3DMark scores GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 appear online

Some synthetic benchmark scores of Nvidia cards in the GeForce 900 and 900M series have surfaced online. The GTX 980 card based on the Maxwell architecture has been tested with various clock speeds and scores higher than almost all single-Gpu cards.

VideoCardz does not yet know which reference clock speed the GTX 980 will get, but the site has adopted a clock speed of 1127MHz as standard. When running the Fire Strike benchmark for GPUs from Futuremarks 3DMark, the card scores just below the GTX 780 Ti with overclock to 1150MHz, but well above the Radeon R9 290X. With higher clock speeds, the GTX 980 scores above any other single-GPU card in the synthetic benchmark scores. The GTX 970 scores slightly better than the GTX 780 and the Radeon R9 290. It is striking that two GeForce GTX 980 cards in sli mode, according to VideoCardz, have a lower score at 3DMark than a Radeon R9 295X2 with two GPUs.

The site also put two GPUs of the GeForce 900M generation for laptops to a test. The GTX 980M scores significantly better in the FireStrike test with 9364 3DMarks than the GTX 880M, which scores 5980 points. The GTX 970M also far surpasses the former flagship with 7403 points. The distance with the AMD R9 M290X is even greater.

Nvidia is expected to unveil its new Maxwell GPUs for the high-end market on September 9, and then on September 19, the company would reveal details about the GTX 970 and 980, including the benchmark results. . It probably concerns cards with Maxwell GPUs that are produced at 28nm, with a 256bit wide memory interface and with 4GB gddr5 that runs at 7GHz.