On the most-demanding Ultimate setting, we again saw the R9 Nano pull a little over 10fps ahead of the Asus GTX 970 DirectCU Mini.

The Witcher 3, Alien Isolation, Endless Legend (which you might not think is a system hog but it actually really is), all are destroyed in the wake of this card. It's also worth noting that while the Nano has its power connector sticking out the back, the Asus GTX 970 DirectCU Mini's power connector is more traditionally oriented, so your power cable will jut out the side. I guess designs with known fan specifications might use rpm numbers, but that would still require an additional layer of translation between rpm in the software/firmware and pwm signalling to the fan. With several design goals in mind (higher performance and lower power consumption) Nvidia was hoping to reach 20nm by the time their high-end product would be released.

The GeForce GTX 970 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 19th, 2014. We then kick-off a full suite run, and pay attention to the Kill-a-Watt when the test reaches its most intensive interval (GT 1) to get the load wattage. Microsoft DirectX 12- NVIDIA® 3D Vision® Ready- NVIDIA SLI® Ready Technology- NVIDIA CUDA® technology- PCI Express 3. STRIX first showed up on two ASUS graphics cards sporting the AMD R9 280 and the Nvidia GTX 780 GPUs. Only sponsoring brands are included in the free Open Icecat content distribution as used by 94642 free Open Icecat users.

I want to be good for at least 2-3 years and I’ve heard rumors about their drivers losing support in the coming years. AMD's Radeon R9 Nano is unquestionably the performance king when it comes to compact, Mini-ITX-friendly gaming.Technology for intelligent monitoring of clock speed, ensuring that the GPU runs at its peak and the game is at its high frame rate possible. For easy access to this data, refer to the "ProductDescription" block and the "LongDesc" tag in XML or the "Description" block and the "LongDesc" tag in JSON. Here again, the the GTX 970 DirectCU Mini dipped a little further behind the R9 Nano, but the Asus card still kept frame rates above 30fps at resolutions below 4K.

It generally runs pretty cool and quiet but the newest titles do tend to tax it more which pushes the temps/noise up more. With a custom PCB, all dark design and the DirectCU Strix cooler the GTX 970 will get all the cooling it needs, with temps reaching a maximum of roughly 70 Degrees C with incredible low noise levels.That's a significant lead, to be sure, but not huge given that the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini card is so much more affordable. The GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti , which were introduced a few months ago, also belong to this generation. It's the most I have spent on a graphics card in a long time, and the only thing I want to mark it down for is what you get in the box. Graphics processor family: NVIDIA, Graphics processor: GeForce GTX 970, Processor frequency: 1114 MHz. What that means: Nvidia says its newest cards accelerate VXGI to the point that game developers can compute global lighting in-game, so that lighting effects can interact in real time with game elements (such as characters), rather than just be projected onto static surfaces like floors, walls, and furniture.

To test graphics cards for both their power consumption and temperature at load, we utilize a couple of different tools. The GPU used thus is the 28nm GM204, and the two derivatives created from it are the GeForce GTX 970 and 980. But for recent demanding titles, bumping up to 4K with the GTX 970 is generally going to drop the frame rate to unpleasing or unplayable levels.Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Ocuk Limited trading as Overclockers UK is a credit broker, not a lender, and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Here, we fired up the 2013 reboot of the classic title Tomb Raider, testing at two levels of detail and three resolutions. They mention that it runs all graphics card intensive games at 1080p above 60fps, and is absolutely perfect for gaming on max settings. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.