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Nvidia Corp. and its partners plan to release graphics cards based on the company’s latest GM204 graphics processing unit with 8GB of onboard memory either in November or December. The new solutions are expected to boost demand for GeForce GTX 900-series graphics adapters.
Hermitage Akihabara reports that Nvidia and and its partners among suppliers of graphics cards are gearing up to launch GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards with 8GB frame-buffers this calendar year. At present there is no exact launch dates for the novelties, but it is said that there is a plan to release such graphics boards in November or December, 2014. Right now there is no information about pricing of such graphics boards.
On Wednesday in transpired that that AMD and its partners plan to re-launch Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of onboard GDDR5 memory in early November. If the report from the Japanese web-site is correct, then AMD’s graphics adapters with enlarged frame-buffers will have rather strong rivals.
8GB of GDDR5 memory onboard may be useful for future games, ultra-high-definition resolutions or gaming with extreme full-scene antialiasing settings. In all other cases such frame-buffer seems to be an overkill for today. Nonetheless, many people would prefer to own a graphics board with a lot of memory, which is why AMD and Nvidia are preparing appropriate solutions.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see how factory-overclocked 8GB versions of the GeForce GTX 980 will compare to the GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB. While the latter has higher default graphics processing horsepower, the former has great overclockability and therefore can actually beat the former single-chip flagship graphics solution from Nvidia in ultra-high-definition resolutions where the size of frame-buffer matters.
November of December =]]
I already have a 6GB 780, i’m ready for any game that comes out in the next 2 years.
will it still be 256bit?
yep
This is some powerful stuff
Probably even longer than that. I’m probably going to get the 8 GB 980 as long as it’s not overpriced too much.
i have two of those! my god they are amazing
Hopefully they’re not 700 usd
May want to wait a bit after it comes out. Quite often the doubled GB versions of cards are quite a lot more on release.
That is probably about how much they will be factoring in historical pricing for double GB memory versions of cards.
Im guessing a tad north of $600
I just checked that card is sold out looks like the 700 series inventory is being depleted for the 900 series
What a waste of money.
can’t wait for 16gb version or even 32 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I hear its 384 Bit
it’s the same core, it can’t be,
Well thats fucked up! I just bought GTX 970 not long ago..
Thats totally unfair to those who had bought the GTX 980 & 970 earlier
Give me some compensation Nvidia!!!
Said everyone who has bought a graphics card just before the updated ones are announced.
Suck it up princess 😉
Not exactly. I bought the GTX 970 too. The cost will be much greater, and benefit won’t be seen for quite some time anyway. Any resolution above 1080p maybe…
Video cards are the one market you can always count to be behind in. Less than 6 months ago the GTX Titan Black was the best video card out/ever, and cost $1100. Now you have the GTX 980, which is better in almost every regard, and costs half that. If companies compensated you every time something better than what you bought came out, they’d be out of business.
I would love to own 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards running in SLI on a X99 motherboard that ant ASUS or holding any Corsair hardware, now that would be awesome!
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Isn’t that to be expected? No card stays on top for more than 6 months. Even the mighty Titan fell to the 780TI, a card just a year younger and a fraction of its price. That said if you bought your card from EVGA then you’re probably eligible for their trade-up program. I dropped $800 on my old GTX 285 1GB only for it to be outclassed by the budget level 400 series a few years later. We have all been in your boat.
When pushing DSR (supersampling) resolutions 4GB soon gets eaten up and while not currently essential it looks amazing (if you like detail).
He’s a jew, he aint short a few bob
what about the 64gb version
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its not overkill, 4GB doesnt cut it, you need 6GB to maxout games, this is all due to next gen consoles with shared 8GB memory, unfortunately, those consoles GPUs are shit and crap but it made a problem for PCs since all games now are ports from these consoles and devs will not update or make special code for PC by using tiled resources , so if you dont have enough VRAM, the game will stutter, lag and FPS will drop heavily.
Its why I bought two x 3Gb ASUS R9 280`s at $200 USD each yesterday.
Its price~performance~Quality balance-time always.
I still prefer my GTX 780 (for compatibility); but this rare iChiLL modern Maserati of the gaming world was a heck of a lot more $$$.
thats prolly never gonna happen
With a 256-bit memory bus, I wouldn’t worry too much; plus OC your maxwell, these beasts can easily go the distance, temperature permitting (peak load @ 80C max)
Novelties? How exactly are these novelties? Some of us do more than play games. I need 6Gb+ for grading 4k and since the 6Gb 780 was discontinued the only option right now is to go with expensive Titans. Can’t wait for the 8Gb 970.
Exactly. If anyone ever uses Mari, they will know that video memory is what it uses heavily. The more the better. There is a reason why the quadro k6000 exists.
6gb 7970
Thanks but AMD cards don’t play with Adobe stuff anywhere near as nice as nvidia cards. Some stuff relies on cuda. I’m still waiting for these to come out before I buy a new system.
That should be 7Gb usable for 970… no thanks… I dont appreciate being lied on my face.
Finally. My 3 GTX 980’s slow down to a crawl when they run out of vram (4k). This was a scam from the start. The 880m already had 8GB of vram, it was only natural the 980 would too. They know that we will buy w/e.
Now it’s March of 2015…Anyone heard anything else about the release of GTX 980 with 8GB of ram????
Well this story sure bombed. And I thought fanboys were bad for believing leaks…