Reviews - Nvidia preparing GeForce GTX 980 Ti for post-summer launch

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It's very similar to the Titan X but with half the memory, say reports.

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Hmmm, makes the recent Titan announcement seem even odder.

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Originally Posted by shaithis

Hmmm, makes the recent Titan announcement seem even odder.

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not really... this is going to perform just as well (or better depending on clocks) in pretty much every current game, 12GB isn't really needed and 6GB will cover most user needs. So logically nvidia put out the card that will empty people's wallets the easiest first :)

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Originally Posted by LSG501

not really... this is going to perform just as well (or better depending on clocks) in pretty much every current game, 12GB isn't really needed and 6GB will cover most user needs. So logically nvidia put out the card that will empty people's wallets the easiest first :)

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Exactly......a 980Ti makes sense, the Titan did not. Then announcing the 980Ti right after announcing the Titan?

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Originally Posted by shaithis

Exactly......a 980Ti makes sense, the Titan did not. Then announcing the 980Ti right after announcing the Titan?

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it's business 101... the old titan had double floating point as a differentiating feature over the ti models (so targeted different users), this version doesn't so people aren't going to go and buy a titan if the ti will do the same job, they are the same card with different ram amounts. So stick the titan out first and sell it to those desperate for performance, then release the cheaper version. Not to mention yeilds etc will have improved so they can increase profit on each card lol.

And remember there's been no official announcement of the 980ti, this is literally no different to us saying there will be a 980ti in the titan thread.

I'm looking to get a 980 to improve frame rates on my gtx 770 2gb but will probably be going for a EVGA card so if they do bring it out relatively soon I can use the step-up program and pay the difference to get a ti if and when it's launched.

It is like they don't know what AMD are coming up with next, so they spray out models to try and keep everything covered.

Latest rumour seems to be that AMD's Fiji will have a dual GPU layout for the 8GB variant, which implies a cheaper 4GB variant so let's hope it is cheap enough to get my interest.

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphic...i-has-two-gpus

But if that is the case, then a dual gpu with dual hbm could be *seriously* fast. After a few years of boring graphics updates this could get very interesting...

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Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix

Latest rumour seems to be that AMD's Fiji will have a dual GPU layout for the 8GB variant, which implies a cheaper 4GB variant so let's hope it is cheap enough to get my interest.

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphic...i-has-two-gpus

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Looks like someone's been reading our discussions on this forum ;)

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Originally Posted by kalniel 15 March

4GB is where the HBM tech is right now I thought. 8GB requires a new generation of memory and/or two cards. Could the 4096 shader/8GB mem be a dual chip implementation? One chip per eye in VR?

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When the new line of AMD cards drop, Nvidia will finalise the specs for the 980 Ti so it matches or beats it by a tiny margin then releases it just to steal thunder

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Originally Posted by k4p84

When the new line of AMD cards drop, Nvidia will finalise the specs for the 980 Ti so it matches or beats it by a tiny margin then releases it just to steal thunder

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That's if they can. HBM is an unknown quantity right now.

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Originally Posted by k4p84

When the new line of AMD cards drop, Nvidia will finalise the specs for the 980 Ti so it matches or beats it by a tiny margin then releases it just to steal thunder

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More likely they will just say that instead of buying the AMD card you should wait for their HBM2 card to come out as that will be better.

Almost seems to make the new titan x redundant already. Same card, less memory and cheaper ?? feel sorry for anyone who has gotten a titan x. :p

I'm not sure I'll go for this. Yes it's cheaper than the Titan, but the Titan is expensive for a reason, for that sweet DP performance.

OH WAIT

The 780 Ti beat the original Titan on performance for half the price. Its like the Titan range have more hp on paper but more weight so are disadvantaged