not long ago we released this video it was the brief overview and introduction
of the Gigabyte G1 gaming 980 TI at computex 2015 and at that time we could
obviously see the card aesthetically but the effectiveness of the cooling and the
performance of the card especially when its various clock speeds were
unannounced was a mystery now that we have the card in hand it's time to go
over everything in more detail and get the under the hood look at this bad boy
to see what it can really do by the way Brandon and I visited an amazing new
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first Up Performance Hardware gigabytes Premier gtx980ti is rocking a stock base
clock speed of the 2816 Kuda cor equipped gm200 chip of
1190 and a boost clock speed of
1291 although this isn't really what you
actually get in a good way though don't worry if that's confusing we'll get more
into the performance later on by the way there are two modes for this card gaming
mode and OC mode even if you're not overclocking just run the card in OC
mode gaming mode just Nerfs your base and boost clock by about 50 MHz compared
to OC mode and that's just silly Gigabyte was a little less aggressive in
the memory Department running the stock amount of RAM at 6 GB at a speed of
about 7,010 MHz the G1 gaming 980 TI is
cooled by the same 3x 600 W cooling system as the previous G1 gaming 980 but
it has some various aesthetic changes which I think look great first up they
added some silver coloring to the outside of the Cooler's front which
looks really sharp and a lot more active than the previous all black design but
could also potentially conflict with some color setup builds I think but
almost all cases will be fine with it due to the still generally muted color
palette then we have the LED backlit windforce logo on the top of the card
which isn't technically full RGB but can be set to white yellow blue purple red
green or teal to match almost any build you might have you set these colors
through the Gigabyte OC Guru 2 utility software which you can download from the
support and download section of the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980ti website on each
side of this back lit logo is a button to stop the fans if you want to move
into a silent operating mode and we turn the uh main logo LEDs off and turn the
white LEDs behind said respective buttons on I do have a gripe with this
some people might bring up that having a button on your graphics card is not
going to be all that helpful for most people that will probably have this card
inside of a computer case and they don't want to take off their side panel and
press a button inside their computer when they could just control it with
software but I'm not going to complain about added features when they don't
really hurt anything my problem with this is that one of the buttons says
silent and the other button says stop please if you're going to have two
different buttons that do the exact same thing at least name and label them the
same way anyways moving on this card
also comes with gigabyt flex display technology which allows you to plug in
up to four monitors at the same time using some various plug groupings you do
this by choosing an additional DVID or
two additional DisplayPort plugs over your already existing DVI DisplayPort
and HDMI plugs a great feature for adapting to your various potential
display adapter needs the windforce 3x cooler has three fans 5 8 mm heat pipes
and 1 6 m heat pipe the fan blades have a special striped design or stripped
design that Gigabyte claims to increase air flow by 23% compared to traditional
fans and also reduces air turbulence other than that we have a fairly
expected setup on top of the right hand side of the card you have your standard
set of dual 8 Pin power connectors SLI fingers on the left side and a black PCB
hidden under all of those fancy aesthetic improvements that we mentioned
earlier we don't have an acoustic chamber yet maybe in the new office
lonus maybe I don't know either way it
wasn't that bad under load and was able to even keep the card quite cool with an
ambient temperature of 32 freaking de C
just before we get into the performance section I'd like to remind you guys that
NVIDIA has some tech inside this card including Classics like SLI Cuda and
GeForce experience and all the new stuff that was introduced with the gtx980 ti
like g-sync fullcreen Window mode support direct
x121 support and VR rendering optimizations for rendering fewer
unnecessary pixels which you can learn more about in Linus's original 980ti
launch video by clicking here overclocking the G1 gaming 980 TI was
odd but unsurprising I mentioned earlier that it had an 1190 stock clock and a
boost clock of 12291 but in actuality without any
tweaking or changes on my end it was able to achieve a boost clock of
1370 all on its own that's quite an improving over the already existing
boost clock this has been going on for a while now if you haven't noticed yet and
we're actually looking into making a video comparing a whole bunch of the
same card to see all their various boost clocks on their own but it's a little
difficult to round up enough cards to make the sample size actually mean
anything so don't hold your breath waiting for that one for actual
overclocking manually it did pretty well to a core clock actual of 1480 but one
problem I did have was some weird voltage issues my card got upset when I
applied any additional voltage to it at all which is a little weird and I would
expect most people to get around 15 25
to, 1550 with this card as my overclocked power draw and thermals
really didn't get that high due to the voltage causing the card to crash
prematurely in terms of performance it did really well even beating out the
previous King the Titan X at stock speeds and absolutely running away with
things when overclocked in every single game that we tested with no out standing
issues anywhere in conclusion the Titan X just got wrecked for gaming we all
knew it wouldn't last although I must admit this was a little faster than I
had expected having the G1 gaming 98 TI walk all over the Titan even when not
overclocked was damn
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