Ahead of its launch, the existence of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti has been a while in the market but MSI just announces the OC-series GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning. Some pictures reveal a card that MSI threw all its engineering expertise and retains the yellow-black design scheme of its predecessors, and is characterized by an even larger Tri-Frozr triple-fan cooling solution. The cooler on the graphic card features a large nickel-plated copper base, from which five 8-10 mm thick heat pipes place between two dense aluminium fin stacks, ventilated by a trio of 100 mm spinners.
The cooler only makes up part of this product, a bigger chunk of engineering went into its custom-design 10-layer PCB, and with a 15-phase VRM that draws power from the combination of 6-pin and two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. An overabundance of overclocker-friendly features such as voltage measurement points, dual-BIOS with an LN2-friendly secondary BIOS, the ability to control speeds of individual fans, and more.
The MSI GTX 980 Ti ships with a factory-overclock of 1203 MHz core, 1303 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.10 GHz GDDR5 memory. However, there aren’t any official details about the price and availability at the moment.