The Card

EVGA updated the shroud of their ACX cooler with improved fans and a modern design, but the cooling assembly below it is the same. Our review sample came without a backplate, EVGA tells us that retail boards will not have a backplate, but EVGA will be mailing backplates for EU customers, while US customers can purchase one. Dimensions of the card are 24.5 cm x 11.5 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DVI ports, one HDMI port, and one DisplayPort. You may use all outputs at the same time, so triple-monitor-surround gaming is possible with one card.

The GPU also includes an HDMI sound device. It is HDMI 2.0 compatible, which includes HD audio and Blu-ray 3D movies support.


You may combine up to three GTX 970 cards in a multi-GPU SLI configuration. AMD recently switched to transferring CrossFire data via the PCI-Express bus in order to handle 4K frames. NVIDIA's SLI has no such limitations, so there is no reason to use PCIe.


Pictured above are the front and back, showing the disassembled board. High-res versions are also available (front, back).