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hi and welcome to hardware unboxed I'm your host Matt and today for the first exclusive look at new videos geforce gtx 980ti nvidia introduced the original geforce 989 70 maxwell GPUs eight months ago in September 2014 in January we saw the release of the gtx 960 and of course in march we met the monster that is the titan x the type next took single GPU performance and pricing to a whole other level and despite coming in at a whopping one thousand US dollars recommended retail price the type next sales demand still exceeded in the video supply the new gtx 980ti it seems to aim to bridge the gap both performance and pricing wires between the original gtx 980 and the titan x and in a way it seems to me to be sort of the sensible version of the titan X with an IR R P is 649 US dollars if the performance is in the same ballpark as the type next then the video could be on to a winner with this one let's quickly take a look at a few technical differences the Titan X featured a fully fledged 24 SM unit GM 200 comprising of 3072 CUDA cores the new 980ti is reduced to 22 SM units and 2,816 caused where the Tyne X had a massive 12 gigabytes of memory the 980ti has 6 gigabytes this is still 2 gigabytes more than the original 980 and quite frankly 12 gigabytes was pointless and pretty unnecessary 6 gigabytes is going to be plenty for gamers to run the latest triple-a titles at 4k without having to worry about running low on memory the base clock speed of the gtx 980ti is a thousand megahertz and the typical boost clock speed is a thousand and seventy-five megahertz both of these matched the Titan X Nvidia tells us that as it is a gaming enthusiast card the 980 T is designed for overclocking and uses a six phase power supply with over voltage in capability and an additional two phase power suppliers dedicated for the board's gddr5 memory now there are three main technologies County on to push sales of high end GPU such as the gtx 980ti Microsoft will be releasing DirectX 12 later this year which will reduce CPU overhead and enable new features such as volume tiled resources 4k gaming is another big one up to this point the Titan X was really the only card that could deliver playable performance on the latest triple-a titles at 4k virtual reality is the other main technology that's expected to drive PC gaming in the near future and the video at the moment seems to dominate this field with all that said let's get to the good part let's go on benchmark this card and see how it performs our first benchmark is Crysis 3 the 980ti average 50 frames per second at 1600 P making it 40% faster than the Radian 290x 27% faster than the original gtx 980 and impressively just 7% slower than the tight next at 4k the 980 TI delivered just 28 trains per second the performance margins remain the same compared to the titan x and gtx 980 the 980 TI was now 47% faster than the i9 290x in battlefield 4 the 980 TI was a negligible 1% slower than the titan x at 1600 feet and 5% slower at 4k while it was 30% faster than the GTX 980 both the resolutions and even faster than the r9 290x in battlefield hardline the 980 TI delivered playable performance of 4k using two times MSA 8 which was awesome it was just 6% slower than the Titan X and was also 26 percent faster than the original 980 and 38 percent faster than the r9 290x in dying light the gtx 980ti gave us 38 frames per second at 4k making attempts and slower than the titan x meanwhile it was 23% faster than the GTX 980 and 41 percent faster than the r9 290x we tested The Witcher 3 using ultra quality settings which means Nvidia hair works was fully enabled the 980 TI averaged an impressive 51 frames per second at 1600 P and thirty frames per second at 4k whereas just six percent slower than the type next and 36 percent faster than the GTX 980 and the r9 290x Grand Theft Auto 5 fans will be wrapped 980ti delivered a very playable 44 frames per second at 4k again just 60 percent slower than the type next well being 22% faster than the GTX 980 and 33% faster than the r9 290x the release of the gtx 980ti is $650 sees the original gtx 980 dropped down from an r RP of $550 to an even 500 the tight neck still remains at a thousand US dollars considering the 980 TI is $350 cheaper the only sacrifice is around 8 percent performance when compared to the tight necks it represents pretty excellent high-end value the Radeon r9 290x is still fantastic value between 3 and 350 dollars however if you are planning on 4k gaming you will require two cards overall nvidia geforce gtx 980ti is an excellent high end GPU solution and in my opinion at its current price point the time next has been rendered kind of redundant thanks for watching this exclusive first look in benchmark of the 980 TI let me know what you think in the comments hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you on the next one