980 and 970 filtered gtx performance

The Chinese portal Expreview yesterday leaked the performance of the new GeForce GTX 980 and 970 before the official presentation of the cards today, a battery of tests was carried out in resolutions 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1600 pixels..

First of all we did not find a confrontation between the new GTX 980 and the "old" GTX 780Ti, it is observed that the GTX 980 based on the Maxwell architecture is an average of 13.27% faster.

Secondly, we have a confrontation between the Nvidia GTX 980 and the AMD Radeon R9 290X, in this case we observe that the Nvidia card takes a 15.76% advantage.

We continue with a confrontation between the Nvidia GTX 970 and the AMD R9 290, we see that the Nvidia solution is 1.57% faster.

Now we see a confrontation between the Nvidia GTX 970 and GTX 780, here we see that the new GTX 970 is 4.63% slower than the old card.

Next we go to see the consumption and temperature of the new cards compared to the old ones from Nvidia and AMD:

In the Furmark benchmark software, which makes the card consume the most, the GTX 970 brings the consumption of the equipment to 221W and the GTX 980 243W, compared to 320, 337 and 343W of the GTX 780 Ti, GTX 780 and Radeon R9 290X respectively. As we can see, 100W difference between the GTX 980 and the Radeon R9 290X and a very similar difference with the GTX 780Ti.

Regarding temperatures, the GeForce GTX 980 with a reference design reaches 83 degrees, compared to 65 degrees for a Geotace GTX 970 from Zotac with custom heatsink, a very good temperature in the Zotac and contained in the reference GTX 980.

In view of the above, we can deduce that the new GeForce GTX 980 and 970 arrive with impressive energy efficiency since they deliver very high performance with much lower power consumption than previous Nvidia and AMD cards.