I'm not familiar with pass mark, is it a synthetic benchmark? If so, then this is irrelevant. Try Shadow of Mordor with the Ultra HD texture pack @ 1440p and compare to GTX 970 4GB including minimum fps. Also, I don't mean to disrespect to your opinion but I would rather my original topic not be hi-jacked. I agree that high-end video cards will eventually be replaced by low-end models that are cheaper so hopefully that settles it.
Read some reviews. It definetelly outperforms your card. Not by much but it does. I would say about equal. Here are some benchmarks if your interested.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
We are talking also about the difference beween $330 and $1200 for perfomance that is nearly equal.. And a GFX 980- clearly outperfoms a Titan..and its only $550. ALl I am saying is NVIdia took people for a ride with that GPU. Now they have wised up and the current generation of NVIdia GPUs is much less expensive. Top of the line now is a $500-$600 purchase.