Wednesday, February 10th 2016
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti VR Edition Starts Selling
The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti VR EDITION has arrived. Accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Maxwell architecture, the GTX 980 Ti delivers an unbeatable 4K and virtual reality experience. With 2,816 NVIDIA CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5 memory, it has the horsepower to drive whatever comes next. And with the VR EDITION, you get an included 5.25" drive bay with front HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.0 giving you easy access to your VR device's input. The graphics card also has an internal HDMI connector, meaning no external cables will be visible.New and Key Features:
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- Built for VR: Included 5.25" Drive Bay with Front HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.0.
- Internal HDMI: Connects to a 5.25" Drive Bay, no visible external wires!
- ACX 2.0+ Cooling: EVGA's latest cooling solution offers improved cooling, reduced fan noise and better overclocking.
- 6GB of GDDR5 Memory: Gives you access to higher texture qualities in games, improved 4K gaming performance and optimized for the next generation of gaming.
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37 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti VR Edition Starts Selling
However, on topic, this VR edition is a bit of a con. Normal card with drive bay for cables. Hmm....
If it weren't for the clever split ram on the 970, that card would have only 2gb. At least according to an interview of an nvidia representative when the entire Internet broke because of the whole thing. And then the guy who made the benchmark that people were using to test said it was not a valid way to verify the issue, and has asked people to stop.
maxwell cores are the best of the 28nm process but everything else attached to that core... yup. hitting high frequency with less cores making things more efficient overall but starved already by vram bandwidth and relying on compression to keep relevance.
they talk up some garbage that now with maxwell we can cut down the arch like this... oops fail there not following the leader. the 970 has such high processing ability per core it would be silly to see one with 2gb or even 3gb especially with lower bandwidth and slimmer width if you go by amd standard for how a gpu should be balanced.
if amd made the 970...4gb
if amd made the 980...6gb
if amd made the 980ti..8gb
if amd the titan..12gb
but they dont want messy situation with high end gpu's especially regarding fields they are among world leaders in. they tell no lie that 4gb of hbm is just as good as 8gb of gddr5 but if they cant get nv to figure it out then what the hell should they do. truth is its just a load of shit and nv knows what they are doing and they know most people have no damn idea.. even at the patent office.
980ti = 8 billion transistors
Fury X = 4096 shaders
980ti = 2816 shaders/cuda cores
Fury X texture fillrate = 268.8 GT/s
980ti texture fillrate = 176 GT/s
Fury X ROPS = 64
980ti ROPS = 96
Fury X pixel fillrate = 67.2 GP/s
980ti pixel fillrate = 96 GP/s
Fury X memory bus = 4096 bit
980ti memory bus = 384 bit
HBM doesn't make AMD awesome, it helps gloss over the Fiji arch's weaknesses. When it comes to business, Nvidia knew what they were doing perfectly well. If you compare the hardware numbers, Fury X should wipe the floor with Maxwell but it doesn't. However they did it, they misfired. And as great as the HBM implementation is, it was an early adoption with little traction. Arguments suggest they had to go HBM otherwise their power draw would have been silly.
Don't get me wrong, I think Fury X is a great card but it should be better.
It’s hard to say because there’s more than “bits and pieces” there's their sum together, it’s more how well they interact. On that we can say Fiji doesn’t appear to make the most of what’s placed on it vs. the GM200 only because there are GTX 980Ti that in more cases provide percentage increase in FpS… which is one matrix. The only thing you can say is Nvidia has a 601mm² part, while AMD nearly competitive part is a 596mm² not much else.
Fact is Nvidia didn't need a fully fledged GM200 to compete with Fiji.
that would probably be a good thread.. no? pull up some white papers on compute units for both camps?
Fury X is water cooled because it is already clocked to the balls to compete, it's lack of headroom is there for everyone to see... sorry. :P