980ti release date?

[hunkeelin]

anyone?

 

[Carfax83]

I want to know this as well..

 

[5150Joker]

My guess: If Titan X is in March then 980Ti or whatever in Sept. Also depends on how much pressure AMD puts on NV with the 380X. If it blows away the 980 GTX, then probably sooner like June.

 

[alcoholbob]

Within a month or two of 380X releasing most likely they will release a cut-down Titan X. So if 380X releases in May-June, then 980Ti/990 out around July-August.

 

[tweakboy]

How much is a Titan price dropped or what ??

 

[MiRai]

You're assuming that there will be one, when we don't even know that one will exist.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I reckon, it will have 6 gigs of ram and plenty of bandwidth. Sweet card.

 

[destrekor]

You're assuming that there will be one, when we don't even know that one will exist.

Yep. I honestly expect, if they release a cut-down model, that it will carry a 985 or 990 label, and not 980 Ti. The 780 from the very beginning shared the same big chip as the Titan, cut down slightly, and then they released a Ti variant that was a fully enabled chip (and neutered the double-precision, presumably through the driver or firmware).

The 980 is a smaller chip entirely. They actually have room to do a 990 and 990 Ti, depending on how well AMD pressures them. Remember: there never was a GTX 7xx dual-GPU, that was reserved for the Titan brand, oddly. They might try that again if GM200 can decently compete with the 380/390.

They could do a 985 and 985 Ti for GM200, but that seems to not distinguish itself enough from the GM204 of the 980. They could follow the R9 2xx approach and, if they release a GTX dual-gpu for Maxwell, slot it as the 995.

I'm actually anxious to see what they do and what kind of prices we see, as one of these companies will surely have to drop their target price to compete with the other company's performance discrepancy. Or they might be really neck and neck and we'll get screwed and stuck with asinine prices where $700+ is norm for flagship yet again.
Whenever AMD launches, Nvidia would be very smart to drop the price of the 980 and release a competitively-priced GM200 consumer chip. With this 970 fiasco, they need to win over consumers with pricing on the 980, considering it doesn't stand that much above the 290X, ignoring efficiency.