Hi guys, Hilbert reviewed both cards and both were very good in his opinion. I want to buy or the Gigabyte 980ti G1 or the MSI 980ti 6G.. Which one you advise? It's quite a lot of money, so I don't want to make te 'wrong' decision ;-) Thanks!
This is my first MSI gaming I normally get EVGA and I am really impressed it is a very solid card very well made awesome cooling and awesome performance I had EVGA 970 SCC ACX which was louder than the MSI 980ti Gaming I can 100% recommend MSI
msi cards are really silent in my experience, but if you care more about performance it seems the gigabyte will do better OC and temps but just barely noticeable imo
this is obsessing over it, don't you think? that's just one spot on the G1 that's higher, overall both cards have areas that are hotter and that are cooler. all temps for both cards are really good. before Guru3D had a thermal camera we didn't even know how hot each little nook and cranny on GPU got and somehow our GPUs didn't die left and right. in another thread i saw a person returning his MSI in exchanged for G1 based on this one thermal image, that's just crazy IMO.
hmmm.... very 50/50 opinions here.. But thanks a lot, I think I will go for the G1, my previous card was a MSI 980 4G Gaming, was great, but I think I want to try Gigabyte. In some benchmarks it's just a tat faster.
It's not obsessive if your shelling out close to $700 for a graphics card. The picture clearly shows the VRMs of the G1 are not dissipating the heat built up as well as the MSI. That is a potential failure point or could be a limiting factor in prolonged stability.
No its not obsessing over it, if the other has an advantage or better temps then its fully justified.
I believe if there was a problem with the temps HH would have highlighted it but he said they were both very good. My experience with the MSi card is that its awesome I have never had a GPU that with fans at 100% produces so little noise (ACX2 GTX 970 SCC impossible to use fans 100% very loud) I can use this GPU at 70/80% fans every day so its temps are awesome. MSI 980ti GAMING Score 17081 Graphics Score 21247 Physics Score 13146 Combined Score 8451 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5288325 with this overclock 64c +170 core +400mem max voltage fans 80%
Yes but that was not overclocked. I would not want to have my VRM's that close to their theoretical threshold. All I'm doing is pointing out that the MSI card appears to have better VRM cooling.
Bought the G1 yesterday, and yes it is a great card. VERY good results, keeps it very cool! Maybe a little bit more noise than a MSI (I owned a MSI 980 4G gaming before) but since I use my PC in my living room as a sort of a gaming-console (...) so i's far away it doesn't matter at all. And besides, it certainly isn't THAT loud. Very happy with it.
If their coolers are anything like their 980 and 970 counterparts, I'd highly recommend the MSI one over the Gigabyte. The MSI HSF is relatively silent even at high fan speeds compared to even a moderate setting of the Gigabyte G1's Windforce HSF meanwhile their cooling (at least on a 970) was roughly the same at 100%. At 100% with the G1 you absolutely need headphones, while the MSI one was not that loud. Also I never had buzzing/whine at low frame rates (as in not in the hundreds) with the MSI one, with the Gigabyte G1 model I get what sounds like coil whine even at low frame rates in certain games. I've had 3 G1 models and it was the same with all of them. But remember, at hundreds of frames pretty much any card has whine. I forgot to mention, with the 970 G1s Gigabyte pulled a fast one and switched the RAM on them to lower binned Hynix RAM. The models in reviews used Samsung RAM and got much higher overclocks. When I contacted Gigabyte to ask them why they would do such a scumbag move on a premium model which they're charging that much more for, their answer was because it meets the required specs. In other words they switched to cheaper binned RAM because they can get away with it.
