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Nvidia Corp. may announce its GeForce GTX 980 Ti at the Computex Taipei 2015 trade-show early next month, a rumour claims. It is also expected that sales of the new graphics card will start right after the announcement. Unfortunately, specifications of the product are still unknown.
PC Games Hardware reports that Nvidia decided to postpone the launch of its new high-performance graphics card from May to early June. The reasons for the delay are unclear, but Nvidia is in a very comfortable position at the moment because its arch-rival AMD does not have a direct rival for the GeForce GTX Titan X. While AMD’s partners sell dual-chip Radeon R9 295X2 solution – which is the world’s fastest graphics card – many enthusiasts prefer single-GPU graphics adapters.
The upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card is expected to carry GM200-310 graphics processing unit. It is unclear whether the GM200-310 has the same configuration as the GM200-400, which powers Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X. The Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X graphics adapter features the GM200-400 graphics chip with 3072 stream processors, 192 texture mapping units, 96 raster operations pipelines as well as 384-bit memory interface. The GPU operates at 1000MHz/1075MHz base/boost frequency.
PCGH reports that actual performance and specification of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti will determine its price. The graphic card will naturally cost more than the original GeForce GTX 980, but will be more affordable compared to the GeForce GTX Titan X.
Nvidia’s partners will be allowed to design their own printed circuit boards and cooling solutions for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. If Nvidia announces its new graphics adapter at Computex, actual graphics cards will be demonstrated at the trade-show. Unfortunately, it is unclear whether manufacturers of graphics cards will demonstrate their own versions of GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
According to market rumours, Nvidia is also developing yet another GM200-based graphics card, which is called GeForce GTX 980 Metal Edition.
Computex Taipei 2015 starts on the 2nd of June, 2015.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: Keeping in mind that the information about the GeForce GTX 980 Ti comes from unofficial sources, actual launch date of the graphics adapter may change. Nvidia does not need to release the GeForce GTX 980 Ti ahead of AMD’s Radeon R9 390-series, therefore, it may further postpone its announcement from June to July.
Always exciting but we’ll have to see just how good it really is. Right now 970 still dominates the price/performance of a 980 so there’s really no reason at all to buy it but if the Ti’s price is based purely on its performance then it may well be worth taking a look at.
While I myself am waiting eagerly for the GTX 1080 I am currently spec’ing and building a rig with a fairly open budget and the Galax/KFA2 Hall of Fame 970’s in dual SLI is still my number one choice for enthusiast rigs
You cant justify a 980 yet a kfa2 970 is ok?
3.5 gb x2 ehm no.
I think 390x will release and it will be similar to titan x performance. Then nvidia will release a 980 ti which will beat that. Then amd will release the 395×2. Im hoping for a dual card to last. It is possible since a 7990 is still doing well now
Single card 4K. Will it happen this year? Looks like it won’t. 🙁
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I think NVIDIA will gimp the 980TI just below the Titan X thinking that AMD will not be able to dethrone it. Guess what, if that happens, AMD will dethrone it. I really hope the 390X blows the Titan X out of the water, that way we can actually have a strong 980TI that doesn’t have to be gimped. Everyone wins, everonye happy, and I get myself 2x 980TI for SLI for glorious Witcher 3 gameplay.
I wouldn’t say “blow it out of the water” cause it wont. It may be a Little bit better but not by much. In any case, that’s even IF the 390x can live up to the hype everyone has been giving it. If it cant, it will hurt AMD pretty good.
The Titan X is pretty much the first to do it (possibly the R9 295X2; I’m not sure) in benchmarks.
It’ll be interesting to see, though.
Thats why I said ”I hope”. We better do, or NVIDIA will milk the hell out of Maxwell for as long as it can. It baffles my mind that people want the 980 TI to be a gimped cut card, just so titan x can keep its throne.
Because only the people who are using triple monitor setups or 4K monitors are ever gonig to feel that last .5GB? Remember they were like that from the start. you can bitch and moan about something you don’t understand all you want but it doesn’t make all the existing benchmarks and videos inaccurate.
Besides if you bought a 970 for 4K gaming then you’re a retard anyway, nothing personal its just the truth. its an entry level 4K card made for the point where you can only just run games with it. Who the fuck wants 30FPS
KFA2 970’s are clocked higher than a reference 980’sand even some after market 980’s at £100 cheaper, with the availability to continue overclocking yourself to push it even further.
If you have money to burn then go for a 980 but if you need to play it smart top-of-the-range 970’s is where you need to be looking
But the R9 X2 isn’t a single card, it’s a crossfire gpu on one card. As for it’s 4K performance, it brings all the usual issues that crossfire/sli setups cause in some titles. I’ve tried a Titan X, just for a laugh, and it’s 4K performance varies wildly.
I get stuttering and frame skipping with my 970 in a lot of games maxed at 1080p. GTA V is one of them. The card has the power to max the game, but not enough vram. I don’t see how two in SLI would be worth having.
At least with GTA V you can monitor and predict your VRAM usage. don’t push it over 3.5GB smart man
I moniter my vram with riviatuner in all my games. It goes away when I dial down a few settings. But still, two 970s would be pointless when you are already maxing out the vram with only one card. There isn’t enough headroom to justify it. If they were 6gb cards then I’d be all for it.
To that degree all 4GB cards including the 980’s are unjustifiable. In all honesty the 900 series cards were a joke anyway. All they really brung to the table was vastly improved power consumption but at the end of the day they’re really just Kepler refreshes. All the real innovations are in the upcoming Pascal cards such as HBM2 to offer a big jump in onboard VRAM and a fabrication process offering a real performance jump worthy enough to call the cards 4K ready.
I hit over 3gb all the time. Titan fall at 1440p is always over 3gb. Raise the resolution to 4k and it’s even higher. Farcry 4 gets close to 4.5 often at 1080p.
That’s why I skipped on 980. 3-4 GB of RAM will soon not cut it even at 1080p. We’re already see multiple games over 4GB of VRAM requirement.
295×2 is a single card
Titan X is not a 4k card… not even close… unless you like playing at ultra low settings
ok, I worded it wrong. It’s a single card but with 2 GPUs hence the name and indeed the price. The titan x, like the titan before it is a single GPU. It needs watercooling by default because no number of fans can keep 2 chips at decent temps.