The GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk: an MSI and Corsair collaboration

MSI and Corsair have collaborated on what many would call a pretty special kind of GTX 980 Ti, the GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk.

The GPU combines the best of what MSI and Corsair has to offer, MSI’s expertise in graphics card design and Corsair’s really rather capable cooling technology. The result, a hybrid cooling solution that allows for a GTX 980 Ti that’s 20% faster while remaining 30% cooler; it’s quieter too.

The GTX 980 Ti uses what is tantamount to a reference blower to cool the VRM chips and a liquid cooling solution, courtesy of a Corsair H55 closed loop solution, to cool the physical GPU.

For those who are curious, the H55 uses a 120mm silent fan, high-speed circulation pump, 120mm radiator and a micro-fin coper based heatsink.

GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk vs. Reference GTX 980 Ti.

The Sea Hawk also comes with a 1190 MHz base clock (a 190 MHz boost over the reference 1000 MHz) and a 1291 MHz boost clock (a hefty increase of 216 MHz), a promising overclock.

Specifications	Corsair Hydro GFX	Reference GTX 980 Ti
CUDA Cores	2,816	2,816
Core Clock	1,190MHz	1,000MHz
Boost Clock	1,291MHz	1,075MHz
Memory Clock	7.096GHz GDDR5	7.01GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	384-bit	384-bit
VRAM	6GB	6GB
TDP	250W	250W
GPU	GM200	GM200
Length	10.5 inches	10.5 inches
Width	Double-Slot + 120mm Radiator	Double-Slot
Warranty	3 years	–
Launch Date	October 2015	Available
Launch Price (United States)	$739	$649

*Table sourced from MyBroadband.

With the cooling the Sea Hawk uses and MSI Afterburner, the Sea Hawk may well make or one of the best overclocking GPUs and grab the honour of fastest GTX 980 Ti.