With the GTX 980 specs being revealed, we pit the GTX 980 vs GTX 780 Ti vs R9 290X to see what is the better video card and to see if users who own the GTX 780 ti should upgrade or not or those with the R9 290x should switch to the green team. Read on!

Usman Pirzada of WCCF Tech has revealed what the specs of the GTX 980 and how it fares vs the GTX 780 Ti in benchmarks:

"The Geforce GTX 980 has 16 Streaming Maxwell Multiprocessors (SMM) which in turn have 128 CUDA cores each, bringing the total to 2048. Since the wattage of the GTX 970 is 148W, the 980 should have a maximum of 180W TDP, although the actual number should be less. With 2048 Maxwell cores we are looking at more or less GTX 780 Ti performance at decent clocks and more at high clocks."

"Sadly for performance minded enthusiasts (myself included) this means that Nvidia is chasing power efficiency. This, in my personal opinion, should not factor much in a high end product. On the GTX 970 die, you can notice the nomenclature GM204-200-A1, and as VCZ reveals, the nomenclature for the GTX 980 die will be GM204-400-A1. Both the 970 and the 980 feature two 6 Pin connectors, 256Bit Bus and 224GB/s of bandwidth."

But how does the GTX 980 compare vs the GTX 780 Ti in performance?

WCCF Tech has reported that:

"Over at the forums (Chinese Baidu Forums), someone posted a performance chart of the GeForce GTX 980 (Denoted by the Unknown-2 label to avoid getting removed from the forums) which shows gaming numbers in 2560x1440P with maxed out AA and AAF in several current generation titles such as Watch Dogs, Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth, Bioshock Infinite, ARMA III, Batman: Arkham Origins and Metro Redux. From the numbers, we can see that the GeForce GTX 980 delivers an average 60.8 FPS at minor overclock speeds in the titles compared to 57.9 FPS on the GTX 780 Ti and 54.4 FPS on the Radeon R9 290X."

"The SLI numbers show an increase to 103.3 FPS for the dual GTX 980's while the GTX 780 Ti and Radeon R9 290X deliver 97.6 and 96.9 FPS respectively at stock clocks. There are also extreme overclocked scenarios where the GeForce GTX 780 Ti ROG MATRIX scores 72.1 FPS compared to 67.1 FPS on the custom designed GTX 980 and 64.9 FPS on the Lightning Radeon R9 290X."

So who do you think is the winner of the GTX 980 vs GTX 780 Ti debate? Sound off in the comments below!