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Custom Galaxy Geforce GTX 970 bench leaks

by on11 September 2014



Nothing to see here, move along

VideoCardz has come across an unusual post on Baidu, which involved a custom Galaxy card, supposedly the GTX 970. It’s not just a couple of blurry photos, the card was actually tested and the results were posted for everyone to see.

The unannounced GTX 970 is Nvidia’s first big Maxwell product. Until now Maxwell was reserved for the mid range. Bear in mind that none of this information is official and it is subject to change, so please take it with a grain of salt.

GTX 970 spec


According to the Chinese enthusiast who leaked the card (and GPU-Z), this is the official GTX 970 spec:

1,664 CUDA cores
138 TMUs
32 ROPs
256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
4GB standard memory amount
1051MHz core, 1178 MHz GPU Boost, and 7012 MHz (GDDR5-effective) memory clocks
224GB/s memory bandwidth

The Galaxy card features two fans, a beefy backplate and it has 8-pin and 6-pin connectors. The reference design relies on two 6-pin connectors, so we are clearly dealing with a custom card. You can check out the shots over at VideoCardz, since the original source had them taken down.

GTX 780 or GTX 780 Ti performance?


The card was benchmarked on a dual-core Core i3-4130 clocked at 3.4GHz, which sounds like a rather underpowered CPU for a high-end card.

It scored X3963 in 3Dmark 11 Extreme and the leaker reckons it is somewhere between the GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti in terms of performance.

Naturally it is still too early to say, since this was not a proper review, so the result does not paint the full picture.

One odd detail is the date displayed in 3Dmark. It is January 17th 2014, which suggests one of two things. While this could be an elaborate hoax, that would not explain the photos of the actual card. It could just mean someone was lazy and did not set the right time on the test rig. 

 

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