For those amongst you wo are looking for an upgrade that can promise being future proof and handle the new technologies coming online then this is the card for you. But for many applications, it's a far more "practical" card, if one can say that about a piece of hardware meant for playing demanding PC games. ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 (part number STRIX-GTX970-DC2-4GD5) Graphics Processing Unit for desktop market segment is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. I can safely say that I am even more impressed with the GTX 970 than the 980, because the value is through the roof. Today is testimony to that as we see two products performing in the GTX 780 Ti range of performance, but both will consume much less power.

Yes, correct, GM204 and not GM210, meaning Nvidia is once again using the ‘high-end’ and not ‘enthusiast class’ chip to empower the product series we are about to review. The new DirectCU II based cooler is so good that it won't even run with GPU temperatures up-to 67 Degrees C.Fantastic pricing, Passive operation in idle/low load, Very quiet in gaming, Low power consumption, Greatly improved efficiency, Overclocked out of the box, Good overclocking potential, HDMI 2. A third option would be to try fitting the replacement Delta fan in the shroud, as it should be quieter at least at idle (and it doesn't have the buzzy, grindy sound profile of the FirstDO. Next up are two new techniques designed to make demanding and non-demanding games alike look better. Please note the above quotation is an indicative cost and actual monthly payments may vary by +/- 2p per month.

This card however has one8-pin power feed and again, does come with that new revision model DirectCU cooler, the one with the two ROG eyes. So Nvidia pretty much had to go with plan B and stuck with 28nm, this makes their silicon sizable, in relative proportions of course. The GM204 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 398 mm² and 5,200 million transistors.

At the same time, Nvidia claims, applying MFAA reduces the performance hit versus 4x MSAA by roughly 30 percent. But it's still far more affordable than either of those compact AMD cards, and it's nearly as tiny as the Radeon R9 Nano, at 6. Discrete graphics card memory: 4 GB, Graphics card memory type: GDDR5, Memory bus: 256 bit, Memory clock speed: 7010 MHz. But the lesser card still managed to deliver smooth frame rates at all resolutions on both settings—even at 4K. Even cheap enough that it doesn't matter much if I'll end up connecting it to a chassis fan header for some reason.