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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Coming This Summer Featuring 3072 CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5
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Soldato
Then I would say nice one AMD and I hope the power consumption is good when both teams are using HBM....
What will people say if despite being newer tech and HBM being used power consumption is still far worse ?.
For the good of us all I hope the 390x is competitive
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I'm glad I waited. I was very close to getting SLI 970s but held off due to the vram issues. I was close to getting a gtx 980 but wasn't happy with only 4gb vram coming from a 3gb card. But now the Ti is coming out, hopefully my patience has paid off, because currently there isn't a card which fits the bill for what I want - the 8gb 290x cards were too hot and power hungry, and the Titan X was too expensive and overkill for my needs. The Ti has the right balance and I think it will be a good upgrade for me in GTA V.
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I need gysnc/freesync 1440p monitors to become more reasonably priced now as 120hz 1080p is beginning to feel dated.
The new monitors have been out been out a year and prices haven't budged now that there are competitors to the Asus rog swift. For 1080p apart from a few games needing more than 2Gb vram at Ultra the level headed buyers won't see a need to upgrade urgently.
Does this generation card also have some special technology for VR?
The new monitors have been out been out a year and prices haven't budged now that there are competitors to the Asus rog swift. For 1080p apart from a few games needing more than 2Gb vram at Ultra the level headed buyers won't see a need to upgrade urgently.
Does this generation card also have some special technology for VR?
Fiji has special VR sauce.
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nvidia also have VR Direct of course, where they are talking 10ms reduction in latency motion to photons, I've not seen any actual performance type figures for AMD's "VR sauce" as of yet
I feel exactly the same. Holding off playing The Witcher until I upgrade. Time can't pass fast enough right now lol.
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so 2 of these 980 TI in sli can run 4k?
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A dual card? That's not a response to the TB or 780ti.
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Roughly the same performance with the 2xTX and 6GB VRAM I guess yes (maybe not 8xMSAA due to VRAM).
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Soldato
No more news on these yet, i'm sure i seen a forum member saying that someone had gotten hold of a review sample?
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8xmsaa on 4k is pretty pointless really, you don't see much change if any over 4x.
Soldato
with such low pixel pitch on a 27 inch screen i honestly did't think you'd see much improvement on anything over 2x
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Don't think much people genuinely expect to play through a game with 8xMSAA at 4k anyway. Can imagine a few people testing it to just see how far their high end cards can be pushed though.
The funny thing is with the argument about longevity of vram that the original 6GB Titan is overshadowed by the 4GB 980 now and even to an extent the 970/290X.
For most people running sane settings and not just trying to push their cards over the edge of what would be expected you will still sooner run out of grunt. This is even much more relevant to the greater number of people that don't even use SLI.
The funny thing is with the argument about longevity of vram that the original 6GB Titan is overshadowed by the 4GB 980 now and even to an extent the 970/290X.
For most people running sane settings and not just trying to push their cards over the edge of what would be expected you will still sooner run out of grunt. This is even much more relevant to the greater number of people that don't even use SLI.
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I always use 8xMSAA @2160p and on a 32" monitor you can see the difference.
I still own original Titans, GTX 980s and 290Xs. For gaming @2160p out of the three the original Titans are best as the other two stutter and are less smooth.
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Fair enough in your case but I'm also trying to mention that as more people buy single cards then go SLI, a single 6GB 980Ti is a very compelling option compared to 12GB + >£250. In that case you could probably agree a single 980Ti makes a lot more sense because in a years/18 months time even an 8GB Pascal card will probably blow the hinges off of all Maxwell cards in single operation. So why pay the premium expecting longevity when even a cut down and faster Pascal card around £300 could very well cover the cost of that vram anyway?
Considering I was tempted by a TX, I will be snapping two of these up on release or shortly after.
Excuse my laziness, but to save reading the whole thread, has an estimate release date been mentioned at all aside from "summer?"
Excuse my laziness, but to save reading the whole thread, has an estimate release date been mentioned at all aside from "summer?"
Man of Honour
For 1 or 2 cards @2160p 6gb is the better option as 99.9% of the time you will not be able to use anymore.
Here is a prediction (shock, horror) the first Pascal cards won't be much quicker than the GM200 cards as they will be small Pascal like the GTX 970/80 is small Maxwell.
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Touche Sir, I counter predict you and go for a 50% increase for the small Pascal flagship over the big Maxwell GM200. Let's hope that NVIDIA loosen up the drip feed a bit and we don't have to wait until 2017 and the big Pascal chip to get a decent increase. Never know, Arctic Islands from AMD may actually put some pressure on NVIDIA as it's been a long time since AMD have had good performance per watt!
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