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A picture of Ian ‘8Pack' Parry adorns the front of the box. No image of the card on the box, sadly.
The back of the box contains some generic Nvidia information.
Inside the box are some power and video adapter cables, a software disc, and some literature. KFA2 also include a ‘Do Not Disturb' banner, to hang over your door.
We like the appearance of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 ‘8Pack Edition', it is a two tone affair with three fans (2x 80mm + 1x 90mm fan) taking up the full width of the PCB. Thankfully they have fitted a branded ‘8Pack' backplate to the PCB, which will help reduce temperatures and protect sensitive components.
The card measures 308mm x 129.1mm x 49mm with the bracket.
The card is heavy and takes up a full two slots. The ‘Hall Of Fame' wording glows when the card is powered on.
The I/O plate has a single DVI connector on the back (DVI-D), alongside three full sized DisplayPort connectors and a single HDMI connector. This HDMI port will handle 4K resolutions at up to 60hz. KFA2 earn bonus points for using full sized connectors – no silly adapters needed. Top left is a long button style ‘knob' – included for benching. When it is pressed in the fans spin to full speed and the power limit is maxed out. No need to set anything in software!
The power delivery system has been increased over the reference design. This card takes power from two 8 PIN connectors. It is obviously SLI capable.
This is a substantial cooling system, comprising 7 Nickel plated copper heatpipes, 6 of which run the full length of the PCB in parallel. Four are 8mm heat pipes and three are 6mm heat pipes.
It is an 8 phase GPU + 2 phase memory power design. It uses a Next generation IR3595 Digital PWM controller providing 2X switching frequency vs. previous generation
An overview of the hardware in GPU-Z. The GTX980 is built on the 28nm process. It has 2,048 Cuda Cores, 64 ROP’s and 128 Texture units. The 4GB of Samsung GDDR5 is running at 1,753mhz (7 Gbps effective) and is connected via a 256bit memory interface. The core clock speed has been increased by KFA2 to 1,304mhz with a boost speed set at 1,418mhz.
Aren’t the clockspeeds of this card the exact same of the KINGPIN 980 from EVGA?
Yes same clocks. Ian’s card offers high performance out the box without the need to block it, KPE you need to block it and rely on the beefed up VRM plus Vince said it’s built for LN2. Only the Asus GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition offers higher factory clocks at 1431MHz, and again beefed up VRM.
Still not as high a clock as the 980 Classified…
INCORRECT. The stock clock speed for the 980 Classified is 1442MHz. I would know, I own one.
See?
INCORRECT. The stock clock speed for the 980 Classified is 1442MHz. I would know, I own one.
Factory clocks are minimum clocks, what they vary to during gaming/benchmarking is another matter as well as filtered chips and the game in question. Good to see yours doing well even though your voltage is showing it at the maximum of 1.212V to give it that increase in clocks.
If the graphs here also stated the max boost clocks during each test it would make comparisons a little easier, only performance indicator is the FPS. All relevant when talking about benchmarking cards at stable maximum attainable clocks.
Nope, that’s all stock how this card came. I can even hit a stable 1585MHz OC.
Good to know. Post your max OC 3D11 score to compare to this card, I have a huge interest in GPUs and benching 🙂
I don’t use 3D11. also with benchmarks like that my CPU becomes an issue with bottlenecking. I’ve had a friend beat my score in Unigen Heaven with a 970 because he was using a 4770k vs my FX-8320… I can’t wait till the 6700K comes out! 😀
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Will be irrelevant when GTX 980ti ships out this or next month.