MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming 4 GB

[ChaoticG8R]

Lack of a back plate again is bothersome for me here. It's not like it's a foreign concept for MSI, they are just willingly choosing to forgo it.

 

[荷兰大母猪]

I am really expecting msi gtx 980 lightning.

 

[7950 Flex]

I've had the MSI 780 ti gaming for a while now and received a second one yesterday for SLI. According to the benchmarks the FPS difference is marginal at best and the fan noise is identical at load. With just the one 780 ti working, it tops out at 70-72 degrees under full load in my rig but now that I've added a second one the top card reaches a max of 80 degrees and the fan spins at 80-86% to keep it at 80 degrees. It gets pretty loud but the sound from my speakers drowns it out. Also, the bottom card tops out at around 65 degrees.

I'm curious to know how two of these MSI 980 would fair as far as the temps/fan speed go of the top card in my rig.

The new features seem interesting enough.

I agree about the backplate also, I like backplates =/

Are there any I can buy for my MSI 780 ti gaming cards?

And Wiz it would be great if you benched those games. Ryse is gorgeous and pretty taxing I guess, not as taxing as Crysis 3 I think. Dead Rising is nice too and the sheer number of zombies on the screen at the same time cause dips in fps but still very playable. I really wanted to see how it would work with two of these 780 ti in SLI but of course it just crashed lol. I wonder if all those zombies are putting pressure on the CPU or the GPU. Shadow of Mordor looks nice and runs very well on one card on 1440p and Alien Isolation is pretty light. Can't wait to see your benchmarks

 

[till69]

Here with my MSI 980 first fan starts at 50°C and stops when temp falls below 40°
Seconds fan starts at about 60°

Asus Strix should be better choice... fan starts at 65° and stops at 53°

 

[Boeing707]

I don't think this card deserves a 9.9 score. It does not even have a backplate, and the overclock out of the box is not large compared to other 980 cards.
At least the cooler has 5 heatpipes...

 

[bubbleawsome]

I am really expecting msi gtx 980 lightning.

I doubt it. They said they were holding off for Big Maxwell.

 

[jihadjoe]

1380/1481 base/boost is amazing. Any idea what the actual in-game clocks were with Kepler/Maxwell boost active?

 

[KarymidoN]

I'm guessing 9.9 cause contractually obligated to Asus.

The reason for the GTX 980 from Asus STRIX have received a score of 10 is for its energy efficiency, the DIGI + VRM Chip is a differential, my motherboard has one of these and it really weighs on choice. look on page 23 of graphs, compare, The Asus engineers managed to get the board to be more economical without losing performance and even opening a massive overclocking potential.

 

[Tibor Hazafi]

Are these FPS numbers in techpowerup game benchmarks generally minimum or average values?