EVGA Teases GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|ngp|n Edition

btarunr · Jan 9, 2015

EVGA teased its upcoming flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|ngp|n Edition. Designed by the famed overclocker associated with the company, this card combines the best overclocking GTX 980 chips, with the fastest GDDR5 memory, and the strongest VRM in the industry, letting you chase overclocking and performance benchmark records. It retains the translucent cooler shroud theme from its predecessor based on the GTX 780 Ti, although the cooler appears to be a beefier ACX 2.0.

The card draws power from a combination of two 8-pin, and one 6-pin PCIe power connectors, giving you an idea of just how much juice the card can take in, to keep your overclock stable. The card is prepped for liquid cooling, and has electricals to negate cold-bugs, and an active electrical trace that keeps the PCB heated, to prevent frosting. EVGA also gave us a glimpse of the card's abilities with a jaw-dropping 3DMark FireStrike score of 20,816 pts. There's no idea on when the company plans to launch this card, or if it even will, especially given that NVIDIA's next-generation GTX TITAN is just around the corner. Maybe EVGA is betting on NVIDIA keeping that card vanilla (preventing AICs from coming up with custom-design cards).

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Primalz · Jan 9, 2015

Great card but im not keen on selling my liver to fund it.

HumanSmoke · Jan 9, 2015

axis007 said:
Great card but im not keen on selling my liver to fund it.

At least you have the option. Thanks to my addiction to barrel proof Bourbon, My liver might be lucky to be worth the price of a second-hand FX 5200.

GreiverBlade · Jan 9, 2015

HumanSmoke said:
At least you have the option. Thanks to my addiction to barrel proof Bourbon, My liver might be lucky to be worth the price of a second-hand FX 5200.

pretty much my case too ... altho for me it's more Génépi, Fendant and Williamine ...

also ... every-time i see a "high end edition" of the 980 it remember me the 780 and MSI Lightning...

"we release a beefed up 780 and then 780Ti appear : Suprise buttsecks from nvidia no vaseline included"
replace 780 by 980 and you get the idea ... altho i pretty much doubt the Ti version will be here soon enough :roll:

64K · Jan 9, 2015

GPU boosts to 2,200 MHz. Very impressive!

micropage7 · Jan 9, 2015

thats pins....
powerful card that need more power is standard
its nice but dont impress me much

peche · Jan 9, 2015

Nice looking card by a boring manufacturer, EVGA Cards are almost the same.. excellent clocks, good quality and good stuff but boring color scheme and desings…

:roll:

nickbaldwin86 · Jan 9, 2015

Looks up JaysTwoCents on youtube.com he already has a full CES coverage of this card. no more details but just talks about it.

Tonduluboy · Jan 11, 2015

Buy this expensive card, and in 6 months or less there is another better gpu with lower price. Owner of this card will not gonna like it...

nickbaldwin86 · Jan 11, 2015

Tonduluboy said:
Buy this expensive card, and in 6 months or less there is another better gpu with lower price. Owner of this card will not gonna like it...

This can be said about all hardware... your logic means no one should ever buy anything tell it is 6 months old.

HumanSmoke · Jan 11, 2015

nickbaldwin86 said:
This can be said about all hardware... your logic means no one should ever buy anything tell it is 6 months old.

Tonduluboy said:

Buy this expensive card, and in 6 months or less there is another better gpu with lower price. Owner of this card will not gonna like it...

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Technically that logic would indicate that people wouldn't buy graphics cards at all since there would perpetually be a better future offering on the horizon.
Strangely enough, I've never seen any financial planner advocate the buying of enthusiast gaming graphics cards as an investment, or hedge against inflation.

nickbaldwin86 · Jan 11, 2015

That can be said of all eelectronics . They are out of date the day you buy... Anyways... Stupid off topic subject is stupid

Woomack · Jan 12, 2015

This is card designed for overclocking. In 6 months its first owner will probably kill it ( will be hard ) or sell it to get newer series.

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EVGA Teases GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|ngp|n Edition

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