{"id":81459,"date":"2015-09-17T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81459"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:36:38","slug":"the-gtx-980-ti-sea-hawk-an-msi-and-corsair-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81459-the-gtx-980-ti-sea-hawk-an-msi-and-corsair-collaboration","title":{"rendered":"The GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk: an MSI and Corsair collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

MSI and Corsair have collaborated on what many would call a pretty special kind of GTX 980 Ti, the GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk.<\/p>\n

The GPU combines the best of what MSI and Corsair has to offer, MSI\u2019s expertise in graphics card design and Corsair\u2019s really rather capable cooling technology. The result, a hybrid cooling solution that allows for a GTX 980 Ti that\u2019s 20% faster while remaining 30% cooler; it\u2019s quieter too.<\/p>\n

\"GeForce<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"GTX<\/a>

GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk vs. Reference GTX 980 Ti.<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Specifications<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nCorsair Hydro GFX<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nReference GTX 980 Ti<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CUDA Cores<\/strong><\/td>\n2,816<\/td>\n2,816<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Core Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n1,190MHz<\/td>\n1,000MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boost Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n1,291MHz<\/td>\n1,075MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n7.096GHz GDDR5<\/td>\n7.01GHz GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory Bus Width<\/strong><\/td>\n384-bit<\/td>\n384-bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VRAM<\/strong><\/td>\n6GB<\/td>\n6GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TDP<\/strong><\/td>\n250W<\/td>\n250W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GPU<\/strong><\/td>\nGM200<\/td>\nGM200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Length<\/strong><\/td>\n10.5 inches<\/td>\n10.5 inches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Width<\/strong><\/td>\nDouble-Slot + 120mm Radiator<\/td>\nDouble-Slot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warranty<\/strong><\/td>\n3 years<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch Date<\/strong><\/td>\nOctober 2015<\/td>\nAvailable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch Price (United States)<\/strong><\/td>\n$739<\/td>\n$649<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

*Table sourced from MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\n

Source: KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

More GPU news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NVIDIA expects virtual reality to be an expensive experience<\/a><\/p>\n

An R9 Nano powers this nearly R100, 000, 10 TFlop PC<\/a><\/p>\n

GTX 990M notebook GPU is as fast as a desktop GTX 980<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s Radeon R9 Nano: half the size of the GTX 980, just as fast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it’s really rather special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":81461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1782,2420,47,6292,13992,15865,1085,5203,1969,45],"class_list":["post-81459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-corsair","tag-geforce","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-gtx-980-ti","tag-gtx-980-ti-sea-hawk","tag-hardware-2","tag-msi","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81467,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81459\/revisions\/81467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}