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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 to Launch This Q4

Kaapstad said:
You can get a rough idea from the transistor count on what the performance is going to be. For example the 290X has slightly less transistors than a 780ti and this is reflected in the performance. The question is are NVidia going to equip a mid range card with more than 7 billion transistors @28nm and even if they do will the 256bit bus hold it back anyway.

I think these cards will be slower than the 780ti's available now as it will suit NVidia's marketing better.
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If Nvidia make an 8 series there will no longer be a 780ti as it will be end of life. I can't see Nvidia bringing out a top end Gtx880 and giving people no reason to buy them as the end of life 780ti was faster. That's just bad marketing and Nvidia are usually very good in this area.

To me it's just not worth there time if the top card is going to be slower than what we have atm.
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Yeah, probably come in the form of a 'Titan' branded card though. The first proper high end 20nm card.

28nm Maxwell GM204 Q4 2014 (GTX870 /GTX880)

20nm Maxwell GM210 Q1 2015 (Titan)

20nm Maxwell GM204 Q1/Q2 2015 (GTX 850Ti / 860)

20nm Maxwell GM210 Q3 2015 (GTX880 Ti)

There could be some filler cards in between, die shrunk GM204 GTX 870/880 refresh etc maybe under 'Ghz' name or something.
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Quoted for truth and to be used in evidence against you if the timeline isnt met Boom :cool:
Really though for i do think Nvidia will carry on milking consumers if they can
 
Kaapstad said:
I think these cards will be slower than the 780ti's available now as it will suit NVidia's marketing better.
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No chance. There would be no point. By slower than a 780Ti that means the 880 may be around the performance of the 780...but then they would just be releasing a card with the same power as a 780...but called the 880.

We will probably get the 870 and 880 in October, The 870 will be around the same performance as the 780ti but for ~£300 and then the 880 will be better performing than a 780Ti and be around £400+.

Then in early 2015 we will get an 800 series Titan, then we will get a 20nm 900 series near the end of 2015. The 880 will become the 970 but have slightly faster clocks and a full fat 20nm 980 will come out... a few months before an even faster 980Ti.

Just a little bit of history repeating :p
 
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Jono8 said:
No chance. There would be no point.
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Actually there is. For example GTX880 being same performance as GTX780 but with GM204 GTX880 costing less to produce than the GK110 GTX780 equal more profile for Nvidia may be?

It would probably be a bit like 8800GT to 9800GT rebadge performance wise, but with the difference of new architecture and lower production cost (possibly).

bru said:
The interesting card here could very well be the 870, probably 780ti beating performance for £300.
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You cannot be serious...even with the 7970 launched first back then, the GTX680 still launched at a higher price than GTX580.

If AMD doesn't not launch card before Nvidia this time round, sky is the limit (well, probably would still be not more than £600) for the pricing of these new Nvidia cards...I mean just look at the GTX780 launch price to get an idea.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Actually there is. For example GTX880 being same performance as GTX780 but with GM204 GTX880 costing less to produce than the GK110 GTX780 equal more profile for Nvidia may be?

It would probably be a bit like 8800GT to 9800GT rebadge performance wise, but with the difference of new architecture and lower production cost (possibly).
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But it would be old news from a marketing perspective and they wouldn't be able to charge the same price for it as a 780. " Here is the same card, at the same price, but released 15 months later and called an 880 rather than a 780"

That isn't going to happen. It kind of worked for the 8800gt/9800gt as they were not the flagship. I don't think they would do that for what is supposedly going to be the flagship for a while ( the 880)
 
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Jono8 said:
But it would be old news from a marketing perspective and they wouldn't be able to charge the same price for it as a 780. " Here is the same card, at the same price, but released 15 months later and called an 880 rather than a 780"

That isn't going to happen.
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They can just be waving the lower-power consumption and heat flag really really hard. Nvidia wouldn't be aimming these cards toward people that already have GTX780 or GTX780Ti, but instead toward people who got upgrading itch and still stucked with slower cards (i.e. GTX670/GTX680 or below) to cave in and buy them.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
They can just waving the lower-power consumption and heat flag really really hard. Nvidia wouldn't be aimming these cards toward people that already have GTX780 or GTX780Ti, but instead toward people who got upgrading itch and still stucked with slower cards to cave in and buy them.
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I don't see it. The 880 will be faster than a 780Ti. Of that I am sure.
 
I think we will be looking at at least £400. It will come with a premium for sure and it will beat a 780Ti. Just because its 256bit bus, if it has really fast memory it won't matter. Its also rumoured to have potentially 8GB, so any belief that this will be reasonably priced is no doubt just wishful thinking!
 
It's just that at those sort of figures it ties in with the other rumours that the 800 series will be faster and cheaper than the 700 series
 
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