That also makes the GTX 970 pretty damned close to the new GTX 980 too. That's got to be pretty galling for anyone out there who spent a fortune on their Titan Black. And when I say incredible I'm talking about this Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming actually outperforming a GTX Titan Black.

Finally Gigabyte's mighty Windforce triple-fan cooling array makes sure that the GM 204 GPU isn't getting too toasty when it's throwing hundreds of textured polygons around your screen throttling its performance.Īll of this gives it some incredible performance numbers for a $380 (£300) graphics card. Gigabyte have also added a bit of extra power to the mix too, with a 6 + 8pin configuration for their boards, compared with just a pair of 6pin PCIe power connectors on the reference-clocked cards. Gigabyte aren't alone in this-EVGA do a similar thing with their SuperClocked cards-and I'm sure other manufacturers do exactly the same thing with their factory overclocked GPUs. First is because of what they call GPU Gauntlet Sorting, which essentially means some poor person is tasked with sorting through all the GPUs Gigabyte gets allocated to see which of them perform the best. There are a couple of reasons why Gigabyte's card starts out so much higher than the reference clock. That's already pretty high at 1,178MHz, but then goes and boosts all the way up to a stable 1,329MHz. And what Gigabyte have done is also mighty impressive too.įor a start, they've overclocked the GTX 970 by 128MHz above what the reference card's base clock.

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