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Best Bench: 66% MSI(1462 3170)
Worst Bench: 53% MSI(1462 3170)
Poor: 53% Great: 66%
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Best Bench: 87% Sapphire(1DA2 E426) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 77% XFX(1682 5710)
Poor: 77% Great: 87%
SPEED RANK: 88th / 713
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed 		59.3 % 83.5 % Much faster effective speed.
+41%
Average Score 
+43%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		73.7 fps 106 fps Much better lighting effects.
+44%
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		86.4 fps 121 fps Much better reflection handling.
+40%
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		75.9 fps 96.9 fps Faster multi rendering.
+28%
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		72.8 fps 118 fps Much faster NBody calculation.
+62%
Overclocked Score 
+30%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		83.9 fps 111 fps Much better peak lighting effects.
+32%
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		113 fps 126 fps Better peak reflection handling.
+12%
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		80.6 fps 101 fps Faster peak multi rendering.
+25%
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		80.9 fps 123 fps Much faster peak NBody calculation.
+52%
Value & Sentiment 
+32%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.15 % Higher market share.
+25% 		0.12 %
Value
Value For Money 		28.1 % 66 % Hugely better value.
+135%
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		65 % More popular.
+20% 		54 %
Price
Price (score) 		$500 $300 Much cheaper.
+40%
Nice To Haves 
+62%
Age
Newest 		122 Months 58 Months Much more recent.
+52%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		83 fps 176 fps Hugely better peak texture detail.
+112%
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		72.3 fps 83.4 fps Faster peak complex splatting.
+15%
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		74.8 fps 158 fps Hugely better texture detail.
+111%
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		65.3 fps 78.6 fps Faster complex splatting.
+20%
Conclusion 
Average Bench 59.3%
Average Bench 83.5%

The Nvidia GTX 980 is the new top end Maxwell based Nvidia GPU. The Maxwell architecture offers significantly higher clock for clock performance when compared to Kepler based cards from the previous generation. Comparing the GTX 980 and GTX 970 shows that the 970 only lags by around 17% in terms of performance but it's priced nearly 40% lower making the GTX 970 far better value for money card. Even though the GTX 970 beats the 980 in terms of value, the 980 still destroys previous generation cards. Comparing the GTX 980 and 780 Ti shows that the Newer 980 offers around 14% better performance at a 25% price discount. Nvidia have changed the price/performance landscape with their new Maxwell architecture and now pose a serious threat to AMDs high end GPU market share. The new GTX 980/970 cards replace the now discontinued GTX 780 Ti, 780 and 770. [Sep '14 GPUPro]

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The 6GB AMD 5600 XT is a slightly cheaper, BIOS restricted, version of the 8GB 5700. The majority of 5600 XT’s should operate reasonably quietly as the single fan reference design was skipped for this release. Although the reference design is absent there are, however, several variants which range in performance between the GTX 1660S and the RTX 2060. Performance is more varied than usual because of last minute BIOS changes. The best versions of the 5600 XT (Sapphire Pulse) were distributed to reviewers (good luck finding one of these at MSRP). These models are capable, with BIOS updates, of performance that almost matches the RTX 2060. At $280 USD the higher performing SKUs could make sense for users that are happy to tinker with or return faulty hardware. During our GTAV testing reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appears on several Navi and Vega cards). Whilst playing Project Cars 2 our 5600 XT PC crashed several times. Given the vast number of software (and hardware) problems since day one of the 5000 series launch, it’s ironic that AMD’s latest 20.1.3 driver does not even offer an option to skip the installation of a boatload of new system shortcuts, gimmicks and other bloatware. [Jan '20 GPUPro]

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