A Closer Look
Aesthetically the card plays things very safe: there’s an all-black design with a metal shroud encasing the main cooling solution.
Around the back we find a backplate which sports the G1 Gaming logo, the right way up, for it to be seen in your case.
The whole design is open for additional ventilation to allow it to achieve that 600W cooling capacity.
The Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming has a dual slot design. Along the top we find dual 8 pin power connectors and dual SLI fingers. 4-Way SLI is the maximum supported.
Gigabyte’s fans use a new style of blade which they claim increases airflow by 23% over their previous generation VGA fans.
At the end of the card we can see the ends of five of the 8mm heat pipes.
Display outputs are provided in abundance: dual DVIs, triple DisplayPorts and a single HDMI 2.0.
Coming from a EVGA GeForce GTX 670 would be a really nice upgrade, looking at the GTX 770 witch is noting more then a GTX 680 and the GTX 980, the numbers are pretty high. Especially when playing on Quad HD. Then again the 20nm is just around the corner, I’ll wait a little longer because all the games I have here should play just fine at Max settings, and running two of these in SLI should hold you over a good three years.
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