I'm rather impressed with the early slate of reviews.  Apparently the 980 outperforms the 780 Ti and 290x in pretty much everything, and it uses a lot less power to boot (165W TDP!).  Oh, and like the 750 Ti it overclocks amazingly well.  Here's Anandtech's FAHBench results:
 

They didn't have any 970 numbers (folding, gaming, or benchmark) when the review went out since there were problems getting it to run.  The 980 should clean up in folding; just how much is what I'm anxious to see someone report.  

Gtx 980 in en-route in the mail, I will be sure to post numbers numbers when it gets in along with wattage from my kilowatt meter for you guys. Can't wait to finally replace the gtx 470 I have.

BadBertie
I might have to sell my flat to get some of these.
I am selling my flat.

I had ~$230 in evga bucks from all my folding before . Now trying to decide if I should leave the gtx 470 in and fold on both the 470 and 980. 

Yup, might be needing one of these...

Well, FWIW, I've got a little Maxwell, and am about 50/50 getting core 15s (no QRB) or core 17s at the best of times.
 
So the theoretical numbers are quite high, but Stanford throws a hell of a lot of core 15s at you, which the cards just choke on for PPD.

Ya know.. I love new stuff.... but I am not seeing an impressive enough performance gain over the 780 to make me want to retire it by any means. Certainly not enough to make me say I have to have it. Now if your going from a 680 up to this its a good deal and for folding the reduced power consumptions going to be a big plus.
 
 
Ohh and Hi everyone. I know its been like a lifetime since I posted, But I am still kicking. Working on my disability claim stuff and trying to stay strong!
 
 
Jini 
 
PC gamer benchmarks
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/19/nvidia-gtx-980-tested-sli-4k-and-single-gpu-benchmarks-and-impressions/2/

widsss
Made a stop at Microcenter on the way home from work. I'll post numbers this evening.
 
Anybody want the extra Borderlands the Pre-sequel! code?

 
Awesome look forward to it and I'd love the code if it isn't taken already :P

Thinking of you jini
Not sure about the numbers either but one can hope.
At least we're not camping out for the new i-crap!

With 15% completed on two project 9201, both cards are hovering around a tpf of 1 min 37 sec, which translates into about 330k each. I'm using a +75 gpu offset and pulling only 388 watts from the wall. With winter fast approaching, I might have to use my furnace this year since these cards won't be heating my house.
 
In conclusion, this card can compute.
 

That's pretty nice, especially since it seems like it could be a fair bit higher than what you've done so far.  The reviews are suggesting that the 980 can hit 1400 MHz core without much trouble, and might be able to go up to 1500 MHz.  I'm not sure if it would be folding-stable that high, but it suggests one could approach 400k PPD on a single card.

It's showing 1428 mhz on the boost clock.  I have the fans on leaf-blower status and they're sitting at 50 degrees. The 1700 ppd per watt is off the charts, I think it's more than double what the 780 can do. 1 mil ppd with less than 600 watts is possible now. Does anyone know what the best BigAdv rigs used to be?

jinihammerer
 
Ohh and Hi everyone. I know its been like a lifetime since I posted, But I am still kicking. Working on my disability claim stuff and trying to stay strong!
 
Jini 

and welcome back Jini. Good to hear from you.

Do you mean the power consumption differences that Tom's noticed?  I haven't investigated that closely.
 
I did get a core 15, at 89k ppd.

So I am not really wanting to run SLI.  But would be interested in 980 as main card and run Titan as second card and Fold on both and game on 980, what do you think.  OR would I be better of just getting an overclocked A/C card and Fold and game on it an possible sell the Titan?

All core 15 for me today. Time for some Battlefield.