Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix – PCLab.pl

Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix uses a layout that hit burst onto the scene cards for the discerning, not giving much chance to systems both older Nvidia (GTX-om 780) and AMD (Radeonom R9 R9 290 and 290x). Dziewięćsetsiedemdziesiątki craze continues, and today we are testing another structure Asus with already known to our readers Strix series.

Series Strix appeared a few months ago with the GTX-I 780, and then Radeonami R9 280 and R9 285. Graphics Cards marked with the image of the mechanical owl introduced to the market something that the players apparently needed for a long time: półpasywnego cooling system. At rest, until the core temperature does not exceed 65 degrees, as long the cooling system is not at all active. When exceeds a threshold, slowly switch on two 100-mm fans, owiewające disputes thick radiator with three heat pipe.

When you turn the card Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix treated to a stiffening plate with the manufacturer’s logo and the words DirectCU II . From this perspective, we can also see that Asus has changed the way power tabs instead of two plugs just plug one ośmiopinową.

Manufacturer, unlike the others (including designers reference version), did not apply the configuration with three DisplayPort outputs. Instead, we have a standard set straight from the previous generation: two DVI and one HDMI, and DisplayPort.

Performance

Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix is, of course, factory overclocked, with a 64 MHz relative to the reference version. Speaking of the clock base, which accelerated to 1114 MHz. Technique GPU Boost Technology 2.0 makes the actual timing of the core gaming is about 1291 MHz. The memory is clocked at the standard: with a frequency of 1.75 GHz. At the table-there are links to the results of performance tests in individual games.

	Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix
the base core clock	1114 MHz
The real core speed games	1291 MHz
Memory Clock	1753 MHz
Memory – quantity / type	4 GB / GDDR5
Rest (desktop): core temperature The fan speed	50 ° C 0 rev. / min (model półpasywny)
Load (Far Cry 3): core temperature Fan speed	69 ° C 1214 rev. / min

Tweaking

Tweaking included an increase in the power limit to 120%. Nvidia’s new graphics cards in the architecture of Maxwell turn up perfectly, so I immediately tried the core clock speed of 200 MHz. And … everything was stable. The actual timing of the games reached almost 1.5 GHz (run 10 MHz), but further acceleration sooner or later result in the suspension of the driver screen or freeze the image. The 125 MHz was able to speed up the memory clock, It all resulted in a pretty good performance in games.

	Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix
Turning it – timing of the underlying core	1314 MHz
Turning it – real core speed games	1490 MHz
Turning it – memory clock	1878 MHz

Sound pressure level

Test volume we in wygłuszonym room below ground level. In such conditions, at night, we measured approx. 18.7 dBA. Cautious breath test increases the volume background to less than 20.0 dBA. It reaches the same level during the day, because, despite the location of the room and soundproofing it part of the urban bustle reaches the measuring equipment. We test in the middle of the night, which provides the smallest possible impact of external factors.

Temperature

GPU temperature is measured using the Far Cry 3 maximum image detail settings. This is certainly the most typical situation for most players. Far Cry 3 is a very demanding game that can squeeze the sweat of the strongest cards.

Please note that you can not compare temperatures of various systems! The amount of energy emitted is directly proportional to the amount of intake (and almost its equal, we present the results of measurements on the next page), and the temperature is relevant only in the context of assessing the quality of the cooling system in comparisons cards using the same layout.

Power Consumption

Summary (published 09.22.2014 r.)

At the moment all GeForce’y GTX 970 series are great and Asus is no exception, and even … stands out a plus. Yes, the factory overclock is not breathtaking, because the card is about 3-4% slower than the previously presented models Palit and Gigabyte. However this did not prevent defeat Radeon R9 290 and R9 290x.

undoubted advantage in architecture cards Maxwell are also great opportunities for further overclocking. About 1500 MHz every day we have achieved in two of the three test structures. Then the core GM204-200 the GTX 970-edged leaves the competition even further behind.

It is also worth once again draw attention to the cooling system. Under load, it is one of the quietest cards on the market, and resting fans in general do not rotate.

Total Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix is ​​a great product even better price, because this suggested by the manufacturer is 1399 zł. We recommend that you just wait a few days until it will improve the availability of this model. Again and again we find that competition for such Maxwell at this price just does not have, and there’s no sign on it to in the near future something has changed.

for the graphics card Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix for an excellent price-performance ratio in the segment of high-performance graphics cards, a very high work culture of the cooling system and energy efficiency

Asus GeForce GTX 970 Strix

Benefits

• very good price-performance ratio
• factory overclock
• very high potential for overclocking
• silent at rest …
• and very quiet under load cooling system
• highest energy efficiency on the market