Thanks to ASUS and Nvidia for the Asus GTX970 STRIX card.
What is new for Maxwell
VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination)
A new frontier in visual computing. Maxwell-powered GPUs are the first with the ability to dynamically render indirect light using the new VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) technology. Scenes are significantly more lifelike and believable as light interacts more realistically in the game environment.
You can see the how they render the lighting for the moon landing in this video
MFAA
Next-generation anti-aliasing. Playing graphically intense titles has meant choosing between cranking up the settings and enjoying high frame rates at low settings. GeForce GTX 980 and 970 GPUs support exclusive MFAA technology that gives you the best of both worlds—doubling the performance of previous-generation graphics cards to let you game with stunning resolution and high FPS.
You can see a demo of the MFAA in this video
DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution)
Bringing 4k to 1080p. The GeForce GTX 980 and 970 deliver the graphics horsepower to render images at 4K resolution. They use DSR technology—which uses an advanced filter to scale down the image—to provide gamers with a 4K experience on a 1080p monitor. Each game is automatically optimized using GeForce Experience™, without compromising performance.
You can see a demo of DSR in this video
These are the default spec for a reference GTX 970
GTX 970 GPU Engine Specs
CUDA® Cores 1664
Base Clock (MHz) 1050
Boost Clock (MHz) 1178
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 109
GTX 970 GPU Memory Specs
Memory Speed: 7.0 Gbps
Standard Memory Config: 4 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 224
What is new for Maxwell
VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination)
A new frontier in visual computing. Maxwell-powered GPUs are the first with the ability to dynamically render indirect light using the new VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) technology. Scenes are significantly more lifelike and believable as light interacts more realistically in the game environment.
You can see the how they render the lighting for the moon landing in this video
MFAA
Next-generation anti-aliasing. Playing graphically intense titles has meant choosing between cranking up the settings and enjoying high frame rates at low settings. GeForce GTX 980 and 970 GPUs support exclusive MFAA technology that gives you the best of both worlds—doubling the performance of previous-generation graphics cards to let you game with stunning resolution and high FPS.
You can see a demo of the MFAA in this video
DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution)
Bringing 4k to 1080p. The GeForce GTX 980 and 970 deliver the graphics horsepower to render images at 4K resolution. They use DSR technology—which uses an advanced filter to scale down the image—to provide gamers with a 4K experience on a 1080p monitor. Each game is automatically optimized using GeForce Experience™, without compromising performance.
You can see a demo of DSR in this video
These are the default spec for a reference GTX 970
GTX 970 GPU Engine Specs
CUDA® Cores 1664
Base Clock (MHz) 1050
Boost Clock (MHz) 1178
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 109
GTX 970 GPU Memory Specs
Memory Speed: 7.0 Gbps
Standard Memory Config: 4 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 224
