just tried Elite Dangerous on my new 980

[ChrissCross]

Wow wow wow......... this is just incredible. Don't know how the difference is going to be when you had a 780 ti, but when you come from a gtx 760 like me (was waiting for this new series before I would upgrade), prepare to be swept from your feet...

[Ascendor81]

I am selling my GTX 780 Ti on e-bay and getting 2x970's, they should be here this week. I will let you guys know the diff.

[fgeist]

"ChrissCross" wrote:
Wow wow wow......... this is just incredible. Don't know how the difference is going to be when you had a 780 ti, but when you come from a gtx 760 like me (was waiting for this new series before I would upgrade), prepare to be swept from your feet...

Dude, I'm upgrading from 560 GTX (not even Ti!) to 970 Jetstream edition next week!
Imagine how much of a boost that gives!
From 21000 to almost 50000 score on Nvidia page - or from 3100 to about 9000 on futuremark!

[dexgen]

"ChrissCross" wrote:
Don't see a huge difference with the downsampling but that could be me ofc.. dont know what the fps difference is but it's butter smooth. Zero stuttering inside Freeport (the city where it all happens for people who don't have ED). I have everything on max options 😄 Can't wait for beta 2 in 10 days!!! 🙂

Just to be clear, you're running everything on max settings with DSR on set 4K and still no judder??

I currently have an overclocked 780 and it's smooth but when I do supersampling (not through DSR of course) I get judders in the stations. I was wondering if you could do a little testing of DSR vs. supersampling through defining more resolutions to see if there are performance differences there (I'm betting the answer is yes).

[blanes]

"jscheema" wrote:
I am selling my GTX 780 Ti on e-bay and getting 2x970's, they should be here this week. I will let you guys know the diff.

hey man I just did the same thing ... I only lost $70 on my 780 so I was stoked, picked up 2 x Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming cards yesterday and a nice new case to put them in ... boy are they smoking and look bloody fantastic, so quiet I cannot hear them at all, even quieter than my single 780 ~ I thought the fans must be broken ! they also have very cool "Windforce" Leds.

Now to try figure out how to enable VR-SLI because there is no mention in the drivers 😮

[eepoole4]

"ThreeEyes" wrote:
My EVGA GTX 980 SC arrived yesterday but I didn't get much time to sort things out as it was late in the day and family obligations. But...

It replaced an EVGA GTX 770 and the difference was noticeable but slight. The motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX with an AMD 8350 8 core at 4.0 GHz, 16 GB RAM which has PCIe 2.0 slots while the 980 is 3.0 capable (possible bottleneck). OS is Win 8.1 64 bit.

Hello ThreeEyes!!

You may find this to be an interesting read about bottlenecking. This could very well be the reason you're not seeing that great of a difference. Forgive me if you've already seen it!

[mrcrisp]

"eepoole4" wrote:
Hello ThreeEyes!!

You may find this to be an interesting read about bottlenecking. Forgive me if you've already seen it!

It makes for an interesting read as I am purchasing a GTX980 shortly and it would appear to be total overkill considering the FX8350 will become a bottleneck- even at the clock speed I am running the 8350 at probably won't make much of a difference which is why the next upgrade will be a new Intel CPU and DDR4.

Even with AMD's announcement tomorrow (25th Sept) I doubt it will be a graphics card that will outperform the GTX980, run as cool and use similar power- even if it did, I am tired of AMD and it's drivers.

[eepoole4]

"mrcrisp" wrote:

"eepoole4" wrote:
Hello ThreeEyes!!

You may find this to be an interesting read about bottlenecking. Forgive me if you've already seen it!

It makes for an interesting read as I am purchasing a GTX980 shortly and it would appear to be total overkill considering the FX8350 will become a bottleneck- even at the clock speed I am running the 8350 at probably won't make much of a difference which is why the next upgrade will be a new Intel CPU and DDR4.

Even with AMD's announcement tomorrow (25th Sept) I doubt it will be a graphics card that will outperform the GTX980, run as cool and use similar power- even if it did, I am tired of AMD and it's drivers.

Even at the i3 levels Intel restricted the GPU less than the FX-8370E. That doesn't bode well for AMD at all. Whatever AMD is preparing to announce will have to seriously impress and also come at a very reasonable price (or in Nvidia's 970 fashion, even cheaper than reasonable for that level of power.)

[willste]

"fgeist" wrote:

"ChrissCross" wrote:
Wow wow wow......... this is just incredible. Don't know how the difference is going to be when you had a 780 ti, but when you come from a gtx 760 like me (was waiting for this new series before I would upgrade), prepare to be swept from your feet...

Dude, I'm upgrading from 560 GTX (not even Ti!) to 970 Jetstream edition next week!
Imagine how much of a boost that gives!
From 21000 to almost 50000 score on Nvidia page - or from 3100 to about 9000 on futuremark!

I went from a 560 to a R9 290 and to be honest you get over the boost pretty fast... but I am hopping new games coming out soon will make the extra power worth it until CV1 is out, ie Witcher 3 and dragon age 3.

The latest crop of high end video cards since the 780 and R9 series are really freakin fast. Running any game at 1080p is a joke. Even maxing everything out these cards won't break a sweat unless you up the resolution. Of course 4k cripples all of them but a 1440p monitor would be ideal.

That being said it seems like high end Nvidia does the best with DK2 demos right now. I do well with my 290 but it sounds like 780 Ti owners get more consistent results. Congrats on the upgrade though, you are now overpowered for every game on the market minus a few un-optimized Rift demos.

[Blizado]

What i want to know:

1. How much better is the Latency? I read normally the Latency of the current Graphic Cards is on ~50ms, with 9x0 it should be near 50% lower.

2. How good works "Asynchronous Warp"? Should reduce Judder when the FPS gets too low.

For FPS there are enough Reviews out, but the VR Stuff is often not tested.

I bought 1 1/2 Month ago a GTX 780, so the Points above are for me more Interesting than FPS, also because I'm really sensitive for Motion Sickness.

P.S. I hope ED Beta2 get native DK2 Support.

[cybereality]

There may be different causes for the judder, but performance-related judder could be mitigated by async timewarp.