ASUS STRIX GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Graphics Card

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A light color means the clock/voltage combination is rarely used and a dark color means it's active a lot.

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If you’re after an Nvidia GTX 970, the Asus STRIX is a quick model and is worth the extra fiver over MSI’s GTX 970 for a modest performance increase. The GTX 970 was understood to have three fewer streaming processors than the GTX 980, meaning fewer texture units and a slower core clock speed, but otherwise retain the same 4GB of GDDR5 memory and 2MB of L2 cache for accessing it. If you haven't given our GTX 980 launch review a quick browse through, check it out first as it goes into many more technical details and discusses NVIDIA's new software features. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GM204 graphics processor, in its GM204-200-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. As with the other GTX 970 cards, gaming at 2,560×1,440 is possible in the most demanding titles at sky-high detail levels, and 3,840×2,160 gaming is on the cards if you reduce detail levels slightly.All the power circuitry has been upgraded over the reference design and a microUSB port is built onto the card for extreme overclocking through the Windows desktop. The following table lists the clock settings for important performance scenarios and the GPU voltage we measured. The single fan might have to work a little harder, and make slightly more noise than cards such as the Asus STRIX GTX 970, but scores of 118.

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In practical terms, however, applications see the full 4GB of RAM and the video driver balances out the load. For the graph below, we recorded all GPU clock and GPU voltage combinations of our 1920x1080 resolution benchmarking suite.As with the Asus STRIX GTX 970 card above, there’s enough headroom to increase the resolution to 3,840×2,160 in some games, and 2,560×1,440 in others – the MSI card is very slightly slower, but only by a frame or two. The low-performance segment is significantly slower to access than the high-performance segment, hampering performance. Steam Hardware survey trends would also agree with our guess that this card will end up selling more between the two in volume, probably even fetching NVIDIA more revenue.

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The reference design has 1,664 CUDA cores running at 1,050MHz, boosting up to 1,178MHz when thermal limits allow.The Asus STRIX remains our favourite GTX 970 card, however, and AMD’s top-end cards are still better value. Nvidia originally pitched the GTX 970 as a die-harvested derivative of the flagship GTX 980 – this means the company would re-use chips that weren’t able to run at full GTX 980 speeds for the less powerful model, rather than let them go to waste. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.