Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming SOC Review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.

So the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti is now offered as a 'G1 Gaming' Edition. As you can see, Gigabyte overhauled their board from the reference design. You will spot a nice black PCB with eight phases and two 8-pin power headers for a little more overclocking headroom. The PCB is matte black in color and of course the new 600W WindForce cooler is being used. These cards will look just gorgeous in a white/black PC and new are the white accents on the cooler.

Board partners will be able to release the Ti model cards in their own configurations, including different cooling solutions. During Computex we already showed a thing or two, other designs with launches later in the month. 

This is the SOC edition of the G1 Gaming series, meaning it has higher factory clocks, quite impressive as well. 

• The gaming (default) mode base clock is ticking over at 1152 MHz, while there is boost allowance up-to 1241 MHz.
• However if you fire up Gigabyte's OC Guru software and hit the OC mode button, you card will run at default at 1291 MHz (on the Boost clock -- baseclock is 1190 MHz).

The card itself is a dual-slot solution, it is composite heat-pipe based with 5x8mm & 1x6mm pipes. The air flow is split through a fan edge and is guided through the fan with the special striped curve design. According to Gigabyte that effectively enhances the air flow by 23% over traditional fans, whilst reducing air turbulence. Gigabyte has applied their ultra durable component selection. On top you will spot an illuminated LED, with customizable color option, you may choose from 7 colors to match your PC color theme..

The card will have a power design of roughly 250 Watts, but due to the high clocks and extensive tweaking design please add 10, maybe 20 extra Watts, this puppy was made for raw performance. The eight power phases and two 8-pin power headers in combo with component selection should be plenty for a nice tweak (or two). Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate with plenty of venting spaces applied as well.