Be prepared for:
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?

I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!

​Should post this in every GPU thread ever, well done.

Its a very bad time to post GPU deals... both last and the current generation ones almost always get voted to beyond freezing. People are mad because they (stupidly) expected the 980 and 980 Ti's to drop to <£200 and they are even madder that the 1070/1080 are so much.

BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..

You are about to get a lot of cold votes.

Though that I a good price.

Yeah it's a great price but with the release of the latest generation of cards people will cold vote. Also stock cooler.

Be prepared for:
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?

I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!

Its a very bad time to post GPU deals... both last and the current generation ones almost always get voted to beyond freezing. People are mad because they (stupidly) expected the 980 and 980 Ti's to drop to <£200 and they are even madder that the 1070/1080 are so much.

BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..

Doesn't matter about the heat people looking for this product can price compare and find a deal that is the whole point of this site after all. Bring on the and fan boys. and blows by the way

Not a bad price, heat.

But did it cause everyone to vote Brexit?

Hot

Wow people still playing black hawk down

Given how massively overpriced the new nvidia cards are this is a good deal.

I'd rather go for a 2nd hand 980ti for similar money.

I might have expired the deal by accident lol

Hate to be that guy but you forgot the Number 1
Can it play crysis though

Apart from it being the worst possible time to be buying a new video card in history....

RX480 prices yet to settle with OC cards on pre-order

1060 to be announced in 3 days time

GTX 980 launched on Sept 2014 - that's 2.5 yrs ago! £289.99 for 2.5 yr old technology (which is a few decades in the computer World - well it would be if ATI - I mean AMD - could pull their finger out!).

Thanks to all the #Brexit ignorance we now have a worthless £ - less sterling more like Monopoly money!

...if you must go for it, go for it; but if I could I would, but I can't so I shan't

Voted hot anyway!

P.S. - don't tell anyone they say it has 4 gb it actually does have 4 gb unlike the 970 which nvidia lied about!

All other points of contention aside, just don't make the mistake of buying a reference card. It may be cheaper, but you will pay for it with your sanity...I know this first-hand. :disappointed:

​You missed one very crucial point- EOL Nvidia card won't have the same performance in new titles as the older titles released before EOL, due to the very fact that the driver/optimisation teams have left the building and moved site (so to speak) to work on the new architecture (gen) cards.

Who buys a ref 980 at this price at this point in the game???? Idiotic.

The fact the op has no clue about gaming too why even post it? Only a clueless gamer would sink money in to this :/

it is less than 10% better than the gtx970. The 970 can come for less than £200 now. Noisy reference card too. Much better deals on the 980ti at the moment

I did exactly this, managed to get a Zotac AMP! Extreme 980ti with 3 years of warranty left on it, for £200 off someone I know. Got rather lucky there.

If we're gonna cold because nVidia then we're gonna cold because not Asus ROG. :stuck_out_tongue:

I voted hot just because of the effort for that post moneyBag.
That and it's a pretty good price for what was/is an impressive product from nVidia.

This is what I get on my 970:

Not really that much of a difference in the core and boost clocks. However, still a great price for a 980! :smiley:

Old motherboard or idle GPU? Your PCI bus shows 1.1.

Yeah, just idle. It's not running anything right now.
Here's what it looks like when running Witcher 3:

Try closer to 20% in nearly ever game
Thief - 18%
Tomb raider - 20%
Bioshock infinite - 18%
Battlefield 4 - 16%
Metro last light - 21%
Crysis 3 - 20%
Watch dogs - 16%
Hitman absolution - 20%

You cant just go by the core clock my titan x is 1000mhz but is about 30% faster than the 980 which has a higher base clock

And DO NOT buy a 980ti when the 1070 is the same price, more powerful, has more vram and uses less power

Wow. Very lucky.
That's around £100 less than they go for :stuck_out_tongue:

voted cold.

its worth adding the extra £100 to get a 1070 which has 2 x the ram and is nearly twice as fast

That's a nice midrange card

You forgot about async compute and that one ashes of the singularity benchmark and all those DX12 games we have.

Or something like that. Ask Ferrari100, he normally spews this drivel.

RX 480...GTX 1060 or 1070...Why would anyone buy this now??

...."The 1060 shall go in the gap the 980 once was with similar performance at around 300 quid..." Looks like Nvidia just lost out yet again if they think a 1060 will sell for £300 in a world where a 1070 is £30 more or an RX 480 is half that price for almost the same speed....

guys, this is what you should wait for:
http://vrworld.com/2016/07/05/nvidia-gp100-titan-faster-geforce-1080/
surely not less than a £1000 but worth it

Where can you get a 1070 for 330???

Ferrari couldn't face the music this time. AMD has let him so thoroughly down he ran out of excuses.

What can I say, I'm old. I've been playing the Delta force series since DF1.

For £10 extra I think you'd be better off with this one https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga-geforce-gtx-980-superclock-acx-2.0-4096mb-gddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-04g-p4-2983-kr-gx-261-ea.html

Has a better cooler and the boost clock is 115mhz higher

Lol not even 1080 can do [email protected], total waste of £600

yeah you're right £344 is cheapest i found but the prices increased a lot since price announcement . "...OEM versions of the GTX 1080 will retail for $599 in the US (about £450 in the UK), $50/£30 more than the GTX 980 cost at launch. Its smaller sibling, the GTX 1070, will cost $380 (around £330 in the UK), again a significant chunk more than the previous-gen GTX 970.10 Jun 2016..."

Played BHD and joint operations alot great games.

Are you just going off the gossip website announcements I cant see a 1070 for anywhere near 344 and the 1080 retailed at 600 not 450 because that was just a straight conversion from dollars to pounds which the actual price never is. Nearly all the 1070s I've seen are close to 400 and the 1080 close to 600. I still wouldnt recommend buying a last gen card but if 300 is all you have and you need it now then the 980 is a good choice

The problem with older cards now, is their performance will drop off as they lose priority for driver support.

I think the newer cards are super overpriced at the moment, but ultimately they will present better long term value (if you want card for at least two years), then one of the older gen cards.

The 1060 has just been announced to be released on the 19th of July and will be about 220 quid and has more vram and is faster than the 980 for less money so there is really no point in buying a 980 right now

GTX 1060 is rumoured to be slightly more powerful than this card and around a similar price point. Expect the 1060 to be around £300 and make your decision based on that.

Great find though, heat added.

I keep seeing people mentioning these sub £350 GTX 1070s.

Do they actually exist here in the UK or do I need to follow a rainbow?
Please can I have a link to one that costs less than £380 even. I'm actually interested.

from my understanding they don't exist

I believe the latest driver update has supposably fixed the issue