Curious to see where the cut down GM200 chips end up. 980 is GM204, but the 980TI is full GM200. Where does that leave cut down GM200? Last time we had the 780 being cut down and then it went up from there, but now we have the 980 being a different chip than the 980TI.
Seems like another route would be to do a 1080 with cut down GM200, 1080TI with full GM200 6GB, and keep Titan X where it is.
Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
I don't see them introducing the 1080 or any 1000-series products, not after having just launched the 900-series, what, 6 months ago?
However, I too am very curious to see where the cut-down GM200's end up.
Perhaps they are used in new Quadro cards, and are basically exclusively available in those?
And one other possibility, if the 980 Ti is indeed a full GM200, is that perhaps a new dual-GPU Titan or a GTX 990 uses two cut-down GM200 so they can use all the parts they produce, or at least most of them.
I cannot imagine they have anywhere near 100% yield for full GM200, so their must be chips that are being set aside for something. While Nvidia has a ton of money, they can't exactly just throw these away unless they actually do have like 98% yield or around there.
I think the most likely scenario if the 980 Ti is a full GM200 is we see a 990 with dual-GPU. Heck, that could even save room for a 990 Ti with full GM200 in dual configuration.
I previously expected to see the failed and cut-down parts from GM200 get put in the 980 Ti, and then a 985 or 990 release uses the full GM200.
This could be a good strategy for Nvidia to finally have a x90 dual-GPU card again, as opposed to only having that in Titan form. They skipped a 790 in favor of having a ridiculously priced dual-GPU card, but if they save up these lesser bins they could indeed launch a 990 at an affordable price, and later release a full GM200 version.