hmmmmm.. looks like I'm not the only one who noticed what I said above ??
'''This is important question... Why EVGA decide to go with inferior clocks to other brands with GTX980Ti cards.
I thought their cards have good clock before I saw others... Classified cards was much faster than Lightening usually.
Now simple ASUS Strix have higher clock than EVGA Classified, and that's not ASUS premium model. Premium will be probably 1250MHz...
It's very bad that ASUS Strix have 120MHz higher clock than Superclocked cards. This cards are much faster than TITAN X.
My personal opinion is that EVGA should launch GTX980Ti Classified ULTRA with 1250MHz or to look people who decide to choose Matrix.
Under waterblock and ugly GIGABYTE is same as EVGA... It's OK absolutely if EVGA launch model with 1250MHz and than Galaxy or some other brand show up with 1270MHz... But it's not nice to Classified be inferior to Strix. Strix if first simple ASUS custom card.
They usually launch two faster model Poseidon and Matrix under ROG name.
CLASSIFIED ULTRA! 1250MHz... Because we can't buy K|NGP|N that graphic card is not made for gaming...
I mean EVGA don't disappoint me, Classified is not Classified if we have every single brand custom card faster than Classified.
I mean I'm gamer who buy cards because higher clock. I think people in EVGA agree with me that they need much faster card than Classified for gamers.''
http://forums.evga.com/GTX-980-TI-Classified-m2344369-p7.aspx