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

Things change I've changed · 31 May 2015 at 19:04

Really want to upgrade but worried about the noise, my reference 980 is damn near silent in my case and sometimes silence to me is more important than frames, will interesting to see how much the EVGA closed loop water cooled TI is.

RavenXXX2 said:
At least tx owners have that extra 6gb of ram to cling to, not that they will ever use it.

*twists the knife*

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:05

Simon Belmont said:
Why would Nvidia bring 980Ti up to Titan X performance? What the hell is wrong with you Nv? They must have been high as a kite when they made that decision.

Now if they do make another Titan gpu most will stay away.

No way I like my 12gb TXs and would go for them over 6gb 980ti's everytime.

I have just run Watch Dogs maxed @2160p for another thread and got this

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
18324, 229609, 68, 93, 79.805

There is no way 4 980ti's would even get on the starting line as to do the above settings you need 8gb.

N19h7m4r3 · 31 May 2015 at 19:06

Simon Belmont said:
Why would Nvidia bring 980Ti up to Titan X performance? What the hell is wrong with you Nv? They must have been high as a kite when they made that decision.

Now if they do make another Titan gpu most will stay away.

Gerard said:
Same thing happened with the 780ti more or less. Less ram but performance was the same or better.

The big difference was the Titan still mangled the 780Ti for Double Precision work. The Titan X is purely Single Precision this time.

LoadsaMoney · 31 May 2015 at 19:06

These might be the cards for SLi

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:09

Simon Belmont said:
It does seem a bit much. We'll know tomorrow if true.

The 980ti will get very close to the TX when both are overclocked but it will never quite have enough to get past the TX. It will be a bit like comparing the original Titan to a 780.

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:10

LoadsaMoney said:
These might be the cards for SLi

+1

Anyone looking to go 2 way SLI will find the 980ti hard to resist.

Simon Belmont · 31 May 2015 at 19:11

Kaapstad said:
The 980ti will get very close to the TX when both are overclocked but it will never quite have enough to get past the TX. It will be a bit like comparing the original Titan to a 780.

PullTheTricker · 31 May 2015 at 19:12

N19h7m4r3 said:
A single 970? I call BS unless you can post definitive proof. Also everything at Ultra but not foliage or gameworks on is not full Ultra.

Gregster recently uploaded a video with his Titan X overclocked by 380-400Mhz staying over 60-70fps without hairworks, and not being able to get 60fps with Hairworks on at Ultra at 1440p. This wasn't even in combat where it matters most.

No you're right not everything is on Ultra, but thats to be expected with a 970. A 980 TI on the other hand should literally eat any 1080p you throw at it and comfortably run 1440p on Ultra.
I forgot to mention though I put Shadows on Medium as well.
So its almost all on Ultra except foliage distance on High and Shadows on Medium. 45-60 fps on 2560x1440. Granted, my system is heavily overclocked. My 4790k is at 4.9 Ghz and the 970 + 170 on core and 450 on memory.
I tested this particular result in the first small town/farm you arrive at the start.
On 1080p my 970 got me up to 100 fps.

Hairworks is not what triggered the FPS loss for me. Its actually Shadows. I saw almost no difference between Ultra and Medium shadows. and for a medium range card, what I was able to run it at is still pretty impressive.

PullTheTricker · 31 May 2015 at 19:13

Kaapstad said:
+1

Anyone looking to go 2 way SLI will find the 980ti hard to resist.

Aye that is my plan currently. :cool:

savagesam117 · 31 May 2015 at 19:14

LoadsaMoney said:
These might be the cards for SLi

This is what i'm thinking.. May just have to go all out and treat myself with a shiny 4k monitor to match

Ayahuasca · 31 May 2015 at 19:15

I was going to put the hybrid cooler on my TX but after seeing those benches I might just sell up and buy the 980ti with the hybrid cooler installed.

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:16

PullTheTricker said:
No you're right not everything is on Ultra, but thats to be expected with a 970. A 980 TI on the other hand should literally eat any 1080p you throw at it and comfortably run 1440p on Ultra.
I forgot to mention though I put Shadows on Medium as well.
So its almost all on Ultra except foliage distance on High and Shadows on Medium. 45-60 fps on 2560x1440. Granted, my system is heavily overclocked. My 4790k is at 4.9 Ghz and the 970 + 170 on core and 450 on memory.
I tested this particular result in the first small town/farm you arrive at the start.
On 1080p my 970 got me up to 100 fps.

Hairworks is not what triggered the FPS loss for me. Its actually Shadows. I saw almost no difference between Ultra and Medium shadows. and for a medium range card, what I was able to run it at is still pretty impressive.

With games like Witcher 3 (which have low fps) try running your CPU with a lower overclock and you may get slightly better performance.

I only use 4.0ghz on my CPU to drive 4 TXs when running the game.

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:18

I am getting the urge to get one of these cards but I think I may be being a bit silly to do it.

Having said that I do have a couple of GTX 960s lol.

jommy999 · 31 May 2015 at 19:19

savagesam117 said:
This is what i'm thinking.. May just have to go all out and treat myself with a shiny 4k monitor to match

Whats minimum you guys think for 980ti SLI ? i got 750W . i had SLI early day 8800GTX but it was very stutter and it seem like it wasn't enough power . then i had only one single graphic card and run smoothly since .

savagesam117 · 31 May 2015 at 19:20

Kaapstad said:
I am getting the urge to get one of these cards but I think I may be being a bit silly to do it.

Having said that I do have a couple of GTX 960s lol.

Sell the 960's, one to me, and then replace with some more useful 980Ti's

N19h7m4r3 · 31 May 2015 at 19:20

Kaapstad said:
I am getting the urge to get one of these cards but I think I may be being a bit silly to do it.

Having said that I do have a couple of GTX 960s lol.

980Ti as a PhysX card? Release those Titans' PhysX bottleneck

PullTheTricker · 31 May 2015 at 19:22

Kaapstad said:
With games like Witcher 3 (which have low fps) try running your CPU with a lower overclock and you may get slightly better performance.

I only use 4.0ghz on my CPU to drive 4 TXs when running the game.

Dude, 4 Titan X's!? Hardcore bro, but won't it bottleneck at that many?
Witcher 3 is actually surprisingly well optimized for higher frames. The attitude to max out everything on Ultra is why CDPR decided to downgrade the game in the end, to avoid a controversy with NVIDIA's Maxwell line-up. Settings are there for us to customize our frames ourselves. Truthfully, Ultra shadows is absolutely not worth its frames, costing 2 times more then even hairworks feature. I got more frames with hairworks on, but shadows on low.

Anyways, 4 titan X's... i'm jelly haha.

PullTheTricker · 31 May 2015 at 19:24

jommy999 said:
Whats minimum you guys think for 980ti SLI ? i got 750W . i had SLI early day 8800GTX but it was very stutter and it seem like it wasn't enough power . then i had only one single graphic card and run smoothly since .

I had a 750 watt gold from cooler master, but replaced it to an EVGA Supernova 1000w P2 specifically in anticipation for 980 TI SLI.
But I think 750 should be ok if you don't OC. If you OC then 850w PSU. But tbh I'm no expert, perhaps someone else knows.

Boomstick777 · 31 May 2015 at 19:25

Kaapstad said:
I am getting the urge to get one of these cards but I think I may be being a bit silly to do it.

Having said that I do have a couple of GTX 960s lol.

Lol, you said the other day you weren't interested in the 980 Ti !

4 of every card ever made, I wish I had this level of disposable income. I am jealous

Kaapstad · 31 May 2015 at 19:27

PullTheTricker said:
Dude, 4 Titan X's!? Hardcore bro, but won't it bottleneck at that many?
Witcher 3 is actually surprisingly well optimized for higher frames. The attitude to max out everything on Ultra is why CDPR decided to downgrade the game in the end, to avoid a controversy with NVIDIA's Maxwell line-up. Settings are there for us to customize our frames ourselves. Truthfully, Ultra shadows is absolutely not worth its frames, costing 2 times more then even hairworks feature. I got more frames with hairworks on, but shadows on low.

Anyways, 4 titan X's... i'm jelly haha.

No problems with the TXs @2160p maxed it averages about 60fps with the mins and maxs close to the average and feels very light and lively when playing.

Using maxed settings with 4 cards has the effect of compressing the mins and maxs around the average @2160p which is nice.