If you buy at a partipating retailer sure
Really happy with my Gigabyte G1, breathed new life into my PC, running games I couldn't run at all before at a solid 60 now
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Nvidia announces the GTX 980 Ti | $650 £550 605
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Really happy with my Gigabyte G1, breathed new life into my PC, running games I couldn't run at all before at a solid 60 now
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Tidesofblood
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Is it worth upgrading from a GTX 980 to the 980 TI?
I might give my 980 to my little brother and get the free MGS V promotion coming up with the 980 TI.
Looks like a ~10-15% increase in performance across the board?
I"m running a 60Hz 1440p Monitor for reference.
I might give my 980 to my little brother and get the free MGS V promotion coming up with the 980 TI.
Looks like a ~10-15% increase in performance across the board?
I"m running a 60Hz 1440p Monitor for reference.
Check the listing, it will say its included somewhereb
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Just went on the nivdias website and amazon is included!
Is this on a G-sync display?
therealminime
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I can give you a good answer to this question on Monday when my card gets here, as I am going from a 980 to a TI and I use a 60Hz 1440p monitor. I suspect my answer will be something along the lines of, "If you can afford to do so, then yes." Going off of benchmarks the Ti seems to be really great for 1440p as you have a ton of options, either for maxed visuals and 60fps, or downsampling and locking it to 30, etc.
Is there already a G-sync 3440x1440 panel?
Tidesofblood
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Awesome looking forward to your response!
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Does it take too long for Amazon to restock their supplies? I've just ordered a gigabyte 980 ti but it's currently out of stock
Good point, the Predator X34 isn't out yet.
But given that, I have no idea what's going on with jim's setup.
jim2point0
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Nope. It's the Dell U3415W.
This is on Windows 10 as well. If that helps. Latest Nvidia drivers.
Anyone else seeing different FPS in borderless and fullscreen? I mean.... I'm very happy with the fullscreen FPS, but I'd prefer to have that in Borderless.
I'll test to see if the same happens without SLI.
Self_Destructive
Member
Yep, I can confirm.
4K
Windows 10 latest build
Latest Nvidia Drivers 353.54
69fps fullscreen
41fps Borderless Window
40fps Window
Something is messed up.
sui generis
Banned
Can anyone provide any Windows 10 Alienware graphics amplifier benchmarks with the 980ti ?
Is it worth changing from 970 FTW SLI to the 980ti or should I just wait and upgrade next year? I was going to sell my 970 and get the 980ti but then I got a free 970 and couldn't pass it up. I'm a little disappointed with the SLI support/performance at 1440p right now though.
Unknown Soldier
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This is the first time I've ever heard of this thing so I Googled it.
It's an external enclosure for a video card which may or may not be Thunderbolt in a proprietary connector which you connect to a recent-model Alienware laptop for external GPU? How well does this thing work? Is it actually Thunderbolt or something else Dell cooked up which connects PCI-e to the enclosure?
I have a 1440p Monitor and I just went from a 980 to a 980ti. What games do you play?
Tidesofblood
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Currently playing witcher 3 and batman AK. I also need to revisit GTA V - I play it on and off and always get distracted from finishing the story line.
ClaptoVaughn
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Are you testing this in Novigrad?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I've always lost a pretty sizable chunk of performance in Wild Hunt on a 970 between borderless and full screen, I figure because the former probably forces Windows level triple buffering and I play the latter without vsync.
Anyone who has a EVGA 980 ti Classified should try LN2 bios mode, even if they are on air. My card is a helluva more stable in LN2 mode vs normal. As long as the temps are kept bellow 80c with a slightly more aggressive profile I get a stable +1.200v 1480/7750Mhz (70.7% ASIC... which is meh). On the normal bios this clock is not stable. I think the key here is the voltage stays stable, so the clock stays stable. IDK what the LN2 bios does to keep it stable, but I am thankful.
Finally plugged in my 980 Ti G1 Gaming. I had a fan problem first, but then I noticed it was hitting a wire, so that was easy to fix. I almost got a heart attack tough, because I thought I hadn't plugged in the card correctly or something and everything was going to explode.
Overclocked it a bit, haven't stress tested it yet and haven't found the limit for Memory Clock until now, but these are the results and settings (ASIC is 67% by the way):
109% Power Limit
+87 mV
+150 Core Clock
+295 Memory Clock
And my 3DMark-results:
Is this good, the same, or lower compared to systems with roughly the same setup?
Overclocked it a bit, haven't stress tested it yet and haven't found the limit for Memory Clock until now, but these are the results and settings (ASIC is 67% by the way):
109% Power Limit
+87 mV
+150 Core Clock
+295 Memory Clock
And my 3DMark-results:
Is this good, the same, or lower compared to systems with roughly the same setup?
Finally plugged in my 980 Ti G1 Gaming. I had a fan problem first, but then I noticed it was hitting a wire, so that was easy to fix. I almost got a heart attack tough, because I thought I hadn't plugged in the card correctly or something and everything was going to explode.
Overclocked it a bit, haven't stress tested it yet and haven't found the limit for Memory Clock until now, but these are the results and settings (ASIC is 67% by the way):
109% Power Limit
+87 mV
+150 Core Clock
+295 Memory Clock
And my 3DMark-results:
Is this good, the same, or lower compared to systems with roughly the same setup?
Good results, I'd put your power limit at 130% to avoid throttling. I bet you can get more out of the memory. If you're willing to flash one of the bios i bet you could get a bit more out of the core.
Wait, isn't the power limit maxed to 109% by Nvidia? I thought I read that somewhere, so I just put it to 109%. I've never flashed a BIOS before, so if I'm gonna do that, I'm going to do it on my 'old' 970. Not feeling safe to flash a BIOS on my 980 Ti.
Unknown Soldier
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Power Limit goes to 130% on Gigabyte G1 Gaming.
Flashing a BIOS isn't really dangerous on an Nvidia card unless you are overriding the built in safety checks to flash another card's BIOS on yours.
Flashing a BIOS isn't really dangerous on an Nvidia card unless you are overriding the built in safety checks to flash another card's BIOS on yours.
Yeah, just read that the G1 has a higher power limit, awesome! Going to ramp that up right away and see what more I can squeeze out of it.
Alright, I'm going to read some more on BIOS tomorrow and then see what I'll do.
jim2point0
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And my 3DMark-results:
Is this good, the same, or lower compared to systems with roughly the same setup?
Feel free to link the actual result. Like this.
When you're benchmarking in order to compare your GPU to others, I'd just be looking at the graphics score because the overall score is HEAVILY influenced by your CPU in both regular Firestrike and extreme.
Firestrike Ultra is almost 100% GPU with very little extra score coming from the CPU.
That said, your graphics score is pretty decent. I'm sure that you could get closer to 21,500 if you max out the overclock. And there's no harm in maxing out the power limit. That will help out with stability and throttling.
Not sure what all you'll manage to get out of the card by modding the bios. At least on air. The card already has an insane power limit at 130% (390w) and there's only so much you can get out of extra voltage before you're dealing with a ton of heat and therefore fan noise.
Yeah, I'll second this with the bios flash on the G1. You already have a great core OC. Might want to just call it good. Flash the bios and experiment with voltage only if you really feel like you need to squeeze out more fps down the line.
jim2point0
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Yup. I've only modded the voltage on my cards as well and I still haven't come close to hitting the stock 130% power limit. On the stock BIOS, my best Gigabyte G1 would score 21,600. With a modded bios.... I can get 21,800. Your mileage may vary, but my maximum core clock speed did not increase with extra voltage. It's only preventing throttling. So my minimum clock speed at max temp is now 1506 as opposed to 1470. The difference really isn't all that major and probably not worth the extra heat being generated by the cards. They're hard enough to cool on air as it is running in SLI....
That said, I'm playing Battlefield 4 with 2x DSR + 4xMSAA on a 3440x1440 monitor and maintaining a locked 60 FPS. These cards are so damn powerful. But those settings are also using 7GB VRAM according to MSI Afterburner. The 12GB VRAM on the Titans is no joke.
I've upped the power limit to 130% and with that extra power I could bump the Core Clock with +160 and I found my Memory Clock limit at +400.
I also ran 3DMark again (Fire Strike results) and got a Graphics Score of 20950. I only have the demo tough, so I can't run Fire Strike Ultra, but I'm probably going to buy the whole package in the near future.
The temperature stays around 60 - 70 degrees Celsius by the way during the Heaven Benchmark (on ultra/extreme), with a custom cooling profile.
I also ran 3DMark again (Fire Strike results) and got a Graphics Score of 20950. I only have the demo tough, so I can't run Fire Strike Ultra, but I'm probably going to buy the whole package in the near future.
The temperature stays around 60 - 70 degrees Celsius by the way during the Heaven Benchmark (on ultra/extreme), with a custom cooling profile.
I've upped the power limit to 130% and with that extra power I could bump the Core Clock with +160 and I found my Memory Clock limit at +400.
I also ran 3DMark again (Fire Strike results) and got a Graphics Score of 20950. I only have the demo tough, so I can't run Fire Strike Ultra, but I'm probably going to buy the whole package in the near future.
The temperature stays around 60 - 70 degrees Celsius by the way during the Heaven Benchmark (on ultra/extreme), with a custom cooling profile.
Awesome
jim2point0
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Well that's just a HUGE slap in the face to everyone that got Arkham Knight instead 
Well that's just a HUGE slap in the face to everyone that got Arkham Knight instead
I was planning for a while to order it on the 24th (payday) and they went and offer that deal on the 23rd. I am a lucky man
Well that's just a HUGE slap in the face to everyone that got Arkham Knight instead
You mean who got Arkham Knight and Witcher 3? I have order in for GTX980Ti with MGSV bundled in, but I think game bundles should be last thing to think about when deciding on PC HW purchases. In the end it's just free software that comes with your primary concern, HW purchase.
I wonder how many weeks/months it takes for me to get my Gigabyte 980Ti G1 <.< Well I get worried only if I have my Skylake CPU and no GPU :b
jim2point0
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I only got Akrham Knight.
dr_rus
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I got nothing so consider yourself lucky.
No, first is was TW3 or AK for all 9xx-cards, then it became only AK and now it's MGS V for all 9xx-cards.
EatChildren
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Irony being of those three games MGSV is likely to be the least intensive to render.
The Janitor
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4K at 120Hz for the win.
Ah. I only noticed the 970 and 980. Too bad, took me long to buy one. I might had to save $20 for it
Gigabyte by far.
This. I thought the EVGA was just a reference card with a custom cooler?
Exactly. Also, just from anecdotal observation, Gigabyte cards seem to have higher ASIC on average. MSI's Gaming 6G is also a pretty good option.
jim2point0
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I've had 3 of the Gigabyte cards and none of them were as high as the EVGA that I had
69%, 72%, and 76% Gigabytes compared to the 79.6% on the EVGA.
And the 69% ASIC card is the best overclocker out of the bunch.
Jeff Stephen
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Question.
i5 4670K
ASRock Z87 Pro4
250 GB MX100
1 TB WD10EZEX
8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
SeaSonic G SSR-550RM PSU
Would it be able to support a 980 Ti?
i5 4670K
ASRock Z87 Pro4
250 GB MX100
1 TB WD10EZEX
8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
SeaSonic G SSR-550RM PSU
Would it be able to support a 980 Ti?