Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (DirectX 9)
The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered.
Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel.
The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.
Our settings for Skyrim
Here is a video our testing run through, for your reference
Skyrim continues to age but I maintain it in our suite just for a little bit of look back into the past of DX9 based gaming titles. Both the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX Titan X match the average frame rate of the R9 295X2, though the dual-GPU card from AMD maintains a 5-6% edge. In reality, all five of these cards have no issues keeping up with the performance requirements of Skyrim at 2560×1440.
At 4K the Radeon R9 295X2 kind of falls apart, producing frame time variance and stutter that is painfully obvious while playing the game. So even though the GeForce GTX 980 Ti shows as a "tie" in terms of average frame rate, the single GPU graphics cards all produce much better gaming experiences.
| GTX 980 Ti, Average FPS Comparisons, Skyrim | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTX Titan X | GTX 980 | R9 295X2 | R9 290X | |
| 2560×1440 | +0% | +23% | -6% | +13% |
| 3840×2160 | +0% | +30% | +0% | +12% |
To bad TSMC didn’t have
To bad TSMC didn’t have better Fabs then just using 28nm that’s been around well over two years. The EVGA GeForce GTX 670 seems to be holding up for the games I play and its 28nm. Nvidia has amazing graphics cards and this can be said for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, honestly if the chance was there, I would have two of these in SLI.
Nonetheless I’ll be keeping a eye open for Volta. Yes I’ll wait that long especially with it taking on the full 3D HBM IC chips all running on 14nm Silicon.
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Still noticing that no review
Still noticing that no review site seems to have the balls to put the 980TI up against Arma 3 Maxed out. or Maxed out at 4K.
My i7-4790k gtx 980 Ti build
My i7-4790k gtx 980 Ti build gets about 38 FPS on the altis benchmark. (everything maxed view distance set to 6500 and objects set to 1600) If you mostly play on small maps like altis or arma 2 maps like takistan it should run alot better. and even that benchmark is kind of a worst case scenario with lost of explosions and smoke effects.
It is a pity that the new GTX
It is a pity that the new GTX 980 TI doesn’t have a backplate as GTX 980 reference.
FCAT??? Why not?
FCAT??? Why not?
Is there any reason to wait
Is there any reason to wait until the non-reference versions come out? Or is it safe to pull the trigger now?