Thursday, September 11th 2014
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 Pictured
Here's the first picture of a ZOTAC-branded GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, the first one shot with its box, confirming the GTX 900 series nomenclature NVIDIA adopted. ZOTAC's card appears to be based on a non-reference PCB, and features a rather compact-looking aluminium fin-stack heatsink, which is ventilated by a pair of 80 mm spinners. The box doesn't flash any "OC" markings, so it's safe to assume that he card runs at its reference clock speeds of 1051 MHz core, 1178 MHz GPU Boost, and 7012 MHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. The card features 4 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface. Based on the 28 nm "GM204" silicon, the GeForce GTX 970 reportedly features 1,664 CUDA cores, 138 TMUs, and 32 ROPs.
Source:
Overclock.net Forums
16 Comments on ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 Pictured
Guess how castrated this card is and yet how powerful it is. Imagine how mighty the new Maxwell Titans would turn out to be.
The sad thing is that nvidia don't even need to hurry for 16 nm, if they can destroy competition with 28 nm Maxwell. :(
"Destroy" was used not for complete destruction and removal of the competition out of the market but I meant that Maxwell cards will ultimately dominate the market without effective competition from another architecture.