Friday, April 3rd 2015
ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 970 Turbo Graphics Card
In addition to the GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Edition, ASUS rolled out a snappy new GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, the Turbo GTX 970. ASUS started off its GTX 970 lineup with the top-flow heatsink based GTX 970 Strix, topping it up with the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini. What the company was lacking was a card with a conventional lateral-blower based cooler, which exhaust hot air directly out of the case. That's where this product comes in.
The Turbo GTX 970 appears to be based on the same short PCB as the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini, but strapped to a longer lateral-flow cooling solution, featuring a dense aluminium fin-channel heatsink, and a base-plate drawing heat from the memory and VRM, ventilated by the blower, which pushes air right out of the case. ASUS offers factory-overclocked speeds of 1088 MHz core with 1228 MHz GPU Boost. If this card is indeed based on the DCU2 PCB, then its power inputs include just one 8-pin PCIe power connectors. If however, it's derived from NVIDIA's cost-effective reference PCB (which has been modified and used by brands such as ZOTAC and Palit), then it could feature two 6-pin power inputs. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.
The Turbo GTX 970 appears to be based on the same short PCB as the GTX 970 DCU2 Mini, but strapped to a longer lateral-flow cooling solution, featuring a dense aluminium fin-channel heatsink, and a base-plate drawing heat from the memory and VRM, ventilated by the blower, which pushes air right out of the case. ASUS offers factory-overclocked speeds of 1088 MHz core with 1228 MHz GPU Boost. If this card is indeed based on the DCU2 PCB, then its power inputs include just one 8-pin PCIe power connectors. If however, it's derived from NVIDIA's cost-effective reference PCB (which has been modified and used by brands such as ZOTAC and Palit), then it could feature two 6-pin power inputs. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.
30 Comments on ASUS Announces GeForce GTX 970 Turbo Graphics Card
As far as I'm concerned the 970 should be off the market. Nvidia should release the part as the 965 and advertise it has having 3.5 GB of RAM and either disable that gimpy partition completely or figure out how to make it operate as cache without disrupting the speed of the rest of the VRAM (if that's even possible, which seems unlikely given the XOR).
Before I hear what happen that was good card for my opinion but not for me, now that not exist.
When I think only how many people didn't bought overclocked GTX780Ti only because behchmark results of GTX970 and 4GB memory... Sad.
And people who sold GTX780 overclocked to cross on 4GB card. Only because NVIDIA and their reviews force 4GB and something very important and big difference from 3GB, only because of that we saw such strong reaction of many people and court later. NVIDIA thought that all buyers are same but GTX970 will buy someone who give last money and he want everything to be OK.
Later and we saw that most buyers who was on NVIDIA side was people with TITAN Black and multi GPU configuration of high end graphic cards as GTX980 SLI. Normal people didn't try to explain that nothing bad happen.