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NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti 6GB Review | 4K Ready vs Titan X vs 290X

2015-06-03
this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone this is Dmitry with hurricane axe and the new flagship GPU from Nvidia the gtx 980ti has just hit the market it's an exciting direction for enthusiasts gamers who want the best performance especially since the 980ti is basically neck to neck the Titan X but released at $649 so the value proposition is there compared to the $1000 Titan X the 980ti is targeted for 4k gaming directs 12 compatibility and a full stack of features that rolls out with this new GPU within the sphere of game works VR that we'll cover in the future video specifications of the 980ti seem very promising for gaming with 2,816 cuda cores 1,000 megahertz base clock and 1075 megahertz boost six gigabytes of vram on a 384 bit memory bus so it's just slightly below the Titan X in the cooler core count with half the RAM and I'm also really excited to see the prospects of this new GPU for adobe applications so make sure to subscribe as we will be doing many tests across multiple GPUs to compare so now let's do a quick physical tour alright well another deja vu moment really this reference GPU does not look any different with the TI added beside the model number at the front illuminated GeForce logo at the top of the card ends no backlight for this one the IO is no different either triple DisplayPort 1.2 output or triple 4k no problem single HDMI and dual link DVI power connections include the 1/8 and 1/16 with 250 watt TDP in total so about a 600 watt power supply is recommended and so first let's do 1440p benchmarks as expected the 980ti is just a few frames below the technics on average on all of our benchmarks they are practically neck-to-neck and this certainly feels like a new flagship GPU simply based on the price you are looking at around 36% better performance across the board compared to the 980 and it will be very interesting to see what will happen with the Titan X and in fact Jenson himself was asked this question recently and this was his response first of all first our job is to bring value to the market and we set the opportunity for for taking the most important job for our next flagship gaming product that's not what Titan is the Titan is not our gaming product Titan X is really our enthusiast front are our 980ti 'zed mission in life is singular and must be able to deliver for taking if it cannot deliver 4k gaming 0 it did nothing so we wanted to deliver for number one number two just absolutely knock vr out of the market those are some of the things that we wanted to do with 980ti and so the price was not my most important objective I wanted to make it affordable for flagship the consistent price of a friendship g-force which is 60 or 50 dollars and it has to be able to be the world's first out of the chute completely 4k gaming experience now type necks has has some special properties first of all it has 12 gigabytes of memory which is really important for people who wants to do video editing in 4k could you imagine doing After Effects and 4k premiere in 4k if you wanted to do deep learning it is it is the perfect development platform for students and researchers all over the world for deep learning and so you need a lot of if you weren't a developer making a for taking and developers before you can enjoy the game in 4k they have to develop the game in 4k which means they need a lot of a lot of memory we have created the perfect platform for it and so art art enthusiasts GPUs are served many many needs okay so I hope you enjoyed that and as he said it must drive 4k games otherwise is zero so let's take a look at that as well as expected the 980ti is a quiet capable at this resolution playing the latest titles and highest settings without hiccups so having only half the memory of the Titan X should not worry anybody as the numbers speak great frames and imagine tuning some of those settings down to get solid 60fps at 4k no problem and the card was staying well within the thermal envelope at 82 degrees Celsius during load as expected for reference GPU so putting this thing under water or some cooler from one of their board partners should see the enthusiast community spark with excitement for extra Headroom for overclocking and so right now NVIDIA has made yet another confident statement with the Maxwell architecture if you want the best gaming card in the market right now the 980ti is it scoring about 2% below the Titan X while offering a much better value for those 4k needs so the 980ti is a damn good card make sure to subscribe as we have an overview of all that NVIDIA has just introduced coming very soon thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one you
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