NVIDIA rings in its Game24 celebration of PC gaming with the new GeForce GTX 980 and 970. While similar to the GTX 700 series reference cards in appearance, these new cards boast nothing less than the most powerful implementation of NVIDIA's Maxwell GPU architecture yet. We had the chance to test drive the GTX 980, featuring a 1126/1216 MHz core/boost clocks, 4GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 1750 MHz on a 256-bit bus, 2MB L2 cache, 128 Texture Mapping Units and 64 Raster Operating Units. Despite having a lower transistor count than the GTX 780 Ti, the GTX 980 actually promises even better performance at a lower TDP of 165W, complete with potentially exciting new graphic features like Voxel Global Illumination technology, Super Resolution, and Multi-Frame sampled AA.



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