Round-Up: GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed

Name: GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed
Brand: GeForce

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, January 30, 2015, 01:19 PM EDT

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

The MSI and Zotac GeForce GTX 980s continue to show marked improvements over the reference card in the Sleeping Dogs benchmarks. The EVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW is also measurably faster than the GTX 970, though they trailed the rest of the pack here, save the GeForce GTX Titan.

Tags: Nvidia, MSI, GeForce, Gaming, graphics, Zotac, GPU, evga, GTX

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com