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
This is a big chip, and 6GB is on the low end for this price/performance range. Consider the SLI options as well. For now 6GB may be enough, but you can go a long way with this card especially in SLI, and I can imagine the VRAM won't cut it then anymore.
Thats why I responded originally, since i definately am not in a mild climate. I do agree though, any cooler should be able to work anywhere.
Given the fact that the 980ti will use the gm200 and not be cheap, one can expect nvidia to go back to the vapor chamber version.
And heck, a lot of the aftermarket cards omit the dual-bios.
I also flashed my current GPUs like 10+ times and it's always been a success, if you know what you are flashing and HOW you have to do it then there's like 0.001% risk.
This is a 980 Ti card topic: we should be discussing that instead!
What goes around... :laugh:
What's gonna make the difference is the availability of higher voltage enabled SKUs for the 980Tis, that alone kills the Titan X which will be only reference. That's stupid from Nvidia but hey they do what they want.
The only advantage Titan X has is being a full fledged core which may appeal to some just for that reason, and the 12GB VRAM which is immensely oversized for now.
and this card gonna answer my prayer..... thanks nvidia :)
It's just a guess on my part but I think a 980 Ti even though it will have less cores than the Titan X with a great non reference cooler will possibly outperform the Titan X.
If it comes in at $650 or less then it will sell very well. That was the price for the GTX 780 at release.
It's COD:AW and it's because it's poorly coded, it leaves loaded memory in the frame buffer even if it doesn't utilize it anymore, it has been shown that 3GB cards play it without an issue.
As far as the price goes, I am better its going to be $750 area based on its performance point. For $150 more than the 980 it would have such a hike in performance it would possibly overshadow the 980 at its price point (IMHO).Or they did it to pretend their game needs that much ;)