980 with 8GB ?

[Dicehunter]

Heard I think one of the staff members say a few weeks ago that 8GB cards are incoming.

Any date on these and will they cost an arm and a leg more for a simple extra 4 memory chips ?

 

[Dicehunter]

Gibbo say's that none of the vendors have any plans to even release such a card.

I know for a fact it was one of the staff members who mentioned in their comments around the time the 980 launched that "8GB cards incoming" I'm paraphrasing but that's what was said.

Would the vendors not do it because of the 256bit bus maybe ?

 

[Dicehunter]

Any idea when the GM200 cards are likely to show up and the Titan version in particular.

I bet there's a guy in the industry at each one of the AMD and Nvidia tables who writes on the white board in the big meetings "Who can we aim this more money than sense card at"

Will be interesting to see the specs of them though.

 

[Dicehunter]

Everyone wants to know this. Can only hope it's released quick?

Nvidia are not going to release them too soon or it will damage sales of the new 9xx series, Not greatly obviously due to the price of the Titan class cards but it will still detract.

 

[Dicehunter]

Where your comment falls down is the original Titan has turned out to be fantastic value for money. After nearly 2 years of use it is still the go to card for 4K. Crysis 3 maxed @4K looks fantastic on 4 Titans unfortunately the newer AMD and NVidia cards can not even run it at those settings.

I will be very happy to spend the same again to get another 2 years plus use out of the Maxwell Titans and not have to worry about the expense of having to upgrade every 6 months.

With the Titans you get what you pay for and that turned out to be quite a lot in the long run.

Relax dude was only teasing as I could just picture the marketing people with a picture of you in the office

 

[Dicehunter]

If NVidia can sell people a more expensive card they are not going to worry about effecting sales of the 970/80.

You have to think of it logically, Sell a huge amount of your still expensive 900 series cards or sell a hand full of the vastly more expensive card ?

My bet is on that they will wait a good few months to make a tidy bit of dosh on the 900 series and then release the niche card.

 

[Dicehunter]

While I want sli 980 I know something better is coming before Christmas. All this reference eol talk know somethings a foot Watson?

The only thing better will be the Titan class of cards, As I think it was Kaapstad who said it, There are no more SMX units to be enabled on the GM204 die so a 980 Ti is highly unlikely.

8GB is going to be a waste on a 970/980 no real point on a 256bit bus.

Won't stop them from milking

 

[Dicehunter]

If you could get 4 x 8gb 290Xs on a mobo Crysis 3 would run great @4K, unfortunately with the 4gb versions the average fps are good enough but it is a terrible stuttering mess due to lack of VRAM.

The 290Xs are actually a little faster than 4 Titans running Crysis 3 maxed @4K but the NVidia cards are very smooth and very playable.

Unfortunately Sapphire only made 250 8gb cards before AMD put a stop to it.

I was honestly considering buying the 8GB Sapphire today but went for the DCU2 980 just a few minutes ago instead for the better power/heat plus I only play at 1080 so 8GB would be overkill.

Could you imagine if Sapphire made them single/duel slot cards with better OC room ? 4 x of those babies would be the shizznitz !

 

[Dicehunter]

Will you be posting on the bench threads, those 980s are quick.

I'll do a few Firestrikes or maybe wait for the new patch to be released for Firestrike and possibly valley, Hell I'll set tomorrow aside for benching but straight after I'm going out to party

The 980 I have now is actually my brothers but he's away for a few days so I stole it from his rig, His Strix does 1500 and 1900 on the memory, Hopefully mine will be able to match it or slightly exceed it

 

[Dicehunter]

Problem is here, I don't believe that there are no 8gb cards on the horizon.

1. The latest games can already take advantage of more than 4Gb of Vram.

2. Unless Nvidia have abandoned Titan cards, they wouldn’t release a 6Gb Titan, when the mainstream cards already have 4Gb.

My bet is on either 8GB or possibly 12GB depending on the size of the bus.

 

[Dicehunter]

That's a pity as tests on assorted sites have clearly shown that 4K gaming at ultra quality requires more than 4 GB VRAM to avoid stuttering. I was particularly enthused by the low power requirements of the 970 and 980 as I could run two without changing my PSU, and if they were available in 6 or 8 GB versions and worked in SLI on PCIe3 x4 + x4 then I might well have bitten.

But I get decent performance and quality at 4K so I'm happy to wait.

Well I know for a fact there was definitely a staff member who said "4GB and 8GB cards incoming" around the launch of the 900 series, Weather this was a miss type or not I don't know but I know what I read.

 

[Dicehunter]

Quality

How accurate were all those predictions about the GTX 790?

I'm not going on about predictions though, I'm simply stating what I saw staff member say.

 

[Dicehunter]

Your right, Videocardz even quoted him, then he deleted the posts.

Probably under NDA and he let the cat out of the bag

Sneaky deleting posts though.