I wonder, how soon will people start to blame NVIDA for gimping Maxwell via drivers 🙂

So, essentially, the prices will sky rocket shortly after release in a similar fashion to the R9 290/x did with the bitcoin craze?

Well i could sell my GTX 970 half year after i bought it with profit, and even if the price didn't sky rocket, they went up.

I wonder, how soon will people start to blame NVIDA for gimping Maxwell via drivers 🙂

hehe don't call them out please :wanker::D

I wonder, how soon will people start to blame NVIDA for gimping Maxwell via drivers 🙂

They can take my frames, but they will never take my 3.5GB :flip2: :giggle2: :fang: :wanker: 😥

They can take my frames, but they will never take my 3.5GB :flip2: :giggle2: :fang: :wanker: 😥

This 😀

So did the GTX 980 Ti already got obsolete since I have one in my PC , and will I already need to sell it for Pascal ?

So did the GTX 980 Ti already got obsolete since I have one in my PC , and will I already need to sell it for Pascal ?

No, It definitely will not be obsolete. We are just spoiled brats. I actually think that 14/16nm (at least 1st generation of GPUs) will bring GPU performance closer to upper edge. You, as well as great many people around this forum have GPU which costs around same as average Gaming PC/notebook. If I have not seen steam stats about screens people use, about vRAM people use. I would not have guessed that average gaming screen has resolution around 1600x900 and GPU driving it has only 1GB(33.9%) ~ 2GB(25.6%) of vRAM. And then there are 13.9% of people having less than 1GB vRAM on steam stats. You can guess graphical performance from those GPUs yourself 🙂 I have high hopes that 14/16nm will bring higher clocked, smaller GPUs in lower costs to both desktops and notebooks. And that higher performance per $ (and Watt) on those small chips will push great many people to upgrade from 1GB of vRAM and lower to at least 2GB and appropriate performance. I am sure you can drive most of games at 4k at around 60fps with minimal sacrifice. And that 1440p, you can play perfectly anything. (Yes, not at 144fps, but still well above 60fps. And that seems to be game makers' target for 1080p.)

Its wccftech, but fwiw... Nvidia Launching Pascal Based Geforce Lineup At Editors’ Event – Reviews Expected to Go Live By Mid-May... http://*************/nvidia-launch-pascal-editors-event-may/

Somehow I'm not sure the Ti will be based on the GP104. Because it would make the '80' card a cut down chip... does that work with production costs? Just as a guess, the GP100 ('Titan') has 3840 shader processors, I guess the GP104-400 (biggest one, 'x80 Ti') will have something close to ~3000 shaders. GP104-200 ('x80') will be cut down to ~2500 shaders then? But does it make much sense to have the 'x80' as a cut down chip? It would mean that even the GP104-150 ('x70') would be a full GP104 chip in production, then laster cut? Wouldn't that mean that it unessecarily increased the 'x80's / 'x70's chip production cost? I thought the 980Ti would only make sense because it was a cut down TitanX, making some use of faulty chips they can't put onto the top tier gaming cards / low rank professional cards. Or am I seeing it all wrong, or doesn't it make much difference in production costs?

Consumer GP100 has approximately 0% chance of happening this year.

Its wccftech, but fwiw... Nvidia Launching Pascal Based Geforce Lineup At Editors’ Event – Reviews Expected to Go Live By Mid-May... http://*************/nvidia-launch-pascal-editors-event-may/

link: edit - we can't link to this site? 😛 fake? 😛

I'm hoping for something to take over from the 980 Ti. 104/204 etc. just isn't my cup of tea. When I buy a new computer I want the real deal, not what's in the middle. Hopefully the 100 will come out as a pure gaming card as well, the Titan cards are overpriced and a bit silly for gaming compared to say the 980 Ti.

So did the GTX 980 Ti already got obsolete since I have one in my PC , and will I already need to sell it for Pascal ?

One should always get the best their budget allows. The second technology reaches the market, it is already outdated. Just because it is new to market does not mean it is the latest and greatest. That is also why waiting to upgrade does not make sense unless the release is a short time away and one is willing to wait. There is always something newer and better around the corner.