we don't always get near immediate availability of non-reference designs
from NVIDIA's Partners when they launch a new GPU but in the case of the GeForce
GTX 980 G1 gaming it's a bit of a
mouthful from Gigabyte it's a good thing we
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a non-reference graphics card where the board manufacturer designs their own PCB
and cooler for the GPU they buy from NVIDIA we run through the normal stuff
improved vrm designs for more stable efficient power delivery and a longer
lifespan better cooler designs for lower car temperatures and a longer lifespan
and visual improvements that most folks will either prefer or not prefer
compared to a reference board but in the case of the gtx980 G1 gaming from
Gigabyte seriously I got to stop saying that they have actually made some
serious improvements here that would make me consider this card over an
NVIDIA designed one we'll start with the stuff that I only sort of liked the
windforce cooler with its three redesigned 80mm fans looks pretty good I
think Gigabyte could improve this in a couple ways um while the random chunk of
metal that increased card height for no reason is thankfully gone from the older
windforce cards leaving behind a sleek housing and the back plate is gorgeous
with angular vent cutouts and a surprisingly tasteful g1i on it that
windforce logo at the top needs to be RGB since blue isn't even going to match
Gigabyte's own G1 series motherboards and the aluminum fins for the cooler
need to be dark nickel plated Gigabyte does that and they'll have the best
looking cooler on the market to go along with their quoted 600 watts of total
heat dissipation a number that I truly believe based on what Luke observed
about the power consumption of this card once we cranked it and the temps of the
GPU not to mention that it did all of this while remaining pretty darn quiet
now we can move on to the stuff that kicks ass the io on this board is
perfect Flawless Victory Gigabyte triple
DisplayPort 1.2 ports for surround gaming with g-sync or at resolutions
higher than 1440 60p off a single card
and HDMI 2.0 and dual dual link DVI
ports for f with non-DisplayPort monitors to run surround as well you can
even hook up a VGA monitor with a couple scent adapter thanks to the fact that
one of the DVI ports is dvii and Carries
an analog signal this is the new IO gold
standard guys speaking of gold standards Gigabyte is calling out their processor
binning procedure in their marketing materials now that's a weird move their
name for it is GPU Gauntlet sorting and
they're claiming that their s so or super overclock class cards will
guarantee higher overclocking capabilities seriously this is right off
their site I guess how much truth there is to this remains to be seen But if
their shipping clock speeds or anything to go by this one is rated at 1329 MHz
boost maybe there's something to it now
of course there's the usual gtx980 technology so along with GeForce
experience uh Shadow play game recording game stream network gaming on Shield
devices and automatic game optimization and Driver updates NVIDIA has added
third generation Delta color compression to make better use of memory bandwidth
Dynamic super resolution a way of running less demanding gains at higher
res than down sampling them to the resolution of your monitor for better
visuals mfaa a new less demanding
anti-aliasing mode and auto asynchronous warp a VR feature that should improve
the experience for users of the Oculus Rift or similar head tracking
head-mounted displays who are prone to motion sickness you can get more
in-depth explanations of these Technologies in reference gtx980 video
linked here but now it's time to put
this card to the test as usual we'll be overclocking not only the gtx980 G1
gaming but also all the cards it's going up against so we shall see how it fares
all right guys first up we have overclocking to see the settings for all
of my cards check out the overclocking dock in the description of this video
this card specifically was configured an afterburner with a core voltage offset
of 70 a power liit of 122% a core clock offset of 160 and a
temperature Target of 91 which resulted in its actual core clock averaging
around 1531 to 1561 in terms of
benchmarking results I was happy to see that the extra overclocking Headroom
Allowed by this card gave it enough of an advantage to achieve a clear win in
all of my gaming benchmarks in both 1080P and 4K and upon further expection
I noted that it did this while maintaining a heavy load running
temperature of only 70° C the power draw
on the other hand was a little bit surprising instead of being drastically
lower than our reference 780 Ti like our reference 980 was this windforce cooled
extra power pins GTX 980 actually Drew more overall system power which may
suggest that Gigabyte is binning leakier chips for enthusiast grade cards
resulting in a higher potential performance at the cost of power
efficiency anyways just some food for thought and back to you L thanks Luke so
there you have it is the Gigabyte gtx980
G1 gaming an enthusiast's Delight do you
prefer gigabytes design that favors folks with high airflow cases and beefy
power supplies or would you rather have NVIDIA reference blower cooler that
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