MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming Twin Frozr HDMI DVI-I DP Graphics Card (4GB, PCI Express, DDR5, 256 Bit)

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UPDATE 23/2/15 9:40am: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 is currently the subject of much controversy owing to the firm marketing the card with incorrect specs - a state of affairs that has led to a lawsuit. At this point, Nvidia’s video driver attempts to put the least important data in the slower segment. Now that we’ve had a chance to take a look at the architectural and feature additions found in Maxwell 2 and GM204, let’s talk about the products themselves. NVIDIA for the longest time has held to 2GB/3GB of memory for their cards, so it is a welcome sight to see that they are now making 4GB their standard, especially if they are going to target 4K gaming. The GeForce GTX 970 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 19th, 2014.

We kick off with our standard gameplay initiation test for high-end GPUs - a maxed-out Crysis 3 in the demanding Welcome to the Jungle stage, operating at 1080p. As anti-aliasing goes, you're never going to beat the brute-force approach of rendering at a much higher resolution and downscaling - as the DSR examples we previously ran, repeated below, should demonstrate. AIB profits will be hardest hit when the bubble pops, and they'll be the ones dealing with RMAs for years to come. The chip also measures nearly 400mm square, and by way of comparison, the latest Ampere GA104 chip used in the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti is only a touch smaller (393mm square compared to 398mm square) but has over triple the number of transistors. 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.For those looking for a 'better than console' experience for their powerful PCs, a good route forward is to acquire a 2. The benchmark score for a component shown on this page is the median of all the results submitted by users with the same hardware.

As we have a big bunch of existing data sitting on our hard drive from our recent GPU testing, we actually have two comparisons for you here. i gimped over a 1 year on purpose through bios because the damn thing have the black screen issue randomly in games so why 5 stars?

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. Beginning with R343 these products are no longer supported in new driver branches and have been moved to legacy status. With the way things stand now, two 970s in SLI will be cheaper, cooler, quieter and far more power-efficient. The reference design has 1,664 CUDA cores running at 1,050MHz, boosting up to 1,178MHz when thermal limits allow. NVIDIA for their part will not be running any promotions or bundles for the GTX 900 series, so what you see is what you get.