GTX 980 and 970 Specs Rumored

[WYP]

The GTX 900 series will be soon upon us and our friends at VideoCardz have just published what looks like the final Nvidia specs of the GTX 980 and 970. Lets have a look.

Read more on the rumored Specs of Nvidia's GTX 980 here

 

[Wraith]

Very interesting.. the only upside to this is the Maxwell architecture which is 4x more efficient and consumes much less power. In total raw power there is no reason for anyone to move from the higher end 700 Series. That said this is only if these specs are true.

 

[The_Governour]

Yes, for future SLI and power savings then its a nice touch - but as for raw graphical power - then no if you have 780+.

 

[remember300]

Maybe wont be great for us, with desktops but look at the mobile advantages, the same performance 100w or more power saving thats pretty much awesome!
But in an SLI multi card set up it could be the difference between 2 or 3 card Sli, for set PSU's i my self would be interested to see a dual or tri Sli comparison between 780's and 980's showing particular attention to the power used, and the FPS difference.

 

[nepas]

may want to speed up a bit,seeing that the 960 has also been spotted....

 

[Dicehunter]

Specs aren't looking that good on the 980.

Got my 780 Ti overclocked to 1300 and getting bandwidth of 360GB/s.

If the 980 can out do that with 800 less CUDA cores, 140GB/s less bandwidth and 75w less TDP then I'll be very impressed.

 

[BigBlue1]

Wow, this combined with what nVidia is doing with the new bandwidth management will be a big increase over what they have now. Looking good.

Now all we need is the new nVlink to be released and do away with the old pcie bottleneck and Pascal.

Countdown to 2016.

 

[Dicehunter]

Wow, this combined with what nVidia is doing with the new bandwidth management will be a big increase over what they have now. Looking good.

Now all we need is the new nVlink to be released and do away with the old pcie bottleneck and Pascal.

Countdown to 2016.

10% over a 780 or maybe the 780 Ti aint a big increase ^_^

But I wouldn't mind seeing SLI bridges be a thing of the past with Pascal

 

[Tolemac]

hopefully the 770 780 will come down more in price since I only game at 1080p it may be a nice upgrade for me and I can get rid of my HD7970 matrix platinum

 

[Tripp]

hopefully the 770 780 will come down more in price since I only game at 1080p it may be a nice upgrade for me and I can get rid of my HD7970 matrix platinum

the 7970 is still a great 1080p card :huh:

 

[tolagarf]

The 980 is not intended to be a successor to the 780 Ti, so those who currently own the 780 Ti don't even bother thinking about an upgrade. I bet there will be a 980 Ti early in the new year anyway.

 

[Kushiro]

the 7970 is still a great 1080p card :huh:

What are you talking about!! the 7970 is the best card ever! I would have gotten it over my 290x's had I not been so stupid and hasty.

Also 4x more power efficient.. Maybe I will switch over to Nvidia again, last one was 670 (great card too)

 

[d3rrial]

Can't wait for this. Def. on my to buy list! I'll just have to get rid of my 2x 290x first I want to know if one GTX 980 can outperform 2x R9 290X

From what I can tell from having used 3 GTX 750 Tis, Maxwell is a miracle-architecture with extreme performance for extremely little electrical power and heat. And those 750Tis weren't even produced in the 20nm or whatever Maxwell is supposed to be produced in.

 

[TPC]

Can't wait for this. Def. on my to buy list! I'll just have to get rid of my 2x 290x first I want to know if one GTX 980 can outperform 2x R9 290X

It wont, 1000% sure

 

[Kushiro]

Seeing as how a 290x is pretty much on par with a 780ti and the 980s rumored specs put it below the 780ti, wouldnt it be common sense that it wouldnt outperform 2 290x's? Or perhaps you didnt read anything before posting, if so please just ignore this. No point.

 

[d3rrial]

Seeing as how a 290x is pretty much on par with a 780ti and the 980s rumored specs put it below the 780ti, wouldnt it be common sense that it wouldnt outperform 2 290x's? Or perhaps you didnt read anything before posting, if so please just ignore this. No point.

My 290X cards are far outperformed by 780Tis...

Also I only see technical specs released, not actual performance data. Just because it uses less cuda cores, doesn't mean it has worse performance... I'm not an expert on GPUs, but nvidia may well have optimized the performance of individual cores, thus lowering the required amount of them...

If it says anywhere in an official release, that the 980 is meant to be inferior to the 780Ti, I must have skipped that paragraph apparently.

 

[jaspervandervalk]

I have delayed my newest build because I am waiting to see what Nvidia has to offer with the 980;

I really hope that it is worth the wait, I would have just gone ahead and gotten a 780Ti but with games like GTA V and The Division coming to PC I am hedging a bet they will be extremely VRAM hungry...

Maybe the 4GB will have a performance advantage over the 3GB 780Ti, especially as I am going to be running the games on a resolution of 2560 x 1440!

 

[Darth.mader]

I have delayed my newest build because I am waiting to see what Nvidia has to offer with the 980;

I really hope that it is worth the wait, I would have just gone ahead and gotten a 780Ti but with games like GTA V and The Division coming to PC I am hedging a bet they will be extremely VRAM hungry...

Maybe the 4GB will have a performance advantage over the 3GB 780Ti, especially as I am going to be running the games on a resolution of 2560 x 1440!

It wont. The new 900 series will use less power, but it wonmt beat a 780ti sadly

 

[RamboOC]

Very interesting.. the only upside to this is the Maxwell architecture which is 4x more efficient and consumes much less power. In total raw power there is no reason for anyone to move from the higher end 700 Series. That said this is only if these specs are true.

But that's a one big upside, 4X More Efficient!

Can't wait to see the overclocks on this

 

[BigBlue1]

It wont. The new 900 series will use less power, but it wonmt beat a 780ti sadly

LOL using less power beats the 780ti right there, and having more memory beats it again, and using less power means it will operate cooler, which for WC's is a big plus as you won't be pumping as much gpu heat into the cpu. What are you thinking? You want a card that uses more power, produces more heat, is less efficient and has less memory? Really?