GeForce GTX 980 Ti 

The increase is relatively small compared to the performance gained, which has the card tie with the GTX 980 Ti reference design for the 2nd best efficiency spot.

It takes advantage of DirectX 11 and is fairly heavy on modern high-end GPUs, even if it's well-optimized for mainstream hardware.

With the performance improvements from the overclock taken into account, the card actually delivers better performance-per-watt than the reference design.

During gaming, the Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming uses quite a bit more power than the reference design, but it makes up for that with much higher performance.

Fan noise during serious gaming is also much lower than with the NVIDIA reference design, but at 37 dBA, far from whisper quiet.

A modern open-world game imagining of the post-apocalyptic cult-classic, Mad Max presents a richly detailed and hauntingly beautiful depiction of the Wasteland that includes several locations from the original movies.

Thanks to the overclock out of the box, Palit's gaming price/performance ratio is better than with the GTX 980 Ti reference or GTX 980.

Fan noise has traditionally been a strong suit of the MSI Gaming Series graphics cards.

53°C67°CMSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming50°C74°CEVGA GTX 980 Ti SC+54°C76°CGigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming48°C70°CNVIDIA GTX 980 Ti41°C84°CNVIDIA GTX Titan X34°C84°C Important: GPU temperature will vary depending on clock speed, voltage settings, cooler design, and production variances.

The GPU can address the entire 6 GB of memory at a consistent speed.

The card features 6 GB of memory, half that of the GTX Titan X, but at 288 GB/s, the memory bandwidth is the same.

The chip is wired to 6 GB of GDDR5 memory across its 384-bit interface and can address all of it at a consistent bandwidth.

What I find surprising is that the Furmark result is the same as for the NVIDIA reference design, which suggests that MSI did not increase the power limit of their board, but why even bother changing to a 6+8 to a 8+8 pin power input configuration if the power limit hasn't been increased?

Furmark maximum power is the same as with the reference design, though, so MSI did not increase the board's power limit, which would have made sense given they changed the board power input to dual-8-pin.

This configuration is specified for up to 450 W power draw.