Palit GeForce GTX 980Ti Super Jetstream Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell July 15, 2015 Featured Announcement, Graphics

Palit box artwork is always rather plain featuring just the name of the product, without any high resolution images on the front.

Not much information is shared on the rear of the box with images from Grand Theft Auto 5 and Batman Arkham Knight highlighted. The less said about the latter title, the better we think.

The bundle includes some power and video converter cables, a software disc, a sticker and some literature. We do recommend you snag the latest beta drivers direct from the Nvidia website.

The Palit GTX980 Ti Super JetStream is a fairly attractive looking card, although we much prefer the appearance of the dual fan MSI GTX980 Ti Gaming 6G. The Palit cooler does flex a little bit in the hand, and doesn't feel as rigid as the MSI cooler either. Palit have fitted a decent quality backplate to the rear of the PCB, which is always good to see.

While many of the Nvidia partners have opted for a dual 8 pin PCI e power cable configuration, Palit have decided to reduce the power intake to a 1x 6 pin and 1x 8 pin layout. It will be interesting to see if it reduces overclocking capabilities and power consumption later in the review. As with all GTX980 Ti cards, the Super JetStream is SLi capable in 2,3 and 4 way configurations.

The Palit card ships with a single DVI-D port. There are three DisplayPorts 1.2 and a single HDMI 2.0 port along the bottom of the I/O plate. If you wish, you can use all these ports at the same time for triple monitor gaming. HDMI 2.0 is supported, so you are able to get 60hz at 4K resolutions, without the need for any adapters.

The Palit card is equipped with a thick heatsink which spans the full length of the PCB, as shown above.

We can see that thick copper heatpipes run across the full length of the shroud into two racks of aluminum fins and into the copper base which makes contact with the GM200 core.

An overview of the hardware in the latest version of GPUz – as discussed on the previous page. This overclocked GM200 core runs at 1158mhz (1,241mhz 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.