The new copper material should work wonders in overclocking

Oct 2, 2015 15:08 GMT  ·  By

Well, it's not really golden, it's more likely copper, and it's better this way because the copper cooler will be great at being thermoconductive. The GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden is a limited MSI edition of the GTX 980Ti best used at overclocking.

The new customer adapter from MSI, called the GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden, is powered by the same NVIDIA GM200-310 GPU as the factory default GTX 980Ti, offering 2,816 stream processors, 176 texture units, 96 raster operations pipelines, 384-bit memory bus, and includes 6GB of GDDR5 memory.

The original default PCB has been changed to a custom one carrying a specially designed 10-phase voltage regulator that will improve the overclocking potential of the card. Apparently, the card can be set to work in three modes: the Silent mode, which keeps the card at 1000MHz/1076MHz base/boost GPU frequency, 7010MHz GDDR5 memory data-rate; the Gaming mode, which pushes the card at 1140MHz/1228MHz base/boost GPU frequency, 7010MHz GDDR5 memory data-rate; and the most extreme mode pushing the card to its maximum potential of 1178MHz/1279MHz base/boost GPU frequency, 7096MHz GDDR5 memory data-rate.

Having a copper-plated GPU, it should be great at overclocking

The OC factory overclocked GPU and memory push the card to almost 1200MHz/7100MHz, which brings the MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden closer to its bigger brother, the GTX Titan X, mainly thanks to its higher memory bandwidth.

The all-copper Twin Frozr V cooler offers excellent thermal conductivity compared to the classic all-aluminum found on the regular GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G, featuring multiple heat-pipes, as well as two fans that stop moving in low-temperature situations. It seems that the MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden Edition will be on show at the Madrid Games Week event in Spain and will be available to interested customers in the coming weeks.

GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden
GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G Golden

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