Two different Nvidia 970s, help me tell the difference please

Slipperss · Oct 13, 2014

Both are by Gigabyte (click specifications in link)

We got the GIGABYTE GV-N970G1 GAMING-4GD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684&cm_re=gtx_970_gigabyte-_-14-125-684-_-Product

And the GIGABYTE GV-N970WF3OC-4GD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125685

I can see that the first one has higher clocks, but the second one got "OC" in it's name, so I thought that would be the one with the higher clocks, is there any difference at all other than the first one being faster?

huilun02 · Oct 13, 2014

The G1 uses better binned chips that can sustain higher overclocks. Its cooler is slightly different.

Performance wise they are not very different.

Slipperss · Oct 13, 2014

Apparently it is fairly common for the G1 to have coil whine, wonder if the Rev.1 got it fixed or something