![]() ![]() In an effort to speed up the GTX 970, Gigabyte has pushed their G1 Gaming card to 1178MHz with a boost clock of 1329MHz. Nvidia's pricing scheme for these new Maxwell GPUs already seems off. In a worst case scenario, the GTX 970 will be 19% slower than the GTX 980, but we are willing to bet it'll be quicker than that. The GTX 970 features the same 224GB/s memory bandwidth as it makes use of the same GDDR5 1750MHz (7.0Gbps) memory and 256-bit wide memory bus. The really good news comes when looking at the memory sub-system, which has gone completely unchanged. The GTX 970 core operates at 1051MHz with a boost clock of 1178MHz, just 3% slower than the GTX 980. It has 19% less cores and TAUs, but its ROPs remain the same at 64 while the core clock speeds have been slightly reduced. To its advantage however, the GTX 980 is clocked almost 20% higher than the GTX 780 Ti 1127MHz with a boost frequency of 1216MHz, which Gigabyte has pushed even further with its cards touting a boost clock of 1329MHz or a 9% factory overclock.Ĭlock advantage or not, the GTX 980 certainly seems to have the odds stacked against it, here's hoping that Maxwell's magic can make up for those figures.ĭespite costing over 30% less, the GTX 970 doesn't appear to be much of a downgrade compared to the GTX 980. The GTX 980 is also limited to a 256-bit memory bus, and with the GDDR5 memory still clocked at 1753MHz (7.0Gbps) this allows for a memory bandwidth of just 224GB/s, or 33% less than the GTX 780 Ti. That's 29% less cores, 47% less TAUs and 33% less ROPs. In comparison, the GTX 980 seems underwhelming with just 2048 cores, 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs. The GTX 780 Ti boasts 15 SMX units for a core count of 2880, with 240 TAUs and 48 ROPs as well as GDDR5 memory clocked at 1753MHz (7.0Gbps) and a 384-bit wide memory bus, offering a bandwidth of 336.4GB/s. Starting with the more expensive GTX 980, gamers might be surprised to find that although this card is priced to match the GTX 780 Ti, on paper it doesn't stand a chance. ![]() With such a strong showing, Maxwell's first appearance had us excited for higher-end cards and today we finally have them: the $329 GTX 970 will try to carve a place out for itself between the R9 280X and 290, while the $549 GTX 980 is positioned against the R9 290X. The GTX 650 Ti packs 20% more cores, 60% more TAUs and 50% more ROPs while the GTX 750 Ti has a mere 5% core clock speed advantage and a 10% memory speed disadvantage, yet it can match and at times beat the GTX 650 Ti while using ~20% less power. W hat the GTX 750 Ti lacked in performance it made up in efficiency with the next-gen Maxwell architecture. Priced at $150, the GTX 750 Ti was similar to the GTX 650 Ti Boost in terms of frame rate performance despite looking like it should have been 20% slower on paper. Overall, the GeForce 700 series pushed Kepler to its limits - all with the exception of the GTX 750 Ti. Based on the same Kepler architecture as the GeForce 600 GPUs before it, the 700 series debuted with the 2688-CUDA core GTX Titan February last year, followed by the GTX 770 and GTX 780 a few months later and then the single-GPU flagship GTX 780 Ti in November.Īlthough the GTX 770 was essentially a rebadged GTX 680 with faster memory, the GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti were new products, even if they featured the same architecture.
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