GTX 970 vs GTX 980.

[Guest]

So out of curiousness I would like to know which of the two are better? And say the 980 is better does that mean it's the best card out their right now? Thanks.

 

[tsuneo6]

there are multiple best cards out there, the best gaming card at the moment is the titan x, or the r9 295x2 if you want a dual chip card.

the 970 and 980 are both very good cards. with the 980 being the better of the 2 and being the second best single chip card out there right now.

it may also be worth it to wait for the r9 3xx series from AMD that will come out soon. if you are planning on buying a new GPU

 

[TechyInAZ]

GTX 980 is great if you want to do triple monitor/4k gaming. But you'll get a far far better price to performance ratio with a gtx 970 if you stick to single 1080P/1440P display. Raw performance of the gtx 970 is only 14% less than the 980 and has 3.5GB of usable vram compared to 4GB on 980.

 

[xtz]

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Define "best".

If by best you mean fastest single GPU consumer oriented card at stock settings ? Then yes.

The "prosumer" Titan X is faster

The 970 delivers best bang for the buck and is the larger seller by far

Two 970s $630-ish (if ya sell the 2nd game coupon) beats a single 980 ($550-ish) by 50%

The 390x arrives in June which should beat it... and then the 980 Ti will drop and likely top that.

By far and away the 970 is the most popular card being sold right now which is very unusual for a 2nd level card

The 980 holds 0.64% of the market
All R9 series cards combined holds 0.94% of the market
All R7 series cards combined holds 0.87% of the market
The 970 holds 2.46% of the market

Just realized this but the 970 has outsold all the current generation AMD cards and the 980 combined.

 

[doubletake]

GTX 980 is great if you want to do triple monitor/4k gaming

Not really true. My single Titan X isn't what I'd consider sufficient for my usual 6040x1080 setup or for 4K, it's just about the minimum. A single 980 is even less capable, so I couldn't recommend a single one for such setups, SLI is basically a necessity.