NVIDIA Maxwell Speculation Thread

[Deleted member 2197]

GeForce GTX 980 Ti Clock Speeds Surface

The leaked GPU-Z screeenshot shows a core GPU that is clocked at 1000 MHz with a dynamic GPU Boost frequency of 1076 MHz. The memory seems to be clocked at 7012 MHz (GDDR5-effective).

Previous leaks also have indicated this card to have 22 active shader processor clusters with 128 shaders per cluster (24 on Titan X). Meaning an active 2816 shader/stream/cuda cores gor the Ti model. Easy math then leads to a TMU count at 176. The ROP count however remains secret, if it is the full ROP count and thus is similar to the Titan X, then you'll see a fully used 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at a 384-bit wide memory interface. After the GTX 970 debacle, we however are confident that the product will see a full ROP count.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-gtx-980-ti-clock-speeds-surface.html

 

[Deleted member 2197]

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SKU lineup leaks with prices

• GEFORCE GTX980TI REFERENCE card is going to be shipping for $799

• GEFORCE GTX980TI SC (SuperClocked) edition with ACX2.0+ cooling solutionat $810.

• GEFORCE GTX980TI SC REFERENCE retailing for $816.

• GEFORCE GTX980TI SC+ (With Back Plate) and the ACX2.0+ cooling solution $827

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/evga-leaks-geforce-gtx-980-ti-sku-lineup-and-prices.html

 

[Albuquerque]

Ouch. Eight hundred dollars?? Ugh. This is why I now additionally hate AMD -- no competition means no reason for the "other vendor" to price reasonably.

On second thought, I will not be purchasing a 980ti.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Ouch. Eight hundred dollars?? Ugh. This is why I now additionally hate AMD -- no competition means no reason for the "other vendor" to price reasonably.
On second thought, I will not be purchasing a 980ti.

Well with the reported price of Fiji XT to be $849 or higher I'd say it's priced competitively ....

 

[silent_guy]

Well with the reported price of Fiji XT to be $849 or higher I'd say it's priced competitively ....

Wccftech copied the $800 price, but now says it's $650. (http://wccftech.com/evga-geforce-gtx-980-ti-799-msrp-pricing/)

I don't think anybody really knows anything...

 

[Grall]

Well with the reported price of Fiji XT to be $849 or higher I'd say it's priced competitively ....

I think AMD can forget trying to sell a 4GB card at this point in time for 850 bucks, much less even more.

 

[silent_guy]

If the $650 is true, then Nvidia is going for the big squeeze. With seriously higher production cost, Fiji better perform well.

 

[Albuquerque]

Well with the reported price of Fiji XT to be $849 or higher I'd say it's priced competitively ....

That's not competition, that's just stupid. I'm with Grall on this: AMD might ask for $849, just like I might ask for a 100% raise from my boss for doing less work.

I expect to have similar success with my boss as AMD would have with 4gb Fiji sales

 

[pjbliverpool]

If the $650 is true, then Nvidia is going for the big squeeze. With seriously higher production cost, Fiji better perform well.

They're also reporting that it comes with the Witcher 3 and Arkham Kight. If so that's a pretty competitive bundle. Fiji better perform well indeed!

 

[lanek]

They're also reporting that it comes with the Witcher 3 and Arkham Kight. If so that's a pretty competitive bundle. Fiji better perform well indeed!

Well, Nvidia is not really known or liked because they offer gifts, decent prices or cut prices, ( their politic is more that they can, even justify higher prices by marketing plots even when their gpu#s are outperformed ) so i can imagine that IF this price is true, Fidji is indeed perform well.. ( this said i really not trust any price before i see it on the site i buy my gpu's ).
If we look at the past history, if Fidji was just perform at the same level of the 980TI , or a bit under, the Nvidia one will still be charged with 50-100$ more due to marketing plots ( gameworks, driver, features, blabla green )

I dont remember when Nvidia have cut prices on their products for increase their market shares ( they dont really need it,specially right now )

Ofc, i just take the other point of view..

 

[iMacmatician]

Hardware Battle has benchmarks of the 980 Ti and many other cards. The 980 Ti performs very close to the TITAN X (as I would expect).

(There are more at the link.)

Edit: Now that I look at the game benchmarks again, the FPSes don’t seem to be increasing as much as I would expect when going from the weakest to the strongest GPUs in the charts.

 

[silent_guy]

Well, Nvidia is not really known or liked because they offer gifts, decent prices or cut prices ...

Yet they undercut AMD while offering higher performance with the 680 and the 970.

Nvidia has a history of cutting prices when they have a product that has superior performance per production cost (basically perf/mm2 and, to a certain extent, perf/W) while still being competitive performance wise. That's the best time to hurt your competitor: your own margins go down a little bit, your volume goes up and your competitor's get crushed.

Fiji will likely have a similar die size. It will have much higher cost for memory, packaging, and cooling. The only unknown remaining variable is performance.

 

[lanek]

Hardware Battle has benchmarks of the 980 Ti and many other cards. The 980 Ti performs very close to the TITAN X (as I would expect).


(There are more at the link.)

Well the only difference outside the 6gb ram ( thatt everyone was expect since titanX have been presented ) was on the number of SP, 2SMX disabled, performance seems totally inline with what peoples have imagine.. indeed specially if the turbo have in addition a bit more of lattitude (even if it say a turbo clock speed at 1076mhz, we know that the turbo clock speed could be way higher, 6Gb less ( 10W,) 2SMX less, same 250W TDP, i let you imagine that the turbo clock speed by default is regulary going way higher than in the TitanX ), i clearly expect to see the different models, from Asus, MSI, Evga to perform like the titanX or even a bit better . ( not like the 6GB will do much difference in games anyway )

 

[lanek]

Yet they undercut AMD while offering higher performance with the 680 and the 970.

Nvidia has a history of cutting prices when they have a product that has superior performance per production cost (basically perf/mm2 and, to a certain extent, perf/W) while still being competitive performance wise. That's the best time to hurt your competitor: your own margins go down a little bit, your volume goes up and your competitor's get crushed.

Fiji will likely have a similar die size. It will have much higher cost for memory, packaging, and cooling. The only unknown remaining variable is performance.

You are maybe right, who know ..

 

[Deleted member 2197]

EVGA Launches GeForce GTX TITAN-X Hybrid

EVGA intros the GeForce GTX TITAN X HYBRID, an "all in one" water cooling solution that significantly lowers the GPU operating temperature. The EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN X HYBRID is available as a complete unit, or upgrade kit.

http://www.evga.com/articles/00935/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-X-HYBRID/

 

[Albuquerque]

If the $650 is true, then Nvidia is going for the big squeeze. With seriously higher production cost, Fiji better perform well.

If the $650 is true, then I have a reason to "donate" my 7970GhzEd to my brother and upgrade. If the $850 is true, I can wait.

 

[pjbliverpool]

Here we go...

http://vga.zol.com.cn/522/5229872.html?via=article

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Nice read! Seems to trade more blows with the Titan X in the benchmarks than I anticipated.

 

[pjbliverpool]

Nice read! Seems to trade more blows with the Titan X in the benchmarks than I anticipated.

I wasn't too sure about the article in general tbh, the 780Ti seems to beat the 980 (non Ti) in lots of cases which just isn't right.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

I wasn't too sure about the article in general tbh, the 780Ti seems to beat the 980 (non Ti) in lots of cases which just isn't right.

Missed that ... we should be able to get a better sense once other reviews start to appear.