Saturday, May 23rd 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Smiles for the Camera
Here are some of the first pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card, in the flesh. As predicted, the reference design board reuses the PCB of the GeForce GTX TITAN-X, and its cooler is a silver version of its older sibling. According to an older report, the GTX 980 Ti will be carved out of the 28 nm GM200 silicon, by disabling 2 of its 24 SMM units, resulting in a CUDA core count of 2,816. The card retains its 384-bit GDDR5 memory bus width, but holds 6 GB of memory, half that of the GTX TITAN-X. The card is expected to launch in early June, 2015. NVIDIA's add-in card (AIC) partners will be free to launch custom-design boards with this SKU, so you could hold out for the MSI Lightnings, the EVGA Classifieds, the ASUS Strixes, the Gigabyte G1s, and the likes.
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118 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Smiles for the Camera
And we really don't know how much HBM will help the 390X, AMD has had double the memory bandwidth of nVidia in the last generation and couldn't manage to outperform nVidia. So obviously just piling on more memory bandwidth isn't the solution to their problems.
I'm also not quite sure why people expect it to offer a better value. If it really does outperform nVidia you can bet it won't offer a better value in any way, AMD will price it just as high as the Titans(they've done it in the past). If it doesn't outperform nVidia, then AMD will price the 390X right in line with what it matches from nVidia, just like they currently do.
If 390X is neck to neck in price/performance with 980 Ti I think 390X will sell a looot easier.
Just having a buzz word isn't going to help them sell cards if their card still runs hotter, uses more power, and doesn't actually outperform the competition.
Very generic and repetative
This is about looks, all the cards since the Titan looking the same, its unimaginative and boring.
This never written anywhere . So incompletely excised defective cut processor that would have operate by turning off the SSM unit is sold here! Thus is in all inferior units on offer regardless of the manufacturer. I have no problem with this, but this should lower the price because it is the waste (reject, skart)!
We can expect the same problems as with GTX970!
www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx_980ti_specs_and_performance_leaked/1
and this backs it up:
forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28074792&postcount=542
Within 7% of Titan with half memory, makes it a more worth card. That 7% will evaporate on a modified dual BIOS card with water and a good PCB (Lightning, Classified etc)
What's good is that this will probably have AIB custom PCBs (higher voltage) and with 6GB being more than enough for any humanly conceivable resolution it will be a good chunk better than the Titan X.
Lets look at this technically
its obviously got a better core than a 290X yes? so that means 4K gaming right? WRONG 4GB Vram is maxed out at 1080P and 1440P ultra settings .
THe HBM in this first release is limited to 4GB not enough for 4K. so that means. that the chip is essentially being wasted! V2 will be a worthwile choice at 8-12-16gb being possible.
but until then its a bragging rights card, as its going to be fast at 1080P and 1440P... lol the 290X with 8gb does that. meaning you will be paying $899 for what a 290X will do at 1/4 the price!
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