Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

[James J]

I'll be skipping the 800 series due to nothing taxing my 780 ti sli at my res anyway.

 

[varkanoid]

The source of the leak is the insanely reliable

Well that says it all.

I read a review recently and I like how the GTX880M is basically a GTX 680.

 

[garyfl]

whats the ti and 780- get?

 

[bru]

whats the ti and 780- get?

This is at stock just to give some idea, of course we have no idea if the Maxwell score is at stock or not.

 

[Gregster]

I remember seeing a bench screenie similar for a Titan (when info was being leaked) and way back then I thought "My 680 can score close to that" but when I opened up the Titan, it could almost score double the speed of the 680 at stock.

Hopefully the same is going to happen here

 

[garyfl]

woah, thats a damn leap then eh

 

[Ayahuasca]

I don't know why you'd compare watercooled extreme short burst benchmark scores on current cards to a a new stock reference card using drivers that will in no way be optimized yet either. I'll wait for game benches as usual.

 

[Boomstick777]

That score is tame but it depends on price and what potential is in the tank. I would still personally wait for top end before considering moving from my Titans mind. They are serving me well

Agreed, they will be good for a long while yet. Better to move from Titan to another Titan like card. It will come prob Feb 2015..

Yeah I guess I'll probably wait to see how performance compares to the current cards before diving in, but I'm probably too impatient to wait for the high-end cards.

Either way I better start saving.

Ha, I would have done the same, having a crazy expensive few months now so out of the game for a while

I will be back though X99 and Nvidia Maxwell...

 

[Finners]

Hoping the 870 is going to be a good card to upgrade from my 680, I'm done with the top cards as I can't keep up, prices are crazy.

 

[Orangey]

I didn't realise Apple is hogging 100% of 20nm wafers for the rest of the year... I thought they already got their lot and were moving to GF fab 8 for 14nm. Sad to see that the hipster fruit company is blocking us from new GPUs

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2390114&page=12

 

[Gregster]

I don't know why you'd compare watercooled extreme short burst benchmark scores on current cards to a a new stock reference card using drivers that will in no way be optimized yet either. I'll wait for game benches as usual.

Not sure if you noticed, but I really enjoy benching and hence why I compared like I did. That is my way of doing things and I am sure others have their way of looking at performance gains

 

[Rroff]

~40% boost over a Titan was 20nm estimated performance for the "880" as in mid-range not full fat maxwell - if they are getting that out of 28nm nVidia would have certainly pulled something out the bag.

 

[Boomstick777]

WCCF Tech spinning this as 35% more powerful than the 780.. Not sure that's true, with both cards at stock that isn't 35% more performance is it? More like 10%..

Nvidia Geforce GTX 880 3dMark Benchmark Surfaces – Nearly 35% More Powerful Than the 780

[Rumor] Something very interesting cropped up on the forums of NoteBook Review (via User800). Basically somebody posted an alleged screen-shot of an Nvidia GPU with the name blurred out. The authenticity of this picture is not verifiable, but to the casual inspection it doesn’t appear doctored. The benchmark run appears to be of the Maxwell Flagship GTX 880.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-3dmark-benchmark-surfaces-35-powerful-780/

 

[Silent_Scone]

I think he's wrong about the dates too.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

if it's 35% better this would be the card to run Unreal Engine 4 at 1080p, shouldn't dip any lower than 40-45fps at high settings.. will have to wait and see benchmarks of the Elemental demo and proper games first.

 

[Mal X]

It'll get beaten by the next generation of AMDs so who cares .........am i right or am i right

 

[Ayahuasca]

It'll get beaten by the next generation of AMDs so who cares .........am i right or am i right

Just like the 290x beats the 780ti in every game right? Oh wait........

 

[jh30uk]

Will the GTX 880 Be Announced at Gamescom?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gtx-880-gm2014-gamescom,27305.html

 

[kabir92]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gtx-880-gm2014-gamescom,27305.html

wow, looks possible, and if amd respond with faster cards, the ti versions will take care of them. either way about time something new came out

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

~40% boost over a Titan was 20nm estimated performance for the "880" as in mid-range not full fat maxwell - if they are getting that out of 28nm nVidia would have certainly pulled something out the bag.

OFC,they could just further deplete DP performance and use a 256 bit memory controller and devote more die area and transistors to shaders. Maxwell also cuts the amount of texture units per SMX in half over Kepler too.

Hence they could not only increase the number of shaders,but probably clock them higher than the GK110 based cards. Also with less RAM chips per board they could drop power consumed in that area too.

Edit!!

The GTX780TI at 1920X1080 is only a third faster than a GTX770:

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_780_Ti/images/perfrel_1920.gif

So even though there is nearly a doubling in die surface area,a doubling in transistor budget,nearly a doubling in shader numbers and a massive increase in memory bandwith you are not seeing a doubling in performance.

At 2560X1600 you are looking at a 40% performance increase:

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_780_Ti/images/perfrel_2560.gif

The leaked 3DMark score puts the GTX880 at around 20% faster than a GTX780TI.

Now imagine an upscaled GK104 with the changes introduced in Maxwell(texture unit sharing),and a larger die area and transistor budget??

Not hard to imagine it being faster than a GTX780TI.