EVGA is about to launch their GeForce GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN graphics card. This is going to be the first graphics card where customers can select the ASIC quality they want to buy. Basically this is the first time that a vendor goes to the point where they offer pre-binned products.

The KINGPIN cards from EVGA have always been known for excellent overclockability and with the GTX 980 Ti, it looks like EVGA wants to bring this to the next level. Using a GM200 chip there are 2816 CUDA cores on this card, 176 texture units and 96 raster opteration units. Apart from that the card runs at 1203 MHz standard and 1304 MHz boost clock and there is 6 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7010 MHz. What's also impressive on this card is the power design. There are 14 phases regarding the GPU, two for the memory and one for PLL. Apart from that there are no less than two 8-pin and one 6-pin power connectors.

Although already these specs are impressive, lets get to the core feature of this card. EVGA is offering GTX 980 Ti KINGPIN cards with 72%+, 74%+, 76%+ and 80%+ ASIC quality. Apparently, the higher the ASIC quality the higher the price. Therefore the prices are 849.99 US-Dollar (72%+), 899.99 US-Dollar (74%+), 999.99 US-Dollar (76%+) and 1049.99 US-Dollar (80%+). You can expect a GPU with higher ASIC quality to overclock better than another one with lower ASIC quality. In other words this means that KINGPIN cards with 80%+ ASIC quality can reach higher frequencies than the ones with 72%+ ASIC quality.

KINGPIN is actually highly binned versions of these cards himself to break overclocking world records. Using liquid nitrogen as coolant he was able to overclock a card to 2100 MHz (GPU) and 2053 MHz (memory). This was enough to score 12'233 Points in 3DMark Firestrike.










Source: EVGA