Nvidia to gatecrash the AMD Radeon 300 party with the GTX 980 Ti?

[xslavic]

Mantle is the future.

[iranu]

I'm sat here waiting to upgrade, but £250+ for a vanilla 970 seems a tad steep. More competition and price cuts please. Oh and AMD, hit that low power, low noise, high performance niche at £200.

[this_is_gav]

People complain about the price of hardware ,the simple fact is as long as people keep buying at this price they will keep the price as high as then can its are own fault.

Meh, as long as they make products that fall not too far behind and at a fraction of the price (like the 970) then I couldn't care less. I don't feel the need to have the greatest if there is a genuinely strong alternative that's priced more modestly.

[KeyboardDemon]

I've read so many Amd rumours lately that it's getting all junked up in my head :/

This is very much the reason that I choose to disregard every press release, rumour and leak until the NDAs have been lifted, too much of it is speculative BS or simply made up and presented with some credible looking graphs to give it some sort of credability.

[ZaO]

This is very much the reason that I choose to disregard every press release, rumour and leak until the NDAs have been lifted, too much of it is speculative BS or simply made up and presented with some credible looking graphs to give it some sort of credability.

Yeh. It's just hard when you want so badly to hear some info. I need to just "Meh" to every article now until Amd actually start saying some stuff.. I'll try

[kalniel]

I think both teams, but AMD especially, have really tightened up on the leaks of old, so they are having to wait until much closer to release to see where they stand competition and pricing-wise. This in turn tends to lead to staggered releases with 'announcements' of cards or preview reviews as spoilers rather than actual competitive releases.

[DanceswithUnix]

Meh, as long as they make products that fall not too far behind and at a fraction of the price (like the 970) then I couldn't care less. I don't feel the need to have the greatest if there is a genuinely strong alternative that's priced more modestly.

Yet the "greatest" products are at such an inflated price that "fraction of the price" is still way more than I am prepared to spend.

[anubis44]

Perhaps the 980Ti will purport to have 8GB of ram, but only 7.5GB of 'fast' ram, and .5GB of freakishly slow ram?

[kalniel]

Perhaps the 980Ti will purport to have 8GB of ram, but only 7.5GB of 'fast' ram, and .5GB of freakishly slow ram?

Nope.

[canopus72]

This sort of obnoxious, hooligan, gate crashing behaviour on part of Nvidia wouldn't surprise me at all. Nvidia has NEVER released a top tier card (580, 680, 780, 980, all the Titanics esp. Titanic-Zzz) at a sensible price point. I think nvidiot will rip off it's mindless fanboys for c.£700-£750 for the 980Ti (the 8GB-HBM 390X will be at the same price point and it will beat the 980Ti in all benchmarks due to new HBM tech and new powerful core design). I think the 390 and 390X will come as 4GB-HBM with air cooling (rrp <£700) and IMO there will also be a 390X-8GB-HBM with an AIO liquid cooling solution (courtesy of coolermaster) and this model will retail for >£700. I think the 390-4GB-HBM will give better performance than 980GTX and it will cost around £450. The 390X-4GB-HBM will cost about £500 and it will trounce the 980Ti in performance. The 390X-8GB-HBM will cost >£700 and it will give at least the same (or slightly better) performance as the Titanic-Xxx. Similarly, the 395X2 will trounce the 990GTX (all of this thanks to new HBM which has data transfer rate of 640GB/s whereas GDDR5 has data transfer rate of only 244GB/s).

[kalniel]

This sort of obnoxious, hooligan, gate crashing behaviour

Erm, they're just releasing their own product for sale. You can safely ignore it without consequence.

[DanceswithUnix]

(all of this thanks to new HBM which has data transfer rate of 640GB/s whereas GDDR5 has data transfer rate of only 244GB/s).

And yet if you look at recent parts like the R9 285 both teams are getting better at making good use of narrower memory paths so raw memory speed isn't so important. Still rather important, but I wonder if we have moved on at least a bit.

Erm, they're just releasing their own product for sale. You can safely ignore it without consequence.

Well they are leaking the possibility of a new product. But then who would say "The opposition is releasing what? Well that's us stuffed then isn't it". No, you make the best of what you have and that often includes a bit of exaggeration.

[MercutioUK]

I think I'll hold till the AMD and nvidia drop cards and see what comes about then tbh. I try very hard to keep new card purchases to around £200 as that's usually the sweet spot. Late summer gives me time to save then a g/free sync at 4K near the end of the year and I'll be set again for a year or 2

[outwar6010]

It probably has 5.5gb of vram

[Xlucine]

It probably has 5.5gb of vram

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