GTX 980 Ti Vs. 1070 Ti on x58 - Does it Get Any BETTER? 

Been rockin my 980ti for over two years now. Honestly didn't see a point to upgrading to the 10 series :P

X58 + 980ti perfection!! 😍🤙🏼

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Can't wait for 980 Ti's to be around $200 US when prices adjust and next gen cards come out, the budget build possibilities will be fantastic

As an automotive technician who is in to building PCs and PC gaming I love the fact that you use brake parts cleaner to clean up thermal paste. I use that stuff daily and there is practically nothing it won’t take off lol

Just picked up a 980Ti Lightning edition (MSI) for around $250~ USD and it'll be paired with an x5660. Stoked to see how this will perform. Wish I still had my x34 to pair it with, but had to sell it awhile ago so now I'm back to 1080p. But I picked up the x5660 and an EVGA SLI3 board for $29 and they work great.

I recently got a 1070 last week and I’m loving it. It’s in a hp z800 and with my dual Xeons it runs sweet

I see a tech comparison video, I go to the kitchen and make a coffee and toast and watch this. 😀

I recently built my 11 year brother a PC with a 980ti... still a great card in 2021 - 1080p

Your new studio/lab looks fantastic.

Just recently picked up a 980 ti for $300 from a coworker, haven't really gotten around to using it yet. Great video as always man!

Just bought an HP Envy with 4790k, z97 motherboard, GTX980, 16GB of Ram, 2TB HDD, 256GB SSD for $530 shipped, I thought that was a pretty good bargain.

In my country i found a 980ti for 1/3rd of the 1070ti price which is around 175usd vs the 550usd..damn i didn't know they're that close in performance

is there a video where you show us how you clean the pc parts ? what product for what? i love the shinny tech yes city cleaning :) but i dont wanna damage my video card... so wd 40 and break cleaner is good on it? and it will not be damaged? THX for the answer... :)

Yo buddy! Still loving the x58 vids, and I'm liking the mix of static and handheld cameras you're using here :)

Nice review bryan picked up a 980ti g1 gaming this week for 250 euro super pleased cause at that price you wont find a 1070 works like a charm Ive got a 1070 ti as well and you hardly ever are going to notice the difference id really recommend it to anybody👍🏻

The 980ti reminds me of the legendary 8800GTX - similar longevity and performance for its generation. I just bought an EVGA 980ti with 2 year guarantee for £260 (GBP), used. Exciting!!!

There's an EVGA 980ti for $300 on Cragslist in Richmond, VA at the moment. I'm happy with my 1080p gaming on the GTX 1060 6GB I got at MSRP last year. I'd actually have to upgrade my 520W PSU if I wanted to go with either the 980ti or the 1070ti and would get even more out of that tech with an upgraded monitor. Thanks for the comparison and the great information!

980 Ti all day. Just picked up a XEON X5680 for $60 USD. Basically identical to the i7 980x, can't wait to play with it!

Either 980 TI or 1070 TI would be fine to have though I wouldn't bother getting one if all I had was a regular 60Hz 1080p screen. I'd want either a 144Hz or a 2560x1080p ultrawide, for anything less a 1060 makes more sense. Where I'm from a 100W of difference makes roughly a 100EUR difference in power costs over a year if the PC stays on 24/7, if it only gets used for about 4-8 hours a day then the power cost difference isn't big enough to care about power efficiency if the used card is considerably cheaper to buy than the new one.

This is so good man I don't expect this close results

thank you youtube recommendations .. this is basically my PC (x5650 at 4.2GHz, 16GB RAM, same mobo but currently running a GTX780) and i was looking into buying 980ti's already, but NOW after seeing this video i am determined to get me one asap and a 2nd one soon after, thank you !

Got myself an 980ti FTW from EVGA and i water cooled it using a Kraken G12 and a H55 cooler. I can overclock it further and it stays cooler even under load for extended periods of time.

My EVGA < ( GTX 980 TI SC+ SLI)> GTX 1080TI FTW3 is still a strong System, with my E5-1680 V2 @ 4,7GHZ on an asus Rampage IV Extreme, with an Intel 910 Seies with 400GB and an Intel 520 Series 120 Gb, Samsung 850 EVO 500GB( my 750 S. is dead), 16 GB corsair Venegance 1866MHz with 1,5Volt, EVGA supernova 80+ gold 1000Watt it is an amazing system for me, in my Lian Li PC-A70 F Severtower. But i ´m looking to change the 1080Ti to be watercooled. Thanks for giving me the idea to built such a system!!

hey Bryan can you re do this test i'm curious as to how well this holds up

I got my 980 ti classified for around $250 usd about 2 months ago, I'm loving it a lot!

I have a 980 strix and it had handled anything I've tossed at it on max / high settings no stuttering. Best second hand purchase it

I have an asus sabertooth x58 motherboard with intel i7 980x, asus 1080 ti, and 6 8gb ddr3 ram sticks, 48gb ram total. This computer is a beast, runs cool with corsair h1100i v2 liquid cooler and I won't be upgrading to a new ddr4 mother board for some time. Yes, x58 is usable and worth it in 2020!

great comparison of the 980ti verses the 1070ti Bryan!!! old school still rules!!

Dang Bryan that Gelid thermal paste is rocking! I need to pick me up some!

Thanks for vid, Bryan. As an owner of Galax HOF 980ti. I'd say: if you have 980ti, don't buy 1070ti or anything else this gen. if you sitting on pre-Maxwell card and want upgrade, wait for 11x series which should be with us soon and you'll get latest and greatest. 980ti is a killer and was my best upgrade when it came out. I don't have Xeon, just 5960x on Asrock Taichi and I don't see any reason to upgrade even into overpriced 1080ti. Probably I'll get 1180ti and rock on it for another two generations.

I would love to get the 980ti, currently running a 970.

This channel is definitely one of the best tech channels around.

Veeery interesting approach! Thanks for this kind of videos! That's the kind of info we need to evaluate if its worth upgrading our old GPUs to an used but faster one vs currently super overpriced new ones!

i7-7820HK + 1070, have been very good to me over the year and a half I have had this PC. :)

I love these videos. People always say, "As long as you have anything sandy bridge and later, you should be OK for gaming at higher resolutions". That's BS! X58 still has legs! It works well with newer cards, lol. Also, the 980ti was such a sick card. Not surprised it still holds up just fine, even with the new 1070ti.

That's literally the exact same x58 motherboard model that I have!

980ti's are so awesome. Got a 980ti classified from EVGA's B stock for $250 in december, then sold my gtx 970 for $245 in January. Easy to find a great deal if you look hard enough every week :D.

I purchased my MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning in 2015 and see no reason to upgrade using my 1080p monitor. If next generation GPUs easily play all demanding games at 4K I will consider upgrade options. Thank you for this video.

980 Ti still holding it down strong. I couldn’t resist the 1080 Ti last yet so I switched.

no need to upgrade from my 980 Ti strix yet it seems like :D nice vid as always Bryan, keep it up! :)

Bryan I believe you've heard about it. But to fix and get past Marvel sata3/sata 2 bs controllers. You use samsung m.2 960/970 Evo and put it on PC express adapter. So you can go from limited 200-250 speeds to like 3200/1500 up/down something. I am in the process of testing mine soon. I got a cool funky x58 asrock for $78 us dollars. I got steal on the m.2 open box 250gb and tested it on another rig, seems it's never been touched and 2 months from original manufacturer date. Can't wait to run it. The nvme supposed to have built in legacy support or other ways. So you take old x58 and literally give it all the cool benefits of modern hardware, or at least one of the most important in my opinion. I don't care about usb3.0/3.1 that much... Can't wait!

Zotac Amp Extreme watercooled with a Corsair H90 and Kraken G10 bracket doing over 1520mhz on the core and 4001 on the memory while staying under 60 degrees. It beats 1070ti performance and beats any 1070. I think the 980Ti will go down as one of Nvidia's best cards ever.

Yeah, in Firestrike Graphics, my 980 Ti scores 21,183 with GT1 getting 102.61 FPS, and GT2 getting 83.54 FPS. As for the 6 Core, 12 Thread CPUs involved, at 5 GHZ core and cache, my 8700k manages 22,432 in Physics with an average 71.21 FPS! Nearly double the 4.5 GHZ 980X!

I love my Msi Seahawk 980ti got it in october 2015. Its still going strong sitting at 1500mhz cc. Though i would like a 4k card to go with this monitor. Lets hope the new cards are not a refresh.

got my MSI 980ti for €890 on release. Still works great today 3 years later. I don't think ill be changing any time soon. Probable will wait till i halfto drop my graphics on games to medium but i upgrade it. Also never bothered to overclock it. Still pumping out at high to v high settings!

Another great vid thanks Bryan. Gonna see what this card is going for on eBay.

here in the USA loving the videos...!

I’m still rocking the 990x @ 4.8ghz on rampage 3 extreme with a gtx 980ti matrix platinum. Runs every game I play max settings so problem! Won’t be upgrading for a while! It’s only the power draw that makes me consider upgrading to later platforms.

A fairer comparison would be between the 1070 and 980ti because they are more closely matched in performance. But still, nice video!

Omg i thought i would never see another 690 advanced 2 on youtube ever again! Love my case!

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Man I love your videos, they always make me smile :)

Hey try a GTX770 vs GTX1050TI and at end when you done that try putting them in SLI im intrested to see what happens

wow the 980ti is a beast!! i got a 1070 myself because thats what i had access to at the time of building my rig! but dam id rock a 980ti now even just look at the benchmarks!?

I kinda wanna hunt some 980ti´s now and watercool them on my planned X58 build. Even if pricing has come down for GPU´s a 1070ti is still way more expensive. Atleast here.

For 600 AUD I picked up a Tower with a gtx 980ti strix a x58a-ud3r mobo a I7-950 and liquid cooling, best decision of my whole life

Bought a 5675 for my P6t Deluxe yesterday and a Evga 980ti sc2+ today, just waiting for them to come in so i can swap my i7 960 and r7 390 :) I'm out 314usd for the combo but think it'll give a huge boost for that money

Recently bought a 2010 Mac Pro, put two X5690's in it and it eat's anything you can throw at it, a much worthy upgrade in my opinion.

Great content. Pls can you do a guide on how you do the tech loving to gpus n motherboards. What sprays you use. What to not spray etc.

980 Ti is probably the best GPU that Nvidia has released in the last 5 years. I mean when you have a good cooler and can OC it, it is equal to - and sometimes even above, stock FE GTX 1080s , possibly even some aftermarket ones. I got lucky with winning the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980 Ti - which is easily one of the best models for air overclocking. *And I say it is the best based on said Overclocking, as it holds up better than ANY GPU from its Era - and actually competes above the GTX 1070 in the Pascal product stack - basically reaching parity with a slightly tweaked, fully OCed GTX 1070 Ti - or even a GTX 1080 left stock!* Just comparing things like Firestrike, Unigine Valley, and Steam VR Benchmark - as I have said I have gotten better results than SOME GTX 1080s! Of course I am running 1503 MHZ core and 8 GHZ effective VRAM speeds, which is a solid 45%+ OC over "reference" (1000 MHZ base, 1076 Boost) - so just remember that when you see a 980 Ti compared against a GTX 1070 on GPU-Z Database - that is because Pascal overclocks its self largely, and Maxwell has HUUUGE amounts left in the tank that GPU Boost 2.0 does not touch without massive tweaking. In my case, that included +0.375 mV offset, custom fan curve, and +136 core, +990 memory (in Gigabyte's "OC Guru II" software, as I could not nail down as stable an OC with MSI Afterburner - though I still run it as a system monitoring tool in Windows 10 - since there is no performance "Gadgets" like you could install on Windows 7 to monitor temps and speeds.) Also OC Guru II only supports fan stepping - I think that may have been part of the issue I had with Afterburner, but I think it was more Voltage related, as I needed to hit a stable 1.218 Vcore under load to maintain 1503 MHZ core and 8 GHZ VRAM.

I love my zotac 980ti amp! paired with my x5670 @ 4.4ghz. Gives me all the performance I need for 2560x1080 on my ultrawide. Definitely would still highly recommend a 980ti if you could get it for $300. I’ve still yet to come across a game I can’t max out and play with excellent frame rates and frame times.

I saw the prices dropping this year and unloaded my 980ti for $475 back in March. I am shocked at how much it had dropped. I see that 1070 are dropping at the same rate. I would probably grab one of those since they are more power efficient.

Still using a 980 Ti in one of our rigs without complaint. It's a good card.

i7 8700k and msi gtx980ti is perfect for vr thats what im using atm and will continue to use for some time now as it does exactly what i need

So there is no holdback/bottleneck in the motherboard/cpu/ram compared to a system from 2017/2018? Would love to se same hardware tested on a new cpu/mb/ram combo. good videos as always :D

@Tech Yes City - Great video Bryan. Love the X58 content. Mine is still rocking as well. Quick question - how long (much life expectancy) do you think the 980ti has before its features (6GB DRAM in particular) have trouble keeping up with AAA games?

Sold both of my 980 Ti's for 500€ total after the 1080 Ti was available, we had a great time together!

I got a deal on a Fury X for $240, and a 980 ti for $210, and flipped them for $200 each.... As well, the X56x0 doesn't work in every X58 board, so be careful

Arc Survival Evolved does go up to 5.3GB when all settings are at Epic, and my MSI GTX980Ti Gaming 6G does scores in average 52fps, which is not bad at all, even my old card MSI GTX670 Power OC edition scores average 40fps on Medium low settings, and everything is running on 1080P. The card is old, but still packs a nasty punch.

testing on x58, I dunno man. I know you like x58 but IMO this would be more interesting on a newer platform. Regardless I love TYC, keep'm comin :)

Yeah, 980Ti is still an amazing card...I used to own Asus strix 980Ti and that card played anything I threw at it in UHD. Now I got EVGA 1080Ti black ed. Frankly, I think I had more fun overclocking my Asus 980Ti than my current EVGA1080Ti....

The X5660 and the X5675 supports higher frequency ram? Intel says 800/1066/1333

Great vid by the way mate - cheers!

I paid USD $629.00 on 11/1/2015 for my EVGA GTX 980 Ti. I think I got my money's worth. Maybe I'll upgrade when the new cards come out, money permitting.

Just got my 1070ti for $30 over msrp and it wasn't a blower. I got the evga 1070ti ftw ultra-silent for >$480 when it went on sale within the last couple weeks and i bet the price will be even lower in a few weeks.

Currently have an evga 980 ti classified capable of running at 1600Mhz (!!) but due to the air cooler I get temps of around 80C and stable at 1571Mhz. It performs literally equivalent to a FE 1080 but I reckon if this was put under water it'd perform even better.

Hi Mate .. How does a system like this perform with flight Sims. Im an x plane 11 player and it does have a free demo to test on. I have an 8350 at 4.3g and a 1050ti on a asrock 990fx ex 3

you really should get your hands on a xeon w3680 and test it. its a xeon with a fully unlockeed multiplier

Great vid! Love the x58 platform!

Got a used 980ti for $180 US on a kijiji steal... would recommend checking used buy sites to get a nice deal :)

One thing that sucks with the X58 is editing/streaming/recording which hits the CPU harder than ivy bridge or newer. For gaming it's fine.

The 980 Ti is a great card! My MSI 980 Ti 6GB OC runs very hot though, needs aftermarket cooling to not drop clocks in the most intense games. Otherwise, recommended! Got it for 330€.

What was the typical boost frequency at on the OC'd 980ti? Love my 980ti, got it used for $260 USD and boosts usually to 1459mhz OC'd. Your Firestrike score looks like it might be around the 1450mhz range too.

Seeing the earl grey made me want some

Just sold my 980 TI for a profit in anticipation of a new nVidia release. Hope it's soon :)

I own a Zotac 980 ti Amp Extreme. I will wait till tax season next year and see what the prices are for graphic cards. My monitor I game on is a 34 in ultra wide 3440x1440, 60Hz.

I love gelid gc extreme. I replaced the thermal paste in my 1070 (I have the asus turbo one so it's a blower style) dropped my temps during gaming from 80c+ down to 60c. Overclocks like a beast now and in some new games it's capable of 4k ultra 60fps.

okay I really get your love for the x58 6 core xeon combo as for 8 core, x79 2670 would probably still be your to go. But I would like to see a post sandy bridge follow up (just because I dont want to put a older than i currently have processor in my system), although i know its not the best bang for the buck

If there is enough money to buy a 1070TI, the Pascal is the better choice, because of the higher single percusion power. But you have to be carefull not to buy a miner card, wich is impossible with a 980 Ti

Great comparison and great hair, lol!

This is a erroneous test to do. An x58 does not have PCIE 3.0 PCIE 2.0 is going to mean that the full bandwidths of the card can be tested. The results could very possibly be skewed due to this.

75fps 1440p with X58 sounds great, especially using display port with freesync 75hz screens , nothing shabby with that

The only recent GPU that would move me off my 980ti is the 1080ti, but with the whole pricing debacle thanks to crypto I've seen no reason to make the move yet. My 980ti still plays almost every game maxed out at 1080p & very few settings need to be dropped in the most recent games to get an enjoyable 1440p experience.

Got a evga 980ti hybrid for £225 a few months ago. Won't be upgrading till I get another bargain

Earl Grey? You have my like!

I was looking to upgrade from my i7-970 on Asus Rampage iii Gene I bought new in 2010. Having second thoughts now.

Still have a 980ti and find it is still ok. Would like to upgrade but not quite yet. Gonna pull a bit more out of it I think. However I have known this card to always be hot and seeing your temps has me shocked. I donno how you did that! Mine goes to 75 ish when gaming. Most games it is around 65 but with Ark:Survival Evolved it gets really hot. I used to worry but I don't anymore as I hear everyones 980 ti's can go that high but how low you have yours is crazy!! I wonder if I am doing something wrong with my fan setup or maybe I need some new fans. These are quite old now. Might even be worth changing the paste

Do you read my mind? I just got second hand 980Ti to go with my W3680, I was considering 1070 - 1080 but found an MSI 980TI Gaming for £280 on ebay so just grabbed that instead 😅

980ti @1500+is a beast