titan cooler plus new backplate is winner outta the gates, Maxwell tech is bonus 😀

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.

Waiting for the 210 chips with 384-bit bus. 256-bit can kiss my ass

I think that 4-5 VRM won't have much room by OC'ing at least stock versions, even if its "improved" like videocardz say.. Remember stock 570GTX VRM issues if Oc'ed too much? and this was a improved version of super tank 470GTX VRMs :P

TOTALLY THIS - (but kiss RavenMaster's ass 🙂 )

I'll concede that it is the best reference cooler that I've used. If you aren't overclocking, it's probably OK but for me, it's too hot and noisy once you flex the full potential of a GK110.

Titan coolers are avg at best. People who never used it like it.

And the driver on the disc :P

And some next-gen and I mean real next-gen games to play with - U4E, Luminous, SnowDrop, Foxengine, and what not, Bf4 or upcoming Witcher3 is not next-gen for me :P.. My 780 still didnt break a sweat, ok apart by some games that just use some lame DOF/blur settings to cripple it on purpose - looking at you Crysis3 & DeadRisng3 😀

They actually perform great though with a custom fan profile. Mine Idle 30C top 26C bottom. I never go past 60C in games full load.

780 Ti was $700 on release last Nov. It is now upwards of $600. Best guess the 980 will be well over $700 until AMD's equivalent comes out. The double VRAM and Ti versions are going to be ludicrously priced, but hey its Nvidia.

Not 1920, not 2560, but 2048 CUDAs are powering the new flagship card from NVIDIA. GeForce GTX 980 has 16 Streaming Multiprocessors Maxwell (SMM), which give us 2048 CUDA cores in total. For comparison, GTX 970 has only 13 SMMs (1664 CUDAs), so there’s a 384 CUDA difference between these two cards. GeForce GTX 980 is advertised as GK104 replacement, it is much more power efficient and much more powerful than first Kepler processor. We will cover 2nd Generation Maxwell in detail very soon. Maxwell GM204 has some very neat features for gamers. This post was only meant to confirm there are 2048 CUDAs in 980, hence not the most detailed table below. Stay tuned.

That logic doesn't make any sense, the 980 is not a replacement for the 780 Ti regardless of if it out performs it or not, so why you would think it would cost the same is illogical. Every #70 next generation card is either as good or faster then the previous generation #80 card, so does that mean that the 970 (and every #70 card) will be $500, the price that #80 cards are usually? No, it will replace the 770, regardless of its performance. It always has, and always will, so i really don't see why people keep posting stuff like this, it's illogical and based on nothing And no, i'm not talking about inflated launch prices, i'm talking about MSRP

GeForce GTX 980 GM204-400 Unified Cores 2048 Memory 4GB GDDR5 Memory Bus 256-bit Bandwidth 224 GB/s Power Connectors 6pin + 6pin TDP ~175W Launch Date Sep 19th, 2014 GeForce GTX 970 GM204-200 Unified Cores 1664 Memory 4GB GDDR5 Memory Bus 256-bit Bandwidth 224 GB/s Power Connectors 6pin + 6pin TDP 148W Launch Date Sep 19th, 2014 Source :- videocard z.