Official GTX 980 Ti pictures revealed - EVGA confirms pricing

[Kaapstad]

No they arent.

"Big" Kepler launch went: 780(cores disabled) & Titan (Cores disabled with extra 3Gb of Vram), then 780Ti (Fully enabled) then Titan Black (Fully enabled with extra 3Gb of Vram)

"Big" Maxwell launch went: Titan X (Fully enabled 12GB of Vram) then 980Ti (cores disabled & half the Vram)

Unless they are launching another GM-200 variant with even more cores disabled than the 980Ti (because the Titan X is a fully enabled GM-200 chip), a dual GPU Card or an even bigger chip this is it for Big Maxwell.

I knew you were going to say the above hence I said 7XX series cards, remember Titans are not 7XX series cards.


The reason NV will go for a GM200 card with all the cores enabled and 6gb of VRAM with beefed up power system is so people can overclock the living daylights out of them. Remember it is easier to overclock a 6gb card than it is a 12gb one.

The last word in the 7 series for performance was the 780ti check out the specs and you will realise it is very close to what I am saying NV will do with GM200 in 6 months time.

 

[Mysterae]

So it's estimated that the 980ti will be about £700 - £750 on release? How much was the 780ti on release, about £500 - £550?

A quick look on OCUK the 980non-ti is from £450 to around £550, ignoring the "this week only offer" and the stupid editions.

The estimated price for the 980ti looks about right then, but yet so wrong.

 

[MiNo]

Come on man! You can buy a gtx970 or a gtx950 or even an R9 280x/R9 290/x and you would be able to run almost every game at 1080p maxed out

Obviously, this is just my personal point of view. But £200 more for the 980ti compared to the 'similar type card' 780ti launch price is too much.

This way, NV have us paying the same £/performance unit as 2 years ago. Tech developments should mean (any usually does) that the 'top component' costs about the same, but year after year it gets faster. So you pay the same, but get more.

Nvidia have with this release succesfully raised the price of the cards as performance increased - meaning - THEY get all the economical benefits from developments and WE just have to buy more and more expensive products.

Look at SSD drives : as they become faster and larger, we get more and more for our monies. A mind-range drive cost about the same now as a few years ago - but you get so much more.

With graphics, this 'gain' is now very small. You get more, but a high end card now also costs 50% up from 3-4 years ago.

Oh well, will just add one more used GTX780 then, and get decent performance for very little money.

 

[Dicehunter]

I knew you were going to say the above hence I said 7XX series cards, remember Titans are not 7XX series cards.


The reason NV will go for a GM200 card with all the cores enabled and 6gb of VRAM with beefed up power system is so people can overclock the living daylights out of them. Remember it is easier to overclock a 6gb card than it is a 12gb one.

The last word in the 7 series for performance was the 780ti check out the specs and you will realise it is very close to what I am saying NV will do with GM200 in 6 months time.

This I can see happening but as the other guy already pointed out the GM200 on the TX is already full enabled, But the fully enabled GM200 with half the memory I could see on aftermarket boards like the Matrix, Kingpin, Classified etc...

Maybe that's what the rumoured 980 Ti Metal is going to be

 

[Mysterae]

Oh well, will just add one more used GTX780 then, and get decent performance for very little money.

Historically and from experience this has been a bit of a folly. I had two 670's and bought a third while one was being RMA'd. Once it was returned to me I ran with three 670's for a short period and the power requirements, heat and noise output just wasn't worth the 20% gains in games that supported triple SLI and the 0% gain on games that didn't.

However, with DirectX 12 coming out and the alleged enhancements for multiple GPU's, the above may no longer be true and getting a third 780ti for my twins may be quite prudent.

Slightly off topic, the problem with having Crossfire/SLI setup of a previously top tier graphics card means that when the equivalent next generation graphics card comes out, in it's singular form it's never more powerful than what you already have.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Historically and from experience this has been a bit of a folly. I had two 670's and bought a third while one was being RMA'd. Once it was returned to me I ran with three 670's for a short period and the power requirements, heat and noise output just wasn't worth the 20% gains in games that supported triple SLI and the 0% gain on games that didn't.

However, with DirectX 12 coming out and the alleged enhancements for multiple GPU's, the above may no longer be true and getting a third 780ti for my twins may be quite prudent.

Slightly off topic, the problem with having Crossfire/SLI setup of a previously top tier graphics card means that when the equivalent next generation graphics card comes out, in it's singular form it's never more powerful than what you already have.

DX12 won't solve that Multi GPU problem. DX12 will make it easier to be fixed.. still up to devs. DX12 will make it easier on the CPU side of things, much less on GPU side of things.

 

[MiNo]

Historically and from experience this has been a bit of a folly. I had two 670's and bought a third while one was being RMA'd. Once it was returned to me I ran with three 670's for a short period and the power requirements, heat and noise output just wasn't worth the 20% gains in games that supported triple SLI and the 0% gain on games that didn't.

However, with DirectX 12 coming out and the alleged enhancements for multiple GPU's, the above may no longer be true and getting a third 780ti for my twins may be quite prudent.

Slightly off topic, the problem with having Crossfire/SLI setup of a previously top tier graphics card means that when the equivalent next generation graphics card comes out, in it's singular form it's never more powerful than what you already have.

I only have one 780 today, so I would only got to '2-card SLI' - something I have very good experience with from having used 2 GTX460 for about 2.5 years. All in all , a very positive experience. With more mature HW and SW it can only be better now.

I would never touch 3-SLI. Not until cards are back to one slot, and does not require all the power + cooling. But then it would be fun to add in 4-5 cards until the case is full

From a performance/cost point of view - nothing really beats adding a used card of the same type you have, when you need some extra performance.

 

[Mysterae]

I only have one 780 today, so I would only got to '2-card SLI' - something I have very good experience with from having used 2 GTX460 for about 2.5 years. All in all , a very positive experience. With more mature HW and SW it can only be better now.

I would never touch 3-SLI. Not until cards are back to one slot, and does not require all the power + cooling. But then it would be fun to add in 4-5 cards until the case is full

From a performance/cost point of view - nothing really beats adding a used card of the same type you have, when you need some extra performance.

Not much to disagree with there

I doubt that either the 390X or 980ti will be as powerful as my SLI'd 780ti's in games that support SLI of course. Therefore to experience an upgrade I'd have to go SLI 980ti but at £1,400 to £1,500 that is a (can't swear!) big expense. Sure I'll get something for my 780ti's when I sell them which may make the cost easier to bear. I'll be waiting for a bit though.

 

[Fetchez La Vache]

Maybe that's what the rumoured 980 Ti Metal is going to be

Or the long ago rumoured but since forgotten about 8Gb 980's?

 

[Mysterae]

I read on another forum that the NDA gets lifted tonight and that TTL will have a review up by 11pm tonight. Not definetely mentioned that it's the 980ti, but it's got to be .

 

[NeverBackDown]

I read on another forum that the NDA gets lifted tonight and that TTL will have a review up by 11pm tonight. Not definetely mentioned that it's the 980ti, but it's got to be .

Pretty sure Tom was one of the first to get this review up. Smart man for doing so too. Being the first ensures more viewers

 

[Doomslayer]

Pretty sure Tom was one of the first to get this review up. Smart man for doing so too. Being the first ensures more viewers

Yeah but people cry and say his videos are too long

 

[Davva2004]

You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but on YouTube you can't please any of the people any of the time because everyone watching is an entitled (can't swear)wit who thinks that the whole world revolves around them, and want everything broken down into a thirty second soundbite telling them what to think.

 

[Doomslayer]

You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but on YouTube you can't please any of the people any of the time because everyone watching is an entitled (can't swear)wit who thinks that the whole world revolves around them, and want everything broken down into a thirty second soundbite telling them what to think.

They cry and say the video should be no longer than 10 mins, TBH there are plenty of other reviewers on YT that do 10 mins unboxing video not saying any names tho but i'm sure you know the people who i'm talking about ^_^

 

[chrismjurd]

Yeah but people cry and say his videos are too long

You can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but on YouTube you can't please any of the people any of the time because everyone watching is an entitled (can't swear)wit who thinks that the whole world revolves around them, and want everything broken down into a thirty second soundbite telling them what to think.

this and this, to be honest the main reason I watch Tom, is due to the fact that he explains the inside of a nats, "Bottom" i stopped reading mass market magazines to get my pc fix due to the massive invasion of adverts... im looking at you computer shopper and pcpro, well mainly that, but when said magazines were £2.99 and now are £5.99 for the same content with extra advert pages wow... this is just the next evolution of it, why a bigger publication doesnt start a youtube for editorial and news is beyond me.