That SGEMM article is a whole paper by itself. Very impressive. One day, I'll manage to read it through completely and actually understand everything. One day...
Or just very high demand? I'm not sure. I've been trying to buy a 970 for a couple of weeks now and cannot. I am on nowinstock.net with alerts and literally trying to submit my orders as soon as it detects they're in stock. I have failed 4 times to submit my order fast enough before they're out of stock. Last night on newegg I completed the order even then got an email stating the order was voided due to no stock.
So probably a combination of very high demand and little stock.
So probably a combination of very high demand and little stock.
Supply issue are not forcibly linked to the chips in itself.. could be any hardware on the PCB.. VRam... Along that the 970 is selling really well .
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Probably not very high? It is on a very well understood and mature 28nm process.
Perhaps NVIDIA underestimated demand? Stock was pretty good the first few days after release, but hasn't caught up since.
I think you would be surprised by how many folks simply want the absolute fastest and are willing to pay for it. Also $550 is less than the 780Ti used to be, and the 980 is faster (quite a bit faster when overclocked) and has more VRAM. It would be a logical upgrade for those coming from a 580, 680, or even 780 (not 780Ti IMO).
Very low?
Even if they expected high demand, there's only so much they could have done.
Yeah it checks quite a few boxes but even with all that taken into consideration it still seems odd. The 780 Ti was an equally good upgrade from a 580 or 680 but I guess the price point isn't anywhere near as attractive.
I'm with you but at this point it seems they severely underestimated demand. It's not a large chip and on a very seasoned node so shouldn't be that difficult to keep in stock.
Maybe they could temper demand a bit by allowing Kepler and Fermi cards to do DSR given that all it takes is modifying an ini file
http://www.overclock.net/t/1518483/modded-344-24-whql-drivers-allow-dsr-on-kepler-fermi-cards
Maybe they could temper demand a bit by allowing Kepler and Fermi cards to do DSR given that all it takes is modifying an ini file
http://www.overclock.net/t/1518483/modded-344-24-whql-drivers-allow-dsr-on-kepler-fermi-cards
...and any user interested in a GM204 based GPU would suddenly lose interest?
Maybe we should open a prank page where it gives instructions how to suppposedly bake a Kepler in the oven and get automatically a Maxwell
...and any user interested in a GM204 based GPU would suddenly lose interest?
Sure why not. I'm sure it would sway some heads. DSR is one of the most talked about Maxwell features aside from raw performance. It's pretty handy even on a 680 if you're playing older titles.
Maybe we should open a prank page where it gives instructions how to suppposedly bake a Kepler in the oven and get automatically a Maxwell
Baking nVidia cards is old news
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I'd be curious to see in person Quake 3 on a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with the highest DSR factor you can get away with. On a GTX 670 (and 60Hz monitor) the game showed 999 fps, I suppose it ran out of digits .
What is the max res these days, 16384x16834?
.What is the max res these days, 16384x16834?
I'd be curious to see in person Quake 3 on a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with the highest DSR factor you can get away with. On a GTX 670 (and 60Hz monitor) the game showed 999 fps, I suppose it ran out of digits
What is the max res these days, 16384x16834?
For sure 6x4k works from one AMD card
http://www.gamingworm.com/2014/06/s...-handled-by-single-gpu-at-computers-2014.html
Should even handle Quake 3 at playable FPS I think! I would love to try that myself!
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It's D3D 11.3 compliant.
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That SGEMM article is a whole paper by itself. Very impressive. One day, I'll manage to read it through completely and actually understand everything. One day...
Luckily at least for now I'm only interested in the controlcodes document.
It's 11.1 / 11.2 compliant. We only know 4 features of 11.3 it supports, but those 4 aren't everything in 11.3 (and 12) as Max McMullen already posted
That's good to hear. So much confusion over Kepler WRT D3D11.1 and 11.2. I'm still not sure what NVIDIA's official position is on Kepler support for 11.1 and 11.2.
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If we take it out of the horse's mouth, it says it's feature level 11_0 on the latest and greatest Kepler card ( )
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-720/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications
But for the 980 it's unspecified other than a vague Microsoft DirectX 12 API.
Indeed saying it supports feature level 11_3 is abusive, but that may be because that feature level (or 12_0) isn't yet published.
)http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-720/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980/specifications
But for the 980 it's unspecified other than a vague Microsoft DirectX 12 API.
Indeed saying it supports feature level 11_3 is abusive, but that may be because that feature level (or 12_0) isn't yet published.
