MSI hold off Lightning model of Maxwell - Waiting for the GTX 980 Ti or GTX 990

Boomstick777 · 20 Sep 2014 at 01:02

While MSI is now rolling out its gaming series of Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980 soon, we should not expect any extreme Lightning model based on GM204-circuit. There, save the MSI gunpowder to GTX 980 Ti or GTX 990 as it is expected to emerge in the coming months.

GTX 980 Ti or GTX 990 as it is expected to emerge in the coming months !

GM210 - can appear even before the end of the year. Then probably with many more CUDA cores and a wider memory bus for even higher performance numbers there anyway MSI expects the 4K gaming to become a viable alternative even with a single graphics card.

http://translate.google.com/transla...r-pa-gtx-980-ti-eller-gtx-990.html&edit-text=

Flying_Hellfish · 20 Sep 2014 at 01:08

Here we go again..

Dicehunter · 20 Sep 2014 at 01:12

The 980 Ti will be a nice upgrade from the 780 Ti for me, Time to start putting some pennies away

SS-89 · 20 Sep 2014 at 01:54

probably going to cost £650+

R3X · 20 Sep 2014 at 02:03

Makes even more sense to get an 970GTX !

Rofflay · 20 Sep 2014 at 02:45

MSI Lightning 980Ti 8096MB £699 for pre order by December or January. You can clearly see there is room for the same amount of Cuda core as 780Ti (2880) and still RAPE with 1500mhz+ on the core.

Dear lord this before 16nm. :eek:

chaparral · 20 Sep 2014 at 02:52

I don't want a Lightning ,but I am waiting to buy 2 REF cooled 980ti's ...

Marine-RX179 · 20 Sep 2014 at 02:56

Titan II Lightining.....£1,200?

jamie1414 · 20 Sep 2014 at 03:23

looks like ill be sitting on my 670 for a bit longer

kabir92 · 20 Sep 2014 at 05:47

I might possibly wait till the new year then, I like the sound of a 980 Ti, even if its not the lightning version, and prices might get cheaper once AMD bite back

darkblueslider · 20 Sep 2014 at 05:59

Yeah, fingers crossed competition does it's job producing lower prices for the consumer when AMD launches.

~Mike~ · 20 Sep 2014 at 08:01

MSI Lightning's have disappointed of late.

Geeman1979 · 20 Sep 2014 at 08:17

They've been disappointing as far back as the 7970 days.

Jono8 · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:06

Hm, exciting but if they do release a 980Ti in the next few months, it will be £550+. Would rather have 2x 970's.

whyscotty · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:20

~Mike~ said:
MSI Lightning's have disappointed of late.

Geeman1979 said:
They've been disappointing as far back as the 7970 days.

Agreed

They need to bring a monster card to the table to repair their reputation

Kaapstad · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:24

Full Fat Maxwell Or Nothing.

pgi947 · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:34

Get the feeling the classified will dominate the high end oc cards for years to come, lost faith with lightnings after the 780.

Havana_UK · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:40

I want a reference cooler (blower) GTX980 to replace my reference GTX680, but no way I'm paying ~£450 again!

Hopefully there'll be a reasonably priced GTX970 with the Titan cooler available somewhere

Jono8 · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:41

Havana_UK said:
I want a reference cooler (blower) GTX980 to replace my reference GTX680, but no way I'm paying ~£450 again!

Hopefully there'll be a reasonably priced GTX970 with the Titan cooler available somewhere

OCUK have said they are releasing a 970 with a titan cooler ( their own brand).

Havana_UK · 20 Sep 2014 at 09:51

Jono8 said:
OCUK have said they are releasing a 970 with a titan cooler ( their own brand).

Would be great, if it's around £300 I'll be having one!