Tweaked and overclocked GTX 980s will show off more of a performance gap between the two cards, but right now, Gigabyte's 970 is nipping at the heels of the reference GTX 980 for $370 (£300), a far, far lower price.
And it won't make you think someone's strapped a jet turbine to your PC, either. This card will give you a supremely powerful gaming rig without making your game-cave feel like a sweat lodge after half an hour in Battlefield 4. Out-of-the-box Gigabyte's card tops out at 58✬ and when running at 100% GPU load, at a shade over 1,500MHz, it still only maxes out at 64✬. And even running at that peak frequency the G1 Gaming was barely breaking a sweat. Unlike the GTX 980 I was actually able to break the 1.5GHz barrier on the core clockspeed with this card, and that closes the gap between them even more. The GTX 970 G1 Gaming has another couple of tricks up its silicon sleeve too, in the form of super-chilled operating temperatures and serious overclocking potential. The GTX 980 is definitely the quicker card, but really not by much at all. So close, in fact, you might begin to wonder what the point is in spending the extra cash on the pricier card. That also makes the GTX 970 pretty damned close to the new GTX 980 too. That's got to be pretty galling for anyone out there who spent a fortune on their Titan Black. And when I say incredible I'm talking about this Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming actually outperforming a GTX Titan Black. Finally Gigabyte's mighty Windforce triple-fan cooling array makes sure that the GM 204 GPU isn't getting too toasty when it's throwing hundreds of textured polygons around your screen throttling its performance.Īll of this gives it some incredible performance numbers for a $380 (£300) graphics card. Gigabyte have also added a bit of extra power to the mix too, with a 6 + 8pin configuration for their boards, compared with just a pair of 6pin PCIe power connectors on the reference-clocked cards. Gigabyte aren't alone in this-EVGA do a similar thing with their SuperClocked cards-and I'm sure other manufacturers do exactly the same thing with their factory overclocked GPUs. First is because of what they call GPU Gauntlet Sorting, which essentially means some poor person is tasked with sorting through all the GPUs Gigabyte gets allocated to see which of them perform the best.
There are a couple of reasons why Gigabyte's card starts out so much higher than the reference clock. That's already pretty high at 1,178MHz, but then goes and boosts all the way up to a stable 1,329MHz.
And what Gigabyte have done is also mighty impressive too.įor a start, they've overclocked the GTX 970 by 128MHz above what the reference card's base clock.
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