GTX 980 Ti specifications - Teaser and benchmarks

[Cloudfire777]

Nvidia apparantly had a meeting with the industry yesterday in Hong Kong. Samples were given away to reviewers.

GTX 980 Ti features a GM200 chip but with 2SMM disabled. GTX 980Ti will have 22SMM and 2816 cores, down from 24SMM and 3072 cores from Titan X. Memory will be 6GB GDDR5 on a 384bit bus.

Price will be 85 000KRW or $779 (Some small adjustments may come).

Source: http://www.hwbattle.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=news&wr_id=1484


Benchmarks from Videocardz:

Source: http://videocardz.com/55566/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-performance-benchmarks

 

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2816

 

[Cloudfire777]

Yup, 2816 shaders @ 1000MHz.

 

[Udgnim]

going from 24 / 3072 to 22 / 2816

does this mean that 5.5GB of the RAM is running at full speed?

don't think there will be any controversy similar to GTX 970 but just curious

 

[sakete]

So how much RAM will it have? Don't see that anywhere.

 

[JoeRambo]

does this mean that 5.5GB of the RAM is running at full speed?

don't think there will be any controversy similar to GTX 970 but just curious

Due to the way boost works (thermals/power) it is hard to say about ROP/TMU/mem config vs Titan X. 980 ti could be simply boosting more/higher due to lower power usage of 6GB mem.

 

[Silverforce11]

Due to the way boost works (thermals/power) it is hard to say about ROP/TMU/mem config vs Titan X. 980 ti could be simply boosting more/higher due to lower power usage of 6GB mem.

With NV GPUs, listing the base clock is kinda pointless for a performance leak cos who knows what it boosts to in-game.

But definitely expectations of mine are that custom 980Ti is going to behave very similar to custom 970/980 models, 1.3 to 1.4Ghz out of box boost is expected norms. With better power circuits/vrms, better cooling performance, less vram TDP overhead, the 980Ti SHOULD perform ~= Titan X out of the box due to superior boost clocks.

 

[LTC8K6]

Seems like it invalidates the Titan X?

 

[fleshconsumed]

Meh, I'd rather give up gaming than drop $800 on a videocard. Ridiculous, even if not unprecedented (780/780TI).

 

[LTC8K6]

So how much RAM will it have? Don't see that anywhere.

Six.

 

[Silverforce11]

Seems like it invalidates the Titan X?

Yes and no.

Yes. For single GPU or dual-GPU setups. 6GB vram is plenty for 4K gaming.

No, for Quad-SLI setups that like to push graphics & MSAA to the max or on multiple 4K monitors. Titan X will still reign supreme for that niche of uber-enthusiasts.

 

[Headfoot]

I wonder if we'll be able to unlock 980 Tis into Titan X's

 

[LTC8K6]

Yes and no.

Yes. For single GPU or dual-GPU setups. 6GB vram is plenty for 4K gaming.

No, for Quad-SLI setups that like to push graphics & MSAA to the max or on multiple 4K monitors. Titan X will still reign supreme for that niche of uber-enthusiasts.

Won't a quad Ti setup equal/surpass the Titan X with a touch of overclock?

 

[Silverforce11]

I wonder if we'll be able to unlock 980 Tis into Titan X's

Has NV in recent times allowed unlocks of lower tier cut-down SKUs?

There's your answer.

 

[Silverforce11]

Won't a quad Ti setup equal/surpass the Titan X with a touch of overclock?

You can't fix a VRAM capacity bottleneck with a core OC. Quad SLI'ers tend to use extreme resolutions/multiple monitors. Think 3x 4K monitors.

 

[Headfoot]

If its really $779 then its a hard pass. That's $200 more than historical flagships and I will not be complicit in raising accepted flagship prices north of $700.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Pretty steep price vs the price we had for GTX 780ti when it launched yes.

I blame both Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia because they started the premium branding with Titan. AMD because they follow and apparantly will sell Fiji for $845 and it will also be an exclusive card like Titan X.

This card should effectively kill most sales of Titan X though

 

[Headfoot]

If Fiji is that expensive too, I'll be buying a second used 290 for $200 instead.

 

[moonbogg]

Price is too damn high. Needs to be around $600. I would bet that once 390x drops, it will kick ass and Nvidia will lower than $780 down to around $600. I'm thinking it will be a great way to flush $400 down the drain to buy the 980ti on release (two of them I mean). Hope I can resist. If AMD charges that much as well, then bah, oh well. Time to spend some cash.

 

[crisium]

If this undercuts Fiji Xt by 50 or 100 $ then AMD is in trouble. Doesnt look like the new 8gb Hawaii Xt will even be able to drive down 980 prices.

 

[Silverforce11]

If this undercuts Fiji Xt by 50 or 100 $ then AMD is in trouble. Doesnt look like the new 8gb Hawaii Xt will even be able to drive down 980 prices.

Depends, would it be trouble if its 15% faster than Titan X? Don't think so.

What if due to Water cooling by default, it does a 25% OC easy as? Superior GloFo node with less leakage & usage of power gating, dense stacking from APUs... etc.

Also 8GB faster Hawaii will be interesting if its vastly improved on efficiency via GloFo vs TSMC, who nows, a redesigned/respun scenario (recall 480 -> 580 efficiency gains!) with a better node, you could end up with a 200W Hawaii that offers 980 performance with 8GB vram. Would be a nice $399 product for sure.

What's interesting for most, would be cut-down Fiji, maybe at $499 - $599, ~10% slower, makes for a compelling upgrade.

Let the dust settle post launch reviews first though, without concrete performance data, its still up in the air.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Yeah, I sure miss the days of yore when you could buy video card just below the top tier for under $300 and get 80-95% performance. 5850/5870/460 anyone? Those were the days. As I said, this is getting ridiculous, I'd rather give up gaming than spend $800 on a videocard. $800 can buy me a lot of things that will give me a lot more enjoyment than extra 15-20fps in a game.

 

[tviceman]

It really is a shame that Fiji is only going to be 4gb and is shaping up to cost as much as the 980 TI. No matter how great AMD optimizes their vram resource management, the "initial" shock of "only" having 4gb is going to last just like throttling r9 290x initial reviews.

One can only imagine what prices would be like today if hd7970's initial release had much better drivers. GTX680 wouldn't have been able to launch at $499, and $1,000 Titan would not have been created at the time. The transition to higher prices is complete. Just like when AMD transitioned the x870 (with the hd6870) to be midrange, the GTX x80 (gtx680 / gtx980) is the new "midrange" product numeration but with higher prices.

 

[Headfoot]

Yeah, I sure miss the days of yore when you could buy video card just below the top tier for under $300 and get 80-95% performance. 5850/5870/460 anyone? Those were the days. As I said, this is getting ridiculous, I'd rather give up gaming than spend $800 on a videocard. $800 can buy me a lot of things that will give me a lot more enjoyment than extra 15-20fps in a game.

In my mind the real competitor in terms of $/perf is in existing and used cards. Why would I upgrade to an $780 980 Ti when I can get more performance out of $400 (2x $200 used 290) 290 CF? Sure dual card frametimes are worse -- but they aren't $400 worse.

Especially considering a new 295x2 is $600.

 

[Silverforce11]

It really is a shame that Fiji is only going to be 4gb and is shaping up to cost as much as the 980 TI. No matter how great AMD optimizes their vram resource management, the "initial" shock of "only" having 4gb is going to last just like throttling r9 290x initial reviews.

Maybe, but hot, power hungry & throttling applies to all resolutions.

4GB won't matter to the vast majority of gamers. Particularly those on 1080p (where a Titan X is still barely enough in newer titles, re: Witcher 3) and 1440p.

Honestly I have my doubts it will hold up well at 4K, but they can prove me wrong when it comes to launch reviews. I want to be proven wrong, I want a fast single GPU.