Wednesday, November 12th 2014
ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Poseidon Pictured
ASUS is giving final touches to its flagship GeForce GTX 980 graphics card, the GTX 980 Poseidon (model: POSEIDON-GTX980-P-4GD5). This factory-overclocked card keeps up with the design goals of its predecessor, the GTX 780 Poseidon, in offering an air-cooled graphics card that you can also liquid-cool, by simply plumbing it to your liquid cooling loop, without changing the cooler.
The cooler features a hybrid block base that dissipates heat to both the heat pipes that push it on to the heatsink, and the coolant channel. As a purely air-cooled card, the GTX 980 Poseidon features a meaty aluminium fin-stack heatsink that looks as competent as the GTX 980 Strix. Liquid cooling fittings stick out from its top. The card is factory-overclocked, offering clock speeds of 1178 MHz core, 1279 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory. The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and dual-link DVI. The card is expected to launch some time in December.
Source:
MightyApe
The cooler features a hybrid block base that dissipates heat to both the heat pipes that push it on to the heatsink, and the coolant channel. As a purely air-cooled card, the GTX 980 Poseidon features a meaty aluminium fin-stack heatsink that looks as competent as the GTX 980 Strix. Liquid cooling fittings stick out from its top. The card is factory-overclocked, offering clock speeds of 1178 MHz core, 1279 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory. The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and dual-link DVI. The card is expected to launch some time in December.
13 Comments on ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Poseidon Pictured
Wanna really float my boat Asus? ...give me a €20-€30 discount on reference cards without coolers :p (pref with only miniDP ports, so you can make it single slot)
It bugs me (more than it should, tbh) that nobody is doing a single-slot compatible card out there aside from PNY. Especially with stuff like EVGA's hydro-copper card.... If you're buying a hydro-copper card, you're already paying a premium for the block.. so what's a few dollars for EVGA to include or the end-user to just seperately buy a pile of miniDP -> DP adapters and a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter?
/me sighs
Or even if someone install Swiftech H220X + Poseidon card + Maximus 7 Formula and extra 240mm radiator. Fast solution.
But it's funny card came with 100MHz less clock than Zotac AMP and EVGA Classified and have waterblock as advantage.
I doubt someone will use this with these 2 fans only.
But lets say this is nicest Republic of Gamers card.
They do same as the 700 series...
GTX 980 >> Poseidon/Strix
GTX 980 Ti >> Matrix
GTX 970 >> Strix
GTX 960 >> Striker Platinum
Not so nice not so eficient, but it is not necessary to purchase additional block.
And hardly any maderboard will allow anything more than 4 GPU and so mor is not available with processor connections .And for those who want more GAINWARD GPU i suggest that with block covered only one slot with WS ASUS and ASRock - 11- 79, 99- 2011 LGA chipsets you can gein aditional slot free.olso M.2 Card will stell you 4Wey SLI setup on meny boards so check wot it is possible and then criticize.
All my monitors besides the one I'm pawning off to my dad have DisplayPorts, and as much as I can, I use them.
Oh, and my laptops too. The Precision has the special place of having both DisplayPort and HDMI, so I can plug it into basically anything very easily.
EDIT:I have more than just graphics cards on my board: network card (because I'm looking towards 10/40Gbit), HBA (I mean to dangle lots of HDDs outside my main case), sound card (EAX pls), and then potentially a bunch of development stuff like FPGAs, co-processors and the like. I need the physical ports and the lanes :(
Bad thing of a custom board : Only EK made waterblock for custom GPU boards.
Good thing of a reference board : You can put all aftermarket air coolers on it and you have wider choice of waterblocks.
This is gtx 980 reference board with normal VRM from Nvidia ( coil whine inclusive ).
Now compare ;)