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NCIX: http://bit.ly/1qoGVRq

Amazon: http://geni.us/24LI

 

ASUS sent over their Strix GTX 970, a factory overclocked version of the GTX 970 Maxwell GPU. It lists a few pretty interesting features, like a "zero decibel" mode when playing games that don't push the GPU - but how does it compare to its competition?

 

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Awesome... thanks Nick :D 

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I was expecting the 970 to be in closer competition with the 780, I'm actually a bit surprised. 

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Why is it unlisted? w/e i wsas 12th viewer

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sometimes it's public 

Haven't seen one of these be public when I click it so far.

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Haven't seen one of these be public when I click it so far.

one of the recent ones was...dont remember which one though.

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The Overclock should been aggressive i'm sure it would even crush the 780 in every benchmark and be pretty close to the 780ti when running at 80C.

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yay Strix!

And what was that @4:04/4:05? - "It will ramp up LOIK any other card...etc"

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@LinusTech @nicklmg I think there's a small error about the display outputs: Linus you mentioned that ASUS had "downgraded" the I/O ports from 3xDP, 1xHDMI and 1xDVI-I to 1xDP, 1xHDMI and 2xDVI, however I think only the 980 reference design had the "upgraded" ports, but the reference 970 has the older style ports.

 

Interestingly Gigabyte has chosen to implement the 980 I/O on their non-reference 970, however I think they're the only ones to do that.

 

Maybe it's not an issue but it kinda sounds like you were 'telling off' ASUS when that's actually how NVidia's reference design was...

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In every other benchmark set I've seen, the GTX 970 STRIX has destroyed the 780... They were overclocked as well... How did this turn out so badly?

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

This is the first time I have seen these results.

 

Reference:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

http://techreport.com/review/27067/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-and-970-graphics-cards-reviewed/9

http://www.techspot.com/review/885-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-gtx-980/page5.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/6

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_970_and_980_reference_review,15.html

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2014/09/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-GTX-970-performance-5.jpg

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2014/09/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-GTX-970-performance-2.jpg

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I see the test bench is on an X99 platform 5930K. Wasn't the previous benches done with a different CPU, Mobo, and Ram combo with a 4.0Ghz X79 platform? 

 

That would make the graphs unbalanced compared to other reviews and on the power consumption test.

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Still wondering if I should pick up one of these to replace my 7970 for 1440p. They're verging on half a grand in Aus though so they aren't really cheap.

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Nice card. I like how it performs and I love how it looks. Too bad the price in my country will probably be at least 100$ more than in the US.

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Hello can someone please tell me he dimensions of the graphics card in cm or mm please as I am starting a little project with this gpu and I am trying to draw out a plan.

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