Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 iChill Air Boss With HerculeZ X4 Cooling Unveiled - Custom Designed and Boosts Up to 1329 MHz

Inno3D's GeForce GTX 980 iChill Air Boss which features the latest HerculeZ X4 cooling pattern has been unveiled. The GeForce GTX 980 iChill Air Dominate features a beastly libation which will allow users to get more overclock potential out of the GM204-400 scrap fused within the center of the GeForce GTX 980'due south cadre. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 launch in just a few hours. Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 iChill Air Boss HerculeZ x4

Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 iChill Air Dominate With HerculeZ X4 Cooling Unveiled

The Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 is a beast with a triple fan cooler that takes 3 slots of spacing. The GTX 980 features the same specifications which we have been hearing over the past few weeks which include a total of 2048 CUDA Cores, 128 Texture mapping units, 64 Raster operation units and a 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM that runs along a 256-scrap omnibus interface. The core clock for the reference model are maintained at 1126 MHz cadre and 1216 MHz boost while the retentivity is clocked at 7 GHz effective clock speed pumping out 224.4 GB/s worth of memory bandwidth. The card is supplied ability through dual 6-Pin connectors since it has a TDP of just 165W and display connectors include HDMI, DVI and iii brandish ports. Following is an official presentation of the upcoming GeForce GTX 980 GPU:

"The GeForce® GTX™ 980 is the world's near avant-garde graphics card, powered by the new incredibly fast, power-efficient NVIDIA® Maxwell™ architecture. With twice the performance of prior-generation cards* and exciting new gaming technologies, this innovative GPU provides an elite experience on virtual reality, Hard disk drive, and ultra-resolution 4K displays.

Savor hyper-realistic real-fourth dimension lighting with advanced NVIDIA Cone-Traced Global Illumination, as well as NVIDIA G-SYNC™ display technology for smooth, tear-free gaming. Plus, you get Super Resolution applied science that delivers a 4K experience on a 1080p brandish.

The GTX 980 even delivers nifty gaming to go with NVIDIA GameStream™ applied science that lets yous stream PC games to NVIDIA SHIELD™ devices." via HardwareZone Forums

The Inno3D GeForce GTX 980 blows away the reference model with its 1228 MHz base and 1329 MHz boost clock. We don't know if the PCB is a not-reference or reference model but judging from the blueprint, it could be a custom pattern. Regardless, the retentivity runs at seven.2 GHz effective clock speed pumping out 230.4 GB/due south worth of bandwidth. Power is all the same fed through dual 6-Pin connectors while brandish connectors include DVI, HDMI and ii Brandish ports.

Only like the Colorful iGame variant we detailed earlier, the most notable thing about the Inno3D iChill GeForce GTX 980 is its Air Boss HerculeZ X4 cooling design. The HerculeZ is the successor of the HerculeZ 3000 cooler we saw on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and trumps it in all ways possible. The metal shroud incorporates three fans, two 92mm and 1 100mm which dissipate oestrus to the dense aluminum fin array below the cooler shroud that makes use of several heatpipes to dissipate heat from the core. The cooler adopts a silver and scarlet color scheme where the ruby stripes on the rear and forepart lit in red past LEDs. Nosotros can run across the new iChill logo on the fan and the side subclass actually holds some other cooling fan. Smaller in size but the purpose of this fan to blow air current towards a second heatsink which is located in the support subclass plate. This is a expert design scheme and we await to learn more nigh the libation in a few hours. Pricing as always volition be a premium over the reference models so don't exist shocked if this affair costs $599 United states.

Aside from the GTX 980 iChill, there'south besides the GeForce GTX 970 iChill which has been leaked which sticks with the HerculeZ 2000 cooling blueprint and sticks with the standard curt PCB pattern which volition exist adopted by a few reference GTX 970 PCBs. The card is fed power through dual vi-Pin connectors while display connectors include the standard dual DVI, HDMI and Display port. Inno3D has kind of bumped the fan size on this model from the looks of it but the specifications under the hood stick with the standard GeForce GTX 970 specs which include 1664 Cores, 64 ROPs and 104 TMUs. Expect the card to come up with mill overclock out of box.