Synthetic Benchmarks

Before jumping into the good stuff aka the in game performance numbers I ran the GTX 980 through our synthetic benchmarks. Specifically, 3DMark Fire Strike on both performance and extreme settings and in the Unreal Heaven Benchmark 4.0. So how did it perform? Well in all three tests the GTX 980 pulled a fairly large lead ahead of everything else I have tested. Just taking into account the CUDA cores and the overall TDP of the card I would have never expect to see that.