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greenmedic88 on 20 September 2014
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JEMC said:
greenmedic88 said:
JEMC said:
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Those are my 2cents.

Yeah. Figured I'd wait for the 20nm process, but at $330, the 970 is pretty tempting for what it should be. Still need to see real world benchmarks from more independent testing sources.

Yeah, there aren't many GTX 970 reviews so far, but so far it looks like its as fast or faster than R9 290 and GTX 780 while being cheaper than both and using less (a lot less in the case of the AMD card) power.

The "problem" is that, with no reference card, every 970 will be different making comparisons a bit harder. At least, from this review, I know that I won't get the EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX2. Noise from the power circuitry in this day and age is unacceptable.

Not terribly concerned about the lack of reference for the 970 seeing as how any choice will be based entirely upon a price/performance comparison between a comprehensive list of 970 cards. The reference card is really only good for bracketing performance relative to other types of cards and it looks like we can already take that it's roughly in the same bracket as the 780 or 290. 

I can understand why the 970 reviews will take a back seat to the 980 since that's the current top performer even though Nvidia is going to sell a lot more 970s.

Personally, I'm not in any big rush, so I have the luxury of waiting to read more reviews as more tests are run.