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In the last month we have reviewed quite a broad selection of Nvidia GTX980 Ti partner cards from companies such as MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS and Palit. The PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC is clocked quite aggressively and performs just as well as we would expect at 1440p and 4K resolutions.
The PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC faces stiff competition. Competing solutions from Gigabyte G1 Gaming (review HERE) and Asus Strix Direct CU3 (review HERE) also ship with triple fan coolers. The ASUS STRIX card is the quietest of them all, however the Gigabyte G1 Gaming runs the coolest under load. The PNY also doesn't win any outright performance benchmarks from this hardware group, as the ASUS STRIX is clocked the highest out of the box.
When it comes to manually overclocking, the PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC performs at a similar level to both Gigabyte and ASUS, however we do have one major concern with the PNY card – the lack of custom backplate. This may not seem like much, however our thermal imaging camera recorded temperatures around 92c behind the GPU core on the rear of the PCB. By comparison the rear of the ASUS STRIX peaked at 78C close to the core and the Gigabyte G1 Gaming a mere 65C. We don't really understand why PNY would omit a rear backplate as they not only protect sensitive components, but they remove hot spots across the entire length of the PCB.
Right now we have no official confirmed price point for the PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC however we did find their reference GTX980 ti at £569.00 inc vat from Amazon Prime. It is a great card, but it doesn't quite match the best triple fan custom GTX980 Ti solutions from ASUS and Gigabyte.
EDIT: PNY have confirmed the UK pricing will be £549.99 inc vat.
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Pros:
- funky colour scheme.
- good out of the box overclock.
- excellent 4K performance.
- HDMI 2.0 support.
Cons:
- No back plate leading to 92C PCB temperatures.
- stiff competition from ASUS and Gigabyte.
- no memory overclock out of the box.
Kitguru says: The PNY GTX980 Ti XLR8 OC is a fantastic graphics card, and a great partner for a new 4K gaming system. If they get the price right it should sell well, but it needs to be less expensive than Gigabyte G1 Gaming and Asus STRIX GTX980 Ti cards.
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At those temps, you can start making coffee with your GPU. I guess that could be considered a plus for some.
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You can make coffee with cold water too but I myself want coffee water boiled like every coffee maker does, and in case you didn’t know, you need 100C for that in normal conditions. Also if you start pumping coffee water on that, it would cool the pcb and your coffee making procedure would act as a water cooling system.
You’re wrong on both coffee points. You can make great cold drip coffee, you just have to use different methods and have a bit of patiences – takes about 8 hours to make a litre of cold drip – and you should not use 100C water unless you want to burn your coffee and ruin all flavors. About 92C is the ideal water temperature for making coffee.
Ask any decent barista or coffee enthousiast and they will tell you the same.
Actually not. Coffee makers do boil the water and then cool it down, because of the mechanics in first point, so you don’t need a pump to get water moving and also because you want to kill bacteria from the water. Ask any coffee maker company and they’ll tell you the same. I didn’t know about 8h coffee things so sorry about that, but could you not make that coffee with any gtx980ti?
Ah, but then you deal with home devices (and I actually do that too, just use the kettle to boil to 100C and then cool down). If I go for a filter coffee, my barista has a water heater that never boils the water, but keeps it at an almost constant temperature just below 100C. And he lent me a kettle once that did the exact same thing. Not sure about his espresso machine though.
And I guess any powerful video card when run at a high enough load can be used to boil water and make coffee. I feel like this would make an interesting casemodding project 🙂