Hardware review: GIGABYTE GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming

In late 2015, GIGABYTE introduced a new line of graphics cards dubbed the Xtreme Gaming series.

Other than the misguided circa-2004 spelling of extreme, this line of GPUs has further refined the already established G1 line of products. The refresh via the new offerings brought GIGABYTE up to the level where they should have always been, not only in performance, but cooling, aesthetics and of course electronics.

There’s little to no need to go over the details of the GTX 980 Ti GPU once more, but suffice to say it remains the fastest GPU on the market, especially when it ships with a massive overclock like this card does. GIGABYTE’s G1.Gaming GTX 980 Ti was the first 980 Ti GPU we reviewed over a year ago, and it may seem strange to see the company release such a component when we are this close to the launch of Pascal GPUs (Q2 2016). However, that is the name of the game. Other vendors have caught up with the G1 card and it’s time for a refresh.

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