Friday, April 3rd 2015
ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 970 Turbo Graphics Card
In addition to the GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Edition, ASUS rolled out a snappy new GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, the Turbo GTX 970. ASUS started off its GTX 970 lineup with the top-flow heatsink based GTX 970 Strix, topping it up with the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini. What the company was lacking was a card with a conventional lateral-blower based cooler, which exhaust hot air directly out of the case. That's where this product comes in.
The Turbo GTX 970 appears to be based on the same short PCB as the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini, but strapped to a longer lateral-flow cooling solution, featuring a dense aluminium fin-channel heatsink, and a base-plate drawing heat from the memory and VRM, ventilated by the blower, which pushes air right out of the case. ASUS offers factory-overclocked speeds of 1088 MHz core with 1228 MHz GPU Boost. If this card is indeed based on the DCU2 PCB, then its power inputs include just one 8-pin PCIe power connectors. If however, it's derived from NVIDIA's cost-effective reference PCB (which has been modified and used by brands such as ZOTAC and Palit), then it could feature two 6-pin power inputs. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.
The Turbo GTX 970 appears to be based on the same short PCB as the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini, but strapped to a longer lateral-flow cooling solution, featuring a dense aluminium fin-channel heatsink, and a base-plate drawing heat from the memory and VRM, ventilated by the blower, which pushes air right out of the case. ASUS offers factory-overclocked speeds of 1088 MHz core with 1228 MHz GPU Boost. If this card is indeed based on the DCU2 PCB, then its power inputs include just one 8-pin PCIe power connectors. If however, it's derived from NVIDIA's cost-effective reference PCB (which has been modified and used by brands such as ZOTAC and Palit), then it could feature two 6-pin power inputs. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.
30 Comments on ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 970 Turbo Graphics Card
Card is powered by a 6 and 8-Pin connector and SLI connectivity includes 2 gold fingers which allow Quad-Way SLI multi-GPU functionality.
Either way it is a nice looking card.
Is this were any other make other than ASUS I would expect it to be quite a cheap option but ASUS seem to overcharge for their cards imo.
The other draw back I can see with this card is the short PCB, Power connectors will be in an awkward place half way down the card and less room for decent power circuitry
The main focus for this SKU is system integrators, but it will also be available in the channel with a "colorbox".
1x6, 1x8-pin (unless wccftech got it wrong?)...that means it's likely a beefy vrm. I very much doubt it's a 'cost-effective' pcb. I would imagine with that power setup it's custom.
1 dvi-i, 1-dvd-d, 1 dp, 1 HDMI 2.0...what else do you really need (for a 970)?
Blower fan is def nice, and something I've learned to respect. I used to believe it was all about open air with it's cooling/noise ratio on a stock sku, but there really is something to be said for dumping heat outside the case, especially for sli. Now, would I personally sli 4GB 970s...probably not. But it's a nice option for some.
Hmm...I wonder what the dimensions are...hopefully a little smaller than the Strix (and closer to a stock model with 9.5'' pcb/cooler). If so, that would be a tight little card.
EDIT:Reading comprehension fail on my part. Thanks for the info.