EVGA Teases GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|ngp|n Edition

Kaapstad · 9 Jan 2015 at 08:54

EVGA teased its upcoming flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Classified K|ngp|n Edition. Designed by the famed overclocker associated with the company, this card combines the best overclocking GTX 980 chips, with the fastest GDDR5 memory, and the strongest VRM in the industry, letting you chase overclocking and performance benchmark records. It retains the translucent cooler shroud theme from its predecessor based on the GTX 780 Ti, although the cooler appears to be a beefier ACX 2.0.

The card draws power from a combination of two 8-pin, and one 6-pin PCIe power connectors, giving you an idea of just how much juice the card can take in, to keep your overclock stable. The card is prepped for liquid cooling, and has electricals to negate cold-bugs, and an active electrical trace that keeps the PCB heated, to prevent frosting. EVGA also gave us a glimpse of the card's abilities with a jaw-dropping 3DMark FireStrike score of 20,816 pts. There's no idea on when the company plans to launch this card, or if it even will, especially given that NVIDIA's next-generation GTX TITAN-X is just around the corner. Maybe EVGA is betting on NVIDIA keeping that card vanilla (preventing AICs from coming up with custom-design cards).

http://www.techpowerup.com/208740/evga-teases-geforce-gtx-980-classified-k-ngp-n-edition.html

Geeman1979 · 9 Jan 2015 at 08:55

Rapid...

spot35 · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:44

Impressive.

Gregster · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:13

Only 2214Mhz core clock....pffft

Silent_Scone · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:18

OLD.

seen this coming for awhile. In all seriousness though, just don't see the appeal. This is such a nieche product even compared to the previous card. Only hardcore need apply.

Though I'm a bit bored of benching of late.

Kaapstad · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:00

Silent_Scone said:
OLD.

seen this coming for awhile. In all seriousness though, just don't see the appeal. This is such a nieche product even compared to the previous card. Only hardcore need apply.

Though I'm a bit bored of benching of late.

With the big Max Titan waiting in the wings it makes buying a Kingpin 980 a bit of a kamikazi option.

Will you be getting the GM Titans on launch day ?

ubersonic · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:19

AKA the "haha you mugs bought the classified, now we're gonna release our real flagship trololololol" edition.

Yaayuh! · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:22

Wonder how many people will by it and use it with the stock cooler...

Too many, is the answer.

Kaapstad · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:26

Rossi~ said:
Wonder how many people will by it and use it with the stock cooler...

Too many, is the answer.

I wonder if Kingpin uses these Kingpin edition cards or are all the ones he uses specially binned by EVGA.

Silent_Scone · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:42

Kaapstad said:
With the big Max Titan waiting in the wings it makes buying a Kingpin 980 a bit of a kamikazi option.

Will you be getting the GM Titans on launch day ?

lol!

Does a bear * in the woods? But given the hints dropped by people in the industry I'm not sure we're going to see the 980 replaced for a few months

Geeman1979 · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:52

Gone are the days I spend mad money on Gpu's as I never use them to their full potential. Although I do like the look of these...

Silent_Scone · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:03

Geeman1979 said:
Gone are the days I spend mad money on Gpu's as I never use them to their full potential. Although I do like the look of these...

It's Jacob with his arty farty shots. Bet the photo he took of the single slot bracket took him 50 attempts before he was happy to tweet it

Gregster · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:08

Geeman1979 said:
Gone are the days I spend mad money on Gpu's as I never use them to their full potential. Although I do like the look of these...

Same for me Gee in truth. I am using only 2 of my 3 Titans, which breeze through everything at 1440P and I am seriously just enjoying gaming and have not run a bench in months

When my Titans start to struggle with max settings, I will take the sell hit (whatever it is) and grab a couple of new nVidia GPUs.

Kaapstad · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:08

Silent_Scone said:
It's Jacob with his arty farty shots. Bet the photo he took of the single slot bracket took him 50 attempts before he was happy to tweet it

I thought that was good going for a photographer, shoot 5 rolls to find the best shot.

Geeman1979 · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:09

I'm the same when taking pics. I always have to take a number of shots before I'm completely satisfied with whatever I'm photographing.

Silent_Scone · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:10

Gregster said:
Same for me Gee in truth. I am using only 2 of my 3 Titans, which breeze through everything at 1440P and I am seriously just enjoying gaming and have not run a bench in months

When my Titans start to struggle with max settings, I will take the sell hit (whatever it is) and grab a couple of new nVidia GPUs.

Keep em for three years - if not only to shut up those who still bring up the RRP

Geeman1979 · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:17

Gregster said:
Same for me Gee in truth. I am using only 2 of my 3 Titans, which breeze through everything at 1440P and I am seriously just enjoying gaming and have not run a bench in months

When my Titans start to struggle with max settings, I will take the sell hit (whatever it is) and grab a couple of new nVidia GPUs.

I don't even game much other than a bit of BF4. Mine are just sat gathering dust. That said... The Titans are still one of the best all round cards available to this day.

Gregster · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:18

Silent_Scone said:
Keep em for three years - if not only to shut up those who still bring up the RRP

Haha, you know it

But truth is, probably 2 years life left in them at max settings at least anyways. Not sure I could last that long in truth but who knows.

Freddie1980 · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:19

Anyone think 8Pack could take out Mr Kingpin?

Kaapstad · 9 Jan 2015 at 13:22

Freddie1980 said:
Anyone think 8Pack could take out Mr Kingpin?

What at, Mud wrestling.