New GeForce GPUs & Drivers [Sep 19, 2014, 09:05 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
New GTX 980 and 970 GPUs are now available from NVIDIA, and you can find an
introduction to the new hardware on
the GeForce website and there are evaluations from a bunch of sites in
today's hardware review section. To support the new cards, the
GeForce website now offers new WHQL-certified version 344.11 drivers, which
also add support for some new and upcoming games. Here's word: "The new
GeForce 344.11 WHQL drivers are now
available to download automatically through
GeForce Experience, and
from GeForce.com. These new drivers
give GeForce GTX owners the ultimate gaming experience in the latest blockbuster
titles, including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The Evil Within, F1 2014 and
Alien: Isolation, and add support for the brand new, Maxwell-powered
GeForce GTX 980 and
GeForce GTX 970, the world's most advanced graphics cards."
Overall GTX 980 is around 10% to 12% faster than 780 TI. I think it consumes less power, but some review sites show inflated consumption rates that are worrying. Still the card to get is 970 as it is demonstrably better than 770, but as far as the best of the best something like 780 TI Gaming from MSI beats the 980 consistently, even when overclocked. So overall a bit disappointed, here's hoping for a 980 TI or some cool custom cards to take the crown even from nVidia's own let alone any card from AMD.
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