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ASUS STRIX GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Graphics Card

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The GM204 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 398 mm² and 5,200 million transistors. Today, we're reviewing the ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970 OC, a non-reference design, factory-overclocked GTX 970 graphics card with a custom-designed PCB and the company's new STRIX cooling solution, which stops the fans in idle for a completely noiseless experience. The card is designed to run anything you throw at it at resolutions as high as 2560x1600 pixels and, perhaps, even Ultra HD, with watered down details. Extreme edition goes even further than the MSI and Asus cards, replacing the reference cooler with a massive three-fan system.

ASUS TURBO GTX 970 OC - TechPowerUp ASUS TURBO GTX 970 OC - TechPowerUp

The GeForce GTX 970 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 19th, 2014.MSI’s GTX 970 Gaming 4G has a slightly less aggressive overclock, running at 1,140MHz and boosting to 1,279MHz. Dirt Showdown was even playable at 3,840×2,160 with Ultra quality settings, with 48fps, and we saw a just-playable 29. The card had no problem with Dirt Showdown or Tomb Raider once we increased our test resolution to 2,560×1,440, and we saw a smooth 49. Nvidia originally pitched the GTX 970 as a die-harvested derivative of the flagship GTX 980 – this means the company would re-use chips that weren’t able to run at full GTX 980 speeds for the less powerful model, rather than let them go to waste. Coinciding with the arrival of Windows 10, this Game Ready driver includes the latest tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations to ensure you have the best possible gaming experience.

NVIDIA INSTALLATION GUIDE - NVIDIA

It’s the fastest GTX 970 we’ve seen out of the box, with a 1,203MHz GPU core clock and 1,355MHz boost clock, as well as memory overclocked to 1,800MHz. A light color means the clock/voltage combination is rarely used and a dark color means it's active a lot.As with the other GTX 970 cards, gaming at 2,560×1,440 is possible in the most demanding titles at sky-high detail levels, and 3,840×2,160 gaming is on the cards if you reduce detail levels slightly. Although the final 512MB is much slower than the high-performance segment, it is still fast enough for the graphics card to use it rather than rely on swapping data with system RAM.

GTX970-DCMOC-4GD5 - Support - ASUS GTX970-DCMOC-4GD5 - Support - ASUS

The single fan might have to work a little harder, and make slightly more noise than cards such as the Asus STRIX GTX 970, but scores of 118.If you’re after an Nvidia GTX 970, the Asus STRIX is a quick model and is worth the extra fiver over MSI’s GTX 970 for a modest performance increase. The ROP count stays at a whopping 64, with a 256-bit memory bus width and a standard memory total of 4 GB. Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 draws power from 2x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 148 W maximum. As with other cards that use the Maxwell architecture, the GTX 970 is surprisingly power-efficient, only drawing 145W when playing the most demanding games.

ASUS GTX 970 DirectCU Mini OC - TechPowerUp ASUS GTX 970 DirectCU Mini OC - TechPowerUp

The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1050 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1178 MHz, memory is running at 1753 MHz (7 Gbps effective). The reference design has 1,664 CUDA cores running at 1,050MHz, boosting up to 1,178MHz when thermal limits allow.The Asus STRIX remains our favourite GTX 970 card, however, and AMD’s top-end cards are still better value. Texture memory units are, proportionately, down to 104, as are clock speeds, although they stay well above the 1 GHz mark.

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