First GeForce GTX 980 Ti Pictures hit the web

#5078743

Pete J

2015-05-23 07:00

Does the titan X have a backplate?

No, it doesn't.

#5078770

pbvider

2015-05-23 08:16

Same... Im not the least bit excited about recent gpu releases at all... tiny advancements, at ever increasing prices. As of late, dont know what would be worse... bad driver support from amd, or nvidia only supporting the very newest gpu's.

I really hope that AMD will do something about their driver support because I really want to buy a 390X.

#5078789

ivymike10mt

2015-05-23 09:47

I really hope that AMD will do something about their driver support because I really want to buy a 390X.

You are very hopefully... they always same with their drivers. They even can't take two extra peoples to test their CF profiles. How 295X2 work on Witcher 3. Like they don't know fact that the prewiev and game already exist :david:

Does the titan X have a backplate?

Normall backplate not helping Titan X anyway. It need something like Acelero made - specially top grill!

#5078791

Fox2232

2015-05-23 09:48

So 5.5+0.5 GB card?

While 3.5+0.5 can be in certain scenarios nasty (not for anyone sane since it is easy to keep under 2~2.5GB vram use as textures required qould not make visual impact anyway till 4k and for that 970 has no power), having 5.5+0.5 is not problem at all. And on other hand gtx970 has cut out 1/8th (12.5% to full card), if this is 5.5+0.5 then it is 1/12th (8.3% to full card). So I think they used other means to gimp it here.

#5078865

Mineria

2015-05-23 13:02

While 3.5+0.5 can be in certain scenarios nasty (not for anyone sane since it is easy to keep under 2~2.5GB vram use as textures required qould not make visual impact anyway till 4k and for that 970 has no power), having 5.5+0.5 is not problem at all. And on other hand gtx970 has cut out 1/8th (12.5% to full card), if this is 5.5+0.5 then it is 1/12th (8.3% to full card). So I think they used other means to gimp it here.

Never had any problems loading the GTX970 beyond 3.6GB, frametimes look good under almost full memory loads while gaming and prove that my system has no problem. Lots of people over at GeForce forum that has issues also got them fixed, the few that are left, no idea what they can do to get their card to run smooth. But yes, it would be preferred with all memory at full speed so that those who these issues won't need to figure out why and some even won't be able to solve it.

#5078870

Loophole35

2015-05-23 13:10

no way... may be you'll see these prices once the holiday season come for black friday and cyber monday. $649 will probably be the minimum starting price point and goes up from there. i dont see retailers dropping 980 prices anytime soon below $500 either. may be rebates or promos but doubt raw price cuts.

That's not the retailers choice. It's nvidia's. Remember what happened when the 780Ti and 290\X launched. The 970 is already in that $330-$360 price range. A 980 at $449 is not far fetched.

#5078931

oxide

2015-05-23 15:59

So, to everyone who said, categorically, that there was never going to be a GTX 980Ti.... you were saying?

#5078935

Loophole35

2015-05-23 16:04

So, to everyone who said, categorically, that there was never going to be a GTX 980Ti.... you were saying?

We were wrong. Going on past generations you did not have two different chips populating the same segment. Most of us thought the GM200 would be released as a new generation not in the 900 series. There was nothing wrong with that thought process as this has hamstrung Nvidia. You have the full GM204 as the 980 and a cut GM200 as the 980Ti. Say what if the R9 390X kills the 980Ti and a full GM200 can beat it what will they call that card? the 980Ti Ultra Capcom Metal Edition? You will then essentially have three different chips called the GTX980

#5078961

LesserHellspawn

2015-05-23 16:55

Well, the 5.5+0.5 GB joke may or may not be funny, but I sure enough ran that 3 GB test on my two 660ti, when the problem with the 970 became known. My systen didn't just slow down when hitting the 2.5 GB mark, it crashed. So it's reasonable to be wary of this occuring on other cards.

#5078966

Megabiv

2015-05-23 17:10

We were wrong. Going on past generations you did not have two different chips populating the same segment. Most of us thought the GM200 would be released as a new generation not in the 900 series. There was nothing wrong with that thought process as this has hamstrung Nvidia. You have the full GM204 as the 980 and a cut GM200 as the 980Ti. Say what if the R9 390X kills the 980Ti and a full GM200 can beat it what will they call that card? the 980Ti Ultra Capcom Metal Edition? You will then essentially have three different chips called the GTX980

They'll just bring in the XX50/X50 naming scheme in again or just call it a GTX990 like they did back in the 7000 series with 7800GTX then release 7900/7950GX2/7950GT cards

#5078989

BangTail

2015-05-23 17:46

Same... Im not the least bit excited about recent gpu releases at all... tiny advancements, at ever increasing prices. As of late, dont know what would be worse... bad driver support from amd, or nvidia only supporting the very newest gpu's.

I hear you mate. TBH, I'm happy, gonna get over a year out of these 980s. We'll see if Pascal brings about anything worth buying 😀

#5078993

---TK---

2015-05-23 17:58

So, to everyone who said, categorically, that there was never going to be a GTX 980Ti.... you were saying?

Wrong about the naming scheme only, not the card. 980 denotes gm204 naming scheme and I don`t think nvidia wanted to name it a 1080 or something like that. 980 ti is big daddy kepler as gm204 is maxed out already in the 980.

#5079140

Davud

2015-05-23 20:43

It would have made more sense if they named it something like TITAN W

#5079501

Mineria

2015-05-24 14:11

Well, the 5.5+0.5 GB joke may or may not be funny, but I sure enough ran that 3 GB test on my two 660ti, when the problem with the 970 became known. My systen didn't just slow down when hitting the 2.5 GB mark, it crashed. So it's reasonable to be wary of this occuring on other cards.

2.5 GB.. is that a typo? If not it was never a 970 issue.

#5079506

Loophole35

2015-05-24 14:17