ASUS is apparently tweaking its final design of the new and upcoming Republic of Gamers Geforce GTX 980 Poseidon graphics card. Featuring the same design as the previous ROG GTX 780 Poseidon, with standard air cooler which can also be attached to a liquid cooling loop, the new ROG GTX 980 Poseidon will have a high factory overclock and is expected to show up in December.

According to a couple of pictures posted by MightyApe retailer/e-tailer, the cooler features a hybrid block base connected to a main heatsink via heatpipes. The heasink design should not be far from the one seen on ASUS GTX 980 Strix graphics card, with hefty heatsink and two fans, so the temperatures should be quite decent even when it is not connected to a liquid cooling system via fittings located a the top of the graphics card.

The new ASUS ROG GTX 980 Poseidon will draw power from two 6-pin PCI-Express power connector which should be enough to push it even further from its factory-overclocked settings of 1178MHz for the base GPU clock, 1279MHz for the GPU Boost clock and 7.0GHz for 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It also has standard display output configuration with single dual-link DVI, single HDMI 2.0 and three DisplayPort 1.2 outputs.

Currently, the ASUS ROG GTX 980 Poseidon is only listed at New Zealand MightyApe retailer with price set at NZD $1300, which is pretty much around US $1000. The source also suggests it should be available sometime in December.







Source: via Techpowerup.com.