GTX 980 and 970 Specs Rumored

[TPC]

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?

it was more meant in the way that the 980 wont be better than a 780ti in games

 

[Dicehunter]

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?

Not what he meant though, Raw performance not just power usage and temps, ALL THE FRAMES ^_^

 

[MadShadow]

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?

I highly doubt the performance benefits (if any) will be worthwile enough to upgrade from a 780ti to a 980.

 

[barnsley]

Wasn't haswell more efficient yet it has worse temperatures?

Its a small performance increase, meh. Easily going to skip out this next gen for my main rig. I'll replace the 7870 in my other watercooled rig though ^_^.

 

[Kushiro]

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.

Well I guess my results differ somehow, as my 290x's perform rather close to the 780ti's not "far outperformed" in the slightest, in fact my 780ti's didnt do very well when I upgraded to my d590 monitor, so I had to go back to my 290x's Also these were both reference cards, 290x's were W/C though.

 

[trawetSluaP]

So what prices are you guys expecting for the 980 here in the UK?

 

[Dicehunter]

So what prices are you guys expecting for the 980 here in the UK?

Well it's going to be around 500-600 USD so I reckon the same in £, You have to factor in the UK rip off greedy bastard tax as well.

 

[jaspervandervalk]

Well it's going to be around 500-600 USD so I reckon the same in £, You have to factor in the UK rip off greedy bastard tax as well.

Well I really hope that they come in at a bit more of a competitive price, I hope we could find a price close to the lower end 780Ti or upper end 780s, if the spec rumors are true then I would hope they would try and add to the efficiency and clean feel by giving us a competitive price, but then again we might have to pay a premium for the new architecture as it has a new production method etc and yes there is that tax....

 

[RamboOC]

If its going to use a smaller manufacturing process (by that i mean the nm size), then the slighy price increase from nvidia would be fair but still £500-£600 would be too much.

 

[jaspervandervalk]

If its going to use a smaller manufacturing process (by that i mean the nm size), then the slighy price increase from nvidia would be fair but still £500-£600 would be too much.

I would feel the same way, that really would be a huge price tag! Especially if like I said the spec rumors are true and it isn't as quick as the 780Ti. That would surely just be an awful way to pitch it!

 

[Dicehunter]

If its going to use a smaller manufacturing process (by that i mean the nm size), then the slighy price increase from nvidia would be fair but still £500-£600 would be too much.

The 900 series is still on the same manufacturing size as the 700 series i.e 28nm so the increase in price is is just because it's slightly newer tech.

 

[Gurt11]

More detailed specs here also: http://be.hardware.info/nieuws/41345/specificaties-nvidia-gtx-980-duiken-op