First GeForce GTX 980 Ti Pictures hit the web

#5078551

BLEH!

2015-05-22 23:39

Does the titan X have a backplate?

#5078554

kakarot

2015-05-22 23:42

Finally a non titan card that is a worthy upgrade from 780ti, wonder how much cheaper than a Titan X?

I seriously doubt it will be less than $699-799

#5078562

BLEH!

2015-05-22 23:52

See where the 390X/whateverit'sgunnabecalled sits...

#5078570

Primey0

2015-05-23 00:06

So 5.5+0.5 GB card?

Beating a dead horse there mate.

#5078571

Undying

2015-05-23 00:08

Busy on twitter, amd marketing at its best. Release something already. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=399317

Lets hope they will. nVidia is pushing prices up. You'll have to pay 700-800$ for 980ti and then they'll drop their support when Pascal comes out. What a great company.

#5078606

lmimmfn

2015-05-23 00:59

Between prices and driver shenanigans, I'm rapidly losing enthusiasm for this generation, and the next, too … :s3d:

+1 on that mate, im just rapidly losing enthusiasm indefinately.

#5078610

lmimmfn

2015-05-23 01:02

and the card is a flagship , indeed it will have full 6 Gb

Glad we have an official Nvidia spokesperson to confirm this, thanks.

#5078679

Daftshadow

2015-05-23 03:41

I could see $599-$649 with the 980 dropping to $449-$499. Any more and I'll just wait till pascal.

no way... may be you'll see these prices once the holiday season come for black friday and cyber monday. $649 will probably be the minimum starting price point and goes up from there. i dont see retailers dropping 980 prices anytime soon below $500 either. may be rebates or promos but doubt raw price cuts.

#5078735

Kaerar

2015-05-23 06:17

Wow the butthurt Nvidia fanboys are around aren't they. So the 980Ti is just a gimped Titan X for reasons... Gotta love Nvidia's marketing.

#5078743

Pete J

2015-05-23 07:00

Does the titan X have a backplate?

No, it doesn't.

#5078865

Mineria

2015-05-23 13:02

While 3.5+0.5 can be in certain scenarios nasty (not for anyone sane since it is easy to keep under 2~2.5GB vram use as textures required qould not make visual impact anyway till 4k and for that 970 has no power), having 5.5+0.5 is not problem at all. And on other hand gtx970 has cut out 1/8th (12.5% to full card), if this is 5.5+0.5 then it is 1/12th (8.3% to full card). So I think they used other means to gimp it here.

Never had any problems loading the GTX970 beyond 3.6GB, frametimes look good under almost full memory loads while gaming and prove that my system has no problem. Lots of people over at GeForce forum that has issues also got them fixed, the few that are left, no idea what they can do to get their card to run smooth. But yes, it would be preferred with all memory at full speed so that those who these issues won't need to figure out why and some even won't be able to solve it.

#5078961

LesserHellspawn

2015-05-23 16:55

Well, the 5.5+0.5 GB joke may or may not be funny, but I sure enough ran that 3 GB test on my two 660ti, when the problem with the 970 became known. My systen didn't just slow down when hitting the 2.5 GB mark, it crashed. So it's reasonable to be wary of this occuring on other cards.

#5079501

Mineria

2015-05-24 14:11

Well, the 5.5+0.5 GB joke may or may not be funny, but I sure enough ran that 3 GB test on my two 660ti, when the problem with the 970 became known. My systen didn't just slow down when hitting the 2.5 GB mark, it crashed. So it's reasonable to be wary of this occuring on other cards.

2.5 GB.. is that a typo? If not it was never a 970 issue.

#5079663

bigfutus

2015-05-24 20:00

I hope it will cost at least 799$ so i can hate it with more passion.

#5079891

chinobino

2015-05-25 04:25

980 ti is big daddy kepler as gm204 is maxed out already in the 980.

Did you mean Maxwell? 😕

#5079972

xIcarus

2015-05-25 10:10

Wow people still think this overused joke is still funny? Like 1 in a million people? I guess maybe to a 12 year old it could be. Regardless, no it never really was and it definitely isn't now.

Beating a dead horse there mate.

this joke is not funny anymore ..... and the card is a flagship , indeed it will have full 6 Gb

You people often take offense without thinking. He was probably referring to the last picture posted in the article, where 2 of those clusters are disabled. Considering a 384-bit wide memory bus, this indeed indicates the fact that the card could be 5376MB + 768MB (for a total of 6144MB), just like the 970 is 3584 + 512 (total 4096). EDIT: I believe there's a different number of clusters disabled on the 970, so my calculations could be off by quite a bit. But take them as a hypothetical example.

#5079979

xIcarus

2015-05-25 10:20

Each memory chip has 32bit bus, to have separate channel with 768MB would require 3 chips, 96bits and 256MB per chip. Guess how many 256MB chips you would need to have 6GB vram and how wide would bus be?

If you're implying that my calculations are wrong, I was editing my post while you were writing.

#5080758

southamptonfc

2015-05-26 14:05

It will be a shame if they gimp the top end Maxwell for the 980TI unlike they did with the 780TI. I'm not as keen on getting a 980TI now. Then again I was pissed off when the 780TI came out having bought Titan. FFS you can't please some ppl!

#5081659

xIcarus

2015-05-27 13:44

And you still have it wrong. So once more, spoon fed this time, but not for free anyway. gddr5 chips have 32 bit connection. Card is supposed to have 6GB vram and 384bit bus. That means 12 gddr5 chips. 6GB / 12 = 0.5GB = 512MB per chip. So try to look at your 768MB cut off and decide which chips will be 256MB, which 512MB and which will be 1GB to actually make that config. Then look on how much you actually cripple card with such memory configuration even if you do not disable anything at all (just by using together 256/512/1024MB chips). And finally look at presumed performance which looks pretty close to Titan X.

Yeah. That's what I said.

You people often take offense without thinking. He was probably referring to the last picture posted in the article, where 2 of those clusters are disabled. Considering a 384-bit wide memory bus, this indeed indicates the fact that the card could be 5376MB + 768MB (for a total of 6144MB), just like the 970 is 3584 + 512 (total 4096). EDIT: I believe there's a different number of clusters disabled on the 970, so my calculations could be off by quite a bit. But take them as a hypothetical example.

In light of this, considering the percentage of the stuff disabled in the graph posted in the article (i dont understand everything that's going on there), it would probably be 5.5+0.5 instead of what I said. Now it's safe to say that yes, my theory was quite wrongly thought and it wouldn't make a lot of sense now that I thoroughly think about it :-?. It _would_ indeed handicap the card quite severely.