Synthetic Results
We use AIDA64 Engineer a lot in the office, it helps when understanding the true performance areas of components and the results below are a good example of this. We pitched it against the XFX Radeon R9 390X but only for a memory comparison in this example.
The Zotac has 2Gb less in memory and is around 1Ghz slower but manages relatively good performance in comparison with the XFX Radeon R9 390X. Memory Copy being the AMDs strong point again, and with faster and larger memory, Copy performance pushes ahead of the Zotac.
That said, the Zotac is showing high end performance, just not what we would expect from a flag ship model, ignoring the Titan X of course.
Maybe AMD are right about GDDR coming to the end of its life, we’d love to see the Zotac with HBM or similar!
The Zotac has good performance but AMD optimisations hurt it in certain tests, and they really shouldn’t. As stated before, this is not a face off with the R9 390X, it is just a comparison.
The Unigine Heaven 4.0 test was run using the Exreme preset, and the Zotac NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti stretches its legs here, pushing well ahead of the R9 390X.
Zotac Nvidia GTX 980 Ti Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8.5
Performance - 9.2
Price - 8
Consumer Experience - 9.5
8.8
If you have deep pockets this is a no brainer, it is intelligently fast, quiet and two, three or even four of these in SLi will set you apart for the next 12 months from just about anyone with cash to burn on the best gaming rig money can buy. As for the Titan X's bloody nose, well who would buy a Titan X now?