I've been having problems with my AMD R9 280x lately in terms of drivers - Prototype 2 keeps lagging like there's no tomorrow, some games are getting really slow and some crashes; I've managed to overclock it to 1125 mhz core clock and 1675 mhz memory clock and the OC has been working well with no BSOD. I really want to try out Nvidia's new GTX 970 and its cool features - I've seen benchmarks online that GTX 970 can trade blows with the GTX 780, R9 290 and R9 290x - is this for real? If the benchmarks are true, I'm definitely getting this card. What do you guys think? Is it worth the expense?
Use something like CC cleaner, reinstall drivers. Are these errors happening exclusively within Games, if not run something like memtest overnight, and or while at school/work. And yes GTX970 is very comparible to the 780 when both overclocked, GTX980 is very comparable to GTX 780TI when both overclocked.
Alot of those features arent available yet and are I think (non-proprietry) dx12 features, I could be mistaken on that. They say MFAA is comparable to 4xAA but uses the resources of 2xAA. Which is cool. I imagine that with the MFAA and driver updates that the 970/980 will pull ahead of 780/780ti.
Wow, the GTX 970's Maxwell architecture must be really that good if it can trade blows with the GTX 780 while consuming only 148 watts of power! I might be inclined to buy it sooner or later. I bet Nvidia's driver updates are very promising when it comes to performance improvements.
980 has Gm204 processor and replaces the Gm104 in the 600series. The 780/ti featured Gm110, if they drop a gm 210 I think they will end up dropping the 980 prices. They must be making a killing on the 980s, which are amazing in themselves, especially given you can OC them to get >60FPS in practically all games.
970s are really a phenomenal buy though at the moment though. I have a feeling the Gm210 will just blow us completely away, possibly being good enough for single-card 4K gaming.. I plan on getting a 970 when class ends this year. And a second one later on :p. VR here i come.
Nope, GK104 for the 600 series. GM110 for the 780. Note the 2nd lettering in each; "K" for Kepler, "M" for Maxwell. Though the 780's chip naming sounds inconsistent to me.
>Mepler
>Kaxwell
Cool names though.
EDIT: Me got wrong info, going full retard here -.-"
Wrong wrong wrong, Th 600 series was not Maxwell. It was keplar. GK104. The 780 and 780 ti were not GM110 but GK110. Now the GM104 was going to be a beast with 3200 cores but it was skipped for a lower end model but newer the gm204. The gm210 will be a beast but other than a sample that floated around china there hasn't been much info on it. Expected TDP is 375 watts for the non castrated GM210.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/heres-close-intimate-look-nvidias-gm210-mystery-card/79979.html
We havent seens a GM110. The 860m was a GM107.
You replied to me just when I was editing my comment. I was aware of that :P
Your still wrong though, Alice... The 780 was GK110 not GM110
Damn, I just went derp all of the sudden.
atm its worth it, to upgrade to a GTX970, if you are one a 280X.
However, i use a 7870GHz still, and i am debating about the same, shall i grab a 970, or shall i wait? i think im going to wait, till Januarie, wenn the new 300 series from AMD are comming out on 20NM.
I personaly still have my question marks about it, lets face it, 970 and 980, are not Nvidia´s flagship chips, but they want you to pay the price for it. i will not say about the 970, but the 980 in my opinnion, just too expensive for a midrange chip
Its cool an great offcourse, that Nvidia was able to get such good performance out of a midrange chip. But these cards only perform this well, because of some compression magic, and super sampler MFaa.
The thing i dont like about is, they have less cuda cores, and a smaller bus. Offcourse this does not matter realy much for 1080p and 1440p. However if you wanne Sli 2 of these cards for 4K then im very interessted how this smaller bus will effect the performance of the card.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZCHaP6j5Y4&list=UUNJP0oF6k62xA_qhCLfwI-Q
It scales up pretty well in 4k.
completely correct
GTX 970 = bang for buck king. No competition for its price. The amount of 2nd hand 290's and 780's up for sale is nuts at the moment here in oz all due to the 970/980's.
Issues with your current card - First remove oc, chances are you'll see all your niggles go away. Just because it hasnt bsod'd doesnt mean the oc is fine. If the card still misbehaves, uninstall the drivers completely (use this) then reinstall drivers. Then test again. If its just the one game thats shit, then its just the game not the card. If you can show evidence that the card is faulty at stock clocks in various titles and benchmarks then RMA it. Get store credit and buy a 970.
Im gonna get 2 of em as soon as the proper reference models are released here.
Yeah that really is right. It was late when I wrote that >.<.
Thats crazy since they are both pretty comparable to the 970 and the 980 costs as much as the 780ti, with the same performance, which means is not so attractive.
Power prices here in oz are pretty shit, so the big drop in load power consumption with a 970 would be very appealing. A single 970 uses less power than just one of my 760's and performs better than a 290x or 780 with a slight oc from all reviews I've read.