Thursday, June 19th 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 to Launch This Q4
NVIDIA is planning to launch its next high performance single-GPU graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870, no later than Q4-2014, in the neighborhood of October and November, according to a SweClockers report. The two will be based on the brand new "GM204" silicon, which most reports suggest, is based on the existing 28 nm silicon fab process. Delays by NVIDIA's principal foundry partner TSMC to implement its next-generation 20 nm process has reportedly forced the company to design a new breed of "Maxwell" based GPUs on the existing 28 nm process. The architecture's good showing with efficiency on the GeForce GTX 750 series probably gave NVIDIA hope. When 20 nm is finally smooth, it wouldn't surprise us if NVIDIA optically shrinks these chips to the new process, like it did to the G92 (from 65 nm to 55 nm). The GM204 chip is rumored to feature 3,200 CUDA cores, 200 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. It succeeds the company's current workhorse chip, the GK104.
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SweClockers
72 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 to Launch This Q4
There is a correlation between the power of GPUs and the complexity of games. If you're waiting to buy a GPU that can play the latest games at highest settings then you will never buy one because the latest games will always be setting the bar higher.
Oh wait...it did. The GK104.:slap:
Ermagerd...3200 SP and 256-bit/32 ROP? Totally unimaginable and borderline blasphemous!
Also nobody was talking about the quality of the games.
That and I prefer companies at least trying to not destroy our planet for the sake of bigger numbers. Granted, the concept of high end GPU's still destroy the planet, but at least it's a dent.
I'm glad you don't care about power consumption. BUT MOST OF THE REST OF US DO.
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If you are just browsing the internet or any of those other stuff you can and will do on a pc other then gaming which barely require a gpu of any kind, you dont want your pc to use up tons of electricity.
Oh, and the specs listed here are completely inaccurate / made up. No way a card with that many shaders could function on a 256bit memory bus.
Now, my fiance's rig (Frankenrig, below) on the other hand, probably could see some really good improvement with the 8's going from a 660Ti.
For me After 4 years of Fermi SLI I'm ready for something with less of all the above. For me I'm also interested in semi portability so a gaming laptop is where it's at.
But say you've been sitting on 580 sli and the rest of your rig runs fine. I can see an 880/870 that runs at less than half the power while offering more performance being a very attractive solution.
Now as far as the shrinking of the die obsession, I really do not think thats a big deal. I would rather wait on better stability than just shrink for the whole idea of shrinking. GM already proved with the 750ti that we can use less power and cores yet achieve better performance on the 28nm die.
As for the power consumption debate, having lower power consumption is something to strive for since we have started to go a little crazy in that area. However the differences your talking about in most cases amount to zip/zilch/nada in a power bill even in some of the more expensive regions. With thigns like zero core or the likes if the computer is idle then its not using much power and even under gaming or 100% load the power consumption is not outrageous even on the craziest of machines. The amount of difference things would make on a power bill to amount to anything really under general use would take years to make up an amount that would look like actual savings. So unless your running your computer 24/7 under load, power consumption for money savings is a meh topic.
I am building a water cooling loop with lots of radiators so I won't have any trouble with the noise. The heat will keep me warm so the central heating system doesn't have to work as hard. I would buy a 500W card if the performance was double that of a 250W card, it would be better than SLI.