For those that require sheer silence like yours truly, this is the way to go. At best you can slightly hear the card while using it heavily. Expect sound pressure values in the 39 to 40 dBA range at max under load and warm circumstances. It is way more cooling compared to what this GPU really needs. With WindoForce cooling we can’t complain, period. The cooler looks sturdy and bloke like as well, aesthetically it is a product that is easy on the eyes and will fit any dark/white themed gaming PC perfectly. So Gigabyte shaved off a good 15~20 Degrees C over reference. Remember, that is factory overclocked cooling performance for you. That shows in gaming, you can expect to hover at 60 to 65 Degrees C with hefty games and this GeForce GTX 970. It is a serious cooler that offers more cooling performance than the GM204 really needs. Once the GPU gets warmer the card will clock down and lower its voltage. That wasn't good enough for Gigabyte, and even with a lower heat wattage, they applied the WindForce X3 cooler. The reference design of the GTX 970 and 980 are the very same cooling wise. The reference products are set at an offset threshold of 80 degrees C. This is probably the maximum that Nvidia should and can do on 28 nm in terms of improved performance and power consumption versus price. When you look at it from that point of view the Maxwell release is a successful one. With that in mind Nvidia tried to create a product series that is affordable and plays the most high-end and latest games perfectly fine at an acceptable price level. The GK110 ( GTX Titan / Black), whilst being a true beast of a GPU, is testimony to that. Injecting more transistors on a GPU created yield issues, heat and high power consumption. That is still respectable as you need to keep in mind that the GM204 is still on 28 nm much like Kepler. With current release schedules we continuously see 20 to 30% performance increases across the board over the last-gen products. However, if you are in say the GeForce GTX 680 range, then this might be a very nice time to jump on-board with a new card. It is interesting to see that 10 years ago performance per generation nearly doubled. So I do not expect Geforce 780 range product owners upgrading anytime soon. It’s not heaps faster than the aforementioned 780 series though. One offers good, the other exceptional performance within its range. We tested and stressed these cards extensively, seriously extensively and you guys should not be worried.īoth the GeForce GTX 970 and 980 leave a very solid impression. And again, much like I stated in the 980 review, I know that some of you will be worried after what happened to some of you with the previous GHz model from Gigabyte. Gigabyte offers a product that has been further improved, has nice looks, a 6 and 8-pin power header on a 6 phase VRM design, it's all fairly impressive really. Sure, you have three shader clusters less than the 980, but overall for gaming at say 2560x1440 this card will make a lot of sense. Gigabyte on their end started improving on Nvidia's design, the end result being the SOC edition of the new G1 gaming series and man, this is pretty nice isn't it? It is silent, it cools very well with a hefty cooler, it comes factory overclocked at a boost frequency of 1329 MHz already - just like its bigger brother. Yeah, it is rather amazing what Nvidia can get performance wise from that little GPU. I stated in our reference review already that for the money the GeForce GTX 970 kicks ass, I mean overall the product series offers GTX 780 to Titan performance levels.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |