Tested: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN in SLI

Created: Thursday, 23 July 2015 05:00 by

Shawn Baker

Article Index

Page 1: Tested: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN in SLI Page 2: Test System Page 3: Volume, Power Consumption and Temperature Page 4: Benchmarks: 3DMark Page 5: Benchmarks: LuxMark 3.0 Page 6: Benchmarks: Assassin's Creed Unity Page 7: Benchmarks: DiRT Rally Page 8: Benchmarks: Dying Light Page 9: Benchmarks: Evolve Page 10: Benchmarks: GRID Autosport Page 11: Benchmarks: Grand Theft Auto 5 Page 12: Benchmarks: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Page 13: Benchmarks: Project Cars Page 14: Benchmarks: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Page 15: Conclusion

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Page 1: Tested: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN in SLI

Yesterday we got the chance to check out the brand new GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN from the folks over at EVGA. Not only did the card look absolutely stunning, but it offered some amazing performance across the board. With a second card on hand, we’re going to see what’s going on with SLI.

Moving to SLI brings with it disadvantages. Cards tend to run warmer, overclocks tend to be limited a little and power draw often shoots up significantly, especially when talking about high-end offerings like we are today. With that said, when you’re looking to purchase a pair of high-end graphics cards none of this bothers you. And for good reason. The added performance on dual card setups today tends to be extremely strong.

With our focus today being on the SLI performance of these two GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN cards, we’ll be dropping both 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1080 from our resolution table. Instead we’ll simply be focusing on 2560 x 1440 and 3840 x 2160. Like yesterday we’ll also be taking the time to overclock the cards to see what kind of performance we’re able to get out of them. For the most part we don’t need to say too much here today as everything was covered in detail yesterday. So with that in mind let’s take a quick look at our GPU-Z screenshot and talk a little about the overclocking before we get into the swing of things.

Looking above we can see that we ended up pushing our GPU clock to 1300MHz which results in a minimum boost clock of 1401MHz. Yesterday, when looking at just a single card we managed to hit 1310MHz on the core which resulted in a minimum Boost clock of 1411MHz. Throughout our testing we saw a maximum boost clock across all our tests of 1550MHz. In SLI our two cards ran a little slower at 1532MHz. Still, a very solid performance increase from a reference GTX 980 Ti which sees an average Boost clock of 1202MHz.

As for the 6GB of GDDR5, that came in a few MHz higher at 2025MHz verse the 2021MHz setup we saw yesterday. Finally, the last thing we want to check here is that SLI is indeed enabled. Looking at the bottom you can see it is. Still, the only real way to make sure everything is working is to benchmark the setup. So with haste, let’s get into it!