Thursday, December 4th 2014
ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 980 ROG Matrix Platinum
ASUS announced its flagship single-GPU graphics card based on the GeForce GTX 980 chip, the Republic of Gamers (ROG) MATRIX Platinum. This is the company's third factory-overclocked and custom-designed GTX 980 offering, after the GTX 980 Poseidon, and the GTX 980 Strix OC. The card features a signature ROG-themed air cooling solution, with a high-density fin-stack heatsink, to which heat drawn from the GPU are fed by 10 mm-thick heat pipes, and cooled by two fans, one of which is an ASUS-designed CoolTech hybrid fan, which pushes air both laterally, and axially.
The PCB of the GTX 980 ROG Matrix, features a strong 14-phase VRM, which powers not just the GPU and memory, but also an ASUS-exclusive "defroster" circuit, which is essentially a resistive trace running through key areas of the card, which heats up, preventing frost formation, when the card is under LN2 cooling. As expected, this card comes factory-overclocked, and while ASUS didn't reveal the core clock, its GPU Boost frequency is a staggering 1342 MHz. The memory is untouched, at 7.00 GHz. Other features include a color-coded load indicator, ROG-themed GPU Tweak utility, and a back-plate. ASUS didn't reveal pricing details.
The PCB of the GTX 980 ROG Matrix, features a strong 14-phase VRM, which powers not just the GPU and memory, but also an ASUS-exclusive "defroster" circuit, which is essentially a resistive trace running through key areas of the card, which heats up, preventing frost formation, when the card is under LN2 cooling. As expected, this card comes factory-overclocked, and while ASUS didn't reveal the core clock, its GPU Boost frequency is a staggering 1342 MHz. The memory is untouched, at 7.00 GHz. Other features include a color-coded load indicator, ROG-themed GPU Tweak utility, and a back-plate. ASUS didn't reveal pricing details.
14 Comments on ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 980 ROG Matrix Platinum
And recently i saw that the gtx 980 Ti specs are leaked.
I think I've completely wrong.
Because Asus has realized his Matrix card for the 780 Ti and not for the 780 reference.
So even the roadmap is not equal.
It is logical that Nvidia is not going to repeat what he did with the 700 series.
I think that no one knows what he has in mind NVidia next year.
I believe a Dual GPU of $ 1,000 as the GTX 690 considering the reduced consumption of 980 GPU as those two can also work at standard frequencies and not reduced to contain the heat.
Nice looking vrm section, but is that 4-pin molex?
I love this series. May be it's time to change my 780Ti Matrix for this one If it's available anytime soon, because finding a 780Ti Matrix was pain in the ass. :D
The ROG matrix cards are pretty nice, I wonder how far this one will go because the classified EVGA 980 hit 1600+ MHz pretty easily and with people reporting 1700+ using the special custom bios.
p.p. I still haven't done it.
Seriously though, everything is known, but in the wild, people get a little bit confused.