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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Coming This Summer Featuring 3072 CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5

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HACO said:
I highly doubt that there will be a 3072 CUDA core 980 Ti. Titan X, unlike the original Titan, is not compute optimised and has the same FF64 limits of all other GeForce cards. Essentially if they release a 3072 core 980 Ti, it's only difference with the Titan X will be lower VRAM. That's not enough of a differentiator for two distinct models with big price difference. What about SLI? If the core is the same and all that's different is the amount of VRAM, they should even be able to SLI. CANT HAPPEN. NO WAY.
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I would say reducing the VRAM to 6gb is quite a difference and very likely the way NVidia will go.


HACO said:
My guess is that the 980 Ti will be in the range of ~£600, has around 2500 CUDA cores, has 6GB, is 256-bit, and is slightly higher clocked than the Titan X so Titan X is roughly 20% faster and maybe 30% more expensive. When it's released, 980/970 will get a little cheaper.
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Not very likely as it would mean NVidia having to produce an entirely new GPU core.
 
Kaapstad said:
Not very likely as it would mean NVidia having to produce an entirely new GPU core.
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Not really, it could be the same core with shaders disabled. I hope you're right though but I think the past strategy of having a Titan and 780 Ti toegether failed, because after the release of 780 Ti, Titan lost its appeal and eBay prices went down significantly, even below 780 Ti. Nvidia doesn't want the same thing to happen to Titan X, which is 100% to happen if the only differentiator between the Titan and 980 Ti is the amount of VRAM. Almost nobody bought a Titan after 780 Ti was released, and nobody will buy a Titan X if the same card only with 6GB VRAM (and better coolers!) is out there for a cheaper price.

They could drop the whole "Ti" naming as well, to avoid confusion and hard feelings. The slimmed down Titan can become GTX 990 and even a multi GPU GTX 995 could happen. I think this is a much more sound strategy for Nvidia.
 
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HACO said:
I highly doubt that there will be a 3072 CUDA core 980 Ti. Titan X, unlike the original Titan, is not compute optimised and has the same FF64 limits of all other GeForce cards. Essentially if they release a 3072 core 980 Ti, it's only difference with the Titan X will be lower VRAM.
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I would agree with you apart from the original 780 had +50% cores on the 680, the Titan X only has +50% cores on the 980, therefore if they release the 1080/980Ti gimped at all it will hardly be a step up from the 980.

All depends on the 390X I suspect
 
HACO said:
Not really, it could be the same core with shaders disabled. I hope you're right though but I think the past strategy of having a Titan and 780 Ti toegether failed, because after the release of 780 Ti, Titan lost its appeal and eBay prices went down significantly, even below 780 Ti. Nvidia doesn't want the same thing to happen to Titan X, which is 100% to happen if the only differentiator between the Titan and 980 Ti is the amount of VRAM. Almost nobody bought a Titan after 780 Ti was released, and nobody will buy a Titan X if the same card only with 6GB VRAM (and better coolers!) is out there for a cheaper price.

They could drop the whole "Ti" naming as well, to avoid confusion and hard feelings. The slimmed down Titan can become GTX 990 and even a multi GPU GTX 995 could happen. I think this is a much more sound strategy for Nvidia.
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If they disabled enough shaders to give the card a 256bit bus you would err have a GTX 980.:D:)
 
I think a lot depends on the 390X. If it pushes NVidia, beating the 980 by a good 25% or so, then expect the 980ti to appear, engineered to beat the 390X by around 10%.

I can't honestly see the 390X reaching Titan levels of performance.
 
Orangey said:
In quite a few games a TX will.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-x-gm200-maxwell,review-33151-3.html

FC4, there. Not even OC'd afaict
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Not even OC'd and also... not even 60fps, its 51 fps max and 39 average.

Also without an official Far Cry 4 xfire driver a 295x2 has over double the highest fps and what 90% scaling on average fps. Each GPU has a whole 8GB less memory than the Titan X yet quite handily spanks it. A single 290x quite easily spanking a Titan 6GB (40%) and the 780ti(30%), oh, and still beats the 980 by what 6-7%.
 
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nalla said:
6gb would be more than enough for me, im running 4k now with 780 ti's in sli, and not played a game that goes above 2.9 gb, what games are you guys playing that need more than 3gb.
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Interesting, two of those are good value at the minute.

Any news on how the 780ti will be with DX12?
 
EDIT : I tried FC4 on a R9-290 (had 2 but FC didn't have a cf profile) the GTX970 ran a few fps less. VERY HIGH Preset though.

Haven't tried it on my TX yet.

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Bonjour said:
Did you try it at 4K? I think that's the key thing here.
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1080p through to 4K. The above graph is 4K Very High Preset.

I have mentioned this before in my article and multiple times here.

"the problem with one of the cores on my hexacore CPU spiking to 100% usage."

That's what caused the stutter people where mentioning.
 
Nice one, cheers.

So the better figures weren't actually representative of better gameplay? You said it ran much better on the 970.
 
Bonjour said:
Nice one, cheers.

So the better figures weren't actually representative of better gameplay? You said it ran much better on the 970.
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There was stutter across all the GPUs, look at the 1080p frame-time graphs. Those spikes are much higher in 1440p and 4K.

Higher and more spikes on the AMD card.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
Not even OC'd and also... not even 60fps, its 51 fps max and 39 average.

Also without an official Far Cry 4 xfire driver a 295x2 has over double the highest fps and what 90% scaling on average fps. Each GPU has a whole 8GB less memory than the Titan X yet quite handily spanks it. A single 290x quite easily spanking a Titan 6GB (40%) and the 780ti(30%), oh, and still beats the 980 by what 6-7%.
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Turns out I was looking at the wrong graphs :o
 
drunkenmaster said:
Not even OC'd and also... not even 60fps, its 51 fps max and 39 average.

Also without an official Far Cry 4 xfire driver a 295x2 has over double the highest fps and what 90% scaling on average fps. Each GPU has a whole 8GB less memory than the Titan X yet quite handily spanks it. A single 290x quite easily spanking a Titan 6GB (40%) and the 780ti(30%), oh, and still beats the 980 by what 6-7%.
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In that review they were talking about using a TitanX with a G-Sync monitor.

I have not used a G-Sync monitor with a TitanX @2160p so I can not comment.

How about you, have you used the combination ?
 
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