Thursday, June 4th 2015

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Classified Kingpin Edition Pictured

Here are some of the first pictures of EVGA's flagship GeForce GTX 980 Ti based graphics card, the Classified Kingpin Edition. Designed and tuned by the legendary overclocker himself, the card will be the fastest GTX 980 Ti offering out of the box, by EVGA. It begins with a large PCB (though not as tall as the one on ASUS Strix), which draws power from a combination of one 6-pin and two 8-pin PCIe power connectors; conditioning it for the GPU using a 15-phase VRM, capable of an obscene amount of current at 600A, letting you stabilize your overclock.

The cooling solution is a copper mine, with a large all-copper base, from which 8 mm-thick copper heat pipes convey heat to a copper-fin array; which is ventilated by a pair of temperature-activated 100 mm spinners. The company didn't disclose clock speeds, but is hopeful of selling the fastest GTX 980 Ti in the market, which means its clock speeds could be in the same ball park as ZOTAC's GTX 980 Ti AMP Extreme.
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36 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Classified Kingpin Edition Pictured

#26
Breit
ZoneDymokinda odd to start with a word like "fascists" and end with "depends on your need I suppose" dont you think?
also gamers that still debate fps below 60fps....I dont know what to say but...get with the times pls, 60 should not even be the goal anymore, 100+ should be.
2x Radeon HD6950 isn't exactly 4K-ready gear isn't it? :rolleyes:
I mean 100+ FPS on 4K res isn't an easy task, even for a Titan-X SLI setup. Sure you can dream, but please be reasonable!
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#27
silapakorn
Is it just me or the card is unusually wider? This could be a problem for some mATX case.
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#28
radrok
silapakornIs it just me or the card is unusually wider? This could be a problem for some mATX case.
It is, it's also not your average GPU and it's not aimed at small builds nor regular builds in general.

They made a fancy cooler for a graphics card that shouldn't even come with a cooler because it's in theory aimed at LN2 overclockers, guess it doesn't hurt trying to sell to people who just buy things because of fancy names.
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#29
hero1
This is one awesome card. I am still running 2 x 290X under water and will wait to see what the AMD True Fiji chips have to offer before I grab anything else. I'll keep this, the 980Ti Matrix, Lightning (if they make one) and top end Fiji in my wishlist.
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#30
hapkiman
This is gonna be one heavy card with all that copper. But I want one so bad!
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#31
the54thvoid
Intoxicated Moderator
ZoneDymokinda odd to start with a word like "fascists" and end with "depends on your need I suppose" dont you think?
also gamers that still debate fps below 60fps....I dont know what to say but...get with the times pls, 60 should not even be the goal anymore, 100+ should be.
Do you seriously think I mean 'literal' fascists? Oh good grief. And for the record, it's generally only serious or competitive multiplayer games that request far higher fps. In those cases, hell, at 4K you can drop some settings to high or medium, with no AA its a considerable boost.
Single player games without latency requirements etc don't need 60fps. User choice yes. I'm just happy my heaven is easier to achieve than yours.
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#32
Caring1
silapakornIs it just me or the card is unusually wider? This could be a problem for some mATX case.
It's only two slots wide, but it is taller than a standard height card.
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#33
awesomesauce
nice cooler, remind me this: (visiontek3870x2)

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#34
R-T-B
the54thvoidwith no AA its a considerable boost.
I've been wondering for a while now when we can finally ditch AA... I'd think 4k is getting close. Is it?
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#36
sdmf74
the54thvoidEKWB will make one for sure.
They already did, the EK-FC780 GTX CLASSY
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