the 980 classified from EVGA has been out for a little bit now and while we've
been tied up with things like the miner oil project we thought better late than
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more let's start with a brief overview of how the referen gtx980 stacks up
against the gtx980 classified EVGA has
increased the effective memory clock of their 4 GB of vram by an earth
shattering 10 megahertz this may seem a
little bit funny but it's actually a very good idea gtx980 cards are equipped
with auto balancing power rails which take the total power of the card is
allowed to use and instead of having it a hard split between the core and memory
they allow it to be used as a pool and allocated to whichever you prefer EVGA
seems to have recognized this and has widely focused their power budget on
their core overclock instead of their memory overclock which improves
performance by a lot more than memory overclocking itself increasing the base
clock speed from 1126 to 1291 MHz and
the Boost clock speed from 1216 to an actually Earth shattering 1393 MHz but
we'll take that even further later on the I has been altered but going from
the stock set up of dvii one HDMI and
three display ports to dvii one DVID one
HDMI and one DisplayPort this feels like a strange Choice given that g-sync
displays require DisplayPort to enable g-sync on them and given that display
port can be inexpensively adapted to dvii I would have preferred to have left
this as the default config the car is also slightly longer than the reference
at 11 in and a lot taller at 5.94 in
compared to the stock cards 4.36 7 Ines
these size changes were made to accommodate the Monstrous ACX 2.0 cooler
the cooler features dual 100 mm fans with 11 blades each just above the
extremely large heat sink EVGA claims that it will perform 26% cooler and 36%
quieter than a reference card and our testing it was able to impressively keep
this card at a relatively cool 68 de while overclocked and under heavy load
we don't have an acoustic chain bird yet so I can't tell you exactly how loud it
was but even when we made it suffer it wasn't annoying amongst the sleek black
shroud and red accenting we also found a tastefully illuminated logo that in a
standard configuration at least will face out of your case but what's that
just above the logo is that a BIOS switch does this card support dual BIOS
no it does not it has triple BIOS support the three BIOS modes allow you
to have your TDP change when you change the bias modes and also change the fan
curve accordingly the three modes are ln2 mode overclocking mode which is just
a slightly more tame version of ln2 mode and normal mode for the casuals out
there in the box you'll find a poster a DVI to VGA adapter two nicely seed dual
six pin to eight pin adapters a case badge various EVGA pamphlets and a
non-conductive film just in case you want to switch to another aftermarket
cooler overclocking was simple enough with auto balancing power rails I
recommend you only really focus on your core clock speed just so you know I
cranked voltage and then power limit and then started fiddling around with the
core I found it went above a I found if it went above a certain threshold GPU
boost would kick in and throttle the card back down to exactly 1450 MHz this
was a little odd as GPU boost is usually a little bit more Dynamic than that but
regardless after applying a core clock of plus 110 I found myself with an
allaround overall St stable overclock of 1570 MHz the highest we've been able to
achieve on a GTX 980 of any kind so far
after pouring over my benchmarking numbers it was fairly clear that this was a significant boost over the
reference 980 also please note that Shadow of Mordor has an FPS cap of 100
so both the reference 980 and the classified card were both capped off as
with all of our GPU reviews we're using our standard test bench the specs for
which you can I guess find on the screen you're looking at right now and all of
the graphics cards that are used in this test are overclocked if you want to see
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