NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Detailed

[AsRock]

And all the people who bought a $3000 GPU go...

NV stated they'd be doing a tick-tock setup like Intel. Kepler was a nice advancement but it was still the tock to Fermi. It isn't super different. Now we're going on the next tick, which is Maxwell.

Interested to see if NV gets it right again like they did with the 400s. The 750 is really mediocre and its a GM chip. Will be keeping a close eye and hopefully new employment to pay for it. Unless of course, AMD finally gets everything right.

AMD are getting it right even more so in the price department.. The over inflated prices cannot be blamed on them, well except maybe the 290x2.

 

[Slizzo]

I really don't see the need for 8gb of Vram, nothing will ever use so much Vram, I use 2 x 670GTX FTW's(4gb Vram) games very rarely ever uses 4gb..... even on 4k screens you may only see 4.5gb used.....So I see a 4gb version releasing with some 8gb version released later on. As we saw with the 4gb version 670/680's they literally halted no performance increase vs. the 2gb versions. So I expect the same result with the 880's.

Because nothing ever used more than 8MB? Then 16MB? Then 32mb, then 64mb, then 128mb and on and on.

Can't hurt to have 8GB on board really. As resolutions increase and textures get bigger to support those resolutions video memory will be paramount.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Because nothing ever used more than 8MB? Then 16MB? Then 32mb, then 64mb, then 128mb and on and on.

Can't hurt to have 8GB on board really. As resolutions increase and textures get bigger to support those resolutions video memory will be paramount.

Yeah, but remember back then you used to game on 640x480 resolution. Then VooDoo 2 came with SVGA support (800x600) and 12MB of VRAM and it was a blast. Quake 2 and Unreal anyone?