NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅31-05-15
Closer Look


Here we see a minor change from the norm with the base contact plate being nickel plated copper instead of bare copper as found on the GTX 980. We surmise that oxidation could become an issue hence the plating because aesthetics have no use here unless you have a fetish for staring at bare naked components!


The black PCB is adorned with a multitude of transistors in similar formation to previous generation GPU's with the core centralised and framed by the 12 memory heatsinks with the VRM situated toward the end of the card. We still cannot fathom why manufacturers don't place the VRM nearer then exhaust port as the heat generated here passes over the core exasperating the heat produced. Still, NVIDIA are not the only manufacturer to employ this design with the vast majority also employing similar designs so there must be some method in the madness.


The VRM area comprises a 6+2+2(1+1) power phase design. 6 being for the GPU, 2 for the memory and the remaining being for auxiliary power which is 2 more than the GTX 980 had.


Hynix memory is once again the order of the day but this time the 12 modules make up 6GB of memory. The product code of H5GQ4H24MFR-R2C tells us this memory is rated at 3.5GHz (7GHz effective) GDDR5 SGRAM using 8n prefetch architecture.


Finally, we reach the beating heart of the card, the GM200 core comprising of 8 billion transistors created by the 28nm TSMIC process.

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