inno3D iChill GTX980 Review

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Today we're reviewing the inno3D iChill equipped GTX980. A card with some surprises up its sleeve.

inno3D iChill GTX980 Review
 
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Yay finally someone else sings the praises of Inno3D's rather bonkers cards.

The "iChill Herculez X4 Air Boss Ultra" cards are mad, my only real complaint is you can't seem to get them in their DHS flavour, so you could end up with a crap overclocker. If I wasn't constricted by card sizes/cooler types in my rig I'd get one.
 
I know it's not about it, but the 980 Strix is aways above, even above this aircooled beast.
 
Great review but you might want to change the version of GPU-Z you have on these screenshots as you're using 0.7.8 and the latest is 0.8.0 shows the proper stats for Maxwell, 0.7.8 shows incorrect numbers for -

ROPs/TMU's should read 64/128 but on 0.78. they show 32/170

Texture Fillrate should read 80-90 depending on the overclock and on 0.7.8 it shows 40

Pixel Fillrate should read around 160 depending on the overclock and on 0.78. it shows 200+
 
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Guess 50mm fans aren't useless then. I'm impressed by this card. Even though its odd looking:)

FYI Tom for CoH2, don't bother with SLI/Xfire. It won't work. That game is notoriously known for not working with it. It's the game engine design that doesn't utilize it right. AMD and Nvidia at around the game's launch actually recommends not using multi-gpu setups. Something to do with AFR and being CPU dependent. In fact its so dependent on the CPU that upgrading to a more powerful cpu will probably get you better results than adding another gpu.
 
This card is sexy and very different, I would love to get hold of one of these, only problem is that I would be asking for a waterblock on it and that would sort of ruin the card..... :(
 
Fantastic card. The side fan does take a little getting used to,....but I could probably do that rather quickly! :D

It seems to me that the AMD guys have a lot to live up to now,......
 
furmark?

how significant is furmark as i did not see it in the tests used, some guy on youtube keeps banging on about it.
 
how significant is furmark as i did not see it in the tests used, some guy on youtube keeps banging on about it.

Furmark doesn't really tell you anything. It's sometimes used to Stress graphics cards as much as physically possible to determine if a clock is stable, to pull the maximum amount of power possible through a card or to find an ultimate boost clock speed that can be sustained under load.

It doesn't really give you any meaningful data about the cards performance in a real world situation and so wouldn't really help in the construction of a review. Arguably synthetic benchmarks don't give a realistic view of a cards performance however they can be replicated almost perfectly on various different cards or setups to establish relative performance, they shouldn't theoretically favour a particular card whereas a game benchmark might do hence why TTL's reviews will include both.

JR
 
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