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Nvidia is readying its Geforce GTX 980 8GB for an imminent release

Heisenberg said:
Wouldn't 8GB at 256bit bus be a bit pointless to a certain extent? Surely they would be better holding off for full fat (ti) Maxwell with 384 bit bus?
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Just what I was thinking. A large majority of games will start running short of bandwidth before they hit the 4GB limit. Following in the long GDDR5 tradition, this may be more of a marketing thing than a useful feature.
 
The Maxwell cache helps it use bandwidth more efficiently than before and it's clocked very high so I am not sure that for SLI that would hold true.
 
It's not going to happen face it guys. So stop reading into this 8gb cards crap. If 8gb Nvidia cards are going to come with will be with the full fat maxwell!

Called it right here!
 
Either that or 8GB and two 980's on the same board, ala 990.

Maybe that is why there are 8GB rumours flying about but Nvidia can safely deny that a 8GB 980 is coming, becuase it isnt.
 
Gibbo said:
It would simply make most sense NVIDIA release a Titan 2 with incredible power and 8GB of RAM and price it £699-£799, expensive but it would sell pretty insane.

Have a 980Ti 4GB around £599 and then after those two have being released look at 980 8GB, which if they do it that way you've got a few months.

NVIDIA are about selling GPU's, making 8GB 980 means they sell less GPU's. ;)
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4K performance on 4 x 980s in SLI is average and they actually run hotter than quadfired 290Xs on air lol. Producing 8gb SKUs would be a waste when NVidia can release the Maxwell Titan with much better performance, cooler, bigger margins etc.

One of my 980s reached 91c benching on Heaven 4 with the cooler @100%.:eek:

Worst part is my ancient Titans 4 v 4 beat the 980s easy on Heaven 4 @4K.:(
 
Geeman1979 said:
4 Air cooled cards sandwiched together running hot. Who would have thought hey....
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They actually run hotter than 4 Titans on air or 4 air cooled 290Xs under the same conditions.

I read on another forum that the 980s don't use the vapour chamber found on the Titans which could explain why they run 10c hotter (4 up) despite a much lower TDP.

For every day use it is not a problem but for long term benching water may be needed.
 
Kaapstad said:
They actually run hotter than 4 Titans on air or 4 air cooled 290Xs under the same conditions.

I read on another forum that the 980s don't use the vapour chamber found on the Titans which could explain why they run 10c hotter (4 up) despite a much lower TDP.

For every day use it is not a problem but for long term benching water may be needed.
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I'd never run cards sandwiched together like that anyhow. Just goes to show how good the Titans really are.

So Wblocks on order then? :cool:
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Kaap's point is that 4x980 should not run hotter than 4x290x...
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+1

Top card in a 4 way oced 290X setup running Heaven will get to about 89c.

For everyday use none of this matters as the coolers are fine. What it does show along with the 256bit bus, 4gb of VRAM etc is that NVidia will be fitting in another tier of GM200 of cards.

4 way air cooled Titans oced will hover around 80c on Heaven 4 even with the thermal limit raised.
 
Kaapstad said:
+1

Top card in a 4 way oced 290X setup running Heaven will get to about 89c.

For everyday use none of this matters as the coolers are fine. What it does show along with the 256bit bus, 4gb of VRAM etc is that NVidia will be fitting in another tier of GM200 of cards.

4 way air cooled Titans oced will hover around 80c on Heaven 4 even with the thermal limit raised.
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Are you running that system with 2x 1200w Corsair Psu's. You could probably get away with one even well overclocked?
 
Geeman1979 said:
I'd never run cards sandwiched together like that anyhow. Just goes to show how good the Titans really are.

So Wblocks on order then? :cool:
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All depends how long the Maxwell Titans are going to be.

I do actually game a lot, mostly on Civ5 which is no problem for the 980s at any resolution. I want to test them out on this game to see how they cope very late in the game on a huge map. None of this is stressful on the cards as it is a test of the CPU/PCI-E lanes/Bus/VRAM speed rather than brute power.
 
Geeman1979 said:
Are you running that system with 2x 1200w Corsair Psu's. You could probably get away with one even well overclocked?
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2 PSUs yes

It is the way to go even if you don't need all the power.

1. Most of the time the PSUs are silent as they are hardly working.

2. They are running right in the middle of their peak efficiency.

3. Using 2 PSUs means you can put anything you like in the PC without worrying.

4. it can save you money, my Titan PC only have a single 1500w (can handle 1650w peaks) PSU but for 4K this has turned out to be not enough so I will be converting it to dual PSUs. Fortunately LD V8 cases allow you to replace the case backplate with a unit for dual PSUs.
 
Kaapstad said:
2 PSUs yes

It is the way to go even if you don't need all the power.

1. Most of the time the PSUs are silent as they are hardly working.

2. They are running right in the middle of their peak efficiency.

3. Using 2 PSUs means you can put anything you like in the PC without worrying.

4. it can save you money, my Titan PC only have a single 1500w (can handle 1650w peaks) PSU but for 4K this has turned out to be not enough so I will be converting it to dual PSUs. Fortunately LD V8 cases allow you to replace the case backplate with a unit for dual PSUs.
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If you've got them, then I suppose why not.

Furthest I've gone with my Titans is 1.275v & the 3930k @ 1.525v for the odd benchmark. Would be interesting to know what power draw that's pulling at the wall.
 
Well I got my two 8GB cards ;)

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