GeForce GTX 980 in Test 2.0: In 2025, it takes place over 10 years reviews.
In February 2014, Nvidia replaced the Kepler architecture with Maxwell 1.0 in the entry-level class. The GeForce GTX 750 Ti already knew how to convince particularly effectively, the good image was confirmed seven months later by the GTX 980/970. But how does a GTX 980 deal with real 4GB VRAM today?
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Nvidia Maxwell at a glance
Nvidia took a different route to Maxwell and introduced the entry class first, it was actually common for a new architecture to be introduced with the larger cards.
First low end, then high end
But at Maxwell “Maxwell 1.0” only showed as a GEForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti (partly without current plug) in February 2014, in the premium segment it had to repair Kepler as Geforce GTX Titan Black.
4 x Maxwell 1.0
Another radical conversion
According to Kepler, Maxwell was the second radical renovation at Nvidia in a few years, at the same time it is still endorsed by Ada Lovelace, but more on that in the technology section. While Nvidia, with fermi-thermal, which led to verbal auditory thermal which pulled the shortest in efficiency against AMDS Terascale 3, Nvidia improved with Kepler and left the asynchronous design in its GPU architecture. Tesla (G80) at Fermi, the shaders ran much faster than the rest of the GPU, but there were fewer shaders. Kepler massively increased the number of shaders, but they were able to scale the lowest, which benefited efficiency.
A huge jump
With the renewed renovation at Maxwell, Nvidia increased the already good efficiency of Kepler, a GTX 750 Ti was 30% more efficient than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.
Maxwell knew how to inspire in February 2014, which came from Nvidia as Maxwell 2.0 in September, was a hit.
Four times “Maxwell 2.0” in 2014 in the test
Happy 10th birthday, Maxwell
This birthday post was actually planned for September, but had to be postponed for various reasons. But because Maxwell lives on in some form in Ada Lovelace and Blackwell and many players are still fine (or not at all) as “900 Series”, there is still a look back despite the delay.
Because the release of the GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 is also known for a scandal, which is still likely to be presented in the community in the heated debates between AMD and Nvidia: four gigabytes of VRAM were physically available both times, but only 3.5 GB were really usable on the GTX 970.
But now it will be done. How is a graphics card’s tenth anniversary best celebrated? In which a small technical deepdive takes place, then the birthday child will come out on modern games.
Today it is not primarily about achieving the playable frame rates on a GTX 980, but how the graphics card would also perform compared to the current test course in modern games. To this end, comparability with generational comparisons must also be established, which means that Maxwell graphics cards must face the following games:
DOOM ETERNALCYBERPUNK 2077HORIZON: Forbidden Weststarfieldwarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
However, this time there will not only be the test with all the details to make a comparison with previous measured values. There will also be a test with reduced details as the last generation comparison community was looking for.
But at first it gets technical, because what Nvidia developed here continues to this day.
Topics: GeForce GeForce GTX 980 Nvidia Graphics Cards Nvidia Maxwell Image Overview
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