{"id":71933,"date":"2015-02-09T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71933"},"modified":"2015-02-11T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:15:15","slug":"gtx-960-vs-970-vs-980-price-and-performance-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71933-gtx-960-vs-970-vs-980-price-and-performance-comparison","title":{"rendered":"GTX 960 vs 970 vs 980 – price and performance comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the recent launch of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, there has been a lot of comment about whether the card is good value for money, whether you should spend a bit more and get a GTX 970, or go all out and sell a kidney for a GTX 980.<\/p>\n

Today we look at the three new GTX 900-series cards and see how they stack up against one another in terms of stats, performance, and price.<\/p>\n

Pricing and Specifications<\/h3>\n

The table below summarises the basic specifications and price range of the cards. Bear in mind that although the GTX 970 is advertised as a 4GB card, there have been many reports about it suffering from VRAM issues. To be safe, read that stat as 3.5GB.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
Card<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stream processors<\/td>\n1,024<\/td>\n1,664<\/td>\n2,048<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Core Clock<\/td>\n1,127MHz<\/td>\n1,050MHz<\/td>\n1,126MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boost Clock<\/td>\n1,178MHz<\/td>\n1,178MHz<\/td>\n1,216MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Clock<\/td>\n7GHz GDDR5<\/td>\n7GHz DDR5<\/td>\n7GHz DDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bus Width<\/td>\n128 bit<\/td>\n256 bit<\/td>\n256 bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\n4GB (advertised)<\/td>\n4GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max Digital Resolution<\/td>\n5120 x 3200<\/td>\n4096 x 2160<\/td>\n4096 x 2160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Max VGA Resolution<\/td>\n2048 x 1536<\/td>\n2048 x 1536<\/td>\n2048 x 1536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Consumption<\/td>\n120W<\/td>\n145W<\/td>\n165W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price<\/td>\nR2,999 – R4,000<\/td>\nR4,899 – R6,500<\/td>\nR7,599 – R11,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"Nvidia<\/a>

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980<\/p><\/div>\n

Performance<\/h3>\n

The hardware experts at Eurogamer\u2019s Digital Foundry<\/a> gave the GTX 980, 970, and 960 a good testing after they were released. Here are the results.<\/p>\n

GTX 980<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
Game <\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Settings<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 – FPS<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BioShock<\/td>\nUltra DDOF 1920×1080<\/td>\n121.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomb Raider<\/td>\nUltimate FXAA 1920×1080<\/td>\n91.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battlefield 4<\/td>\nUltra 1920×1080<\/td>\n87.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crysis 3<\/td>\nVery High 1920×1080<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crysis 3<\/td>\nFXAA High Quality 3840×2160<\/td>\n36.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metro: Last Light<\/td>\nHigh Quality 3840×2160<\/td>\n37.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metro: Last Light<\/td>\nHigh Quality 2560×1440<\/td>\n32.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"Asus<\/a>

Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980<\/p><\/div>\n

GTX 970<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
Game <\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Settings<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 – FPS<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BioShock<\/td>\nUltra DDOF 1920×1080<\/td>\n111.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomb Raider<\/td>\nUltimate FXAA 1920×1080<\/td>\n81.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battlefield 4<\/td>\nUltra 1920×1080<\/td>\n77.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crysis 3<\/td>\nVery High 1920×1080<\/td>\n70.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crysis 3<\/td>\nFXAA High Quality 3840×2160<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metro: Last Light<\/td>\nHigh Quality AAA 3840×2160<\/td>\n32.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metro: Last Light<\/td>\nHigh Quality SSAA 2560×1440<\/td>\n29.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"MSI<\/a>

MSI GTX 970<\/p><\/div>\n

GTX 960<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Game<\/strong><\/td>\nSettings<\/strong><\/td>\nNvidia GeForce GTX 960 – FPS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battlefield 4<\/td>\nUltra, 4 x MSAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n48.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crysis 3<\/td>\nVery High, SMAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assassin’s Creed Unity<\/td>\nUltra, FXAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Far Cry 4<\/td>\nUltra, SMAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n50.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
COD: Advanced Warfare<\/td>\nMax, SMAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n86.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ryse: Son of Rome<\/td>\nHigh, SMAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n42.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shadow of Mordor<\/td>\nUltra, Medium Textures, no SSAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n53.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomb Raider<\/td>\nUltimate, FXAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n65.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metro Last Light Redux<\/td>\nMax, no SSAA 1920 x 1080<\/td>\n51.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"Asus<\/a>

Asus Strix GTX 960<\/p><\/div>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\nSorry, there are no polls available at the moment.\n

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We take a look at and compare the three latest gaming graphics cards from Nvidia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":71006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,45,13255,12979,12977],"class_list":["post-71933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-nvidia","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72095,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71933\/revisions\/72095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}