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Review: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Strix

by Parm Mann on 1 October 2014, 14:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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BioShock Infinite

Homepage: bioshockinfinite.com | Publisher: 2K Games | Developer: Irrational Games

BioShock is fantastically playable and looks great on the PC. We benchmark a 60-second section near the start with all available eye-candy turned on.

Faster clock speeds are telling in synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark, but the in-game performance advantage isn't always as clear cut. The factory-overclocked GTX 980s from Asus and Gigabyte deliver identical results in BioShock Infinite at a standard 1080p resolution.

There's not much in it at 4K, either, though there is a reasonable gap between Asus's GTX 970 and 980 Strix models. The latter delivers a 17 per cent increase in average frames per second at this demanding resolution, though you'll have to be the judge: is such an improvement worth the Ā£200 premium?