GTX 900/Maxwell announcement this month?

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Nvidia has posted earlier today on their twitter that they will be organizing anunprecedented 24 hour event to celebrate PC Gaming. This looks like a perfect event to reveal the Maxwell GPU's, as there have been many rumors suggesting Maxwell announcement being in September.

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According to the "Leaks" the 880/980 or what ever they are calling it will not outperform a 780 Ti but only a standard 780 :(
 
d1974 said:
That is what I have heard also, but they are less power hungry.
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The maxwell GPU's will improve a lot in terms of power consumption, but not in terms of performance

I expect a GTX 780 equivlant to use half of the power
That means less hassle for people wanting to go SLI, better temps, lower power consumption and better overclocking capability (possibly)

So there are more benefits for enthusiasts than just power bills
 
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I'll stick to the 780 Ti, I'll get a newer gen card when it has at least 6GB as standard *Non Titan style cards* and is at least 20% faster than the 780 Ti :)
 
I'm looking forward to seeing what the 980 will be like, if it is faster than a 780ti I might get one. If the 970 and 980 are just lower power consumption maxwell versions of the 780 and 780ti I won't bother, not like the £10 a year on electric it will save me is a good reason to buy one if the performance isn't any better.
 
SieB said:
I'm looking forward to seeing what the 980 will be like, if it is faster than a 780ti I might get one. If the 970 and 980 are just lower power consumption maxwell versions of the 780 and 780ti I won't bother, not like the £10 a year on electric it will save me is a good reason to buy one if the performance isn't any better.
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I made the mistake last time of buying a 780 then the 780 Ti came out 2 months later, This time I'm waiting for the full fatty boom batty Ayyyyy init !
 
Dicehunter said:
I made the mistake last time of buying a 780 then the 780 Ti came out 2 months later, This time I'm waiting for the full fatty boom batty Ayyyyy init !
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I want to see what AMD have up their sleeve as well though, if they bring a card out that is £100 cheaper and just as fast i'd rather buy that. This is the only reason my last few cards have been AMD, Nvidia haven't given me a reason to spend the extra money for barley any noticeable difference.
 
SieB said:
I want to see what AMD have up their sleeve as well though, if they bring a card out that is £100 cheaper and just as fast i'd rather buy that. This is the only reason my last few cards have been AMD, Nvidia haven't given me a reason to spend the extra money for barley any noticeable difference.
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See I love Physx in the games that have it, GeForce Experience, Shadowplay, CUDA acceleration on certain apps, TXAA and Adaptive V-Sync so I'm willing to pay a little more for Nvidia.

Plus the reference Nvidia cards always look ten times better than AMD, To me anyway and I'm the type of person that loves looking inside their case through the side window and have it all glinty and shiny and sexy ergo Nvidia all the way to the bank for me ^_^
 
Dicehunter said:
I'm the type of person that loves looking inside their case through the side window and have it all glinty and shiny and sexy ergo Nvidia all the way to the bank for me ^_^
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Ya'll need watercoolin' in yer' life :)

No feeling like looking through the window and seeing everything silently flowing
 
Whoever does the best bang for buck I'll get next. Neither sides proprietary software is any real deal maker for me, especially not physX/goofy hair thingy.

I got a 780ti because I fancied a change/couldn't get a non ref card and had some spare cash lying around. Probably helps that its the cooler running flagship gaming card as the 901 case appears to be pretty good at microwave emulation.
 
SuB said:
Ya'll need watercoolin' in yer' life :)

No feeling like looking through the window and seeing everything silently flowing
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I have all the bits required for a CPU loop, Block, 360 60mm rad, Tubing, Fittings, Pump/Res combo an fluid but it's just finding the time, It's all from XSPC and has been in a box in it's original packaging for around 3 months haha ^_^
 
RamboOC said:
The maxwell GPU's will improve a lot in terms of power consumption, but not in terms of performance

I expect a GTX 780 equivlant to use half of the power
That means less hassle for people wanting to go SLI, better temps, lower power consumption and better overclocking capability (possibly)

So there are more benefits for enthusiasts than just power bills
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I've been running a 750Ti on my little pentium anniversary itx rig for a couple of weeks now and I think maxwell's biggest benefits are power , the 750 doesnt even need external power at all, and low noise levels because they just dont get very hot at all.
I also think its more overclockable than previous architecture, so where the headline figures may say the new boards only outperform the old 780's, if the 750 is any indication, they have a lot of headroom to push beyond that.
 
The new chips aren't expected to do much more than the current ones. There will essentially be a refresh, the new chips will be more power efficient but I don't think that the 980 will be more than 5% faster than the 780ti
 
Interesting email from Catzilla this morning.

Dear User.

We've just released Catzilla 1.3 with new hardware detection:

the latest graphics cards and processors (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870, 880...)

support of AMD Carrizo

caching of GPU I2C devices to speed-up the scan process

support of more NVIDIA GM107 and GM108 models

and many more...

I guess the added new cards based on the chip GM2XX but maybe nvidia won't skip 8 series and will keep the progression going.
 
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