Product Showcase

Product Showcase: GeForce GTX 970

Let's start with our photo-shoot. Two pages worth of photos then and all of them from our own photo-shoot.

So as you can see, this is the GALAX GeForce GTX 970 EXOC. This model specifically comes with a faster standard clock frequency.

The card is roughly 28 cm in length with the cooler included. This card has higher factory clocks as mentioned.  That would be 1165 MHz core GPU clock frequency with a 1317 MHz Boost frequency. GALAX has built a custom board that diverts from the reference design.  

This card has less shader processors than a GeForce GTX 980 though, 1664 units. The memory has been kept reference at 7.0 GHz (effective data-rate) on its 256-bit wide memory bus of 4 GB GDDR5 memory. The fan and cooling design is pretty impressive as the cooler will keep the card in the 60 Degrees C range under full gaming load.

The reference card has a maximum power design of 145 Watts, but due to the higher clocks and extensive tweaking please allow for 20, maybe 25 extra Watts, these boards have been designed with overclocking in mind. Its power phases are fed from two power headers, one 6 and one 8-pin PCIe PEG power connector. In combo with component selection it should be plenty for a nice tweak (or two). 
 

The card has four display connectors, you'll spot one Display Port connector, one HDMI 2.0 connector and two DVI connectors. HDMI is 2.0 compatible meaning that compatible monitors and tellys can do UHD at 60 Hz, DP is 1.2 but has support for eDP 1.4. GALAX left a wide gap open at the slot side to vent hot air.