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lucidus
And the driver on the disc :P
GhostXL
They actually perform great though with a custom fan profile. Mine Idle 30C top 26C bottom. I never go past 60C in games full load.
-Tj-
And some next-gen and I mean real next-gen games to play with - U4E, Luminous, SnowDrop, Foxengine, and what not, Bf4 or upcoming Witcher3 is not next-gen for me :P..
My 780 still didnt break a sweat, ok apart by some games that just use some lame DOF/blur settings to cripple it on purpose - looking at you Crysis3 & DeadRisng3 😀
lucidus
+1 about the games, I don't even bother to OC my GPU. Nothing I'm interested in stresses the card :P Could change with Arkham Knight but I doubt it.
Agent-A01
Yes titan cooler is pretty good. 680 stock coolers were garbage, at 100% fan couldnt keep it from hitting 70c, non issue for the titan.
Aura89
That logic doesn't make any sense, the 980 is not a replacement for the 780 Ti regardless of if it out performs it or not, so why you would think it would cost the same is illogical.
Every #70 next generation card is either as good or faster then the previous generation #80 card, so does that mean that the 970 (and every #70 card) will be $500, the price that #80 cards are usually? No, it will replace the 770, regardless of its performance. It always has, and always will, so i really don't see why people keep posting stuff like this, it's illogical and based on nothing
And no, i'm not talking about inflated launch prices, i'm talking about MSRP
Rich_Guy
GTX 980 Has 2048 CUDA Cores
GeForce GTX 980
GM204-400
Unified Cores 2048
Memory 4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 256-bit
Bandwidth 224 GB/s
Power Connectors 6pin + 6pin
TDP ~175W
Launch Date Sep 19th, 2014
GeForce GTX 970
GM204-200
Unified Cores 1664
Memory 4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus 256-bit
Bandwidth 224 GB/s
Power Connectors 6pin + 6pin
TDP 148W
Launch Date Sep 19th, 2014
Source :- videocard z.
Denial
Idk. If those are the specs I can definitely see the 980 @ $500. Its got 33% less cores then a 780Ti and a smaller bus. I doubt it will perform 30% better though.
Nvidia is always going to be priced higher. The CEO literally said on stage that Nvidia cards will never be priced lower than the competition because he feels they sell a premium experience with their cards. Whether or not you agree is whatever. I personally find the game streaming and now with my Swift, G-Sync useful. I don't mind paying a few bucks extra for those features but I'm sure others do.
Undying
I'm looking at those 970 specs and wondering, will it be able to atleast beat the 780, lol. Looks like these are 1080p cards.
-Tj-
With 3.8tflops I really doubt it, I mean it scores less by gpu score in 3dmark firestrike ;D
2048 should make ~ 4.5tflops then, still kinda in 780GTX territory.. If it had 48rops and higher vram bandwidth then yeah but with 32rops idk.. Still 4 more days to go 🤓
Undying
Shame AMD cant deliver 390X right now, nvidia would been in so much trouble.
mitzi76
I hope AMD releases cards as well soonish. Good for all.
Solfaur
Yea I don't think it will be too long until AMD's response... after all we saw that leaked cooler, 1-2 months tops imo.
Sukovsky
Just look at the Maxwell 860M versus the Kepler 860M with 640 Maxwell cores versus 1152 Kepler cores. They perform roughly the same. 2048/640=3.2 the amount of cores on the 980 versus the maxwell 860M. 3.2 x 1152 kepler coresis 3686 ish. 3686,4 / 2880 = 1.28
The 980 will be around 30% faster than the 780Ti. Cya!
-Tj-
You can't really compare laptop variant vs desktop.
Imo it doesnt work like that just with pure core count logic, ROP count and pixel fillrate/ texture fillrate and vram bandwidth plays a big role here too, nvm raw peak compute performance - so far apparently up to ~ 4.3Teraflops by full GM204 chip.
Now with 2048cores or 16smx (970 with 13smx has 3.8tflops), 780Ti has ~5.1Tflops.
GM204 is a good midrange performance chip, that's about it. Folks keep expecting too much, its x04 after all, but its nvidia thing now to make a whole range from one chip, they started with GK104 and now they will continue with that >> double profit. Kinda sux for end consumer but what are you gonna do about it, nothing.. You can only skip it and they will sell less :P
Aura89
Completely illogical.
Where has logic gone? Here puppy, Hereeee puppy!
And just so we're clear, i'm not saying that it won't happen, i'm saying that your idea or anyone who has the same idea is completely illogical, it has no basis, it has no reason. History states where things are likely to go, and history does not back you up.
... Ofcourse i did, because the 780 Ti/Titan is a different card then the 780 of which the 980 is replacing. That's like saying i was comparing a 560 to a 660 in price and performance but i purposefully left out the 670 and 680 and should expect the 660 to be the same price as a 570, not 560, because it has close to or similar performance.....780 Ti/Titan have nothing to do with the 980
Again, this is logic built from history that spands decades, and you're trying to tell me that we should all throw it out the window and not expect what has happened time and time again for the last 10 years, because of....? Right, because of no reason, where's the logic?
Sukovsky
It won't be more expensive as the 780Ti currently is.
southamptonfc
There's only 1 way to sort out this argument:
http://forum.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=392925
Aura89
Ah, so you do not use logic, ok then. 🙂
Incorrect, a 970, if more powerful or at least on par with the 780, is not the replacement card for the 780, never has been never will be.
Agreed, and this happens with every single new iteration of cards, the previous high-end cards almost never go down in price, for MSRP at least, and are not generally worth buying because of that. That doesn't make the new ones more expensive because of it
Recent history shows no competition or replacement for the ones that i "left out of my arguement" because they are above highest end cards. They are a New level of high end cards, so unless Nvidia decides to get rid of the Ti/Titan naming and simply go with 980 as a 980 Ti or Titan 2, which wouldn't be logical, then those cards have nothing to do with a 980. It's logic, try using it sometime.
You know i'm sure there'd be no arguement here whatsoever if Nvidia had just named the 780 Ti a 790 instead, because that's what it is.
a 980 is a successor to the 780, not 780 ti, a 980 ti would be a successor to the 780 ti. Same way as if they had named it a 790 instead, a 980 would still not be a successor to a 790, a 990 would be.
What is so hard to understand about that?
Aura89
So...logic is crap? Cool stuff.
Everything i've stated has stuff to back it up, therefore, it's logical to come to the conclusions i have come up to. Everything you've stated has nothing behind it, it's 1+1=3
