Gigabyte XTREME GAMING Cards

[mcraygsx]

Going to pick up one of the 970/980 Card today and noticed Gigabyte has launched Xtreme versions for 900 series. These Xtreme Gaming cards seems to be have higher clock then the older G1 and WC versions along with few bells and whistles ( I could care less about)

Do you think these new Xtreme 970/980 are worth the price over older G1 and WC versions ? All I can think of these cards to have better ASIC quality of GM204 since they are clocked better then previous versions. Only found one site with review for 980 Ti Xtreme.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 XTREME: Core Clock 1241 MHz
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 G1: 1228 MHz
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Windforce: Core Clock 1203 MHz

 

[P4-630]

If you plan to OC the card yourself, I'd say it's not worth it, since you can just buy any other 980 and OC yourself.
If you don't OC and have the money to spend, why not.

 

[Constantine Yevseyev]

They're pretty cool (although not really all that much better than, say, a cheaper ZOTAC Omega GTX 980). I doubt that the underlying chips are something special, "golden samples", if you will. 1241 MHz sounds pretty common to me, and I'm sure you'll have no problem pushing it for at least 1400.

The extra that they're asking for is purely because of the LED and a hardware button. The rest is pretty much identical to what you'll get with other GIGABYTE GTX 970/980 WINDFORCE 3X cards. That is, the cooler, electrical components, and video output options.

Do you really want to scrap your 780 already, though? I'd personally wait for the next generation. Maxwell is sure amazing, but the upgrade isn't going to be all that huge, unless your current unit is faulty and/or not up to the task. I was just thinking about getting a GTX 980 for my home machine, and then I realized that I'll be basically investing in a circa Q1 2012 tech.

 

[mcraygsx]

They're pretty cool (although not really all that much better than, say, a cheaper ZOTAC Omega GTX 980). I doubt that the underlying chips are something special, "golden samples", if you will. 1241 MHz sounds pretty common to me, and I'm sure you'll have no problem pushing it for at least 1400.

The extra that they're asking for is purely because of the LED and a hardware button. The rest is pretty much identical to what you'll get with other GIGABYTE GTX 970/980 WINDFORCE 3X cards. That is, the cooler, electrical components, and video output options.

Do you really want to scrap your 780 already, though? I'd personally wait for the next generation. Maxwell is sure amazing, but the upgrade isn't going to be all that huge, unless your current unit is faulty and/or not up to the task. I was just thinking about getting a GTX 980 for my home machine, and then I realized that I'll be basically investing in a circa Q1 2012 tech.

I was wondering why they choose to release these Xtreme series so late. I really care less about lights and stickers.

Only reason I am thinking about selling this 780 Ti Lightening is to get some return before prices drop even further and buy something until Pascal arrives. You are absolutely correct, I did some benchies and seems like this 780Ti is faster then 970 and slight slower then stock 980 unless I overclock this Lightening 780Ti. Only good thing about this 780Ti is that it runs at much lower temperatures.


If I don't sell it now, I know within a year or two it will go into my antique hardware bin when something new takes it place aka pascal.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I was just thinking about getting a GTX 980 for my home machine, and then I realized that I'll be basically investing in a circa Q1 2012 tech.

I'm not understanding this. 980 and 970 were released in November of last year. 2012 Tech would be Keplers. Also, I would not be surprised if it's not next summer before the very first upper-range Pascal comes out, and it may be this time next year before we have several models easily available.

 

[Constantine Yevseyev]

I'm not understanding this. 980 and 970 were released in November of last year. 2012 Tech would be Keplers.

Correct. I was referencing to the fact that these cards belong to the "28 nm" era, which began with the release of the GTX 680 in spring of 2012, as a response to world's first 28 nm GPU, the Radeon HD 7970 (late December 2011, I recall).

Maxwell is indeed very "fresh" and should not be considered as "dated" or anything like that. It just so happens that there isn't a GPU that I'm really liking in their whole line-up (I want something in between GTX 960 and 970, but sadly, that's not physically possible), and also the fact that I know nothing concrete about DX 12/Mantle support at the moment, which I'm both planning on coding against as my primary activity in the future. If they decide to update DX SDK with a cool new feature, I want that. Windows 10 release cycle is so rapid these days...

Only reason I am thinking about selling this 780 Ti Lightening is to get some return before prices drop even further and buy something until Pascal arrives.

That's pretty smart, but still... 780 Ti is a beast of a card. If it runs cool and quiet, I'd say keep it, unless you can sell it for >=75% of what you paid for it.

 

[John Liu]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154355641258835

does outlook attract you? it seems the only RGB LED pruduct for now.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Keep in mind the silicon lottery... The samples that reviewers got are... cherry picked... if you are unlucky you can get a bad one that won't budge over the stock speeds. And vice versa... you take the cheaper one, that clocks heavenly...

 

[The N]

i guess G1 already allowing lots of overclocking potential, doesn't give any worth spending extra to extreme. well gigabyte and other brands posting out so many models that users themselves confused which one to go with, tactics to increase market share