Monday, September 15th 2014
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 Pricing Revealed
Apparently, NVIDIA is convinced that it has a pair of winners on its hands, with its upcoming GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards, and is preparing to price them steeply. The GeForce GTX 980 is expected to start at US $599, nearly the same price as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. The GTX 970, on the other hand, will start at US $399, danger-close to cannibalizing the GTX 780.
Across the brands, the GTX 980 is launching at the same pricing AMD's Radeon R9 290X launched at; and the GTX 970 at that of the R9 290. AMD's cards have since settled down to $449 for the R9 290X, and R9 290 at $350. Both the GTX 980 and GTX 970, will be available in non-reference board designs, although reference-design GTX 980 will dominate day-one reviews. Based on the 28 nm GM204 silicon, the GTX 980 features 2,048 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs; while the GTX 970 features 1,664 CUDA cores, and 104 TMUs. Both feature 256-bit wide memory interfaces, holding 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Source:
3DCenter.org
Across the brands, the GTX 980 is launching at the same pricing AMD's Radeon R9 290X launched at; and the GTX 970 at that of the R9 290. AMD's cards have since settled down to $449 for the R9 290X, and R9 290 at $350. Both the GTX 980 and GTX 970, will be available in non-reference board designs, although reference-design GTX 980 will dominate day-one reviews. Based on the 28 nm GM204 silicon, the GTX 980 features 2,048 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs; while the GTX 970 features 1,664 CUDA cores, and 104 TMUs. Both feature 256-bit wide memory interfaces, holding 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
71 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 Pricing Revealed
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I will wait for reviews of the GTX 980 though.
970 at the price of 780;
probably 960 at the price of 770?
and maybe a future 980 Ti will set a new pricing mileage? And not to mention the Titans...
Performance aside, i can see a continuous trend of price increase with each new generation.
I guess launch day will tell all and then we can see the actual performance numbers.
Curious.
The GTX 980 should be a $100 cheaper. The GTX 970 at $399 more expected but ideally should be $50 less. I still wouldn't plump for either over a GK110 based on what I've seen.
Nobody else saw this coming? If anybody thought NVidia would release their top tier card, that is still cut down silicon and will be replaced by a Ti anyway, at a reasonable price, then they've obviously never bought a flagship card on release. I'll remind everyone that the 780 was £550 on launch day, just look at it now. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. Wait a fair few months and prices will naturally become slightly more reasonable.
Sub £400 would be far better but hey, let's see what happens....
And let's not forget, the release price of its 680 predecessor was dictated by market forces. Two companies play the price game, not just one. Its just that one doesn't lower much after release while the other does.
The only thing which can stop nvidia from being so greedy, is AMD, their pricing structure and new faster cards as soon as possible.
As far as I understand, AMD will launch 20 nm cards next year, while nvidia will skip and go to 16 nm perhaps in the beginning of 2016. :laugh:
Absolutely no GPU worth to invest in for a new game.