Here’s our review of the new flagship offering by NVIDIA, the GTX 980
GTX 980
NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture made tidal waves in the PC tech circuit when it was released earlier this year for its phenomenal price to performance ratio. The scope of this review is to give you our thoughts on the new flagship offering by NVIDIA, the GTX 980. The GTX 980 is the fastest single GPU out till date. What is most astounding is the peak performance power of this GPU. The reference card comes with two 6 pin connectors, with a TDP of 165 Watts.
This essentially means that the peak power consumption of your PC goes down significantly, and so does the temperature. Temperature is a crucial point for any graphics card as it directly impacts overclocking capabilities and operational stability, and with such a large headroom, it is essentially every overclockers dream.
GTX 980’s architecture ensures that there is a boost in performance when compared to the GTX 780 OC edition. In all the synthetic and the real world benchmarks that the two cards were put through, the GTX 980 outstripped the GTX 780 OC by a 7-10 per cent margin. There are some nifty bells and whistles added by NVIDIA that make gaming at 1080p much more enjoyable. There is Dynamic Super Resolution, which renders each frame in 4K and then scales it down to 1080p using a 13 tap Gaussian filter.
This results in sharper graphics and a much more enjoyable 1080p experience for the discerning gamer. Then there is Voxell Global Illumination, that tries to introduce dynamic lighting and shadow effects without putting too much of a computational stress on the card itself, with good results.
In conclusion, while the card doesn't offer much in terms of gaming performance at 1080p over its predecessors the 780ti and 780, the key thing to consider here, specially as an Indian consumer is the tremendous reduction in the power bill as well as lower heating issues.
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