Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming 6 GB

[W1zzard]

Gigabyte's GTX 980 G1 Gaming comes with a large overclock out of the box, which lets the card surpass the GeForce GTX Titan X in performance, at a much lower price. The cooler is also better than the reference heatsink and avoids the 84°C thermal limit at all times - it also turns off its fans in idle and light gaming.

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[nickbaldwin86]

Impressed... I cant wait to see reviews on the ASUS cards... someday...

 

[CounterSpell]

does it run on a corsair CX500 psu?

specs at my profile

 

[newtekie1]

does it run on a corsair CX500 psu?

specs at my profile

Get a better PSU.

 

[2big2fail]

In future reviews, could TPU at least put minimum frame rates, or even better, bell curves with avg and stdev? I'm sure in the coming age of gsync and freesync where monitors are going to support a specific range of frequencies (e.g. 30 to 80hz, 50 to 144hz), I think people are going to want to know whether their vga performance/$ is consistent with their monitor's ability to support the said fps distribution.

 

[GhostRyder]

does it run on a corsair CX500 psu?

specs at my profile

Without overclocking your 2500K you would be ok but with some overclocking it would be running at the edge. I would say get at least a good 550-600 watt PSU.

Cool card, I like the look of this card (I know its the standard Windforce but I like the silver accent). Good overclocking results as well, wish it went just a bit further though!

 

[Fluffmeister]

Awesome card.

 

[dj-electric]

I... am scared.
Don't even know what to expect from the Vunlocked Kingpin edition.

 

[64K]

Nice card. Gigabyte did a good job on it. I'm hoping to see an MSI and an Asus review if time permits also.

The avg/peak wattages 259/293 are probably going to bother some people but not me.

 

[dwade]

MSI's gaming card is out on July 10. Too long!! Asus Strix... even later!

I wonder what's the temps if you lower the fan curve for a quieter experience.

 

[W1zzard]

minimum frame rates

no, because min framerate represents only one instant in time which could be caused by something random like hdd access

even better, bell curves with avg and stdev?

that would be more interesting, i've been thinking about an FPS histogram, but these are way too complicated for most of the readers

 

[Phenom2XXX]

Looks good tbh 980 looks really dull now that ti is out.

Wizzard there is something intersting u need to test, i've seen that you have used 353.06, i'm not sure if u rebenched Kepler card, like 780 and 780ti after the fix to performance in the driver.
Is it possible to bench Kepler with new driver vs older drivers to see if nvidia "fixed" the downgrade? mainly in FC4, GTA V, Witcher 3 and Project cars.

 

[the54thvoid]

no, because min framerate represents only one instant in time which could be caused by something random like hdd access


that would be more interesting, i've been thinking about an FPS histogram, but these are way too complicated for most of the readers

Is a histogram like a kissogram but more like, cleverer?

But by God - that card is stupid fast. It's looking to be faster (smoothness factored in) than my 780ti sli set up. Bring on the water blocks and Fiji so I can plan my budget! If Fiji beats these levels of awesome, I'll be gobsmacked.

BTW @W1zzard have NV relaxed the power limit threshold? There's no way a kepler card could bypass the TDP limits without bios flashing and software hax - but if this is drawing 350+ watts on Furmark this means the power limit is up to the AIB's?

 

[W1zzard]

this means the power limit is up to the AIB's?

it looks like they relaxed it indeed. will be interesting to see how the other custom cards do

 

[natr0n]

Nice card.

 

[the54thvoid]

it looks like they relaxed it indeed. will be interesting to see how the other custom cards do

That is freaking fantastic news.

 

[dj-electric]

@W1zzard
Any chance to know the OC limits on your card adding the 87mV to core?

 

[W1zzard]

i've seen that you have used 353.06, i'm not sure if u rebenched Kepler card, like 780 and 780ti after the fix to performance in the driver.

if it says "NVIDIA: xxx.xx", then all NVIDIA cards use that driver, so yes, i've rebenched everything

 

[CounterSpell]

Get a better PSU.

but why?

 

[Phenom2XXX]

if it says "NVIDIA: xxx.xx", then all NVIDIA cards use that driver, so yes, i've rebenched everything

Thank you, that effectively means that Kepler screwed even with the "fix".

 

[Jborg]

Err... Very cool card, just a little dissapointed my 970 G1 gaming did not include the RGB lighting set up on the Windforce LED.

 

[2big2fail]

that would be more interesting, i've been thinking about an FPS histogram, but these are way too complicated for most of the readers

Histograms would be great to see. It would give a much better understanding of what is going on. A more in depth analysis using some moderate statistical tools could help set TPU apart from other review sites and drive more traffic to this site.

 

[newbsandwich]

Another great card review W1zzard, thank you. Looking forward to the AMD Fury comparison review.

Could you start showing the results from overclocking in either a newer game than BF3, or even better yet multiple games?

 

[W1zzard]

Could you start showing the results from overclocking in either a newer game than BF3, or even better yet multiple games?

I'll have to make some changes to the testbench with Windows 10 and Skylake, which could also be an opportunity for a different OC test. I don't have time to include multiple titles though. Title needs to be sensitive to overclocking instabilities, not have huge loading time, and be part of our regular bench suite

 

[GhostRyder]

it looks like they relaxed it indeed. will be interesting to see how the other custom cards do

They did??? Wow now that is something I can appreciate!!!