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

[Dave2150]

I think the 980ti will be my next card, unless AMD release a 6-8GB 390 series that is competitive in performance, which is looking unlikely.

The 4GB HBM card will be impressive, though a very short term purchase, with only 4GB of VRAM. Hopefully AMD will also make a GDDR5 version with 6-8+GB, to compete with the 980ti, though I doubt it.

 

[Gerard]

I think the 980ti will be my next card, unless AMD release a 6-8GB 390 series that is competitive in performance, which is looking unlikely.

The 4GB HBM card will be impressive, though a very short term purchase, with only 4GB of VRAM. Hopefully AMD will also make a GDDR5 version with 6-8+GB, to compete with the 980ti, though I doubt it.

That would require a totally different pcb layout to accommodate the memory and the gpu die and a new heatsink design. Not much chance of that happening unless a third party wants to do it.

 

[dml3]

I think the 980ti will be my next card, unless AMD release a 6-8GB 390 series that is competitive in performance, which is looking unlikely.

The 4GB HBM card will be impressive, though a very short term purchase, with only 4GB of VRAM. Hopefully AMD will also make a GDDR5 version with 6-8+GB, to compete with the 980ti, though I doubt it.

So 4GB HBM is just exactly that? 4GB?

I thought somone one said it being stacked so essentially its like getting 8 GB or was that just lies and technical babble?

 

[D.P.]

According to this even PCI-e 4 isn't going to be fast enough

"Coming to the final pillar then, we have a brand new feature being introduced for Pascal: NVLink.
NVLink, in a nutshell, is NVIDIA’s effort to supplant PCI-Express with a faster interconnect bus.
From the perspective of NVIDIA, who is looking at what it would take to allow compute workloads to better scale across multiple GPUs,
the 16GB/sec made available by PCI-Express 3.0 is hardly adequate.
Especially when compared to the 250GB/sec+ of memory bandwidth available within a single card.
PCIe 4.0 in turn will eventually bring higher bandwidth yet,
but this still is not enough. As such NVIDIA is pursuing their own bus to achieve the kind of bandwidth they desire."

source

I was going to mention something similar in the AMD DX12 PR spin thread.

To pool the memory form multiple cards you will need an interconnect that at least approaches the speed of the memory, so PCIE solutions are out of the questions. Nvidia is demonstrating a critical tool to make memory pooling actually feasible while AMD just put their logo on standard DX 12 features that are GPU agnostic.

It still highlights the short comings of pool memory though, even with NV link you would get 250GN/s shared between GPUs that will offer 1000GB/S memory bandwidth. So for best performance you are still going to need copy of data on each GPU

 

[Dave2150]

That would require a totally different pcb layout to accommodate the memory and the gpu die and a new heatsink design. Not much chance of that happening unless a third party wants to do it.

Yea, it would obviously require a different PCB layout, memory logic etc. Though we have no idea if AMD have already done this - surely they are not naive enough to think the high end enthusiast would be content with a relatively puny 4GB model...

We'll know for sure on launch day, fingers crossed for a GDDR5 6-8+GB version, alongside the 4GB HBM 1080P version.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

GTX 980 Ti GPU-Z with full spec and benchmarks leaked.

Launch date 1 June and on sale next day 2 June.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-...ns-unveilied-gaming-benchmarks-par-gtx-titan/

 

[D.P.]

That would require a totally different pcb layout to accommodate the memory and the gpu die and a new heatsink design. Not much chance of that happening unless a third party wants to do it.

That is the least of the problems, an entirely new due would be needed with massive changes to the memory controller and potentially much deeper changes to the shaders and pretty much everything, e.g. the internals may be designed to run efficiently with certain aspects of HBM memory like lower latency.

That is why the mid-tier GDDR5 parts are just going to be renamed 290 and 280 chips.

It is not like swapping a standard HDD for a SDD

 

[colinmcr]

Well guess the price next? 699.99

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Nice, only 6fps in it

 

[Gerard]

£550-£599 i'd say.

 

[Phixsator]

I think the 980ti will be my next card, unless AMD release a 6-8GB 390 series that is competitive in performance, which is looking unlikely.

The 4GB HBM card will be impressive, though a very short term purchase, with only 4GB of VRAM. Hopefully AMD will also make a GDDR5 version with 6-8+GB, to compete with the 980ti, though I doubt it.

So 4GB HBM is just exactly that? 4GB?

I thought somone one said it being stacked so essentially its like getting 8 GB or was that just lies and technical babble?

I dont think you can just look at the raw number and say its not enough. This is HBM a complete new tech. Also an AMD guy said something about memory not being used correctly right now leading to higher than necessary memory consumption. I dont think AMD would settle for 4gb HBM on their flagship if it were not going to be enough for 4k. There must be some voodoo being done that we dont know anything about yet. Anything else would be crazy Perhaps some aggressive compression? Better memory management overall at driver level. Who knows.

 

[colinmcr]

£550-£599 i'd say.

I noticed on the spec sheet after I posted earlier at the bottom it says..
MSRP $699 - 749

 

[N19h7m4r3]

GTX 980 Ti GPU-Z with full spec and benchmarks leaked.

Launch date 1 June and on sale next day 2 June.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-...ns-unveilied-gaming-benchmarks-par-gtx-titan/

No Witcher 3 benchmarks, and everything at 1080p? Bleh.

Guess folks need to wait until it officially launches

 

[Gerard]

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2015/05/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-specifications.png

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2015/05/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-datasheet-2-701x900.png

http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2015/05/ASUS-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-datasheet-709x900.png

 

[FinglisHobbit]

I noticed on the spec sheet after I posted earlier at the bottom it says..
MSRP $699 - 749

Damn, I knew it was ambitious of me to hope for around $599. If I bring one back from the US I will get stung with tax as its above £390. Does anyone know a way around this

My GFs mother lives there, could she buy it as a gift and then we somehow avoid being stung?

 

[Dave2150]

£550-£599 i'd say.

I'd say around £500.

If it is more than £500, it will be reduced in price a lot when the AMD 300 series launch, as long as they are not all turnips.

 

[Gerard]

I'd say around £500.

If it is more than £500, it will be reduced in price a lot when the AMD 300 series launch, as long as they are not all turnips.

Couldn't see it being that low if its only a handful of fps slower than a titan x. 980 reference is still £470 on here as well.

 

[Bonjour]

It will likely be around £600 and will still sell in its droves so there will be no need for a price drop when the new AMD cards are released.

 

[JediFragger]

It will likely be around £600 and will still sell in its droves so there will be no need for a price drop when the new AMD cards are released.

I think you're right, only because AMD seem to have lost the ability to create their own drivers!!

 

[oldestgregg]

Bah! Was ready to sit waiting for the launch to buy one but just realised that...only ref cards first isnt it? Gutted as although they seem to of improved the cooler since the last ref model I bought...its still too noisy for me.