MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming Twin Frozr HDMI DVI-I DP Graphics Card (4GB, PCI Express, DDR5, 256 Bit)

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MSI's custom cooler has always impressed - the R9 290 we used for CrossFire testing in our R9 295X2 piece was also a peach. As long as Nvidia doesn't be the farm on a continuing mining surge, it will be fine -- better than fine. Expect this computer to run games like Warzone, GTA V/FiveM, MSFS2022 and COD Vanguard smoothly out the box at well above 60fps. The three DisplayPort outputs of the reference card are dispensed with in favour of the traditional dual-DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort arrangement, while curiously the six-pin/six-pin power inputs are replaced with an eight-pin/six-pin set-up. GeForce® GTX graphics cards provide a powerful next-generation platform for the ultimate immersive virtual reality experience.

com Limited, registered in England and Wales with number 03934849, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom. It's here - on games with a light GPU load and no real AA options - that DSR makes a huge difference.Meanwhile the memory clock stands at 7GHz, the same as with NVIDIA’s past generation of high-end cards. TDP drops to 145W, but we actually found no real difference in power consumption between the two cards in practice.

It's the tiniest of disappointments bearing in mind the big performance wins offered by the GTX 970 in general, though - not to mention the fact that overall efficiency still outstrips the Hawaii chip in the R9 290 and 290X, and indeed the GK110 processor found in GTX 780, Titan and 780 Ti, even with an aggressive overclock in place.In summary, in our review of the GTX 980 flagship, we loved the new Maxwell chip's power efficiency, but there was no seismic shift upwards in top-end performance: Nvidia made a smaller, smarter processor that only offered marginal gains over the GTX 780 Ti. NVIDIA’s target market for the GTX 900 series will be owners of GTX 600/500/400 series cards and their AMD equivalents. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1050 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1178 MHz, memory is running at 1753 MHz (7 Gbps effective).

FXAA at 1080p is rather ropey, but SMAA 4x is a lot nicer though it does struggle with sub-pixel detail. As we have a big bunch of existing data sitting on our hard drive from our recent GPU testing, we actually have two comparisons for you here.Ocuk Limited trading as Overclockers UK is a credit broker, not a lender, and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

The benchmark score for a component shown on this page is the median of all the results submitted by users with the same hardware. That said, from a performance and power efficiency angle, the GTX 900 series is going to be a much more desirable product line. In our tests, GPU throughput is increased by 10 to 15 per cent via overclocking, depending on the application.There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. All benchmarks are produced using FCAT - you get the at-a-glance averages below, but the video shows you how each featured GPU performs on a frame-by-frame basis. The reason for the 8-pin upgrade cable is that this card is fed by a 6-pin/8-pin combination rather than the default dual 6-pin set-up. The temperature cut-off points are similar to the ASUS card – between 60 and 65°C, the fans will spin up; once the GPU drops to about 50°C, they're no longer needed. Extreme edition goes even further than the MSI and Asus cards, replacing the reference cooler with a massive three-fan system.