NVIDIA Unveils The GeForce GTX 980 Ti At $650 USD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Unveils The GeForce GTX 980 Ti At $650 USD

NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce GTX 980 Ti today in gearing up for Computex Taipei. The GTX 980 Ti is NVIDIA's new flagship gaming GPU, which will set you back $649.99 USD...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-GTX-980-Ti

[peppercats]

features 6GB of GDDR5 video memory

wonder if they meant 5.5GB

[duby229]

wonder if they meant 5.5GB

That's not enough background info. How come? Why would 5.5GB be more feasible?

[Talavis]

That's not enough background info. How come? Why would 5.5GB be more feasible?

Geforce gtx 970 had two kinds of memory, where 3.5 GB was fast, 0.5 a bit slower.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8931/nvidia-publishes-statement-on-geforce-gtx-970-memory-allocation

[sirdilznik]

So, it's about 90% of a Titan X, in terms of processing cores, with half the memory (which should make zero difference in practically any current game), for 65% of the price. Obviously, significantly more cost efficient than a Titan X, though still quite overpriced, as are all high-end GPUs.

[schmidtbag]

So, it's about 90% of a Titan X, in terms of processing cores, with half the memory (which should make zero difference in practically any current game), for 65% of the price. Obviously, significantly more cost efficient than a Titan X, though still quite overpriced, as are all high-end GPUs.

None of the Titan GPUs were ever a good value. The Titan X is probably the best of all of them, simply because it's a single GPU with 12GB of VRAM, which is really only useful in very specific situations.

[smitty3268]

So, it's about 90% of a Titan X, in terms of processing cores, with half the memory (which should make zero difference in practically any current game), for 65% of the price. Obviously, significantly more cost efficient than a Titan X, though still quite overpriced, as are all high-end GPUs.

Tests show it performs more like 97% of a Titan X, because that card was thermal limited more than this one is.

This is basically a big price cut by NVidia on their top end card, to compete with the upcoming new AMD card.

[blackout23]

Tests show it performs more like 97% of a Titan X, because that card was thermal limited more than this one is.

This is basically a big price cut by NVidia on their top end card, to compete with the upcoming new AMD card.

Titan X ia more for scientific computing like Deep Neural Nets which require huge VRAM and high Single Precision Performance.

[eydee]

A time may come when video cards have more ram than the computer itself. 6GB should be plenty for, I don't know, playing anything on a cinema screen at some insane resolution.

[marceel]

A time may come when video cards have more ram than the computer itself. 6GB should be plenty for, I don't know, playing anything on a cinema screen at some insane resolution.

I can tell you that playing on 4k resolution is 8GB graphic card a minimum setup and you need 2 of those for playable FPS. You will see that with new games it will be standard in year or two.