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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostIn terms of pure numbers, the 780Ti is a superior GPU in almost every way. But the design, drivers, and fabrication of the 980 gives it superior performance in many cases.
The only advantage I really see is power consumption. But then, could one overclock the 980 to the point where it has the same power consumption as a 780ti but obviously much superior performance? It would produce equivalent heat and power consumption in that case. (sorry if I am being stupid)
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostIn terms of pure numbers, the 780Ti is a superior GPU in almost every way. But the design, drivers, and fabrication of the 980 gives it superior performance in many cases.
Simple: "780ti=2800cores*900mhz" wile "980=2000cores*1200mhz". "ti" is 5% stronger but has 5% less FPS because of RAM and temperature difference since "980" consumes half the watts. In comparison with AMD cards, because GTX from Fermi to Maxwell has half the Cuda cores 64bit length, 2000 NV shaders are like 3000 AMD shaders or 3500 if you add the Mhx difference to. In comparison with non CNG AMD GPUs that they didn't have FMAC, its like 4500 shaders at the same frequency.
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Originally posted by tajjada View PostBut in the end of the day, how is design or any of that other stuff relevant if it can't deliver numbers in performance? What use is a card with "superior design, drivers, and fabrication" if it can't deliver FPS in games? Isn't that the whole reason why we buy graphics cards in the first place?
Anyway, once there is a 980Ti, I'm sure nothing will defeat it. The 980 was just the introduction to the new architecture.
The only advantage I really see is power consumption. But then, could one overclock the 980 to the point where it has the same power consumption as a 780ti but obviously much superior performance? It would produce equivalent heat and power consumption in that case. (sorry if I am being stupid)
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostWow, roughly $100 less than the 780Ti and it outperforms that in many cases. I don't remember if that holds true in Windows, but at least in linux it's a clear choice that the 900 series is good to go for. Kind of funny how ALL 970s are completely sold out on newegg.
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Originally posted by tajjada View PostI wonder why in a lot of the benchmarks, the 780ti is shown to be a little bit faster than the 980 by a few FPS. Strange ... wasn't Maxwell supposed to be faster?Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostIn terms of pure numbers, the 780Ti is a superior GPU in almost every way. But the design, drivers, and fabrication of the 980 gives it superior performance in many cases.
Originally posted by artivision View PostSimple: "780ti=2800cores*900mhz" wile "980=2000cores*1200mhz". "ti" is 5% stronger but has 5% less FPS because of RAM and temperature difference since "980" consumes half the watts. In comparison with AMD cards, because GTX from Fermi to Maxwell has half the Cuda cores 64bit length, 2000 NV shaders are like 3000 AMD shaders or 3500 if you add the Mhx difference to. In comparison with non CNG AMD GPUs that they didn't have FMAC, its like 4500 shaders at the same frequency.
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n00b alert!
pls excuse the somewhat OT question but ...
can anyone recommend installation procedures for an Asus Strix GTX970 on a Mint17 (w i7-4770) system?
trying to install the NVidia driver (from download) without the card in place fails from the get-go ("no NVidia GPU on your system ..."). as soon as i plug the card in i get no video output whatsover, mobo or GPU. without a boot menu can't do much.
seems like a bit of a Catch-22 situation.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostSeems you forgot to connect the PCI-E power connectors.
turned out that the trick was to tell the driver installation to proceed in spite of the failed pre-conditions (no card present).
did that then installed the card and voila! up and running!
ran some of the Phoronix benchmarks, results came in pretty close to Michael's, +/- 1-2%. pretty satisfied with that especially since it was straight out of the box.
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