MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk Benchmark and Specs

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk has 2816 shaders and 22 execution units. The graphics card thus achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 7.27 TFLOPS.

Based on

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GPU Chip

GM200-310-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)

Streaming Multiprocessors

22

Shader

2816

Render Output Units

96

Texture Units

176

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk can use 6 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The graphics card thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 341 GB/s on a 384 bit wide memory interface.

Memory Size

6 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Clock

1.775 GHz

Memory Speed

7.1 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

341 GB/s

Memory Interface

384 bit

The base clock frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk is 1.190 GHz. A high clock frequency (even in turbo mode) can greatly increase the speed of a graphics card.

Base Clock

1.190 GHz+19 %

Boost Clock

1.291 GHz+20 %

Overclocking

Yes

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk is 250 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

TDP

250 W

Tjunction max

91 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk has a total of 2 Radial / Axial (Radiator) fans to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Radial / Axial (Radiator)

Fan 1

1 x 65 mm

Fan 2

1 x 120 mm

Cooler-Type

AIO water cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.2

DVI

1

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk has a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels. The graphics card supports the DirectX 12_1 standard.

Max. resolution

4096x2160

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

No

LED

No LED lighting

The video codecs accelerated in hardware by the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk reduce the processor load and ensure lower energy consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

No

VP8

Decode

VP9

No

AV1

No

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk is 270 mm long and 111 mm high. With a width of 40 mm, the graphics card requires 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

Length

270 mm

Height

111 mm

Width

40 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk made in 28 nm was published in Q3/2015 for 799 $.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3 x 16

Release date

Q3/2015

Launch Price

799 $

Structure size

28 nm