Don't mean to revive dead thread, but this does come up in google hits.
980 for any regular user. An enthusiast is more liking to try and push cards to the maximum. For us, looking at stock benchmarks are useless, so what's been posted above, equates to nothing, really.
At a
$100 difference between a Strix and a MSI/ASUS 780 ti does that warrant the 7% performance increase
at stock speeds? Some would argue no.
The matrix is a top tier card, designed with a few thing in mind.
Overclocking,
LN2, water cooling (not so much), air cooling (definitely not). If you're not going to water cool the card at the very least, then all you're buying is a really fancy and nice looking DCUII. Just like those who decided to buy a kingpin 780 ti, because it was an exclusive card. Hope this has helped you and anyone else who may be considering buying a 780 ti on the cheap or a 980.
I honestly don't think the 980 has replaced the 780 ti and I think a 980 ti will be released to succeed the 780ti. The performance difference makes no sense at a mere 7% and overclocked benchmarks make even less.
Not to beat a dead horse, but any power savings and lower temps go out the bin when you start overclocking. Of course the 780ti will consume even more power and produce more heat as you overclock but can people stop throwing the 780 ti out of the window.
What irritates me is reviews like below which are meant to show off the overclocking ability of the product (GTX 980) does not get compared against other overclocked cards. There is no way to actually see the relative performance of the other cards because the overclocked benchmarks of those older cards are out of date.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/22
Just to use an example:
Metro LL 2560x1440
980 Stock 70 fps
780 ti stock 65.6 fps
980 OC 83.7 fps
780 ti OC ??