NVIDIA to launch its GeForce GTX 880 next month, at under $500

[Xrqute]

VideoCardz.com is reporting that the GeForce GTX 880 will be announced mid next month. It is rumored NVIDIA will unveil its GeForce GTX 880 sometime next month at a press event with retail availability of the GPU starting in late September.

When it comes to the specs of the GeForce GTX 880, we will likely see NVIDIA to offer up 4GB and 8GB GDDR5 versions, both on a 256-bit bus.

The best part about the GTX 880 will be its price, which is expected to fall somewhere around $400-$500 price range.

When it comes to performance, we should expect it to obviously beat the GK110-based GTX 780, and hopefully beat the GTX 780 Ti. At this point in time exact specs of the card are not available. Early guesses are that we can expect it to fall 10% either side of the GTX 780 Ti and still be at $400-$500.

We should see the release drive down prices on the current GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti.

Sounds like good news for everyone to me So start saving your pennies so you can snap up a bargain next month!

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[RamboOC]

I wonder if aftermarket boards will have 10gb+ vram. that would be insane and there would be no point in titan black

 

[SeekaX]

The 780 is based on the GK110, not the GK104.

I wonder if aftermarket boards will have 10gb+ vram. that would be insane and there would be no point in titan black

The 880 isn't going to outperform a titan black, is it.
Inb4 muh two 880s.

 

[Dicehunter]

So the 880 is replacing the 770, Wonder when the 780 Ti successor will arrive.

If it's only 10-15% faster than a 780 Ti I'm just gonna get another 780 Ti for SLI and wait for the 900 series, All these small incremental updates are starting to royally piss me off.

 

[RadeonHDx]

Hopefully these bring the prices of the 780/770's down even more so I can finally afford to get myself a shiny new (old) graphics card before my rig is 3 gens behind ^_^

 

[yassarikhan786]

So the 880 is replacing the 770, Wonder when the 780 Ti successor will arrive.

If it's only 10-15% faster than a 780 Ti I'm just gonna get another 780 Ti for SLI and wait for the 900 series, All these small incremental updates are starting to royally piss me off.

The 2 year cycle is definitely more sensible. The performance difference between my 580 and 780 Ti was quite significant.

 

[Dicehunter]

The 2 year cycle is definitely more sensible. The performance difference between my 580 and 780 Ti was quite significant.

True, I just wish the 780 Ti had a little more memory, I know I could get the Titan Black but I don't need DP and I'm not willing to pay £250 over a 780 Ti just for 3GB more memory.

 

[Xrqute]

whoops had to edit in "with retail availability of the GPU starting in late September."

The 780 is based on the GK110, not the GK104

my mistake i must of misread something when typing that up, I don't own a Nvidia card so its not something i would of noticed at a glance.

however i fixed it in the OP.

 

[Kushiro]

If that 256-bit bus is real, I am rather disappointed, though at least it is priced more reasonably. If power efficiency is a lot better than my 290x's and if it ends up using a 384 or 512 bus I might actually just grab a pair.

So will the GTX 880 definitely be on 28nm then? Would like to see maxwell the way Nvidia intended it to be was really looking forward to it after seeing the 750ti too.

 

[Dicehunter]

If that 256-bit bus is real, I am rather disappointed, though at least it is priced more reasonably. If power efficiency is a lot better than my 290x's and if it ends up using a 384 or 512 bus I might actually just grab a pair.

So will the GTX 880 definitely be on 28nm then? Would like to see maxwell the way Nvidia intended it to be was really looking forward to it after seeing the 750ti too.

Yep 28nm, We won't be seeing 20nm until the full fat Maxwell cards probably

 

[stampedeadam]

I wouldn't worry too much about memory bus etc. - I very much doubt they will design a high end card that's starved of memory bandwidth.

I don't know what the bus width is on the 780Ti but I can tell you that overclocking the memory on it does very little for performance, which suggests to me that the GPU is already 'well fed'. Turning up the GPU on the other hand really does make a difference.

 

[Dicehunter]

I wouldn't worry too much about memory bus etc. - I very much doubt they will design a high end card that's starved of memory bandwidth.

I don't know what the bus width is on the 780Ti but I can tell you that overclocking the memory on it does very little for performance, which suggests to me that the GPU is already 'well fed'. Turning up the GPU on the other hand really does make a difference.

384bit on the 780 Ti, I'm guessing they're saving the higher bus for the 880 Ti etc...

 

[Kaapstad]

VideoCardz.com is reporting that the GeForce GTX 880 will be announced mid next month. It is rumored NVIDIA will unveil its GeForce GTX 880 sometime next month at a press event with retail availability of the GPU starting in late September.

When it comes to the specs of the GeForce GTX 880, we will likely see NVIDIA to offer up 4GB and 8GB GDDR5 versions, both on a 256-bit bus.

The best part about the GTX 880 will be its price, which is expected to fall somewhere around $400-$500 price range.

When it comes to performance, we should expect it to obviously beat the GK110-based GTX 780, and hopefully beat the GTX 780 Ti. At this point in time exact specs of the card are not available. Early guesses are that we can expect it to fall 10% either side of the GTX 780 Ti and still be at $400-$500.

We should see the release drive down prices on the current GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti.

Sounds like good news for everyone to me So start saving your pennies so you can snap up a bargain next month!

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Not going to happen.

Lower price than a 780ti.
More performance than a 780ti.
More VRAM than a 780ti.

If the above was true the price at least to start with would be significantly higher than the 780ti.

If it is true about a 256bit bus on 28nm both of these point to a mid range card that may be slightly faster than a GTX 680. Even the quoted likely price would be about right as well then.

 

[Xrqute]

Not going to happen.

Lower price than a 780ti.
More performance than a 780ti.
More VRAM than a 780ti.

If the above was true the price at least to start with would be significantly higher than the 780ti.

If it is true about a 256bit bus on 28nm both of these point to a mid range card that may be slightly faster than a GTX 680. Even the quoted likely price would be about right as well then.

I just post the information I found.

How true it is will come light next month.

Here's hoping that it's more right then wrong.

 

[Dicehunter]

Not going to happen.

Lower price than a 780ti.
More performance than a 780ti.
More VRAM than a 780ti.

If the above was true the price at least to start with would be significantly higher than the 780ti.

If it is true about a 256bit bus on 28nm both of these point to a mid range card that may be slightly faster than a GTX 680. Even the quoted likely price would be about right as well then.

Well according to some older "Leaks" the manufacturing costs of the 800 series is quite a bit lower than the 700 series i.e GK110 so the above info may be true.

 

[Zoot]

Not going to happen.

Lower price than a 780ti.
More performance than a 780ti.
More VRAM than a 780ti.

If the above was true the price at least to start with would be significantly higher than the 780ti.

I agree.

Not only that though, I'd imagine if Nvidia had a new flashy 8XX series on the way with a significant jump in performance of the 7XX series, they'd have been shouting about it at Computex.

 

[Kaapstad]

Well according to some older "Leaks" the manufacturing costs of the 800 series is quite a bit lower than the 700 series i.e GK110 so the above info may be true.

Since when have manufacturing costs dictated what NVidia charge for their cards. For example it probably costs more to disable their GK110 chips to use in their 780ti rather than leave them as they are for use in the Titan BE. No NVidia will charge every penny they think they can get for a card and if the performance is not there nor will the high price be.

 

[SeekaX]

I agree.

Not only that though, I'd imagine if Nvidia had a new flashy 8XX series on the way with a significant jump in performance of the 7XX series, they'd have been shouting about it at Computex.

They weren't shouting about the 780 either.

 

[yassarikhan786]

True, I just wish the 780 Ti had a little more memory, I know I could get the Titan Black but I don't need DP and I'm not willing to pay £250 over a 780 Ti just for 3GB more memory.

£250 extra for 3GB is daylight robbery. Then again, you wouldn't expect any different from Nvidia

 

[Damien c]

I went from SLI GTX680's to SLI GTX780Ti's, and I don't see me upgrading to the GTX880's, if they only have 4Gb of Vram.

Sure 4Gb would help with 4K but my 780Ti's will cope with 4K till the 900 series come out, and that is when I will upgrade my cards.

I can see the GTX880 being around 5% to 10% faster than the 780Ti, but nothing more.

For now I just have to sort out the motherboard issue I have got.