Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 Gaming... disappointed

[exar333]

Gigabyte does not bin chips, keep thinking that OP. And asics does not mean much.

This and the OP seems to think a certain OC is 'guaranteed'. This is puzzling. The product works if operating at stock frequencies. Nothing is guaranteed over that, sorry.

 

[Headfoot]

Middling ASIC score usually means the absolute top end OC with a ton of voltage is pretty high. High ASIC score usually means it overclocks well on stock volts but the absolute top end max volt overclock is going to be a little lower. With nVidia cards now you have to flash the bios to get more voltage so you pretty much want a higher score.

 

[kasakka]

Gigabyte does not bin chips, keep thinking that OP. And asics does not mean much.

Yeah I don't think they do much more than ensure that the cards work fine with the factory overclock, which is fairly modest anyway. I got similar performance to the G1 model from both of my 970 Windforce 3X OC cards when overclocked.

 

[Face2Face]

GPU Gauntlet sorting...

With GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting, the Gigabyte SOC graphics card guarantees the higher overclocking capability in terms of excellent power switching.

 

[waldoh]

i don't think your card is any worse than any other G1. you can compare your results here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_G1_Gaming/33.html

How is that card boosting to over 1500 mhz when gpu-z only shows an oc of 1310/1399?

 

[waldoh]

Small update.

Messed around with afterburner. These results successfully ran FireStrike Extreme and haven't (yet) crashed playing GTA 5 for a couple of hours.

http://gyazo.com/eb5099fa49afda1d81e028982b35d600

GTA 5 is ultra everything (except grass), dsr @ 4k, txaa/msaa/fxaa/aa16 etc...
80 fps average.

 

[RibeyeAndScotch]

You are the consumer, if you aren't happy, then return it for something else.

$680 is alot of money and you shouldn't settle till your satisfied.

 

[Serandur]

How is that card boosting to over 1500 mhz when gpu-z only shows an oc of 1310/1399?

That's just the way Nvidia's GPU boost technology works. As long as the temperatures are nice and cool, these cards will boost way above what GPU-Z says.

 

[waldoh]

I did manage to get it to boost to 1480mhz and stable with 65-70c temps. The card even though the low asic quality performed nicely.

Unfortunately I determined for my needs it was a bit overkill. I really only play 2 games, GTA 5 and CS:GO. GTA 5 didn't hit the fps I wanted with ultra everything (150+) and my 780 classy can run it just fine (cs:go can be run on a laptop lol). I ended up returning the card and will wait for pascal for a true 100% performance increase over my 780 classy (with a 77% asic).

 

[happy medium]

A gtx980ti is 2x faster than a gtx780. If you were not getting 100% better fps, your cpu must be weak.

What cpu do you have? What resolution are you running at?

 

[waldoh]

I kinda felt like it was the CPU but didn't do any further research or testing.

I have a 4770k.

I tried 2 resolutions, 1080p and DSR @ 4k.

 

[happy medium]

I have a 4770k.

overclocked or stock?

@1080p the more you overclocked the faster the game will run.
@ 4k you need 2 gtx980ti's

 

[waldoh]

Stock right now.

 

[happy medium]

Stock right now.

I might have been a good idea to overclock your cpu with a gtx980ti.

 

[rcarlos243]

What is the max overclock you get out of the card?

I highly doubt asic quality has really that big impact into the max overall potential of the card.

It is like cpu silicon lottery, even if you got a known cpu batch that overclocks really well, there is a chance you would also get a dud.

 

[shady28]

Isn't this card already heavily overclocked from the factory? A card that's already this pimped out isn't going to have a lot of headroom for more.

I mean it's smoking the Titan X out of the box :

And then 10% more when overclocked :

 

[DigDog]

you could try talking to the vendor that sold it to you; maybe they will take pity on you, maybe they will charge you a restocking fee .. i'm sure they would be able to sell it off to someone else, not many people know what ASIC is.

 

[cmdrdredd]

It's all luck. You get a good card or you get an average card. Same for CPUs.