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NVIDIA Reportedly Stops Production of Certain "Maxwell" GPUs

That's a bit different though isn't it, 680 > 580 is comparing both cards that were top of their series.

Nowadays we get the mid range touted as high end first and then the Titan 6 months later for those that can't wait for the slightly cut down card.
 
Ayahuasca said:
That's a bit different though isn't it, 680 > 580 is comparing both cards that were top of their series.

Nowadays we get the mid range touted as high end first and then the Titan 6 months later for those that can't wait for the slightly cut down card.
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No it isn't. The 580 was full fat Fermi (GF110). The 680 was mid range Kepler (GK104).

That was the basis of my whole point :p
 
Ayahuasca said:
Did you miss the part I said series, meaning 5 series, 6 series...
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No, but that is irrelevant.

Even the GM104 part (980) was about 10- 15% quicker than the GK100 part (780TI) and we didn't even have a die shrink that time.

All I am saying is that everything from the last few years of Nvidia's releases has shown that the next generation mid range part will be faster than the previous generation full fat card, and by a good margin on a die shrink.

Of course there is no guarantee this will be the case this time around, but it would be silly to discount the evidence we have from previous generations.
 
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Yer, rock and a hard place. I can sell it for what I paid pretty much and a sh 970/390 would do the job but I don't want to be sitting forever waiting for a decent upgrade.
 
Jono8 said:
No, but that is irrelevant.

Even the GM104 part (980) was about 10- 15% quicker than the GK100 part (780TI) and we didn't even have a die shrink that time.

All I am saying is that everything from the last few years of Nvidia's releases has shown that the next generation mid range part will be faster than the previous generation full fat card, and by a good margin on a die shrink.

Of course there is no guarantee this will be the case this time around, but it would be silly to discount the evidence we have from previous generations.
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There were reasons for that which further increased the available transistor budget for fp32 and improving gaming performance in a mid sized die, in addition to having the transistor/process shrink and architecture improvements.
GK104 took out compute and dp functionality vs GF110. GM200 took out fp64 hardware vs GK100 which provides some representation of just how significant that can be towards freeing up transistor budget by removing fp64 to add fp32.

This time around it is just the process shrink and arch improvements and no removal of hardware/features as in 580 ->680.
No useful information can be inferred from the previous release transitioning to a smaller process. We are just where we were before, if it is faster by a good margin it is because they designed it to be which means a large enough die to accommodate the necessary shaders/features.
 
Jono8 said:
No, but that is irrelevant.
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I don't see it as being irrelevant when cards were released differently back then. The 680 had to be a good upgrade over the 580 as it was the top of its series. Nowadays there's always a TI variant further down the line.

You are however correct that nobody knows for sure, I'd like the 1080 to be a noticeable improvement over the 980ti as it means we're in for stonking performance from the TI.
 
Gregster said:
Yer, rock and a hard place. I can sell it for what I paid pretty much and a sh 970/390 would do the job but I don't want to be sitting forever waiting for a decent upgrade.
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Tbh I'd sell it Sept-Oct, just before the new Titans are relased (unless it shifts slightly, but again 4-6 weeks before launch :D)
 
Gregster said:
Yer, rock and a hard place. I can sell it for what I paid pretty much and a sh 970/390 would do the job but I don't want to be sitting forever waiting for a decent upgrade.
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If you can get back what you paid seems like a good idea imo. Pick up a cheap 970/390 to tide you over and always good for a spare card aswell
 
Gregster said:
Tempted to pop my Titan X on Ebay now and buy an interim card. Thoughts?
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If you have SLI i would sell one if you are not using SLI much like i was..
If you only have one card i would just keep it..

Also seems the Asus cards are making the most other brands are selling for 650-750 and then you got E-bay fees.
Mine was a Asus.

I have just one hybrid T-X im waiting for the Next Titan next year then i will upgrade
 
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