nVidia announce the Titan X at GDC 2015

Mal X · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:12

flipping heck that's quick......late next week WOW

i'm not sure i can be bothered to wait for AMD, they've only got themselves to blame

Orangey · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:27

I finally understand... when chiphell benches show good news for AMD, they are rubbish, but if it's Nvidia, they are credible!!!

AT LAST I TRULY SEE!!!!!

Gregster · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:38

What are you on about lol and does big letters make you feel better?

Tonester0011 · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:42

Greg, not that it helps I personally would go for new system rather than two cards. Not that my opinion means anything considering I run lowered graphics lol. that's if I was buying, for you probably get two cards as you like the eye candy (plus witcher 3 might need)

drex69 · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:02

Well, one of these will be a nice little upgrade from a 780, me thinks

Problem is, how long do you reckon the 980Ti (or whatever its called) will be
behind it ?

Nearly the same performance, but for cheaper money ?

That probably is the one to hang out for, but the Titan X, still has
12Gb in its favour.

Although, I will probably never use all that memory potential, gaming at 2560 x 1600....

Orangey · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:11

Gregster said:
What are you on about lol and does big letters make you feel better?

There was another bunch of chiphell benchmarks posted earlier with GM200 and Fiji/Bermuda, they were dismissed roundly.

Somebody was here telling us the guy who makes them is known for being a shady character.

I think it's in the big 390X thread.

Kaapstad · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:30

Orangey said:
There was another bunch of chiphell benchmarks posted earlier with GM200 and Fiji/Bermuda, they were dismissed roundly.

Somebody was here telling us the guy who makes them is known for being a shady character.

I think it's in the big 390X thread.

If anything the benches I have seen so far for the Titan X look spot on and my only problem with them is they are running the wrongs tests as they need to use something like Firestrike ultra or Heaven 4 @4k to remove any CPU bottleneck.

It is very easy to work out what the Titan X should score if you use a GTX 980 as a guide. For example I think we will see someone with a Titan X top the Heaven 4 1080p single GPU table with a score of 2800 just after launch day.

It would take very brave person to predict what a 390X would get on the same bench as very little real facts are known about the card.

Gregster · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:37

Orangey said:
There was another bunch of chiphell benchmarks posted earlier with GM200 and Fiji/Bermuda, they were dismissed roundly.

Somebody was here telling us the guy who makes them is known for being a shady character.

I think it's in the big 390X thread.

So why are you getting all up in the air about it? Everyone should know by now that any bench should be taken with a pinch of salt. I think you need to build a bridge and get over it lol.

@T I have no idea either and will prolly call it on the day.

Telecaster · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:42

I hope 980 prices take a tumble, or at least second hand, I'd be tempted to go 980 sli rather than a single Titan but not at their current price.

setter · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:51

Telecaster said:
I hope 980 prices take a tumble, or at least second hand, I'd be tempted to go 980 sli rather than a single Titan but not at their current price.

Ive thought about this, but it keeps coming back to the vram for me. Ive got a feeling that 4gb just wont cut it much longer. Hopefully the next mainstream big card from nvidia is a 980ti esque cut down version of the titan x with a higher vram count than the current 980.

Ayahuasca · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:03

Can't see the Titan X affecting 980 prices, the 980ti if it arrives will do that.

Gregster · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:17

Ayahuasca said:
Can't see the Titan X affecting 980 prices, the 980ti if it arrives will do that.

Same although I feel nVidia already have a card in reserve to try and steal more of the market when AMD do release. They will have sold TXs and can then snap up more of the market with offering cheaper 980s.

crinkleshoes · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:20

setter said:
Ive thought about this, but it keeps coming back to the vram for me. Ive got a feeling that 4gb just wont cut it much longer. Hopefully the next mainstream big card from nvidia is a 980ti esque cut down version of the titan x with a higher vram count than the current 980.

Looking at Titan -> 780ti... they kept the 384bit memory bus... so it wouldn't be too hard to see a 6GB 980ti without any real tweaks to the memory controller/bus... based on the full-size chip in the titan.

Combat Fighter · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:23

Gregster said:
Same although I feel nVidia already have a card in reserve to try and steal more of the market when AMD do release. They will have sold TXs and can then snap up more of the market with offering cheaper 980s.

R.I.P. AMD

andybird123 · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:23

I don't think it will be called a 980ti, I think we are looking at a repeat of Titan > 780 > 780ti (with the 680 becoming the 770 and so on)

so it'll be the 1080 or whatever they skip to next, they don't normally re-use a number for a different base chip with the ti, so a 980ti would be an improved version of GM204, not a GM200

Telecaster · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:25

setter said:
Ive thought about this, but it keeps coming back to the vram for me. Ive got a feeling that 4gb just wont cut it much longer. Hopefully the next mainstream big card from nvidia is a 980ti esque cut down version of the titan x with a higher vram count than the current 980.

Ayahuasca said:
Can't see the Titan X affecting 980 prices, the 980ti if it arrives will do that.

Gregster said:
Same although I feel nVidia already have a card in reserve to try and steal more of the market when AMD do release. They will have sold TXs and can then snap up more of the market with offering cheaper 980s.

Well it's fairly obvious the 980 was never intended to be the top card, even if it does carry the 80 moniker, so potentially it could come down a bit to steal some of AMD's thunder.

I agree 4GB probably won't cut it for the 4k ultra settings mob, but for us mere mortals I think they're still a capable card for a while yet.

magpie1966 · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:16

Ive stuck a question on the monitor side , about 4k monitors, could some of you guys who have one, and getting a tx or 2

have a look please could do with some feedback.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18660202

Thanks

Magpie

Mal X · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:51

Gregster said:
In fairness, I would have no problems trading monitors for a 4K freesync version and staying AMD. I could grab a couple of 390Xs as well as a 5960X system and probably still have change. My biggest problem is waiting.

i'm wondering about upgrading the CPU/ MOBO too, but i dont think it's worth it for gaming only and not at 1080p, the best performance gain is more reliability and that's from a single card

bru · 11 Mar 2015 at 21:44

When you think about it, it is now obvious why we havn't seen NVidia release 8GB 980's.

TitanX launches with 12GB

980ti..? will probably have 6GB

980 has 4GB

It could be a bit awkward for AMD though.

390x will have 4GB

380x (respun 290x) will have 4GB but could have 8GB as the currant 290x's have

370x will have 2/4GB models according to the latest leak

triss · 11 Mar 2015 at 21:47

bru said:
When you think about it, it is now obvious why we havn't seen NVidia release 8GB 980's.

TitanX launches with 12GB

980ti..? will probably have 6GB

980 has 4GB

It could be a bit awkward for AMD though.

390x will have 4GB

380x (respun 290x) will have 4GB but could have 8GB as the currant 290x's have

370x will have 2/4GB models according to the latest leak

I do agree this is why i cant see 8gb 980's turning up