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

jommy999 · 30 May 2015 at 18:22

with the first Titan did pretty well . NV know that they charge that sort of price .

N19h7m4r3 · 30 May 2015 at 18:29

delpy8 said:
I know Colorful are up and coming in China but god they need a new design team

Not just up and coming, they're becoming the world's second largest seller of GPUs. First being the owners of Palit.

Colorful now sell an average of 500k gpus a month.

http://www.techpowerup.com/212870/c...gest-graphics-card-vendor-in-2015-report.html

N19h7m4r3 · 30 May 2015 at 18:34

IT Troll said:
You keep saying this, so you must have some better Google-fu than me. As far as I can see it briefly dropped to €989 but now everywhere that has stock is €1049+

At those prices it is not worth the risk/hassle buying from outside the UK.

I'd say if you got an EVGA card you're golden, given their RMA base is in Germany anyhow.

PullTheTricker · 30 May 2015 at 18:55

There is still hope...

Now can you imagine the headlines? 650$ priced 980 TI oc'ed beats Titan X. Consumers buy this stuff like hotcakes. It makes absolutely NO sense for NVIDIA to overprice this card and turn off many potential buyers.

N19h7m4r3 · 30 May 2015 at 19:08

PullTheTricker said:
There is still hope...

Now can you imagine the headlines? 650$ priced 980 TI oc'ed beats Titan X. Consumers buy this stuff like hotcakes. It makes absolutely NO sense for NVIDIA to overprice this card and turn off many potential buyers.

If true, I'll take two 980Ti Superclocked.

Although since the Titan X doesn't offer any Double Precision it might as well be dead, except for the few that need the VRAM, or plan to OC it over 30%.

M1keMK · 30 May 2015 at 19:14

Same for me at that price. All though I'll probably hang back just to check what AMD have on offer.

PullTheTricker · 30 May 2015 at 19:14

N19h7m4r3 said:
If true, I'll take two 980Ti Superclocked.

Although since the Titan X doesn't offer any Double Precision it might as well be dead, except for the few that need the VRAM, or plan to OC it over 30%.

It makes 0 sense to keep the Titan alive. NVIDIA has 2 choices here. Keep their precious Titan from being dethroned and potentially lose lots of their current dominating market share in favour of a minority of rich plutocrats wich the Titans are mostly marketed for. Or they can actually make good news on the headlines with a flourishing 980TI priced at a pricetag that even the remaining few at AMD are unable to refuse.
I don't see it ending up well if they choose to do the first.

cainer · 30 May 2015 at 19:15

$649 = £420, +20% vat = £504 + shipping & gauging = ~£550+ for the cheapest version??

EDIT: should have added the Vat at the end so its probably closer to £600 for the cheapest

N19h7m4r3 · 30 May 2015 at 19:17

PullTheTricker said:
It makes 0 sense to keep the Titan alive. NVIDIA has 2 choices here. Keep their precious Titan from being dethroned and potentially lose lots of their current dominating market share in favour of a minority of rich plutocrats wich the Titans are mostly marketed for. Or they can actually make good news on the headlines with a flourishing 980TI priced at a pricetag that even the remaining few at AMD are unable to refuse.
I don't see it ending up well if they choose to do the first.

Quite true, if the Titan X was still a DP powerhouse it would still have kept it's spot, but it seems they didn't like it eating into their Quadro range.
At the moment the Titan X is worse than a GTX 580 in Double Precision.

Also if this 980Ti price of 649 is true, it easily preempts AMD's offerings as many would not be able to resist.

Simon Belmont · 30 May 2015 at 19:17

PullTheTricker said:
It makes 0 sense to keep the Titan alive. NVIDIA has 2 choices here. Keep their precious Titan from being dethroned and potentially lose lots of their current dominating market share in favour of a minority of rich plutocrats wich the Titans are mostly marketed for. Or they can actually make good news on the headlines with a flourishing 980TI priced at a pricetag that even the remaining few at AMD are unable to refuse.
I don't see it ending up well if they choose to do the first.

They've been doing the first for many years and are still at the top.

N19h7m4r3 said:
Quite true, if the Titan X was still a DP powerhouse it would still have kept it's spot, but it seems they didn't like it eating into their Quadro range.
At the moment the Titan X is worse than a GTX 580 in Double Precision.

Also if this 980Ti price of 649 is true, it easily preempts AMD's offerings as many would not be able to resist.

No matter what happens when 980Ti hits, Titan X is still the most powerful single GPU on the planet

Simon Belmont · 30 May 2015 at 19:20

MatTheCat · 30 May 2015 at 19:24

cainer said:
$649 = £420, +20% vat = £504 + shipping & gauging = ~£550+ for the cheapest version??

At that price point, I will bite without even waiting on AMD's releases....at £600+ I probably wont bite....

perhaps nvidia have done their market research and I am right in the demographic that they are aiming at?

PullTheTricker · 30 May 2015 at 19:29

MatTheCat said:
At that price point, I will bite without even waiting on AMD's releases....at £600+ I probably wont bite....

perhaps nvidia have done their market research and I am right in the demographic that they are aiming at?

It will still be very expensive in euros after VAT tax, 699 euros is optimistic.
Even then, I still want to wait what AMD has to offer. Sick and tired of waiting though, my beard has grown long enough to serve as a ladder to heaven.

Simon Belmont said:
They've been doing the first for many years and are still at the top.

If I recall correctly, 780 TI pretty much killed the Titan right of the bat. Last thing NVIDIA wants is for their 980 TI release to be anti-climactic.

Vinno · 30 May 2015 at 19:30

Yes. They're aiming at you specifically

If only they were aiming at me with my hope of it costing a couple hundred quid

straxusii · 30 May 2015 at 19:45

delpy8 said:
Im with you, will get rid of my 980 and get a titan x

You would have to be insane to buy a Titan X now with the Ti around the corner.

If I knew it was coming in June I would have waited, news at the time I bought was it was coming September

straxusii · 30 May 2015 at 19:47

PullTheTricker said:
If I recall correctly, 780 TI pretty much killed the Titan right of the bat. Last thing NVIDIA wants is for their 980 TI release to be anti-climactic.

Yes and it came 9 months after the release of the original Titan.

Rumours say it will have less shaders than Titan X, time will tell

SeeNoWeevil · 30 May 2015 at 19:57

If it releases at a price close to the TX, then nothing has changed and it'll be a waste of time. People who didn't want to pay for a TX before, won't want to pay for the 980Ti now.

Simon Belmont · 30 May 2015 at 20:03

SeeNoWeevil said:
If it releases at a price close to the TX, then nothing has changed and it'll be a waste of time. People who didn't want to pay for a TX before, won't want to pay for the 980Ti now.

This^

PullTheTricker · 30 May 2015 at 20:09

SeeNoWeevil said:
If it releases at a price close to the TX, then nothing has changed and it'll be a waste of time. People who didn't want to pay for a TX before, won't want to pay for the 980Ti now.

Finally someone who gets it. Why are so many in here begging NVIDIA on their knees for a justification to keep prices artificially inflated to the point of rampant fanboyism.
then there is also that NVIDIA cannot under estimate AMD. They are coming with lots of new tech by end of june.

andybird123 · 30 May 2015 at 20:20

PullTheTricker said:
Finally someone who gets it. Why are so many in here begging NVIDIA on their knees for a justification to keep prices artificially inflated to the point of rampant fanboyism.
then there is also that NVIDIA cannot under estimate AMD. They are coming with lots of new tech by end of june.

I dont think anyone is asking nvidia to keep prices high, however the sad truth is that people are buying nvidia cards and not AMD cards, that is the only thing supporting pricing, basic supply and demand