Crysis 3 managed to give a nice steady cure in performances with no real surprises other than the superb XFX R9 390X DD managing to act like a flagship card all day long with this game benchmark. Let’s not be fools about this, the core is a R9 290X but with drive improvements and 8Gb of GDDR5 VRAM, any game engine that can use a lot of RAM to its advantage is going to love the R9 390X.
It does seem that the GPU crusher is now firmly put in its place with the current set of GPU cores. All cards managing very good performances with Ultra quality settings. The Zotac AMP! Edition with a rare overall victory and never dropping below 38 FPS and a VR tempting 125 FPS at maximum. All of the AMD cards do well here and the plucky little GTX bringing up the rear again.
Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! Edition Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8
Performance - 7.5
Price - 7.5
Consumer Experience - 8
7.8
Our biggest issue with this card is that it's not special enough. Sure a core and memory frequency increase are good as standard and the GTX 980 Ti core is excellent, but we think the only advantage in owning this card over the reference design is cooling, and therefore overclocking. You may get a good overclocking baseline out of this card due to the good cooling solution, and it will help with sound performance, but the Palit Super Jetstream GTX 980 Ti outperforms it on most tests.