3DMark FireStrike and Unigine Heaven
Now that we have taken a look at our gaming tests using our Frame Rating metrics and testing methods, we are including a set of tests from more standard benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and the new 3DMark benchmark.
I consider these tests to be somewhat of a "best case" for all the cards in our comparison. We aren't using our frame capture system, so we aren't measuring frame latency or anything like that. I think this should give you an idea of graphics performance if each vendor had the best result for each game.
3DMark shows us that the new GeForce GTX 980 Ti is only a couple of percentage points slower than the GTX Titan X, a card with twice the graphics memory on board. This more or less matches up with what we saw in our real world games testing on the previous pages. Also note that both the GTX 980 and the Radeon R9 290X are well behind the scores of the 980 Ti and Titan X. Obviously the Radeon R9 295X2 and its CrossFire configuration take the win but this again assumes nearly perfect scaling for a benchmark that has been tuned for many years by AMD's drivers.
In Unigine Heaven the GTX 980 Ti and the Titan X are actually a little bit closer in performance than they were in 3DMark.
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?