980 Ti on Full HD - well it's gonna be blazing fast, you probably won't feel the difference between 980 Ti to 970, depending on game.

980 Ti on 4K - you MUST SLI it. A single 980 Ti may still find it difficult to cope with high resolution and high detail BUT because it has 6GB RAM it's awesome when paired with extra horsepower.

Insane in good or bad way?

What's the noise level / fan RPM at that reading?

980Ti is certainly not overkill for 1080p.

It's just perfect for it.

this is correct.

the performance is as it is, when people buy the card, it's bought for the performance.

Having 3.5GB doesn't make it lose performance, just some people aren't happy to feel "cheated".

Technically Nvidia isn't wrong because it is 3.5GB + 0.5GB so total is still 4GB.

Why not? Practically every game will run above 60 fps on GTX 980 Ti even with settings set to the max.

If the person uses 1080p all the way then it'll last for ages.

Once gone to 4K, slap on another GTX 980 Ti. That'll be sweet.

Can't disagree with that. GTX 980 Ti handles 1440p 144 G-sync comfortably.

3.5 GB vs 4GB - very little difference.

I have never seen the need for those stuff.

So damn hard just to get the framerate to tear to begin with.

I tested FreeSync monitor, and I couldn't product screen tearing.

Physx is optional too.

Galax GTX 950 is at RM 859 but it's really beautiful.

you wouldn't want it to peak but yes, high VRAM consumption is possible.

Nvidia GPUs can be memory starved, look at how the GTX 960 gets performance boost when it's paired with 4GB RAM instead of 2GB.

You wouldn't want to do that, really.

Whether it's SYSTEM RAM or VIDEO RAM - being fully utilized is not a good thing.

In any case, GTA V i set it to 8x and you see the framerate is bad, drop it to 4x or 2x and IIRC it still takes up more than 2GB VRAM.

Look at Shadow of Mordor, that's totally acceptable framerate on full details but notice how more RAM actually helps the performance.

Bear in mind those are average FPS, it means you have higher max and higher min FPS too.

I have both R9 390 and GTX 970, and I can tell you that they exchange blows.

It very much depends on the clock speed, they exchange blows, for example PowerColor R9 390 is faster than stock GTX 970 but trails very close to overclocked GTX 970.

R9 390 generally offers better price to performance ratio at the expense of being the hotter card.

I wonder if Skylake will give you even higher score, considering it has better IPC than Haswell range.

Nvidia launched the GTX 950 over the weekend at Gigabyte Battle 2015.



Gigabyte was giving away some 10 units of it!

How's it like to warranty PALIT / ZOTAC cards?

Been using Shadowplay for the first time, I love the recording but it seems to crash once in a while.

Played StarCraft II over the past day finishing the campaign, recorded about 25 videos that's 20 minutes each and I had a grand total of 3 crashes.

As of now I can't even load my GFE screen. It still works and my Shadowplay is still running regardless how I restart the computer but this means I can't disable it.

- Galax GTX 960
- Intel Core i5 4460
- 8GB RAM 1600Mhz
- 240GB SSD
- Windows 10
- Latest GeForce drivers

Have you guys experienced this?

In my case, ok I counted total 18 videos (25GB).

3 times it crashed, when it crashes means my game is running and mouse cursor movable but I can't do anything but go Task Manager, in some cases I can't.

My videos were set to 20 minutes, and I'm using the passive type (saves past 20 minutes).