This Flagship GPU was worth its asking price! - GTX 980 Ti

[@shodan6401]

I also have a 980 Ti Hybrid. And even though I also have an RTX 3080 FE, I have the 980 Ti installed in the same PC. There are some games that I prefer to play on either a CRT monitor, or my large Sony CRT television, including some older titles - and even some modern shooters that require twitch reflexes. Since the 980 Ti has an analog output, going directly into an analog CRT display allows me to play with literally zero lag. It's surprising how you feel the difference instantly, and reminds me of how it felt like when I was playing Quake or Doom back in the 90s. Also, some games just look much better on a CRT display. There is definitely something about the Cathode Ray glow that simply cannot be replicated. Having the analog DVI output is almost priceless at this point. Especially as this was the last flagship card ever made that still had an analog output. Having the hybrid water cooler means that the card will likely last as long as I do. I'm fairly certain that it will outlast my 3080 also...

[@EMC2AlbertJans]

Its an awesome gpu

[@mjjohansson1702]

I had an Asus 980ti and it was really nice. I still remember how heavy and well built it seemed when I first took it out of the box. It was very impressive. On a 1080ti now and won't upgrade for some time. I don't play that much anymore and I don't want to fork out what they are asking for even mid tier cards.

[@nexus_tech]

Thank you - I have the Strix 980 Ti as well, it's a lovely card. I upgraded to 1080 Ti too, best card ever made

[@mjjohansson1702]

@@nexus_tech Agreed. Amazing card.

[@ma-saracen]

i had this exact card last year before i moved to another old piece the 1080 ti. 980 ti is and was imo the best overclocking card ever made by NVIDIA you can get 25% of the performance depending on the scenario by modifying the Vbios and the power and voltage limit so you can get 1500mhz on the core. Absolute monster and was a big mistake made by NVIDIA.

[@H3ADROOM]

Amazing to see Maxwell-based GPU to perform so good in 2023

[@KidInTheHall28]

I bought the Gigabyte Windforce 980Ti in 2016, had it until 2022 when I got a 3080Ti. That 980Ti is the best card I've ever owned.

[@JayPadrino]

I paired my 980 ti with a i5 10400 as a gift to a friend. Running 2K at 60-80 fps on high for most games. Cant believe it performs so well even to this day.

[@SainLanParty]

Very nice piece! I have an EVGA GTX 980 ti FE and I am delighted with it, I bought it as a collector's item out of date for €200 and it is one of my favorite cards in my collection

[@darknez09240]

owned a rog matrix 980ti, will have other variants in my collection

[@nexus_tech]

Oh nice, my original order was for a Matrix, OC UK refunded at the time as no stock avail....hmmmm :)

[@theperson6380]

I wasn't allowed to have screens when I was a kid. When I got a job at 16 I spent my first 5-6 paychecks building a PC. The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ti was the star of the build. It lasted me nearly a decade. I just built a new PC, and I'm looking to use the old card in a new build

[@armandvlaicu9371]

gtx 980 ti inno3d ichill x3 ultra here. I used it and now I keep it in its original box as a spare. A wonderful video card. I am the second owner and I would not give it to anyone! :)

[@drupiROM]

Like i said before, 980Ti was the best overclocking card i ever had. And this Gigabyte model is one of the best implementations. Wish i had not sold mine, but one day i will buy one again :)

[@MrCristianTudor]

Quick one: I have a GTX970 (3.5+512 as you know) which rocked Halo Infinite on 2560x1080 on my screen just fine on Medium. After precisely driver 513.xx went from 45fps to 7fps. Unfortunately nobody seems to believe that nVidia nerfs older cards. I have to add that I tested this throughout my 4 systems ranging from i3-i9 and 16gb to 64gb so reverted the driver and … got back the performance. Maxwell 2.0 is doomed due to this practice

[@luisfrancisco2533]

Amazing card, i was using an EVGa ACX version early this year, the performance was really good for its age but vram was so limited at ultra wide 1440p

[@nexus_tech]

Thanks for sharing - I think 6Gb is "just" enough for older games, defo not enough for latest games

[@grimmpickins2559]

I still run one of these, albeit in my rather... um... retrogeek gaming system. I actually don't game on my modern Windows system, despite a high refresh rate monitor and modern graphics card... I love it, but for some reason, there is a vibe I'm looking for when I get lost in games. It is the last generation of Nvidia cards to have DVI-I and I run a CRT on that system, at 1600x1200 @ 75hz. It is a EVGA model, and at $80 (recent purchase) I cannot fault it, in the least. I paired it with dual Xeon 5680s... and I can sometimes actually push it to 100%. Prior to using the 980ti, I was running a Titan Black - and this card absolutely wipes the floor with the older Titan. When I bought this card, I was desperately searching for a reasonable price on a Quadro m6000, but like many flagship workstation cards - it just hasn't dropped far enough to warrant it. I wanted to see what a 980 with 12gb would be like, but I am pretty sure it wouldn't quite match it - especially since the Titan X seems to trail behind. I'm currently looking to replace my retro-gaming rig with a new sysyem, and the 980ti is one of the key parts of that refresh - my old Xeon system just can't drive the card hard enough in cRPGs (CPU heavy stuff I suppose). I acquired a case from a very cheap Marketplace ad ($10!) - and it is perfect for a sleeper of sorts - I believe it is the Antec P160w from 2005-6... I didn't even ask the specs on the motherboard/cpu/gpu because it just fit what I wanted... Turns out those parts were cool too (MSI board, 3870 with that weird copper coil fan style, Phenom II x6 processor). Thanks for giving some love to the 980ti, 8 years later and I'm still pretty impressed by this hungry little beast...

[@nexus_tech]

Thank you for sharing :) Love it, such a great card from great times. Upgrading to 980 Ti and 144Hz monitor was one of the best moments, makes me wonder if we get to live to witness another as impactful moment...

[@grimmpickins2559]

@@nexus_tech For myself, I will only know years after the fact, LOL... Can't help it, I think I'm addicted to last (or last, last, last) gen tech. My first step up in monitors, over 60 hz, is my current one - it's a 165hz, but... it's an Acer from Walmart, LOL. It pairs well with the RX6600 in the machine, but... the 75hz from the CRT... That may have been my recent impactful moment - realizing that CRTs, by their nature, instantly render input...

[@trev1976]

Me and you are very similar gamers , I have a tricked out PC i hardly use , prefer my 980ti / i7 3770 combo running through my 42" panasonic plasma at 60fps and using the DVI-I for my PVM CRT - Extron Emotia via mame for retro games.

[@LawrenceTimme]

I bought gtx970 sli before the 980ti came out and I was happy with that so I never got the 980ti

[@nexus_tech]

Those would be faster than a 980 Ti!

[@MrCristianTudor]

Before anyone comments anything vile: I also have a voodoo2 in tandem with a nvidia gt430 and the whole Pascal series of mainstream cards and decided to stop at the 3060Ti which I have in tandem with a Quadro for my workstation. I don’t throw away good tech just because the manufacturer deems it unworthy of good drivers.

[@StaelTek]

one of the last good cards from Nvidia. i remember having one that i did BIOS hacks on, like unlimited power limits and overvoltage to go well over 1500 MHz on the core on water.

[@nexus_tech]

Since GPU Boost 2.0 was introduced, I don't OC GPU's! I should! haha!

[@StaelTek]

@@nexus_tech absolutely! Most 980 Ti models should hit 1490-1520 MHz on air cooling. And about 7800-8200 MHz on the memory, basically surpassing the TITAN X by a fair amount.

[@trev1976]

Just bought one today as im still interested in using the analog video out for a second PVM CRT monitor for retro gaming. Last Nivida top end card to support true analog out via the DVI connector plus i can use it with my 1080p plasma for HD gaming and it still preforms well for my needs. £70 (im happy with that)

[@nexus_tech]

Wow! At £70, that's a steal 😀 Did you get it to work?

[@nicekeyboardalan6972]

I have that Titan X in my second PC with a 9th gen i5 9600K and it runs ANYTHING at 1440p pretty much with adjusted settings at 30fps

[@nexus_tech]

Thanks for sharing :)

[@nicekeyboardalan6972]

@@nexus_tech I just love old tech crazy how much we have slowed down

[@DennyMK007]

I still use my Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti XTREME 6GB. Can still play new games on medium to high (even epic on some games) on 1080p monitor. I paid around $730 back in March, 2016. Yeah, it was a lot of money back then, but the performance and quality it offered was unmatched and I haven’t encountered a game that I couldn’t play up till Ark Survival Ascended. Released a bit more than a month ago. I can play Ark Survival Ascended on low and couple of medium settings, averaging 37-60fps, but that’s not the way to play that game. On the other hand, even RTX 4090 struggles with that game on 4K Ultra settings.

[@RuruFIN]

A good card and worth its price, but 1080 Ti did the same even better.

[@johnk7134]

i used to have this...but to tell you the truth i believe the lightning was better in the same tier. I have now the EVGA, much sleeker design. I never believed that the extra features of the gigabyte gave me the advance. So much for today that all these account for 2-3 fps better. In comparison you have a much sleeker and lighter card. But you know. For 90 quid...

[@r4z4m4t4z]

nice, well done, great work on the vid. 980ti is such a solid gpu for sure. your cards boost clock of 1418 is ok, better ones are in the 1450+. try using afterburner and doing 1500 on the stock cooler, then youll know if you have a a good one. also the 980ti kingpins card cooler weighs 950g.

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

GTX titan x bios modded to game boost stock 1189 mhz turbo 1242 mhz and gpu memory running 3550 mhz tdp moved to 260 watts and allow for 305 watts from entire card and I noticed it beat stock score avg by 12 -20 fps

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

I can give u my modded bios for a retest if u want because it seems target power draw is 215 not 25 so by setting it to 260 watts and allow 305 watts max draw from total board it can solid gains in 1440p

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

My titan x in time spy got 5550 score stock then with 10 % slider power slides only gained 5670 so I saw u can mod bios for titan x so I said f it modded it got 6234 in time spy using r9 5900x absolute unit

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

Which means it went from 75 % slower then my Rx 6700xt oc to only 50 % slower wowzer

[@carlbyronthompson]

I currently own two EVGA Super Clocked cards. 1190/1291 boost mem 1753.

[@nexus_tech]

Thank you for sharing :) RIP EVGA

[@CooperTheStaffy]

I had a Gigabyte windforce 980 Ti which i replaced just this year in january... (even if i didnt actually needed to) I upgraded to AM5 with a 7800X3d from an i7 7700k (needed a gaming cpu upgrade because i am mostly cpu bound) and thought my 980 Ti could be replaced too... Since GPU power was not the mainpoint i only bought the 8gb 4060 Ti though.

[@brokenjed]

I just bought one of these for 60usd. It was quite impressive actually compared to my others. GTX 1060, GTX 1070 TI, Radeon rx 6650 xt, and rx 5700xt. I would have kept it except it draws an obscene amount of power (3x others at idle) should lose support pretty soon and I couldn't get it to display bios screen even with updated firmware. Passmark 2d score 1311(96th percentile). And 3d was 14917(68th). 13600k with ddr5. Speaking of old cards.... Check out selling prices of 3dfx voodoo 5 5500. Should have kept that one! Break out the Duke nuke em and doom. :)

[@Bassjunkie_1]

I've had two 980ti GPUs... first was a zotac amp extreme. And it was extremely terrible at cooling lol.... I sold it and got an EVGA 980ti SC+ Gaming ACX2, it was so much better at keeping the GPU overall cooler.. Fek Zotac

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Don't forget, that most of 'em went through the mining,so, what you'll see it's a mined on,and heavyly so...

[@nexus_tech]

Yup! Mine seemed like it was not that much, but who knows...:)

[@rededd0196]

I upgraded from a HD 7970 to the 980 ti and it was worth it.

[@nexus_tech]

Wow! From one legend to another, thanks for sharing!

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

It is a good card but the 1070 was always slightly better and with more VRAM and it costs about the same used at least here. Also uses less energy. I’m not sure how they compare these days though but I’d image the 1070 being a never architecture have aged better in 2023 games. 980ti still has its place though. It can be made to work with Win XP if you want and unlike the 1070 has the capacity to display analogue signals out for CRT displays but it is very overkill for retro gaming.

[@the_sjdo]

i still use one, whit 1500mhz OC

[@xlightfootx]

zotac amp extreme 980ti. still goin at 1440p

[@elmundodesayuri7450]

Holaa aller la compre yo hbes mi regalo de relles 2023 aah ahh ahhh quevtargeton xtrem y 11600k

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Seen it for less then 70 usd....

[@nexus_tech]

That's a STEAL at 70 USD!!

[@zaadworks]

9xx and 10xx was the best gens

[@nexus_tech]

I do agree :)

[@darnell866]

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