Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I wonder if the consumer cards based on the GM200 willl be the first ones to run games at 4K at decent settings, without the need for more than one card??

 

[Yaayuh!]

I wonder if the consumer cards based on the GM200 willl be the first ones to run games at 4K at decent settings, without the need for more than one card??

I think you're asking for a lot there.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I think you're asking for a lot there.

Maybe when overclocked??

It must be at least 30% faster than a GTX980,right??

Plus I would expect the core clock to be much lower too,and be more limited by cooling. So a decent aftermarket card with an overclock might be able to do it??

 

[Boomstick777]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 confirmed specifications and launch date

1 MILLION~ GTX 980 / 970’s Sold

http://videocardz.com/54329/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-confirmed-specifications-and-launch-date

 

[Ayahuasca]

That's a lot of cards in a short space of time, especially when you factor in these are being bought purely for gaming.

 

[Gregster]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 confirmed specifications and launch date



http://videocardz.com/54329/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-confirmed-specifications-and-launch-date

A 9.3Ghz memory clock on 2GB of GDDR and 128bit. Impressive clocks indeed and for the section the card is aimed at, it will be a good budget choice. Also it should be very undemanding in power requirements and ideal for small cases.

Well done nVidia

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Its 9.3GHZ effective with compression and the power consumption argument is just another case of hiding the fact this is a laptop chip dressed up for desktop. So expect to see some nice reasonably priced gaming laptops with this chip,but ultimately looks like I will waiting a while(or spending more) it appears.

I am probably going to save up a bit more and get a GTX970 methinks,as appears AMD are nowhere ATM with regards to DX12 capable chips.

To look at how much power consumption is overrated with sub £200 parts I can give you some examples.

For instance my main PC is a SFF mini-ITX system with a Xeon E3 1230 V2(similar to a Core i7 3770),16GB of DDR3,a couple of drives and a pre-overclocked GTX660. I am lucky to see 200W at the wall when gaming and I am using XFX PRO 450W PSU.

A mate has a Xeon E3 1230 V3(similar to a Core i7 4770) in another SFF mini-ITX system with a couple of drives,16GB of DDR3 and a pre-overclocked R9 280(which you could argue is NOT the most efficient card anyway) - and the system consumes well under 300W at the wall when gaming.

So at this point,why they heck can't we just have more performance for the same TDP and power consumption as the previous generation??

 

[Orangey]

Why exactly does mem OCing do nothing on certain cards but clocks keep getting higher gen to gen? I don't mean error checking.

 

[JediFragger]

The only thing I'd want from AMD at the mo is confirmation whether the 285/290 series are fully DX12 compatible or not. I'm hoping so

 

[Boomstick777]

NVIDIA Maxwell GM200 pictured!

Ladies and gentleman, I can finally say this. The GM200 is here. Maybe not exactly at your doorstep, but pretty close.

The leaker who is probably working for the manufacturing company revealed the GM200 engineering board (180-1G600-1102-A04). That said the The Big Maxwell will use PG600 board.

The mysterious card has 24 Hynix H5GQ4H24MFR modules, clocked at 7 GHz. Together they form 12GB frame buffer. This is probably the same card we saw in GPU-Z database, the Quadro M6000. NVIDIA is known for reusing the same boards for various models, so this could very much be the TITAN X/2/Ultra board as well.

Everyone expects Maxwell GM200 to appear in TITAN series next month (since two TITANs were released in February), so it shouldn’t be that far away.

http://videocardz.com/54358/nvidia-maxwell-gm200-pictured

 

[Kaapstad]

NVIDIA Maxwell GM200 pictured!





http://videocardz.com/54358/nvidia-maxwell-gm200-pictured

384bit bus so last year, what a disappointment.

 

[eyetrip]

What sort of performance over and above a 980 are we looking at I wonder?

And will it come in a 6gb variant?

 

[Boomstick777]

What sort of performance over and above a 980 are we looking at I wonder?

And will it come in a 6gb variant?

Just a guess:

20%+ over GTX 980. Nice gains at higher res.

GTX 980 Ti (6GB) Q3/Q4 2015
GTX Titan X (12GB) Feb 2015

 

[Kaapstad]

What sort of performance over and above a 980 are we looking at I wonder?

And will it come in a 6gb variant?

Going on the specs posted in the link above.

Using a GTX 980 @1127/1752 stock

About 30% @1080p at higher resolutions I think the gap would increase.

 

[se_vietboi]

20%+ over GTX 980 is juicy mm.

 

[Kaapstad]

20%+ over GTX 980 is juicy mm.

No it is poor as the 980 is likely to be the much better overclocker bringing the two cards much closer together in performance terms.

 

[Boomstick777]

Performance and prize of this beast will be scary. Especially the price..

 

[Kaapstad]

Performance and prize of this beast will be scary. Especially the price..

I think they will be a good investment as it looks like nothing much is happening to move us off 28nm at the moment.

 

[se_vietboi]

No it is poor as the 980 is likely to be the much better overclocker bringing the two cards much closer together in performance terms.

Then we just gotta hope it carries the same overclocking potential.

 

[Boomstick777]

I think they will be a good investment as it looks like nothing much is happening to move us off 28nm at the moment.

I'll grab one at launch no doubt. Getting closer to a single GPU that can cope with 1440P