GTX 980Ti finally launched - MSRP $649 - Reviews

[frozentundra123456]

I can hear the cry of many Titan X owners right now. GTX 980Ti perfom more or less like a GTX Titan X.
Or those that bought a GTX 980 for $569 like yesteday only to find out that they could get a 35% faster GTX 980Ti for just $80 more

Poor souls. Yikes
But thats the game. Gotta know when to invest:$

Well, I am all for value for the money. But some people just want the best performance available at a given time no matter what the cost. I cant really imagine that a hundred or two hundred dollars either way is a big deal to someone who is willing to pay 500 to 1000 dollars for a gpu alone.

That is why nVidia is killing AMD in the market even though AMD offers good value. If you are paying a few hundred dollars for a dgpu (1000 to 2000+ for a complete system), 60 bucks a pop for the latest games, maybe a hundred bucks a month for fast internet, etc, price is not really the determining factor for a lot of purchases.

 

[Subyman]

Man this is still a tough sell to upgrade my 780Ti. When is next big Nvidia GPU to be released after this? And when?

Big nvidia? Probably not until next year. The rest of the year will be wiggling around their line up and maybe releasing some more TI cards down the stack. Could see some dual GPU cards?

 

[Rvenger]

The NDA screenshot seems pretty offical Nvidia secret mambo jambo to me.
It was benchlife that leaked it, which is very reliable.
Other sources that back $649 is
HWBattle
DigitalTrends (Their own sources)
VR-world

HWBattle claim $649 is international MSRP. Plus what 69FireBird says, the other 980 and 970 price is legit as well from that list

4 different sources saying $649. Seems like a safe bet to me

If its $650, I will eat my hat with pride and buy one. I am all for lower prices.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Well, I am all for value for the money. But some people just want the best performance available at a given time no matter what the cost. I cant really imagine that a hundred or two hundred dollars either way is a big deal to someone who is willing to pay 500 to 1000 dollars for a gpu alone.

That is why nVidia is killing AMD in the market even though AMD offers good value. If you are paying a few hundred dollars for a dgpu (1000 to 2000+ for a complete system), 60 bucks a pop for the latest games, maybe a hundred bucks a month for fast internet, etc, price is not really the determining factor for a lot of purchases.

Yeah I get what you are saying.
But still, saving $700 if you are getting SLI is a lot of dough. Oh well, atleast they had their Titan X hopefully for 2 months, so thats something I guess

Big nvidia? Probably not until next year. The rest of the year will be wiggling around their line up and maybe releasing some more TI cards down the stack. Could see some dual GPU cards?

Yup, If I would guess I don`t think we get Pascal until atleast May next year. So you should get roughly one year with 980Ti if you plan on upgrading.

Man this is still a tough sell to upgrade my 780Ti. When is next big Nvidia GPU to be released after this? And when?

40% more FPS man. Ultimately it depends on how much of a graphic slut you are. Or what display you have etc

If its $650, I will eat my hat with pride and buy one. I am all for lower prices.

I will get 1 or 2 of these hopefully. Unless some other AIB have similar hybrids that look cooler

 

[ShintaiDK]

649$ for the GTX980TI and a 50$ pricecut for the GTX980 would be crazy good. But besides the pricecut it almost sounds a little too good and I agree 749$ sounds more pausible. But who knows so far into 28nm.

 

[Samwell]

The price in the chinese review was 4999 yuan including tax. That's 688$ without tax. So i believe in 649 or 699$. Won't be more than 700$.

 

[Subyman]

Gigabyte's website is showing a product named:

GV-N98TD5-6GD-B

I tried clicking the link but the page is broken.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/li...2,53@53@53,62@54@54@54|1,8@1@2,29@268@269@270

 

[ArizonaSteve]

Yawn... Will stick with my 670s and buy the AMD 4 series when they come out (too many dirty tricks from nVidia of late to even consider them for my next upgrade).

 

[Pariah]

Well, I am all for value for the money. But some people just want the best performance available at a given time no matter what the cost. I cant really imagine that a hundred or two hundred dollars either way is a big deal to someone who is willing to pay 500 to 1000 dollars for a gpu alone.

That is why nVidia is killing AMD in the market even though AMD offers good value. If you are paying a few hundred dollars for a dgpu (1000 to 2000+ for a complete system), 60 bucks a pop for the latest games, maybe a hundred bucks a month for fast internet, etc, price is not really the determining factor for a lot of purchases.

Spot on. No one spending $1000 on a GPU, or $2000 on 2, etc. is shopping for value. They want the fastest at the time they bought it, and they got what they paid for.

Exactly right on NVidia/AMD as well. If AMD ever decided to beat NVidia to market instead of waiting for NVidia to reveal all their cards, they would be able to charge jacked up prices at release and rake in some quick money on the early adopters who don't care they are getting ripped off, and just want the best as soon as possible. AMD has proven for years now, that always trying to win on value isn't the way to generate profits.

 

[96Firebird]

The price in the chinese review was 4999 yuan including tax. That's 688$ without tax. So i believe in 649 or 699$. Won't be more than 700$.

Another way to look at it is to compare that price to the Titan X... That website has the cheapest Titan X at 7999 yuan, and 4999/7999=.625, which means if the Titan X is $1000, the 980 Ti would be $625...

 

[Pariah]

Why is the 980Ti beating the TitanX in anything? If you take a Titan and disable parts of it, remove half the RAM (which granted, isn't being utilized) and run it at the same clock frequencies, common sense says it will lose every time. Is it a different boost profile?

 

[VI.]

Yawn... Will stick with my 670s and buy the AMD 4 series when they come out (too many dirty tricks from nVidia of late to even consider them for my next upgrade).

What?

"(too many dirty tricks from nVidia..."

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-upcoming-kepler-fix-increase-performance-games/

I run SLI 670 sig 2s on 2560x1440 and they're beginning to show their age. I assume you must game on 1080p because there's no way you wouldn't see a benefit to upgrading to a single 980 ti, at least for a year and a half or so.

If this thing can really run GTA V in 4K ultra with 4x MSAA I'm buying two and a 4K IPS monitor.

 

[Subyman]

Why is the 980Ti beating the TitanX in anything? If you take a Titan and disable parts of it, remove half the RAM (which granted, isn't being utilized) and run it at the same clock frequencies, common sense says it will lose every time. Is it a different boost profile?

Titan X may be bouncing off the TDP limiter while fewer cores on the 980TI allows it to boost higher. Less VRAM allows more power to be used by the 980TI as well.

 

[Cloudfire777]

I couldnt add more pictures to the OP so I post them here instead

Power measurements:
Idle:

Load (Furmark I think):

 

[Rvenger]

Thats where my 290 hit roughly on a 5820k.

 

[maddie]

If its $650, I will eat my hat with pride and buy one. I am all for lower prices.

Sell your hat instead and put the money for the card.

 

[maddie]

I couldnt add more pictures to the OP so I post them here instead


Load (Furmark I think):

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Don't you find that high for furmark these days? Overall system power?

 

[Rvenger]

Sell your hat instead and put the money for the card.

I'll eat my hat and sell my 295x2

 

[maddie]

I'll eat my hat and sell my 295x2

I've heard, a little salt helps.

Seriously though, this is a very good price [$649] for Nvidia. Do you think they're prepping for Fiji and a possible pricing competition? If so, if anyone can wait, it might make sense not being too hasty.

 

[Glo.]

I've heard, a little salt helps.

Seriously though, this is a very good price [$649] for Nvidia. Do you think they're prepping for Fiji and a possible pricing competition? If so, if anyone can wait, it might make sense not being too hasty.

I don't see any other reason why they would do that price difference between Titan X, and 980 Ti, with such a small difference in performance between those two cards.

 

[at80eighty]

I've heard, a little salt helps.

Seriously though, this is a very good price [$649] for Nvidia. Do you think they're prepping for Fiji and a possible pricing competition? If so, if anyone can wait, it might make sense not being too hasty.

too early even for Nvidia speculate where Fiji falls in the spectrum. AMD has done some killer lockdown on info this round. agree that this card looks great for the price.

 

[boozzer]

I don't see any other reason why they would do that price difference between Titan X, and 980 Ti, with such a small difference in performance between those two cards.

yep. this 100% means a competing amd gpu will be 650 or less.

with the price tag of 980 ti, I just realize titan x owners got shafted harder than I predicted by 50$

 

[yacoub]

Yawn... Will stick with my 670s and buy the AMD 4 series when they come out (too many dirty tricks from nVidia of late to even consider them for my next upgrade).

I dunno, while I've been a longtime AMD GPU owner (past 4 generations or so, NVidia prior) because they've always performed well and I've never had driver instability issues in games with AMD like I have experienced with NVidia drivers (and seen has continued to be a problem for NVidia drivers), $650 or less would be tempting enough to make me want to give it a try just to have that level of performance. Unless we hear about Fiji soon and whether they'll have a comparable card at a better price...

 

[SPBHM]

unless the price difference is really small, this completely kills Titan X,

even with the 780 vs Titan there was a stronger argument for Titan (vram was closer to a critical level with the 780, and the double precision stuff which no one seems to care but OK)

also, if AMD was targeting Titan X with Fiji, this card is probably a harder to compete with in terms of price/perf

 

[imaheadcase]

40% more FPS man. Ultimately it depends on how much of a graphic slut you are. Or what display you have etc

No, not really. The games they benchmark no one really plays, they are old. Metro is more CPU limited as you can tell.

The best game is only 30fps more than the 780TI, the worse case its around 10fps.
Totally not worth upgrading from a expensive TI when released, to another expensive TI.

If the did a Witcher 3 or some other modern games, be different. But come on, they are using Dirt..lol