There was a time when 1080p was not considered a true PC gaming resolution, but that quickly changed owing to the establishment of the full HD standard and its proliferation in living rooms.

The GTX 970 more than fits the bill: it brings the ultra high-end GPU experience that much closer to the mainstream to the point where the value offered here is almost ridiculous. In this scenario, we can push core clock up a further 185MHz, while the 4GB of onboard GDDR5 is rock-solid at 8000MHz - a welcome 14 per cent boost to memory bandwidth. We re-run our 1080p tests at the higher resolution and find that the GTX 970 still manages to deliver the goods. You can find more recent testing of the GTX 970 across a wider range of more modern games in our graphics card upgrade guide.TDP drops to 145W, but we actually found no real difference in power consumption between the two cards in practice. Actually I mainly need to do the upgrade because the power bills are so ridiculous for the 8800 GTX! It's something MSI first brought to the market in 2008 (it's keen to clarify that it hasn't copied the ASUS Strix cards here).

support- OpenCL support- NVIDIA SHIELD Ready- NVIDIA G-Sync Ready- VR ReadySpecification:-- GeForce GTX 970- GPU: GeForce GTX 970 (GM204)- Core Base Clock: 1114MHz- Core Boost Clock: 1253MHz- Memory Clock: 7010MHz - Memory Size: 4096MB GDDR5- Bus Type: PCI Express 3. Bought mine some days ago, just got it 2 day, installed it, tried first with 100Mhz extra, as I saw Jay2Cent run it at 1500Mhz without any problems, mine took the 100 while staying at 53c, dropped 50Mhz on top, stayed at 53c, and ran test without any problems, but one thing is benchmark's, another games, will c how it do, so fare no OV or MEM OC. NVIDIA’s partners will be launching with customized designs right away, many of which will be carried over from their GTX 600/700 card designs. In our tests, GPU throughput is increased by 10 to 15 per cent via overclocking, depending on the application.The GeForce GTX 970 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 19th, 2014.

There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. As with other cards that use the Maxwell architecture, the GTX 970 is surprisingly power-efficient, only drawing 145W when playing the most demanding games. as standard equipment helps with almost all modern games, and you’ll notice the difference over 8GB systems.

Given that the GTX 970 is unlikely to be ROP bound with so many ROPs, the real world performance difference should much more closely track the 79% value, meaning there is a significant performance delta between the GTX 980 and GTX 970. Maxwell is the most advanced GPU architecture ever made, designed to be the engine of next generation gaming.