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the 3500 from practical design brings that simplistic Scandinavian appeal with easy to work in internals great airflow and storage potential and comes in both the windows or plain side panels for your preference hello everyone this is Dimitri with Harbor Canucks and we travel to Monterey California for Nvidia's editors day where we get a sneak peek at the upcoming technologies Nvidia has been hard at work with that we'll cover in future videos but one of the main highlights is the announcement of Nvidia's latest Maxwell GPU the geforce gtx 980 and gtx 970 and up to this point every maxwell release has shown impressive results from the desktop 750 Ti and later the 800 m series notebook GPUs that with excellent power efficiency and optimized architecture really paved the way for Maxwell to truly shine in the graphics market NVIDIA has done some architectural changes with this new GM 204 core while keeping to the same 28 nanometer manufacturing process and actually earlier Maxwell releases really foreshadowed the direction towards reducing TDP while optimizing performance so each quarter core on these new GPUs is up to 40% faster than its predecessors also this is the first GPU architecture to natively support direct3d 12 and coming on to the pricing of these cards they are really well tuned to be competitive at $550 for gtx 980 and 329 for gtx 970 and with this pricing strategy gtx 760 moves to 220 dollars which is a $30 reduction and in this launch the following cards are unfortunately being discontinued as maxwell takes over on the high end spectrum specs wise we're looking at 2048 quarter cores on a 980 and 16 64 on the 970 with higher base and boost clock on the more expensive card both with 4 gigabytes of gddr5 memory on a 256 bit bus for improved higher resolution FPS and strictly off these specifications it doesn't really seem to offer that next level of confidence on performance but given the more efficient Maxwell architecture the GTX 980 out formed the more expensive 780ti in most of our benchmarks and so I left the best for last and NVIDIA has been really pushing towards power efficiency and the total power draw for GTX 980 is only 165 watts while the 970 is just slightly below at 145 Watts both requiring two 6-pin PCI Express connectors this means reduced heat output reduce power draw for the entire system and also quieter operation all while maintaining extremely high clock frequencies to both the 980 and the 970 this is very impressive for connectivity each card is rocking dual link DVI output 3 DisplayPort 1.2 and an HDMI 2.0 port so you can run up to 4 4k displays at 60 Hertz off a single card we saw a triple 4k setup plugged into one card while the system was in sli so effectively utilizing the power of both GPUs but running at the total display output of a single car and while triple monitor support is available on Kepler already Maxwell brings this a step further with the addition of another monitor and also higher resolution output per channel also remember the games new feature that was introduced with higher-end kepler cards well the encoder has been optimized to be two-and-a-half times faster on the new Maxwell GPU so potentially 4k gameplay capture with shadow play without hindering performance and also eventually 4k streaming - and potentially a shield device alright so finally let's take a look at the card itself it's a simple reference design that's a very beautiful card it's the same length as the GTX 780 at 10 1/2 inches or 267 millimeters with a standard blower type cooler illuminated GeForce logo and now with an aluminum backplate that will help to dissipate heat off the PCB plus it looks pretty cool and the removal piece beside the power connector it will help with air flow when in SLI so removing that plate will grant extra airflow for the above you and so now let's see how the GTX 980 performed under 1440p conditions so call of duty ghosts' it's the only game in our benchmarks where the 780ti outperformed the 980 however moving on to battlefield 4 notice the much higher minimum frame rate is on the 980 compared to the 780 Ti and with a similar result with Far Cry 3 again standing really strong among the other two GPU Kings and again a much higher minimum frame rate I sealing in thief but there are subtitles like black flag they're almost neck to neck with just one FPS difference very similar results across all cards for hitman absolution and gaining more ground than Metro last slide but the general trend here as you can see is total domination for gaming and the results are conclusive and revealing as to why Nvidia is discontinuing the 780ti the 780 and the 770 as Maxwell is here to stay and so these results are really impressive as gaming performance really dominated the charts while keeping to an extremely low TDP compared to invidious previous cards and also compared to Amy's flagship 290x with plenty of headroom left for overclocking actually and also thanks to this new GPU multi 4k output is possible off a single card while priced extremely competitively so now I'll be interesting to see how AMD responds to this power efficient yet outperforming GPU only drawback we can mention would be availability so we hope Nvidia is prepared to fulfill the demand so guys what do you think of this price point and the discontinuation of those iconic 700 series cards leave your thoughts in the comments below also we have a full written review on Harbor kanakas calm with SLI benchmarks 4k benchmarks along with thermal imaging power consumption and noise results and also overclocking tests so make sure you visit our site to get the full details on this latest launch from Nvidia so we hope you check it out as always thanks for watching and we'll see you next one