EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Kingpin Edition Launched

[Mei]

You have got to hand it to EVGA, they really know how to destroy a brand !!!!

they would be pre tested cards?
im guessing they have to actually test the card to find out the asic or no?
still see them getting flamed for it tho lol

 

[Kaapstad]

I think I will avoid EVGA in the future. Seems they are chucking all the crap on the consumer cards and keeping the better chips for the Kingpin. Seems unfair to me.

+1

Part of the silicon lottery is it can be fun if you win it. A good example is amigafan2003 who has a reference card that is faster than most of the non reference ones. It is not an EVGA one either.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28259587&postcount=3603

 

[Deleted member 66701]

What next? Add a price premium based on how much coil whine a card has? Christ almighty as if it wasn't bad enough with the old "supply and demand, exchange rate, early adopter premiums" this is just taking the ****.

Ahem.

 

[Narn]

One of my TITAN X has a ASIC of 63%. Maybe I can charge a premium for it if I strap an e-power board to it...

and i thought my 65% 970 was the worst i'd seen

 

[haszek]

+1

Part of the silicon lottery is it can be fun if you win it. A good example is amigafan2003 who has a reference card that is faster than most of the non reference ones. It is not an EVGA one either.

well most people on forum always said ASIC don't matter so you should be happy. You can still have "silicon lottery" and buy the cheapest version of the EVGA kingpin

 

[Kaapstad]

well most people on forum always said ASIC don't matter so you should be happy. You can still have "silicon lottery" and buy the cheapest version of the EVGA kingpin

Don't need any Kingpin cards.

My cards will thrash them on the latest games @2160p even if the Kingpins are using LN2.

 

[Silent_Scone]

and i thought my 65% 970 was the worst i'd seen

And it still does 1530 core. Go figure

 

[Joe_Easy]

I think people are over thinking this ASCI score thing..my 980ti is in the top 10 on the firestrike extreme benchmarks for this forum community...right up there with some amazing Titan X cards and fantastic overall scores....

and has an ASCI score of 65...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27387417&postcount=1232

 

[kazuya1337]

This is why Nvidia won't allow these companies to touch their Titans

 

[littlepuppy]

Does this make my 78.2% titan x pretty awesome?

 

[Nutella33]

Does this make my 78.2% titan x pretty awesome?

Nah. 6% worse than my 7970

 

[LoadsaMoney]

 

[Strife212]

Don't need any Kingpin cards.

My cards will thrash them on the latest games @2160p even if the Kingpins are using LN2.

No they won't... LN2 980Ti would gut Titan X.

But you wouldn't play games with it anyway

 

[Kaapstad]

No they won't... LN2 980Ti would gut Titan X.

But you wouldn't play games with it anyway

Not a chance 4 up @2160p the Kingpins would run out of memory and turn into a stuttering mess running the latest games maxed out.

Kingpin cards are not really for gaming or ultra high resolutions and settings.

With no waterblocks available yet I would also hate to think what would happen if you tried to run 4 Kingpins on air and worse still at 2160p which generates extra heat lol.

 

[Gerard]

Not a chance 4 up @2160p the Kingpins would run out of memory and turn into a stuttering mess running the latest games maxed out.

And non maxed out with 2160p on ln2 they'd probably give your titans the rogering of a lifetime. Its ok to constantly specify "maxed out" just so you can fall back on a vram advantage, but it can go the other way as well where ram isn't a factor. And in a lot of games the difference between high and maxed out is so incredibly minute there's literally no visual difference anyway.

 

[MeFox]

there so not worth the ££

 

[Kaapstad]

And non maxed out with 2160p on ln2 they'd probably give your titans the rogering of a lifetime. Its ok to constantly specify "maxed out" just so you can fall back on a vram advantage, but it can go the other way as well where ram isn't a factor. And in a lot of games the difference between high and maxed out is so incredibly minute there's literally no visual difference anyway.

If you can turn the settings up and use the extra VRAM you do it.

I was thinking about getting one of these Kingpins for a bit of benching fun but this extra level of price gouging has really put me off. As I don't need another 6gb card there is no point in me bothering.

 

[Silent_Scone]

LN2 scores are so irrelevant to industry performance. They're symbolic for what is possible and good for certain peoples repertoire but in terms of meaningful performance they're ridiculed by their impracticability. The leagues are fast becoming a name sake for AIBP to promote products in general. It's a testament to individuals abilities. I never compare cold runs to usable performance, it's pointless.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Exactly, are you going to sit there gaming whilst keep topping up the LN2 so your GPU's don't melt?

 

[ubersonic]

Part of the silicon lottery is it can be fun if you win it.

Well to be fair, you could buy a "72%+" card and get higher ASIC than the people who paid the extra $200 for the "80%+" model so there's still a lottery element to it (not sure if that's actually a good thing though).