GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 3072 CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2015 11:54 AM | source: | 131 comment(s)

I have to classify this as a rumor, but the info available sums up to the idea that Nvidia will be releasing a GeForce GTX 980 Ti that has 3072 Shader Cores and 6GB of GDDR5.

That means it will be based on Big-Maxwell aka GM200 that currently resides in the Titan X released last week. If true then this would be an awesome release. 6GB (384-bit) is plenty enough and the GPU more than fast enough. There is one more speculation, the card would be FASTER clocked compared to the Titan X, by 10%.

So if AMD releases something upcoming summer, they know what they can expect from Nvidia. Btw being a non Titan model, board partners should be able to com up with their own designs and factory overclocks as well.

Nvidia	GeForce GTX Titan X	GeForce GTX 980 Ti	GeForce GTX 980	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 960
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
GPU	GM200	GM200	GM204	GM204	GM206
Die Size	601mm2	601mm2	398mm2	398mm2	228mm2
Process	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
Shader Cores	3072	3072	2048	1664	1024
Texture Units	192	192	128	104	64
ROPs	96	96	64	64	32
Base Clock	1002 MHz	~1126 MHz	1126 MHz	1051 MHz	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1089 MHz	~1216 MHz	1216 MHz	1178 MHz	1178 MHz
Graphics Memory	12 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	336.0 GB/s	224.0 GB/s	224.0 GB/s	112.0 GB/s
TDP	250W	250W	165W	145W	120W
Power Connectors	8+6 Pin	8+6 Pin	Two 6-Pin	Two 6-Pin	One 6-Pin
Pricing	$999 US	$699 ?	$549 US	$329 US	$199 US

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serbicu
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#5038862 Posted on: 03/27/2015 10:11 AM

If this is true and nothing is changed except the memory size,then the 980ti will be faster&cheaper than the titan x.

And quite to be expected considering the last gen titan vs 780ti.

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#5038875 Posted on: 03/27/2015 10:31 AM

How can this be? As it will be faster than the titan X there will be NO REASON AT ALL to buy the titan X without DP FP64. It was clear a new card would arrive to fill the gap between the titan and the 980, but when its faster than the titan, what card will be placed between the 980 and the titan?

A titan LE Or a GTX980+ with 5/6 of the GM200 chip enabled? Thus: 2560 Shader cores, 160 Texture Units, 80 Rops, 5GB DDR5 on a 320 bits bus?

Now that would make sense! and note this as a prediction.. a card like i describe above will release within 2 months after AMD release, clocks are yet to be determined, nvidia has to watch te competitions HD 300 release first.

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#5038878 Posted on: 03/27/2015 10:38 AM

I have to classify this as a rumor, but the facts however point to the fact that Nvidia will be releasing aÂ*GeForce GTX 980 Ti that has 3072 Shader Cores and 6GB of GDDR5....

GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 3072 CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5

What "facts"? I'm not saying this isn't going to happen, but it seems more like deductive reasoning than any facts.

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#5038882 Posted on: 03/27/2015 10:43 AM

I'll have to say that this is probably not true (no offense to you Hilbert, as you said it's just a rumor).

This is pretty much the same GPU as Titan X, just with less VRAM. Titan X doesn't have the DP performance that other Titans had in order to justify the price point, so if these said rumors were true nobody would buy the Titan X for any reason. Not even future proofing. When we get games to use more than 6GB of VRAM, these GPUs won't be powerful enough anyway.

And the difference in DP between the 980 and the Titan X is not that big. They won't be able to handicap the 980Ti DP performance enough to make Titan X feasible.

My 2 cents. I could be wrong, but I don't see Nvidia completely sabotaging the number of Titan X sells.

EDIT: If I think about it.. If this 980Ti would be around 850-900$ the Titan X would still be feasible. 100$ extra could justify the extra 6GB of VRAM on the Titan X. But 900$ for the 980Ti is above AMD's intended 390x price. It all depends whether the 390x will be competitive since the leaked slides are not accurate (the Titan X performance in those slides was quite off).

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#5038887 Posted on: 03/27/2015 10:50 AM

Unless they cut it down it will be yet another middle finger to Titan owners.

But if GM200 internal working is same as GM2014, then cutting would again cripple access to part of installed memory. In such case nVidia would end up between "gimped/fake card" flame and throwing insult to Titan X owners' faces.

If 980Ti is full GM200-400 as Titan X, then price would have to be higher than $700 because not many people would pay 300$ for going from 6GB vram to 12GB.
(especially since we are very close to end of 28nm era, and we can expect another performance boost on 16/14nm by start of 2016 due to improved transistor density, heat per square mm and maximum numbers of transistors which can fit into one chip)

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