EVGA GTX 970 tested & compared

[SoF]

Hey folks,

 

it's been a while I've benched stuff but after a break of almost 2 years I am now slowly coming back to my old passion for overclocking.

 

Having wasted way too much money in the past the GTX 970 for just around 320 Euro looked like a good deal to check out about GPU performance these days.

 

I compared to a lot special editions of the past like GTX 580, 7970 and new 780 Ti.

 

 

 

 

Let's skip all this "cooler, specs, fancyness" and go directly to performance in games and benchmarks - these are my final charts up to now:

 

 

 

 

When it comes to power consumption this card is like a camel you've just feeded - it doesn't need anything for a while ^^

 

 

 

Knowing that we can bypass the powerlimit very easy, is there some kind of Vmod we can try out?

 

greetings to all

SoF

 

PS: full review and all images here (german only unfortunatly sorry)

Edited October 15, 2014 by SoF

[Calathea]

Thanks for the overview Sof. I think GTX 970 is the most impressive of maxwell, relative low price and almost 780 Ti performance! Although, 980 seems more fun to OC. Can you explain how to bypass power limit?

[Don_Dan]

NV Power limit - stop killing me

[Calathea]

NV Power limit - stop killing me

Thx.

[SoF]

Thanks for the overview Sof. I think GTX 970 is the most impressive of maxwell, relative low price and almost 780 Ti performance! Although, 980 seems more fun to OC.

 

It's perfect for gamers on a budget, but the GTX 960 will be even better regarding price/performance.

 

If you want full performance and have some spare money - the GTX 980 is the way to go

 

PS: the stock EVGA GTX 970 (not the overclocked or other SEs) only allows +37,5 mV additional Voltage while as other cards usually allow + 87,5 mV in nSpector. Just to let you know...

Edited October 26, 2014 by SoF