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Em...different vendors would not have a unified design for the PCB, so how is EK going to be able to design a block that will fit (and work well) on all of them?I imagine this will be a popular card and the likes of EK will bring out blocks for EVGA/MSI/Asus non ref cards, so not true on that part.
tommybhoy afaik you dont loose Warranty with MSI when removing cooler and gotten card @ OCUK.
So a different design for each manufacturer?EK release non ref blocks, that's what he's saying.
So 25% of the shaders shaved off along with some other cutbacks, regular GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus and a lower base clock. Be interesting to see how it fares against a 980 Ti overclock vs overclock, given a 1080 seems to only manage a 15% or so lead...
It certainly won't be a winner in my eyes if it only beats a 970, especially given Nvidia claimed the other day that it'd beat a 980 Ti. I'd be absolutely stunned if it wasn't closer to 980 pricing than 970 pricing as well. I don't see Nvidia having a £300 price gap between it and the 1080.Long as the 1070 beats a 970 it will be a winner for less money well hopefully less money.
Interesting card, poor price.. But it's NVidia so people will lap them up..
@ £620 for what is effectively a mid-range card is just lol.. I appreciate the engineering and the effort that goes into producing graphics chips, but for the mainstream they are pricing themselves out of the market. @£620 it's just too much, borderline taking the ****.
So 25% of the shaders shaved off along with some other cutbacks, regular GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus and a lower base clock. Be interesting to see how it fares against a 980 Ti overclock vs overclock, given a 1080 seems to only manage a 15% or so lead...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm6kiLG1dTw
This one is a interesting one, namely he overclocks it and says some 3rd party groups are gona ship them 2ghz as standard so you dont have to oc it at all.
The problem is,as noted, by most here very few of the GTX980TI cards are running at reference speeds - the GTX1080 is only around 10% faster than the Gigabyte GTX980TI Extreme Gaming which is cheaper and that is going by the TechPowerUp reviews.
Hopefully,the non-reference coolers will do a better job.
So much for the card being super cool. Seems NVIDIA was Cherry picking at the event, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to hit 2Ghz at 67 degrees.
At load the card always seems to be at the normal 80+ for temps under load.