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welcome back to harbor unbox for another benchmark video for this one we're winding the clock all the way back to 2015 well sort of by that I mean we'll be benchmarking in videos 2015 a flagship part the geforce gtx 980ti but we'll be doing so with games released in 2017 pretty crazy with the recent arrival of games such as project cars to total war Warhammer to destiny to Wolfenstein to Star Wars Battlefront - hmm that's a lot of second installments anyway with all those games plus quite a few more you guys have been asking me to retest the gtx 980ti I guess the reason why you guys have been asking for a retest is because you want enough it's still going strong or has it just rolled over and kept lit itself since I recently tested the fury X along with the gtx 1070 to iron all of these tiles I thought why not add the gtx 980ti as well on hand for testing i only have the reference model gtx 980ti but that's probably okay as the fury x exclusively used aim DS reference design and didn't come fax your overclocked that said I'm not going to waste time overclocking the fury X because I know it to be a terrible overclocker previously when testing a massive range of games we saw at most maybe a 5 percent boost from overclocking the fury X meanwhile the GTX 980 I saw gains of up to 30 percent when overclocked by default the 980ti runs at a base clock of 1 gigahertz with a maximum boost clock of 1.2 gigahertz and a memory speed of 1.75 gigahertz overclock though I was able to push the core up to a base speed of 1.25 gigahertz which resulted in a boost clock speed of at least one point four eight gigahertz the gddr5 memory also reached two gigahertz for a transfer rate of eight gigabits per second so that's a 25% overclock for the cause and a 14% bruise for the memory so stock and overclocked how's the gtx 980ti get on in today's games let's go find out shall we the only thing demonetised faster than a youtube video these days is the loop box in star wars battlefront 2 though like a youtube video after a quick review pros it will likely be reinstated dodgy in-game currency nonsense aside battlefront 2 looks pretty incredible so you might expect it to be extremely demanding that said they like the previous version it's very well optimized and here we see the old geforce gtx 980ti spitting out over 60 FPS at all times using the ultra quality preset at 1440p an average of 73 FPS placed it ahead of the fury x but 5 FPS behind the gtx 1070 of course overclocking the gtx 980ti unleashes a great deal of previously untapped performance and now able to beat a factory overclocked two gtx 1070 to match vega 56 as well as a stock gtx 1070 TI that's a seriously impressive result that means that the overclocked 980 TI was just 8% slower than an overclocked gtx 1080 and 11% slower than vega 64 next up we have Assassin's Creed origins a game that sits on the complete opposite end of the optimized spectrum to that of battlefront - even though this game is horrible in terms of optimization the geforce gtx 980ti does worse than expected it has to be said at least in relation to the gtx 1070 that said overclocked it's not a great deal slower and it was able to close in on vega 56 i guess the key thing to note here is the fact that the 980 TI was 32% fast and the furious before any overclocking even took place since I last benchmarked a heap of GPUs in destiny - Nvidia has released a new driver offering incredible gains in this tile anywhere from 30 to a 45 percent boost in performance for the GeForce 10 series GPUs that said these optimizations have clearly been applied to the Maxwell series as well here we can see the stock gtx 980ti almost matching the gtx 1070 a very impressive result indeed then once overclocked performance was improved by a further 20% now we're seeing vega 64 liquid-type performance from in videos 2015 flagship part impressive stuff and it meant that the gtx 980ti was now just 9 percent slower than the gtx 1080 and overclocked 1080 nonetheless this is a truly impressive result from the 980 and it also meant that it was almost 50% faster than the fury X overclocked in the gtx 980ti from the stock reference spec led to a massive gain if 2017 the jump from 75 FPS on average to 98 FPS is a whopping 31 percent increase the gtx 980ti already had the fury x beat by a convincing margin but once overclocked it was on a completely different level as now faster than vega 56 unable to match the gtx 1070 TI moreover it was just 13% slower than an overclocked gtx 1080 here we have another game where again at the stock clock speeds the gtx 980ti doesn't look that impressive and really struggles in project curls to only matching a gtx 1060 once overclocked it catches up to vega 56 though it still trails the gtx 1070 by a small margin this is one of the worst results we've seen for the old gtx 980ti and even so it's still very impressive considering its age moving up we have quake champions and while not the most demanding title to be released in 2017 you do want high frame rates for optimal gameplay and this is what the gtx 980ti delivers while the fury ax drops down to around 80 FPS the gtx 980ti is good for over 90 FPS at all times and once I have a clocked never dip below 110 FPS in fact overclocked it not only beats the stock gtx 1070 TI but it also matched a Vega 64 and that's not the first time we've seen that so again another very impressive result moving on we have Middle Earth shadow of war and the Maxwell base gtx 980 i've struggled in this title out of the box that was quite a bit slower than the gtx 1070 at least when comparing the average frame rate and this meant it also trailed the fury x overclocked just edges ahead of the fury x and it isn't much slower than the gtx 1070 TI so overall not a bad result once overclocked total war Warhammer 2 is extremely demanding at 1440p using the ultra quality preset for testing I've used the battle benchmark and manually require performance of the DirectX 12 API stock the 980ti sits between the fury ax and gtx 1070 once overclocked though it is able to match vega 56 and the gtx 1070 Ti so once again the 980 TI proves itself to be extremely capable even in today's games wrapping up the test in May of Wolfenstein two the new Colossus and I'm wondering if the gtx 980ti is like a bit of Driver optimization for this one as it is quite a bit slow in the GTX 1070 as a result can only match the RX 580 though this is a Vulcan based tile and is preferred by AMD hardware anyway once overclocked the gtx 980ti gets back in the game and now can be found alongside the gtx 1070 TI so overall not a bad result so has the geforce gtx 980ti Kepler itself now not by the looks of it it's clearly still a very capable graphics card and this is why many that bought it back in 2015 haven't bothered upgrading to a gtx 1070 or even a 1080 and the recent arrival of the 1070 i certainly won't tempt them either it has to be said that so far the gtx 980ti looks to be aging considerably better than the fury acts and that's probably down the fact that it has a bit more via Ram to play with if you're willing to tone down a few settings and the few reacts could probably be brought back into play so it's probably not as bad as it looks in some of the tests shown here if you're willing to relax a few of the more memory hungry quality settings anyway that's gonna do it for this one if you liked the video please click the like button and leave me a comment below let me know your thoughts on the video and of course the gtx 980ti I'm your host Steve see you again soon guys