First OCTANE BENCHMARKS on GTX 970/980!!!!!!!

[RobSteady]

Do you think there will be a 6 or 8 GB edition?

[glimpse]

Do you think there will be a 6 or 8 GB edition?

I guess we might see 8gigger, but I would be very surprised to see it this year,..

[xxdanbrowne]

Hmmmm. I was thinking of getting a 970 for my next card because it looked like the best bang for the buck. Now I'm indecisive.

[remon_v]

What I did is get a second hand GTX780 Ti for the price of a GTX970.... a lot of people want to get rid of the 700 series right now.

[glimpse]

What I did is get a second hand GTX780 Ti for the price of a GTX970.... a lot of people want to get rid of the 700 series right now.

good move =) I've done the same. used 780/Titans are flooding resale sites =) for gamers that new card might bring some tempting features, for the rest (like GPU raytracing crowed) these used cards is a bargain hard to resist =)))

[smicha]

Another guy from overclock.net confirmed poor speed of 980

3.85 M/s
GeForce 980
Core Clock: 1127MHz
Boost Clock: 1216MHz
Memory: 4096MB 7010MHz GDDR5
Stream Processors: 2048
i7 5960X @ 4.4GHz
Windows 8.1
Octane Demo 2.06

http://www.overclock.net/t/1514149/octa ... t_22904862

[glimpse]

thanks for info, @Smicha!

[Zay]

Another guy from overclock.net confirmed poor speed of 980

3.85 M/s
GeForce 980
Core Clock: 1127MHz
Boost Clock: 1216MHz
Memory: 4096MB 7010MHz GDDR5
Stream Processors: 2048
i7 5960X @ 4.4GHz
Windows 8.1
Octane Demo 2.06

http://www.overclock.net/t/1514149/octa ... t_22904862

That sucks. So even if they should make a 990 it would still not be faster than a 780. I'll guess we have to wait until 2 quarter 2015 to see a 780 killer.

[smicha]

These are exactly my thoughts - even if they release titan2 with 4000 cuda cores it will score 8ms/s and be as fast as 780ti.

[riggles]

Maybe you should give OTOY a chance to update Octane for the new Maxwell architecture, just like they had to for Kepler, before making final judgement.