Found it! Review of GTX 970 OC vs. well oc'd 780 and 780 Ti!

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Here's a review someone found I thought was worth posting as this kind of comparison is often cited but rarely has data to answer it so far:
http://www.reviewstudio.net/2028-asus-gtx-970-strix-oc-review-bring-the-maxwell-to-the-owl

It compares a 1228mhz GTX 780 Ti OC vs. 1300mhz GTX 780 OC vs. a 1530mhz GTX 970 OC, for the curious (boost clocks as stated in the text).

The 780 Ti in the review is stated to be running at 1228mhz boost in-game with 1975mhz memory (7900mhz qdr)
(http://www.reviewstudio.net/1179-as...iew-best-performance-dead-silent/overclocking) and you can find the same reference in the 780 OC review on their site.

BASE CLOCKS are listed by them in the graph. Boost clocks according to the review are as stated above :). This is actually the best oc-to-oc comparison between a 780 ti at good clocks, 780 at good clocks, and GTX 970 at good clocks, that I have seen yet.

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The gap in other reviews narrows a little at 4K, while remaining similar to 1080 when done at 2560x1440 resolution, keep in mind. (They have a 3dmark score in there too but list the combined, rather than GPU, score which makes it meaningless :(). The GTX 970 oc'd stacks up very favorably to the GTX 780 Ti oc'd and consistently beats out the 780 oc'd.
 
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Results show a 1311mhz 970. I'm not seeing 1530mhz. I'm missing something. :confused:

Edit: if this is actually a max overclock they got on a GTX 970 it will be the lowest I've seen in any review. I have yet to see a single review with a 970 or a GTX 980 hitting less than 1400mhz on the GPU
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Results show a 1311mhz 970. I'm not seeing 1530mhz. I'm missing something. :confused:

Edit: if this is actually a max overclock they got on a GTX 970 it will be the lowest I've seen in any review. I have yet to see a single review with a 970 or a GTX 980 hitting less than 1400mhz on the GPU
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Kind sir Mr. Exodia... as stated above the graphs in exhibit A, I present to you the inscription in bold... :) :

"BASE CLOCKS are listed by them in the graph. Boost clocks according to the review are as stated above "

I don't doubt a lot will miss that though so I will turn it red and big :D!

Cheers!
 
In other words: 340 euro card beats the 550 euro card, while having more vram, use less power, produce less heat and less noise... Hell, 970 gtx release is the most impressive "midrange" release I've seen for some time. I can't wait till my MSI gets to me on Monday :)

Seems like this release made 290 (non X) irrelevant, and 295 will need a very high price cut
 
I'd be interested to know what the extra cuda cores etc.. in the GTX 980 do in performance compared to a GTX 970 at the exact same clocks in the exact same rig.

So Core GTX 970 1530 Ram 7600
-- VS -- GTX 980 1530 Ram 7600

I'm thinking maybe +10% or so
 
Lord_Exodia said:
I'd be interested to know what the extra cuda cores etc.. in the GTX 980 do in performance compared to a GTX 970 at the exact same clocks in the exact same rig.

So Core GTX 970 1530 Ram 7600
-- VS -- GTX 980 1530 Ram 7600

I'm thinking maybe +10% or so
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Can't say conclusively without it being the same rig, but at +/-10mhz on the OC I've seen people with similar systems showing scores around 12% apart.
 
Nice find... so a 980 should be about 15-20% above a 970...
 
Keep in mind this is the Asus Strix 970 that only has a single 8 pin, so the OC headroom is likely to be even greater on the MSI and Gigabyte cards that both carry 8+6 pins.
 
n=1 said:
Keep in mind this is the Asus Strix 970 that only has a single 8 pin, so the OC headroom is likely to be even greater on the MSI and Gigabyte cards that both carry 8+6 pins.
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Maybe, But 1530-155x is about what I've seen with this GM204 rev 2 cards as a max OC. I can't see them going much further until we are able to mod bios and pump more volts and up the power limit.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Maybe, But 1530-155x is about what I've seen with this GM204 rev 2 cards as a max OC. I can't see them going much further until we are able to mod bios and pump more volts and up the power limit.
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Yeah, I've seen some people with 1600mhz+ core but 1550 seems to be a solid clock so far. BIOS flash tool and skyn3t testing is very very soon by the way they're saying ;).
 
are these graphs displaying the canned benchmarks built into these games or just some guys random run through of a particular area?
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Maybe, But 1530-155x is about what I've seen with this GM204 rev 2 cards as a max OC. I can't see them going much further until we are able to mod bios and pump more volts and up the power limit.
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Yes that's very true.

But just imagine what you could do with GM204, an unlocked bios, and 300W of power.
 
It looks like the 780, 780 ti, and 970 are pretty darn close when all are overclocked.
 
That's what good TDPs translate to - Great overclocking capability on air.
 
Man is nvidia cannibalizing their high end market with this mid-range card? it sure looks like it!
 
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