EVGA GTX 970 SSC vs. Zotac GTX 980ti Amp Extreme Intel Core i5-6600K testing with a ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING (3501 BIOS) and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB on Solus 4.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GTX 980ti: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING (3501 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 960GB Force MP510 + 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB (1252/3610MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: XF270HU, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Solus 4.0, Kernel: 5.2.20-130.current (x86_64), Desktop: Budgie, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 430.50, OpenGL: 4.6.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 GTX 970: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING (3501 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 960GB Force MP510 + 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB (1392/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: XF270HU, Network: Intel I219-V OS: Solus 4.0, Kernel: 5.2.20-130.current (x86_64), Desktop: Budgie, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 430.50, OpenGL: 4.6.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Preset: 2560 x 1440 - High Quality Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 40.27 |============================================================ GTX 970 ... 27.93 |========================================== DiRT Rally Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 98.70 |============================================================ GTX 970 ... 76.46 |============================================== Rise of the Tomb Raider Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: Very High - Anti Aliasing: Off - Scene: Spine Of The Mountain Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 102.27 |=========================================================== GTX 970 ... 66.73 |====================================== Rise of the Tomb Raider Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: Very High - Anti Aliasing: Off - Scene: Prophets Tomb Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 76.47 |============================================================ GTX 970 ... 49.87 |======================================= Rise of the Tomb Raider Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Graphics Preset: Very High - Anti Aliasing: Off - Scene: Geothermal Valley Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 75.43 |============================================================ GTX 970 ... 48.50 |======================================= The Talos Principle Renderer: Vulkan - Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 125.53 |=========================================================== GTX 970 ... 78.93 |===================================== Unigine Superposition 1.0 Resolution: 2560 x 1440 - Mode: Fullscreen - Quality: High - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 980ti . 32.70 |============================================================ GTX 970 ... 11.98 |======================