ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition

Björn Endre November 18, 2014 Hardware, NVIDIA, Reviews & Articles, Video Cards/Graphics Cards 1 Comment

PERFORMANCE

As usual we put the card through its paces by testing it in some benchmarks.

Test Rig


Case	Thermaltake Level 10
CPUs	Intel Core i7-3930 @3.2 Ghz
Motherboards	ASUS P79X Deluxe
Ram	32 GB
CPU Cooler	Corsair H100
GPU	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition eVGA GTX 780 TI

3DMark 13

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	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
FireStrike Extreme	5313	5116
GFX Score	5521	5324

Bioshock Infinite

	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
1920×1080	139	129
2560×1440	99	92

Setting: Using Adrenaline Benchmark Tool: Ultra, 16xAF

Metro Last Light

	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
1920×1080	80,5	75
2560×1440	55	51

Setting: Very High, 16xAF

Sleeping Dogs

	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
1920×1080	70	76,5
2560×1440	41,4	46,8

Setting: Using Adrenaline Benchmark Tool: Ultra, 16xAF

Shadow of Mordor

	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
1792×1008	9,9/104,4	39,8/118
2560×1440	11/66.5	55/70,7

(low /median fps)

Setting: Very High

Power consumption

	eVGA GTX 780 Ti	Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition
Idle	116W	125W
3DMark 13	417W	366W

Measured at the wall for the whole system except the monitor.

Summary performance

Overall the Zotac GTX 970 AMP! Extreme Edition manages to almost catch the eVGA GTX 780Ti in most games and finally succeeding in the new game Shadows of Mordor where it not only has much better tolerance against dips in the framerate (higher lowest framerate) but also an overall better average framerate.

The card also uses less power than the 780Ti, at least when we are gaming.