Nvidia GeForce GTX 870 and GTX 880 available in November
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FrenchKiss
Ready for Xmas 😀
256-bit memory bus... scares me as it scared me before buying my 680 GTX... I'll wait for your expertise Mr Hilbert on that one 🙂
Ven0m
I'd really like to see how they'll compare to 6xx and 7xx series, both in terms of performance and power consumption. While I'm generally satisfied with 680, there's some room for improvement.
mohiuddin
Hope, 4GB VRam will be mainstream soon.
icSlowMo
I've been waiting for the 800 series to finally upgrade my SLI GTX480's as they're a bit power hungry... And produce a lot of heat even though they are both under water blocks.... Can't wait to see what the 800 series brings to the table for power/performance and prices.....
TheDeeGee
I do want to upgrade myself, but i might hold out untill the 880 Ti.
Will see how the reviews do 🙂
H83
Only in November? I´m having problems in the GPU departement and i may be forced to buy a new video card, so this means i may end up buying a gpu that is gonna be replaced by something better in a few months...
Bad luck i guess...
TheDeeGee
Is your CPU even powerfull enough for a 800 series? Ok, it's running at 4 GHz but it's pretty dated.
H83
I´m gonna build a new system as soon as i can but now the important thing is the gpu. And the 800 series are mainstream hardware, so i don´t think the bottleneck is too severe.
Devastater6194
The 880 better release with 680 prices (£400-450) and not 780 prices (£500) Lets just hope that AMD have something to release to keep the prices down.
---TK---
Bottleneck will be pretty severe. My old qx9650 bottlenecked old cards like 295 and 580. It ran at 4ghz too. Those cards in my current rig got a tremendous boost. I was able to quad sli 296x for a short time and run sli 580.
Denial
Maxwell has nearly 150% larger L2 cache, it should make that 256bit bus more bearable.
mackintosh
I'll take two if the price is right. If it's not, I'll stick with my 3-way.
scoter man1
I agree, the prices need to come down or else I'll probably be buying a used 280x-290. Yeah, I'll switch teams.
GhostXL
If these are at least 20% faster than the 780 OC'd. Then I'll think about grabbing two of these for SLI next tax season.
I have a feeling I'll be waiting on info for 880 Ti.
---TK---
My guess is the 880 will be about 20-25% faster than a 780ti. I think it will spank a regular 780. Despite the rumored 256 bit bus. Ala 580 384bit vs 680 256 bit.
Lane
Well the 2Mb of cache help the low bandwith with a 128bit bus and low amount of memory, but you dont run a 750TI at 2560x1600 with full MSAA, ultra textures..
The large cache help ofc, but it have too his limit depending the situation. ( it cant give you a 512bit / 8GB performance bandwith like that... ( who is pretty what i think to be the good road for 4K resolution screen ( before stacked ram is here ).. ( with massive amount of ROPS ).
Im right with you on the performance leap, but 580 = 384bit / 1.5GB of slow memory ... 680 = 256bit / 2GB of fast memory... the difference in bandwith was not so big... ( and when i say slow vs big, the GTX580 memory was run at 4Gb/s ( 4000mhz) when the 680, it is 7Gb/s ( 7000mhz, not far of the double )
Dont forget we are only speaking about memory controller performance here, not the GPU core / architecture performance.. There's a large difference in term of architecture performance between Kepler and Fermi. so does really it have a so big impact outside high resolution ?
BLEH!
NVidia seem to have gotten in the habit of using stupidly fast clocked VRAM, which I suppose could make up for the lack of >256 bit bus, either that OR it IS a 512 bit bus in which case it could have stupid bandwidth. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Lane
I suspect the Big maxwell to use a 512bit bus.. it was maybe just more easy to scale down 512 > 256bits.... even if was really 100% sure the 880 will have at least a 384bit bus ...
But again this is a question of choice or scale down: 256bit 4GB or 8GB, 512bits 4GB or 8GB.. vs 384bits / 3 or 6GB.....
We can imagine the little Maxwell with 256but + 4GB ( cost less of 6GB ) and the high Maxwell 512bit + 8GB.. ( instead of get 3 or 6GB configuration possible ( or 12GB but this will be a bit too much for standard gpu and not enough for beat a AMD W9100 with his 16GB ( on a 512bit bus ).
I tend to believe, if you can, number like 4-8-16GB configuration are anyway more easy for scale down the series across the architecture. ( for this period )
Look AMD configuration on AMD GPU, they have a perfect set of configuration between 290x and Firepro in term of memory. ( 4-8-16GB ). without the 512bit bus, it will surely be totally impossible to feed the 16GB of memory. And 16GB of memory on a gpu ( single core GPU ) is anyway extremely sexy for a professionnal gpu. And really make all his sense in 2014.
vazup
Why is everyone scared of the 256bit bus? The card sure as hell will be faster than the 700 series equivalent card.
Goldie
gonna hold out for the msi 860 hawk 🙂
