[rumor] New upcoming Nvidia GTX card revealed - 2880 cores & 3GB GDDR5 VRAM!

[BallaTheFeared]

This cow has more milk to bear, they can go downward now.

They could probably manage to fit two GK110s between the GTX 780 and GTX 770.

 

[Teizo]

Does it really matter? AIBs will just release a 6gb version for $50 to $100 more. The very top is really only for people who want bragging rights and the wealthy anyway. Another $50 to $100 is chicken feed to them.

100 dollars more minimum I imagine, if they do.

 

[Cloudfire777]

lol now they have finally run out of things to come up with for high end Kepler. this is it until Maxwell.

Considering that Maxwell is out in Q1 2014, the wait won`t be long. Therefor GTX 780 Ti launch is pretty well timed.

GT 840M have already been listed on a notebook, so its not far away :thumbsup:

3GB on a $700 card, meh. Rest of the specs look good.

Because you need more than 3GB VRAM on how many games? GTX 780 certainly have no issues with gaming thus far

 

[toyota]

Considering that Maxwell is out in Q1 2014, the wait won`t be long. Therefor GTX 780 Ti launch is pretty well timed.

GT 840M have already been listed on a notebook, so its not far away :thumbsup:



Because you need more than 3GB VRAM on how many games? GTX 780 certainly have no issues with gaming thus far

hardocp already found that having more than 3gb was useful if running sli on titan at high res 8 months ago. its STUPID as hell to release a fully enabled GK110 at this point with only 3gb of vram. again many people that get these cards will be wanting to run sli at really high resolutions.

 

[Tempered81]

hardocp already found that having more than 3gb was useful if running sli on titan at high res 8 months ago. its STUPID as hell to release a fully enabled GK110 at this point with only 3gb of vram. again many people that get these cards will be wanting to run sli at really high resolutions.

Why can't they just make 'Titan ultra' using this chip at even higher base clocks with 6 GB of faster ram & charge $999-$1200 for it?

 

[blackened23]

hardocp already found that having more than 3gb was useful if running sli on titan at high res 8 months ago. its STUPID as hell to release a fully enabled GK110 at this point with only 3gb of vram. again many people that get these cards will be wanting to run sli at really high resolutions.

I can see both arguments. I'm not convinced that 6GB is needed,because Guru3d tested 4k resolutions with ultra/MSAA and not even BF4 approached 3GB of VRAM usage. Then again, we argued about 2GB a year ago and many games are surpassing 2GB of VRAM at 4k resolution. So, it's a tough call - the future CAN change things, but at this point and time I cannot see more than 3/4GB being useful. I have not seen any real world test at any resolution showing anywhere near 6GB of VRAM use. Yet in the back of my head I keep thinking of the 2GB arguments we had a year ago. Heh. 2GB is worthless at 4k resolution, but of course not a lot of people use 4k.

For the more common 1080p-1600p resolutions, 6GB may be worthwhile at some point in the future, that's a very big if. Right now, though? It isn't. 3GB is plenty up to 1600p. Keep in mind that the Titan also doubles as a CUDA development card and the 6GB of VRAM could be use there, but I cant' see it being entirely useful for games. This could all well change a year or two for now, we'll see. In any case, it's more or less confirmed that the baseline 780ti will be 3GB, so it's really a moot point to argue.

I think a lot of this depends highly on the resolution in use. Certainly someone at 1080p or even 1600p won't need to bother with 6GB. OTOH, someone running 1600p*3 may find 6GB useful. Therefore it depends highly on the user in question. And those users that are running 1600p*3 will generally not be stupid enough to buy VRAM deficient cards - they will have options for higher VRAM configurations.

 

[Cloudfire777]

hardocp already found that having more than 3gb was useful if running sli on titan at high res 8 months ago. its STUPID as hell to release a fully enabled GK110 at this point with only 3gb of vram. again many people that get these cards will be wanting to run sli at really high resolutions.

Its about finding the right recipe for profit.
Now that 290X is here, they can`t do $999 for it.

A full GK110 is more marketed as a one card gaming beast. There are more people using one $699 GPU than several of them. Increase the price to $799 because of more VRAM, there are less people using one $799 GPU, even less SLI them, and more using 290X.

 

[toyota]

I am saying they should at least offer a 6gb option and not limit it to 3gb like on the 780.

 

[Mastercommander]

More money than sense? Lol. We are talking about a couple hundred dollars here after selling about my "old" cards. Am I talking to working adults or teenagers on allowances?

A lot of people spend more money on scratch tickets, cigarettes, fast food, coffee, booze, etc than I do on my Porsche

Still more money than sense

I have a not inconsiderable income these days and spent plenty recently on the computer, and would not have bought two 780s. If you had sense you would have known what would happen

 

[5150Joker]

We're already reaching the limits of 2-3 GB vram so with these next gen consoles coming, many people running 3GB or less vram will start feeling the pain at high resolution and/or multimonitor setups.

 

[Grooveriding]

I'm up in the air on performance to expect from this card. When you look at Titan vs 780 benchmarks the 780 needs about 100Mhz to get to parity with Titan and overcome the 2 SMX deficit it has compared to a Titan.

The 780ti will have one more SMX than a Titan and a slightly higher base/boost clock than a 780 does. Not really sure how much faster to expect this card to be. It also has another 1000mhz VRAM speed which is where I think it will actually see most of its gains from. I also think the best gains will probably be seen at 1440p, 1600p and multi-monitor due to the VRAM speed. $700 probably makes good sense for the 780ti because with the new 780 pricing it will be similar to the Titan's appearance now; very minimal performance gains for huge cost increases.

I'm interested for the reviews next week. I think the 780ti is going to convincingly edge out the 290x at 1080p, but I think higher resolutions are going to be more of a toss-up.

 

[Slomo4shO]

http://wccftech.com/gtx-780-ti-specifications-confirmed-gk110-2880-sp-sheer-power/

• Fab: 28nm
• Stream Processors: 2880
• Texture Units: 240
• ROP: 48
• Memory: 1752 Mhz [7008 Effective]
• Core Freq: 876 Mhz (902)
• Boost Core Freq: 928 Mhz (1033)
• Memory Bus: 384 Bit
• 336 GB/S
• 3GB (6GB)
• TDP : 250W

 

[x3sphere]

I'm interested for the reviews next week. I think the 780ti is going to convincingly edge out the 290x at 1080p, but I think higher resolutions are going to be more of a toss-up.

I expect the same. If that's the case, it puts this card in a weird spot though, can't imagine too many will buy $700 card for 1080p. But I suppose it'd be a PR win depending how you look at it.

 

[mkmitch]

What else is going on at Nvidia?http://wccftech.com/nvidias-senior-vp-resigns-days-top-nvidia-execs-jump-ship-amd/

That belongs in a new thread. It doesn't belong here
-ViRGE

 

[SirPauly]

Nice to see the potential full core be released as a choice to gamers!

 

[Will Robinson]

$700 launch price?
*cough*
Its going to have to be at least 15-20% faster than R9 290X for that kind of price point.

 

[3DVagabond]

$700 launch price?
*cough*
Its going to have to be at least 15-20% faster than R9 290X for that kind of price point.

But the 290X is ~15% faster than the 780 and isn't worth $50>.

 

[blackened23]

But the 290X is ~15% faster than the 780 and isn't worth $50>.

At stock speeds maybe, but factory OC'ed 780s make that performance difference ambiguous - Many OC'ed 780s match the Titan. 290X matches the Titan. You can see where the price performance ladder goes from there.

I think the 290X performs outstanding, it's a great card. But until the 290X gets aftermarket treatment, GTX having the option for factory OC'ed model ups it's attractiveness by a huge amount - it's unfortunate that AMD didn't push for aftermarket 290X availability on day one. I think they could have but they just didn't, like I said, unfortunate given the relatively poor reference cooler they're using.

 

[AdamK47]

Anyone know where I can get a quad SLI bridge?

 

[chimaxi83]

Anyone know where I can get a quad SLI bridge?

EVGA has them. They've got the plain looking 4 way, and the Pro 4 way that would match the look of the Titans.

 

[Owls]

Do you guys think the 780ti will be as fast as 3x 680s? Or close?

I normally play at 1600p

 

[blackened23]

EVGA has them. They've got the plain looking 4 way, and the Pro 4 way that would match the look of the Titans.

I think it was his indirect way of stating that the 780ti might not support 4 way - the GTX 780 only supports 3 way, while the Titan (and only Titan) supports 4 way SLI. It's not entirely clear whether this applies to the 780ti as well, we'll see.

 

[chimaxi83]

I think it was his indirect way of stating that the 780ti might not support 4 way - the GTX 780 only supports 3 way, while the Titan (and only Titan) supports 4 way SLI. It's not entirely clear whether this applies to the 780ti as well, we'll see.

Oh, heh. Didn't read that part

 

[schmuckley]

780Ti=Unicorns=Steamroller
It's just damage control cuz 290x kicking butt
Vaporware is vaporware.

 

[exar333]

780Ti=Unicorns=Steamroller
It's just damage control cuz 290x kicking butt
Vaporware is vaporware.

Thanks for that very informative, and well-thought out comment.

Care to explain why this might be the case? This card will be released (according to NV) before the end of the month. The supply remains to be seen, but NV has been pretty solid on their launches recently for providing a good amount of stock. I would actually say the same about AMD as well.