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+11%
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Best Bench: 54% MSI(1462 3160)
Worst Bench: 43% MSI(1462 3160)
Poor: 43% Great: 54%
SPEED RANK: 132nd / 713
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Best Bench: 59% Asus(1043 04A4)
Worst Bench: 50% Gigabyte(1458 22C6)
Poor: 50% Great: 59%
SPEED RANK: 120th / 713
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed 		49.1 % 54.3 % Faster effective speed.
+11%
Average Score 
+1%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		60.4 fps 67.7 fps Better lighting effects.
+12%
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		70.3 fps Better reflection handling.
+20% 		58.7 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		66.6 fps Faster multi rendering.
+16% 		57.3 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		61.2 fps 72.2 fps Faster NBody calculation.
+18%
Overclocked Score 
+7%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		67.8 fps 74.7 fps Better peak lighting effects.
+10%
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		94.9 fps Much better peak reflection handling.
+41% 		67.5 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		69.7 fps Faster peak multi rendering.
+15% 		60.4 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		66.5 fps 77.8 fps Faster peak NBody calculation.
+17%
Value & Sentiment 
+∞%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.91 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞% 		0 %
Value
Value For Money 		58.2 % Hugely better value.
+103% 		28.6 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		70 % Much more popular.
+35% 		52 %
Price
Price (score) 		$200 Much cheaper.
+56% 		$450
Nice To Haves 
+36%
Age
Newest 		122 Months 107+ Months More recent.
+12%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		67.7 fps 108 fps Much better peak texture detail.
+60%
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		58.3 fps 75.6 fps Faster peak complex splatting.
+30%
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		61 fps 98.8 fps Much better texture detail.
+62%
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		53.6 fps 63 fps Faster complex splatting.
+18%
Conclusion 
Average Bench 49.1%
Average Bench 54.3%

The Nvidia GTX 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. The GTX 970 is based on Nvidia's ground-breaking Maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over Kepler, its predecessor. Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Unsurprisingly Nvidia are discontinuing the 780 Ti as it's now largely redundant. These price to performance gains typically occur once or twice a decade and although the new Maxwell architecture will improve down the line with the release of the Ti/Titan versions, at the moment the 970 offers the best value for money on the market by miles. Since this summary was originally written AMD have slashed prices and older Nvidia models (780/780 Ti/770) have also been hugely discounted. See the latest value for money rankings here. [Jul '15 GPUPro]

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A tiny beast for a little fire ants. Still sold at exorbitantly high prices for RX 580-like performance which makes this not worth buying. [Oct '19 ColdSpy]

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