Our reference sample shipped directly from Nvidia. The box is certainly very distinctive.
The Nvidia reference cooler is a thing of beauty. No bundle to speak off, but we will assuredly be analysing many custom partner solutions in the coming weeks.
We have seen the reference cooler many times before and nothing has changed – apart from the GTX980Ti branding on the card. Sadly Nvidia have not fitted a backplate to the card which will likely mean there will be hotspots on the PCB. We analyse this later in detail with our Thermal Imaging camera.
The GTX980Ti is SLi capable in 2, 3 and 4 way configurations. It takes power from a single 6 pin and 8 pin connector, same as the Titan X.
The GTX980 Ti ships with a single DVI port, one HDMI 2.0 port (with HD audio and Blu-Ray 3D movie support), and three DisplayPorts. The move to predominately Displayport connectivity is inevitable and welcomed. If you wish, you can use all these ports at the same time for triple monitor gaming.
The reference cards are always cooled by a single fan, as shown above. The fan spins and forces hot air out of the rear of the case. These cards can work much better than custom air cooled partner cards when configured in SLi. Due to the cooler design, less expelled heat will radiate vertically inside a case.
The reference cooler is not going to match the best custom coolers by Nvidia partners in single configurations, but we have always found them to be reasonably quiet, and capable performers. More analysis of the cooling solution later in the review.
An overview of the hardware in the latest version of GPUz – as discussed on the previous page. The GM200 core runs at 1,000mhz (1,076mhz boost) and is built on the 28nm process. The GTX980 Ti has 96 ROPs, 176 Texture units (Titan X has 192 texture units) and 2,816 CUDA Cores (Titan X has 3,072 CUDA Cores). The 6GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1753mhz (7Gbps effective) and is connected via a 384 bit memory interface.
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