Final Thoughts
Price
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti will be launched with an MSRP of £549 in the UK and $649 in the US. This review will be updated once e-tailers start listing the card for sale.
Overview
Today’s review has been a very peculiar one, on the one hand, we see the release of the first ‘Ti’ branded Maxwell graphics card; on the other, we see it pretty much dethrone the Titan X. To get an accurate test, I had to test the Titan X (and the rest of the Maxwell line up) on the beta drivers ready for the GTX 980Ti as the 980Ti would not work on the previous drivers effectively. This presented an issue to the Titan X; it was no longer the ‘Top’ graphics card, with the GTX 980Ti knocking it off the top spot in a few tests.
This card is simply awesome; I have no idea what the NVIDIA boffins were thinking when they decided to create this graphics card, but whatever it was; they need to do it more. It has proven the most powerful single GPU graphics card that we’ve ever tested in a few of our tests and the price is something to make the AMD R9 295×2 shake in it’s boots. The fact that this card only (ha!) has 6GB VRAM makes it seem inferior to the Titan X, but that is simply not the case.
The overclocking on this was amazing, hitting around 29% overclocked boost speed; this gave an average performance increase of 9%. When directly compared to the Titan X, they are roughly on par; the Titan X starts pulling away at 4K and will cope better with higher resolutions.
Like with all of the NVIDIA high-end graphics cards, except the GTX 980, of late, there is a distinct lack of BACKPLATES. I understand NVIDIA not including it to improve thermal performance when in SLI, but I think the consumer should have the option; like a bundled feature in the box that the owner can choose to put on or not.
Pros
- Very quiet for a reference cooler
- Great factory performance
- Shows VRAM isn’t a limiting factor for performance when compared to the Titan X
Cons
- Lack of a backplate really detracts from the premium finish
“Great performance at a great price, your move AMD“
Thank you to NVIDIA for providing this review sample.
Hmmm
It is interesting how every review of late talking about the new Titan and now the Ti fail to mention how badly NVidia has crippled the “new” Titan and 980Ti’s FP64 capabilities. They are now a mere shadow of their original Titan roots. And for the record, even the 2 year old R9 290X stomps all over the “new Titan” and the new “Ti” in FP64 apps. Cherry picking benchmarks hardly gives the true picture of just how hamstrung the NVidia cards are in many non gaming applications. It is also fascinating to watch how the very same websites that have been bashing AMD on heat and power issues now white wash the fact that these “new” cards now run significantly hotter than the R9 290X. They also “save” the user a little more than half a 60 watt light bulb in energy saving (assuming zero overclocks) at best. Then there is the fact that these cards at present cost 2-3 times the R9 290X. What happened to the value equation in evaluating “consumer” graphics cards? And finally there seems to be little mention of the fact that most of the titles in many of these initial reviews of the Ti are specifically written to favor NVidia cards.
It is not that I am claiming that the “new” cards are not fast fster than the R9 290X in FP32) it is the manner in which they are being so actively promoted instead of reported. It makes it impossible for the casual user to a clear picture and hence make an informed purchasing decision.
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