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Best Bench: 66% MSI(1462 3170)
Worst Bench: 53% MSI(1462 3170)

Poor: 53% Great: 66%

SPEED RANK: 112^th / 714

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Best Bench: 112% Gigabyte(1458 37B6) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 93% MSI(1462 3732)

Poor: 93% Great: 112%

SPEED RANK: 60^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		59.3 %			104 %	Much faster effective speed. +75%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	73.7 fps	128 fps	Much better lighting effects. +74%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	86.4 fps	119 fps	Much better reflection handling. +38%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	75.9 fps	174 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +129%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.8 fps	125 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +72%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	83.9 fps	143 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +70%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	113 fps	170 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +50%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	80.6 fps	187 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +132%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	80.9 fps	136 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +68%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	183 Fps	235 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +29%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	105 Fps	147 Fps	Much Better Fortnite Fps. +39%
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	70 Fps	104 Fps	Much Better PUBG Fps. +47%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	61 Fps	101 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +68%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	191 Fps	237 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +25%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	124 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +19%
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	74 Fps	115 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +55%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	60 Fps	106 Fps	Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +75%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	207 Fps	281 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +36%
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	136 Fps	176 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +30%
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	75 Fps	102 Fps	Much Better WoW Fps. +36%
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	111 Fps	164 Fps	Much Better WoT Fps. +48%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.2 %	0.86 %	Hugely higher market share. +330%
Value Value For Money	28.1 %	123 %	Hugely better value. +338%
User Rating UBM User Rating	66 %	67 %	+2%
Price Price (score)	$500	$200	Much cheaper. +60%


Age Newest	115 Months	66 Months	Much more recent. +43%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	83 fps	145 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +75%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	72.3 fps	113 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +56%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	74.8 fps	129 fps	Much better texture detail. +72%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	65.3 fps	105 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +61%

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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NVDIA’s RTX 2070 follows on from their recent release of the 2080 and 2080 Ti from their RTX 2000 series of Turing architecture GPUs. The 2070 has 2304 CUDA cores, a base/boost clock of 1410/1620 MHz, 8GB of GDRR6 memory and a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s. The RTX 2070 also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Traditionally NVIDIA’s 70 range has offered better value for money than the more powerful 80 GPUs. The Founders Edition 2070 has an MSRP of $599 which makes both new 1080 and used 1080 Ti GPUs decent options. The price premium over the previous generation of GPUs is, for the most part, for NVIDIA’s new ray tracing technology, and unfortunately, the benefit of this is currently unknown as there are no RTX ready games. Performance benchmarks on tangibles place the 2070 6% ahead of the 1080 in terms of effective speed and 17% behind the 1080 Ti. Since AMD’s similarly priced RX Vega 64 has a 13% lower effective speed, there is no real pressure on NVIDIA to compete agressively with thier own previous generation of cards. ^{[Oct '18 GPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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