MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning Review @ Guru3D

This little gem has been all over my social streams and I have to say I'm glad to see it back.  As some of you may know (or will know now) MSI tried doing a GTX 780 Lightning but ran into a whole host of issues and eventually scrapped it.  The GTX 780 Ti was no better and GTX 980 was non-existent.

But now.... Now we have the GTX 980 Ti Lightning.

We review the long anticipated and awaited MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning edition.  You'll retrieve up-to 1.3 Volts to play with on the GPU voltage range for example. This 6 GB card is overclocked for you at default already, typically a reference GTX 980 Ti will run 1 GHz. The Lightning however comes with default clocks of 1203 (base) / 1304 (boost) MHz. Armed with 6 GB graphics memory this product was built to impress.

Based on the specs posted in the "quote" the Lightning is clocked 10Mhz faster than the EVGA Classified and comes with some voltage.  Not bad though as I determined in my review of the EVGA GTX 980 Ti Classified the chip doesn't scale with voltage.

However, the ASIC on my classy was pretty much crap and without a "Kingpin" card to steal away chips there is a chance the MSI version might just clock better.  I'll be on the hunt to get a sample, until then the web reviews might be all we get.

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