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The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ ships in a plain looking box, with sadly no picture of the card visible on the front. Plenty of information however.
The bundle is extensive. A big EVGA poster for the wall, literature on the product, video/ power converter cables and a lovely branded badge for the case.
Immediate impressions are positive. This is a heavy dual slot card and unlike the reference card, it ships with a hefty backplate which will help reduce hotspots and also protect sensitive PCB circuitry. We will test this later in the review with our Thermal Imaging Camera.
The dual fan ACX 2.0+ cooler is substantial and is predominately black, with bronze/gold accenting. It measures 267mm meaning it will fit inside most normal sized enthusiast grade chassis. EVGA are using 8mm heatpipes and the fans incorporate double ball bearing to try and keep noise to a minimum. Both fans disable when temperatures drop below a specific point (around 60c).
The GTX980Ti is SLi capable in 2, 3 and 4 way configurations. It takes power from a single 6 pin and 8 pin connector, same as the Titan X.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ ships with a single DVI port, one HDMI 2.0 port (with HD audio and Blu-Ray 3D movie support), and three DisplayPorts. The move to predominately Displayport connectivity is inevitable and welcomed. If you wish, you can use all these ports at the same time for triple monitor gaming.
An overview of the hardware in the latest version of GPUz – as discussed on the previous page. This overclocked GM200 core runs at 1,102mhz (1,190mhz boost) and is built on the 28nm process. The GTX980 Ti has 96 ROPs, 176 Texture units (Titan X has 192 texture units) and 2,816 CUDA Cores (Titan X has 3,072 CUDA Cores). The 6GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1753mhz (7Gbps effective) and is connected via a 384 bit memory interface. EVGA have not overclocked the GDDR5 memory, which is unusual.
Sweet jeeeeesus. Incredible performance, really didn’t expect the Ti to be as good as it obvioulsy is!
Kinda sucks it can’t do silent idle 🙁 that’s something the Gaming/Strix have in their favour.
Uh it idles at 29c that’s silent idle…. since it’s below 60c
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I was curious about this card. It’s nice to see that it’s got the goods to keep cool and effecient, but I’ll be more interested to see the prices after AMD drops the fury into play. I’m hoping to see this card for around $550 currently $700 in the US.
Why do reviews at 4k with things like 4x msaa enabled in GTA 5 (when it’s known msaa is a performance killer nor is it needed at 4k) and hairworks on in Witcher 3?
Do tests showing more reasonable settings that people are going to be using the damn game with.
what the hell happened to the R9 295x in the Withcher III ??
No Crossfire support, I assume.
so how is it that Nvidia manages to get drivers ready for the newest games and release them on the day but AMD have to wait a week or so before their drivers are released ? Are Nvidia paying for early code access I wonder ??
actually no .. the card is just terrible in some games. I just sold one for this exact reason. witcher runs fine in some areas while other areas give you 12fps. crap card.
Not really , they just produce better hardware. Look at Dirt Rally for example. Its an AMD sponsored game and yet if you own an AMD GPU your stuck with dotted transparent textures. Team red just can’t get their driver team to produce decent drivers. Project Cars , Witcher ,Dirt Rally , Most new titles have serious issues with crossfire and the 200 series cards.
The reason for this is terrible VRAM. Yes, it has 512-bit interface and the 980ti has only 386-bit interface, but Delta-Colour-Compreesion (DCC – Gen 3) helps massively.
I agree with you. I am 100% Nvidia and always will be untill AMD starts to sort out their drivers. Trouble is everytime I mention this to AMD (or on any AMD related article) I get nothing but abuse from over-zealous FanBoys who can’t see the true facts because of the rose-tinted glasses they seem to view everything through…
Temperature Sound level
EVGA’s ACX 2.0+ fan turns off below 60°C, generating 0dB of noise.
Suck my ass OK.
The results shown here are the same as the 290X, which is what happens when AMD doesn’t have a crossfire driver ready.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. And why no 1440p benchmarks instead of 1600p? Who the hell uses a 1600p monitor???
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really? 65° in game? mmmm
If you spend $500 on a card you want max settings on everything.
Nop if you want max settings you’ll need 2 card at 1200$ that the price for max settings.
If you spend 400$ on a ps4 you’ll get only 1080P
I troll but today developper got high end pc with tri or quad sli and professionnal graphics card to developpe the game, cause if you buy a quad sli, you want to be able to use it at full power. Not only using 20% of that fabulous power !
For me i want my card to be fully used at this price !
Amd suck that’s all, if amd do great processors and graphic card, amd/ati will be the number one in the market, you want perfomance ? intel/nvidia !
We just replaced two (3) 980 STRIX with 2 of these cards. At a +150 core 75 + mem 102 power target it beated our way more overclocked 3-Way SLI. These cards are actually okay. Take a look at them here, there is some pictures and also of the 3DMark results in comparison. http://computer.bazoom.com/dk/galleri/8503-stationaer-asus-rog-blackredmetal-extreme