Asus GTX 980 Ti Poseidon

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As the final product of Asus’s four custom GTX 980 Ti graphics cards, Poseidon does not go in the same direction as Strix, Gold Edition and Matrix. Instead, the design of the card is simple, using less lines and angles.

If only then, Poseidon would be a monotonous product, especially in the high end segment that always requires emphasis. Of course no company makes a GTX 980 Ti like that, and Asus is no exception. The strangest thing to pay attention to immediately are two “horns” grow out of the top edge of the card. These are the two pipes leading to the cooling pod underneath, waiting for anyone to add extra heat dissipation.

This is a very expensive item because normally people who want to change the graphics card’s coller water have to rebuild the heat sink and heat sink on the board, which is extremely complicated and costly. GTX 980 Ti Poseidon is much simpler, just straighten the water pipe.

The card is three times longer than the PCIe x16 pin. However, the product thickness only takes two PCI slots. Few vendors dare to design heat sinks for the GTX 980 Ti so that usually have to occupy three slot because the GPU is very hot, heat dissipation is thick enough.

Long and heavy so the Asus moon has a back-plate support plate on the back.

Although simple design but Asus still put more details on the mask to avoid monotony.

The card is equipped with two port 8-pin power, raising the maximum power capacity to 375W (Nvidia reference one port 8 pin and one port 6 pin, equivalent to 300W). This can increase the stability of overclocking.

On the fringe, there is one leg waiting for six other batteries, meaning the GTX 980 Ti Poseidon shares the same circuit board with another high-end product, the Strix.

Super-quiet cooling fan, equipped with dust-proof technology.

The card has a total of 1 DVI port, one HDMI port and three DisplayPort ports, capable of exporting up to four monitors.

Components & Radiators

Up to the GTX 980 Ti, no company makes boards and components are not good at all. There is no doubt about the quality of Poseidon, all the Republic of Gamers.

The number of power phases on the board is 10, including 8 phase power supply for GPU and 2 phase for VRM.

Memory chips provided by SKhynix. GTX 980 Ti has 6 GB of memory, ready to fight all 4K resolution games.

The back of the circuit board also has a lot of components.

The memory chips and mosfets come in close contact with the heat sink by thermal-pad pieces. When I remove the heat dissipation, these pieces stick together on the heat sink.

The GTX 980 Ti Poseidon has only three heatpipes.

Thick aluminum foil, well machined. However, because the heat sink occupies only two PCI slots, the height of these leaves is not large.

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Pulse – Overclocking

GTX 980 Ti Poseidon is overclocked to 1114/1753 MHz, compared to Nvidia’s 1000/1753 MHz. Somewhat regrettable that Asus does not overclock memory, while bandwidth is a problem of the GTX 980 Ti in general. When playing the game, the boost pulse is up to 1329 MHz.

Overclock. The highest pulse I achieved was 1270/2000 MHz. Pulse boost at 1481 MHz gaming.

Configure the test

Motherboard: ASRock Z170 Extreme4

Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 4.6 GHz

Graphics Card: Asus GTX 980 Ti Poseidon

Internal memory: 2 x 8 GB Avexir Core Series 2666 MHz

Hard Drive: Kingston HyperX 240 GB SSD

Source: 650W