Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980 Ti - Both Beauty & Brawn?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,702 words · ~8 min read
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not long ago we released this video it was the brief overview and introduction
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of the Gigabyte G1 gaming 980 TI at computex 2015 and at that time we could
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obviously see the card aesthetically but the effectiveness of the cooling and the
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performance of the card especially when its various clock speeds were
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unannounced was a mystery now that we have the card in hand it's time to go
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over everything in more detail and get the under the hood look at this bad boy
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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
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clock speed of the 2816 Kuda cor equipped gm200 chip of
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1190 and a boost clock speed of
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1291 although this isn't really what you
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actually get in a good way though don't worry if that's confusing we'll get more
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into the performance later on by the way there are two modes for this card gaming
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mode and OC mode even if you're not overclocking just run the card in OC
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mode gaming mode just Nerfs your base and boost clock by about 50 MHz compared
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to OC mode and that's just silly Gigabyte was a little less aggressive in
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the memory Department running the stock amount of RAM at 6 GB at a speed of
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about 7,010 MHz the G1 gaming 980 TI is
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cooled by the same 3x 600 W cooling system as the previous G1 gaming 980 but
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it has some various aesthetic changes which I think look great first up they
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added some silver coloring to the outside of the Cooler's front which
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looks really sharp and a lot more active than the previous all black design but
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could also potentially conflict with some color setup builds I think but
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almost all cases will be fine with it due to the still generally muted color
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palette then we have the LED backlit windforce logo on the top of the card
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which isn't technically full RGB but can be set to white yellow blue purple red
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green or teal to match almost any build you might have you set these colors
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through the Gigabyte OC Guru 2 utility software which you can download from the
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support and download section of the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980ti website on each
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side of this back lit logo is a button to stop the fans if you want to move
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into a silent operating mode and we turn the uh main logo LEDs off and turn the
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white LEDs behind said respective buttons on I do have a gripe with this
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some people might bring up that having a button on your graphics card is not
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going to be all that helpful for most people that will probably have this card
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inside of a computer case and they don't want to take off their side panel and
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press a button inside their computer when they could just control it with
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software but I'm not going to complain about added features when they don't
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really hurt anything my problem with this is that one of the buttons says
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silent and the other button says stop please if you're going to have two
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different buttons that do the exact same thing at least name and label them the
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same way anyways moving on this card
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also comes with gigabyt flex display technology which allows you to plug in
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up to four monitors at the same time using some various plug groupings you do
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this by choosing an additional DVID or
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two additional DisplayPort plugs over your already existing DVI DisplayPort
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and HDMI plugs a great feature for adapting to your various potential
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display adapter needs the windforce 3x cooler has three fans 5 8 mm heat pipes
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and 1 6 m heat pipe the fan blades have a special striped design or stripped
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design that Gigabyte claims to increase air flow by 23% compared to traditional
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fans and also reduces air turbulence other than that we have a fairly
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expected setup on top of the right hand side of the card you have your standard
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set of dual 8 Pin power connectors SLI fingers on the left side and a black PCB
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hidden under all of those fancy aesthetic improvements that we mentioned
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earlier we don't have an acoustic chamber yet maybe in the new office
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lonus maybe I don't know either way it
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wasn't that bad under load and was able to even keep the card quite cool with an
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ambient temperature of 32 freaking de C
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just before we get into the performance section I'd like to remind you guys that
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NVIDIA has some tech inside this card including Classics like SLI Cuda and
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GeForce experience and all the new stuff that was introduced with the gtx980 ti
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like g-sync fullcreen Window mode support direct
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x121 support and VR rendering optimizations for rendering fewer
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unnecessary pixels which you can learn more about in Linus's original 980ti
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launch video by clicking here overclocking the G1 gaming 980 TI was
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odd but unsurprising I mentioned earlier that it had an 1190 stock clock and a
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boost clock of 12291 but in actuality without any
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tweaking or changes on my end it was able to achieve a boost clock of
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1370 all on its own that's quite an improving over the already existing
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boost clock this has been going on for a while now if you haven't noticed yet and
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we're actually looking into making a video comparing a whole bunch of the
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same card to see all their various boost clocks on their own but it's a little
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difficult to round up enough cards to make the sample size actually mean
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anything so don't hold your breath waiting for that one for actual
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overclocking manually it did pretty well to a core clock actual of 1480 but one
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problem I did have was some weird voltage issues my card got upset when I
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applied any additional voltage to it at all which is a little weird and I would
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expect most people to get around 15 25
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to, 1550 with this card as my overclocked power draw and thermals
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really didn't get that high due to the voltage causing the card to crash
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prematurely in terms of performance it did really well even beating out the
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previous King the Titan X at stock speeds and absolutely running away with
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things when overclocked in every single game that we tested with no out standing
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issues anywhere in conclusion the Titan X just got wrecked for gaming we all
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knew it wouldn't last although I must admit this was a little faster than I
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