GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent ‘Infinity Black Edition’

Our review sample didn't arrive in a full retail box, so we can not comment on any extras included. I do like the appearance of the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent ‘Infinity Black Edition' – it reminded me a little of the excellent Asus GTX970 STRIX OC which we reviewed back in September, although the Asus card is slightly more colourful, featuring red stickers on the fans.

If James Hetfield in Metallica was building a PC we would imagine he would be using a GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent ‘Infinity Black Edition'.

Bonus points to the company for installing a full backplate, which is branded with the ‘GALAX' name. A GPU backplate can not only help reduce PCB temperatures, but they offer a little protection to the delicate circuitry underneath.

As we would expect, SLI is fully supported. I do hope Nvidia move to ‘bridgeless SLi' at a future date, negating the need for ugly bridge cables.

The card takes power from a single 8 pin and a 6 pin power connector. Most of the GTX970's we have tested so far require two 6 pin power connectors, so it will be interesting to see if the additional power draw capabilities help improve overclocking later. Regular readers may remember the Asus GTX970 Strix OC takes power from a single 8 pin power connector.

This particular card is equipped with a DVI-I and DVI-D port, a full sized DisplayPort and HDMI connector. This HDMI port will handle 4K resolutions at up to 60hz.


The cooler has a nickel coated base, running into four thick nickel plated heatpipes. OCUK have worked to reduce coil whine by housing the inductors in higher quality containers. They are adhered to the PCB with red glue – this is easily visible in the high resolution board pictures on the next page of the review.

An overview of the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent ‘Infinity Black Edition' shown above. The GM204 GPU core is built on the 28nm process. It has 64 ROP’s, 104 Texture units and 1664 CUDA cores. The 4GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. The core runs at 1,1178mhz with a Turbo Boost set at 1,329mhz. The memory is clocked at 1,753mhz (7Gbps effective).

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