.” From Unigine.com.
Unigine Valley is an absolute torture test for DX11 graphics cards: it takes lighting, tessellation and pushes any card to its maximum. We can see the GTX 980 falls away at the higher resolutions but not by much. The GTX 980 vs GTX 780 Ti questions seems fairly inconclusive so let’s see if our performance summary helps shed some light.
