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the GTX 970 is a Ferrari 360 great what are you doing this is a computer tech video why are you talking about cars bare with me for just one second this is how many get my point across here the GTX 980 which is an improvement over the 970 though both are based on the exact same Maxwell architecture is essentially a Ferrari f430 so we have a Ferrari 360 and a Ferrari f430 now both of these cars utilize v8 engines hence the Maxwell architecture similarity between the two graphics card suit I'm doing here but the f430 s engine is significantly larger than the 360 s and results in an additional 100 horsepower and a quicker 0 to 60 time the horsepower difference between the two cars is indicative of the coup de coeur count difference between the 980 and the 970 now additionally the 970 has a VRAM issue that the 980 does not if you're interested in learning more about this issue you can click the card above me but nonetheless we never exceeded around 3 gigabytes of VRAM usage and all of our benchmarks so we won't have to worry about that issue plaguing any of our results but I want to answer in this video the question of whether or not the 980 is worth the additional 100 so US dollars how many more frames per second will we achieve with the 980 over the 970 and does that justify the additional price hike let's pit these two Ferraris head-to-head and find out which is the better Buy you now a few things I want to bring him fairly quickly cities skylines appeared to be fairly resilient to the graphics card change and that's indicative of a CPU intensive game so hopping from a 980 27 he really didn't result in that sharp of a framerate drop dime light was very surprising and that our 970 did better than our 980 in literally every category not much more I can say about that however in black ops 3 and GTA 5 we definitely see the additional cuda cores yielding higher frame rates than the 970 now in terms of price to performance I'm going to be something I haven't yet done with a graphics card comparison video and that is literally throw some math at you guys so I took all six games and the average frame rates for each card of all six games and added them all up so for the 970 that total was 881 point one seven that really doesn't mean anything yet it's when we divide it by the GTX 980 s average frame rate totals that will give us a value that's actually meaningful so the 980 s average FPS total was 1020 seven point two three five so when we divided this larger value the 980 s value over 1,000 by 881 point one seven that gives us a value of one point one six five seven six so we can call this value our performance ratio okay that means there 980 is literally sixteen point six percent better than our 970 but now we have to factor in costs okay the 980 is a fairly expensive card compared to the 970 so I tried to find fairly reasonable prices for both of these cards on Newegg the 980 can cost anywhere from about 400 dollars to 550 so I took a conservative conservative value of 450 for a 980 I wouldn't recommend buying a 520 dollar version of the same card that you could buy for 430 I really don't understand that so that's why I picked 450 not a higher value now for the 970 I pick the value of 330 so unless you buy refurbished you're going to pay over 300 bucks for the most part unless you find a pretty good sale somewhere which I encourage you to do check everyday for those sales if you're looking to buy a graphics card in your future so this is our price ratio this means that our GTX 980 is about thirty-six point four percent more on average than our 970 so this is how I compare the two numbers now there are plenty of ways to do this plenty of analyses out there but this is how I'm going to do it because I think this is the easiest way to do with via YouTube if you're comparing two cards in our case of 980 versus the 970 we want our price ratio to be lower than our performance ratio so that means we're going to get more bang for the buck if we purchase the 980 but that's not the case in this case our performance ratio is only sixteen point six percent so we're getting sixteen point six percent increase going with the 980 over the 970 but we're paying thirty six point four percent more for the 980 over the 970 so that's how I want to conclude this video while the 980 is clearly the better performer the 970 is most definitely the better bang for the buck now I want to hear from you in the comments below lemme know if you plan on buying either these cards let me know we think about the math how you how you responded to the benchmarks although earlier be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you think it deserves one give it a thumbs down if you think it doesn't and stay tuned for future content click the subscribe button by the way you haven't already don't be shy it's okay this is science studio thanks for learning with this