Read the full post for performance results and benchmark scores: http://www.thinkboxly.com/2016/02/evg...
NVIDIA's GTX 970 is the card of choice for virtual reality setups, but what about less-powerful PCs? Can you run two lower-end cards in SLI and expect good enough performance without a full upgrade? Find out in this direct comparison between a GTX 970 and two GTX 960s in SLI running Rise of the Tomb Raider!
Settings used in this test:
Display: 1920x1080
Exclusive Fullscreen: Off
Vsync: Off (to demonstrate FPS over 60)
Anti-aliasing: SMAA
Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Shadow Quality: Very High
Sun Soft Shadows: Very High
Depth of Field: Very High
Level of Detail: Very High
Dynamic Foliage: High
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+
PureHair: Very High
Specular Reflection Quality: Very High
All other effects enabled.
Tested on a system with an Intel Core i5 6600K @ 4.0GHz and 16GB DDR4 RAM.
Check out the unboxing video for this card:
• EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 Unboxing
Check out other comparison benchmarks:
SteamVR Performance Test: • NVIDIA GTX 970 vs GTX 960 SLI - SteamVR Pe...
3DMark Firestrike: • NVIDIA GTX 970 vs GTX 960 SLI - Firestrike