Review: EVGA GTX 970 SSC in SLI vs. Titan X and R9 295X2

3DMark

Homepage: futuremark.com | Publisher: Futuremark | Download: Free basic edition

3DMark is the latest version of this hugely-popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.

Two overclocked GeForce GTX 970 GPUs have considerably more horsepower than a single Titan X card. Both this combination and a single-card Radeon R9 295X2 outdistance the new graphics champ... more so at the higher resolutions.

There doesn't appear to be a disadvantage of the two EVGA cards using an exclusive 4GB framebuffer, compared to the 12GB available on Titan X.

Scaling is predictable and smooth in the synthetic test, topping out at over 80 per cent at 4K.