- VR Ready
- DirectX 12 Ready
- Great for 4K
- Gamestream to NVIDIA SHIELD
- 6GB 384-Bit GDDR5
- Core Clock 1026 MHz
- 1 x DL-DVI-I 1 x HDMI 3 x DisplayPort
- 2816 CUDA Cores
Outstanding
11/14/2015
This review is from: MSI GeForce GTX 980TI LIGHTNING LE
Pros:
no coil whine, no unusual fan sound, quiet, cool running, at fan speed as high 66% sound is below my ambient room noise level. Good overclocker if you want to OC.
[Please be patient and read my comments below; I apologize for their length, however, it is information many people want and informative to all.]
Cons:
Length
Older motherboards may have to have BIOS updated to the latest version. [I have a 2 1/2 year old motherboard, Gigabyte Z77X-D3H v1, and I had to flash the motherboard BIOS before this card would work.]
Overall Review:
* Core 1026 [1114 boost], Memory 1753 [7010 effective]
Temperature:
Room Temp: 21C [70F] @ Idle, During Benchmark 21.7C [71F]
Idle: Core 28C [ 7 degrees above room temp !] Fan speed 13% and silent
Load: [running Unigine Heaven Benchmark] Core 58C, Fan speed 66%, power 82 Max, 78 Avg
Heaven Benchmark overclock run at a mild OC, I did not want to increase volts:
Afterburner Settings: Core +150, Memory +350, NO volt increase
Core: 1176 MHz [Boost 1264 MHz, reached 1340 MHz during bench]
Memory: 1928 MHz [7712 effective]
Heaven settings: DX11, Quality Ultra, Tesselation Extreme, AA x8, Resolution 1920x1080 [my screen resolution]
System Specs, relative to test:
Case: Cooler master 922 HAF
CPU: Intel i5 3570K @ 4.0GHz for Heaven Benchmark
GPU: MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning LE
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM: G.Skill CAS 9, 16GB
I did not try to find the highest stable OC without manually increasing voltage, I wanted to find a safe number that would permit this card to last many years.
Fan speed is set to manual using MSI Afterburner. As a comparison, here are the stock numbers for the more expensive *Non-LE version of this card: GPU Core 1203, Memory 1774 x4 = 7096 effective.
Tests were done on my system, it is not specially set up for maximum benchmarking numbers for any benchmark, in other words, it is not a clean install of Win 7. I have been using this setup for a long time and have programs running in the background - just like the average computer user.
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- Daniel E.
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