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Not terribly impressed, to be honest. According to the two reviews I've seen, the 980 performs more or less like my 780 TI. In fact, one of them said the TI was still the fastest card around in most cases.
Yes, performance is not too impressive but no one expected that anyway. Actually contrary to pre-release rumors that had the GTX 980 between the GTX 780 and 780Ti, it has turned out surprisingly fast since it is almost always a little faster than the GTX 780Ti.
What's impressive though is the low power consumption (= less heat = less noise) and also the overclocking headroom. Should be some nice non-reference cards with custom cooling coming up.
Another thing that is fairly impressive is the increase in image quality with DSR, a feature that is exclusive to the 9xx series for now, though I've read that they might make it available for older cards in upcoming drivers.
The real star is the 970. Price/performance is great on that one.
Speaking of which, when will AMD release their next series? I thought it was late 2014, but it seems to be mostly rumors at this point.
AMD has an event scheduled this week on 9/25 and no one really knows what it's about. Probably same procedure as every time nVidia releases new products before them, i.e. an announcement to make people not buy a GTX 9xx card but telling them to wait for what they have in store.
Some rumors indicated that their next cards would be shipping with water cooling preinstalled since AMD had quite a lot of issues with power consumption, noise and heat. Guess we'll find out very soon...
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