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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Reference Photos Surface
Website videocardz leaked photo's of what seems to be the reference GeForce GTX 980. The boards looks great alright and follows the design of the GTX 780 series, this time with a very solid backplate.
The PCB photos show that the card is holding only 8 memory chips, has a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The GeForce GTX 980 is based on NVIDIA's new GM204 silicon, a product based of the company's new "Maxwell" GPU architecture. The card has two 6-pin PCIe power connectors, and as you can see, a 4+1 phase VRM design.
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#4913182 Posted on: 09/15/2014 12:50 PM
The gtx 980 is not in a good spot if ur gonna game at 2560x1440+ you need the larger memory bus of the big gm200/gm210 chip. But the GTX 980 is too powerful for 1080 gaming. Even the GTX 970 will be mostly overpowered but it should be priced good enough that it would probably just slide by as the most powerful and expensive card u would want for a 1080 gamer. The gtx 960 will be the best card for 1080 gaming and saving the most cash. For the higher res gaming we need the titan 2 or the gtx 1080 or gtx 980ti however they do it. Would see 8GB memory and 512 bit bus's on the big maxwell gm210 perfect for driving ultra quality on lots pixels. Not too mention the huge amount of shaders it should bring. GM210 in SLI should make 4k gaming a very well performing reality.
The gtx 980 is not in a good spot if ur gonna game at 2560x1440+ you need the larger memory bus of the big gm200/gm210 chip. But the GTX 980 is too powerful for 1080 gaming. Even the GTX 970 will be mostly overpowered but it should be priced good enough that it would probably just slide by as the most powerful and expensive card u would want for a 1080 gamer. The gtx 960 will be the best card for 1080 gaming and saving the most cash. For the higher res gaming we need the titan 2 or the gtx 1080 or gtx 980ti however they do it. Would see 8GB memory and 512 bit bus's on the big maxwell gm210 perfect for driving ultra quality on lots pixels. Not too mention the huge amount of shaders it should bring. GM210 in SLI should make 4k gaming a very well performing reality.
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#4913187 Posted on: 09/15/2014 12:59 PM
The 980 won't cost anything north of the 780ti. Like I posted in some other thread, the 970 and 980 are already price listed at a Dutch retailer MaxICT costing respectively 423 and 640 euro's. It's a relatively expensive company having some 780Ti's listed above 700 euro's, which is very expensive here in the Netherlands. Sure the first few weeks might be more expensive, then you can see the 970 and 980 settle at around 400 euro's and 500-600 euro here in the Netherlands.
The 980 won't cost anything north of the 780ti. Like I posted in some other thread, the 970 and 980 are already price listed at a Dutch retailer MaxICT costing respectively 423 and 640 euro's. It's a relatively expensive company having some 780Ti's listed above 700 euro's, which is very expensive here in the Netherlands. Sure the first few weeks might be more expensive, then you can see the 970 and 980 settle at around 400 euro's and 500-600 euro here in the Netherlands.
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#4913211 Posted on: 09/15/2014 01:39 PM
Honestly sli, if i didnt know any better, id think you were hired by nvidia marketing, to thumb up all nvidia related news...
titan cooler plus new backplate is winner outta the gates, Maxwell tech is bonus 
Honestly sli, if i didnt know any better, id think you were hired by nvidia marketing, to thumb up all nvidia related news...
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#4913214 Posted on: 09/15/2014 01:41 PM
Gotta agree with this
The gtx 980 is not in a good spot if ur gonna game at 2560x1440+ you need the larger memory bus of the big gm200/gm210 chip. But the GTX 980 is too powerful for 1080 gaming. Even the GTX 970 will be mostly overpowered but it should be priced good enough that it would probably just slide by as the most powerful and expensive card u would want for a 1080 gamer. The gtx 960 will be the best card for 1080 gaming and saving the most cash. For the higher res gaming we need the titan 2 or the gtx 1080 or gtx 980ti however they do it. Would see 8GB memory and 512 bit bus's on the big maxwell gm210 perfect for driving ultra quality on lots pixels. Not too mention the huge amount of shaders it should bring. GM210 in SLI should make 4k gaming a very well performing reality.
Gotta agree with this
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