A gamer simply can't have enough graphics power in his rig, which makes the upgrade question omnipresent. To show you whether it makes sense to upgrade from one generation to another we created this series of articles, where we will compare graphics cards from different generations. Today we're having a close look at the differences between the GTX 980 from NVIDIA and the over one year old Radeon R9 290X made by AMD.
Test Setup
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Motherboard |
- ASUS Maximus VII Hero (BIOS 0224)
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| CPU |
- Intel Core i7-4770K @ 4.0 GHz (Turbo On / HT On)
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Memory |
- G.Skill Ares Dual Channel 2x8GB @ CL11-12-11-28-1T-Auto DDR3-1600 MHz
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Graphics Cards |
- AMD Radeon R9 290X
- nVidia GeForce GTX 980
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| Drivers |
- Windows 7 x64 (up to date)
- nVidia
ForceWare 347.25
- AMD Catalyst 14.11.2 Beta
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| Games |
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Games and OS |
- Windows 7 x64
- All
games were up to date on the
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System Drive |
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PSU |
- Seasonic Platinum SS-1000XP / 1000 Watts
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