EVGA GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 To Feature Next Generation ACX 2.0 Cooler With Ball Bearing Design

EVGA has teased their next generation GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 graphics bill of fare which will make utilize of their latest ACX 2.0 libation with ball bearing design. The GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 will be the first truthful high-functioning Maxwell graphics card which will characteristic ane of the most efficient GPU in the history of the graphics manufacture. EVGA GeForce GTX 980 ACX

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 To Feature ACX 2.0 Cooler

One year ago, EVGA who are 1 of the major and about recognized board partner of NVIDIA released their ACX cooler for the GeForce GTX 780 and GeForce GTX 770 graphics cards. Those were the first NVIDIA GeForce 700 series cards to striking the market at that betoken of fourth dimension and now that Maxwell GeForce 900 series is arriving, EVGA is yet again preparing a new variant of their ACX cooler known as the ACX 2.0. EVGA hasn't gone with whatsoever fancy name for the card and simply kept things elementary by calling it ACX2 (Active Cooling Xtreme 2.0). EVGA has uploaded a teaser video of the ACX 2.0 cooler on their YouTube page which can be seen below:

EVGA is calling their cooler "The World's Most Efficient Air Cooler". Those numbers testify that EVGA is pretty confident that they'll exist able to tackle some non-reference and custom coolers such every bit the Twin Frozr Five from MSI, STRIX DirectCU II from ASUS, Phantom from Gainward and WindForce from Gigabyte. EVGA specifically claims the nigh efficient which means that the cooler will prefer a new design scheme such as the ball bearing fans which volition aid regulate air period much better than most cooling solutions out in the market place at little to no noise output. We have already seen some expert designs from other AIB partners but NVIDIA has to be thanked for this since their NVTTM cooler is a formidable cooling solution which pushes the AIB partners to release new and improve cooling products of their own. I personally beloved the reference design NVIDIA has adopted since Titan but the cooler has been overused and to come across it being featured on the GTX 980 once again makes things little exciting. The specifications of the card themselves might be adept but I wish nosotros would take seen an improved reference pattern from NVIDIA. Only why modify something that does the task well and performs expert?

Alright so back to ACX ii.0, the bill of fare teases past NVIDIA is basically a render so its not the existent GTX 980 or the GTX 970. What you can tell is that the cooler makes use of a dense aluminum fin array with unusually big, denser heatpipes. There are two cooling fans (100mm) on the shroud and from the looks of it, the shroud is almost as same as the older ACX 1.0 cooler and then the changes mostly lie underneath the shroud. There are some facial and pattern changes hither and there but the scheme is similar. Under the hood, we can notice the specifications listed in the following chart.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Specifications:

	GeForce GTX 570	GeForce GTX 580	GeForce GTX 670	GeForce GTX 680	GeForce GTX 770	GeForce GTX 780	GeForce GTX 780 Ti	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 980
Codename	GF110	GF110	GK104	GK104	GK104	GK110	GK110	GM204	GM204
Process	40nm	40nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
GPU Core	Fermi	Fermi	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Maxwell	Maxwell
SM Units	15 10 32	16 x 32	7 x 192	8 10 192	8 x 192	12 x 192	fourteen x 192	13 x 128	16 x 128
CUDA Cores	480	512	1344	1536	1536	2304	2880	1664	2048
ROPS	40	48	32	32	32	48	48	TBC	64
TMUs	60	64	112	128	128	192	240	TBC	128
Core Clock	732 MHz	772 MHz	915 MHz	1006 MHz	1046 MHz	863 MHz	875 MHz	1051 MHz	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1464 MHz	1544 MHz (Shader Clock)	980 MHz	1058 MHz	1085 MHz	900 MHz	928 MHz	1178 MHz	1216 MHz
Retentiveness	1.ii GB GDDR5	1.five GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	iv GB GDDR5	iv GB GDDR5
Retentiveness Omnibus	320-Chip	384-Bit	256-scrap	256-bit	256-bit	384-Bit	384-Bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	iii.80 GB/s	four.0 GB/s	6.0 GHz	6.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	vi.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	seven.0 GHz	7.0 GHz
Retentiveness Bandwidth	152.00 GB/south	192.4 GB/s	192.0 GB/s	192.0 GB/due south	224.5 GB/south	288.6 GB/south	336.0 GB/southward	224.5 GB/s	224.5 GB/southward
Texture Fill Rate GT/southward	43.92	49.41	102.v	128.eight	134	166	210	145.0	TBC
TDP	219W	244W	170W	192W	220W	250W	250W	148W	175W
Power Connectors	six+half dozen Pin	8+6 Pin	vi+6 Pin	vi+6 Pin	eight+6 Pivot	8+6 Pin	viii+half dozen Pivot	6+six Pin	6+6 Pivot
DirectX 12 Support	Aye	Aye	Yep	Yeah	Yeah	Yes	Yes	Yeah	Aye
Launch	December 7th 2022	Nov 09 2022	May 10th 2022	March 22nd 2022	May 30th 2022	May 23rd 2022	Dec 2022	18th September 2022	18th September 2022
Price	$349 US	$499 US	$349 United states of america	$499 The states	$349 US	$499 US	$699 US	$299 Reference $329+ Custom	$549 Reference $549+ Custom