Not really sure what to make of this. While nVidia has made significant architectural changes I doubt it will be as fast as a 780 Ti at higher resolutions due to the narrower bus but it may excel in other areas. Really They got the power consumption down but I really don't care about that. Look interesting. Can't wait to see AMD's answer.
780 on Steroids? I feel like that is what they said with the 770. It was gonna be a 680 on steroids. I think it is going to be just a straight rebrand again. Looking at the specs I think if they made the 780 any faster it would compete too closely with the 980.
But yeah I agree with you about AMD's plan. There was a rumor that the 390X was supposed to have something like 4000+ stream processors? Not sure how feasible or accurate that is haha
I think we already can assume what AMD's Gameplan is,
There is Rumors of AMD Dropping the Prices of the R9-290 and 290x. most likely to compete with the GTX 970 for now (since its going to be a 780 on Steroids (allegedly) and the Confirmed Unlocked Hawaii XTX R9-295x allegedly will compete with the GTX 980 and knowing with an X-Card there will come a Non-X card. i that a R9-295 will truly compete with the GTX 970 until AMD drops the R9-300 Series
also side-note i love that Nvidia is putting Back-plates on their reference cards i hope AMD and other Manufacturers adopt this. with their reference and non-reference cards.
yeah but really they weren't wrong. most of the 770s had absurd clock-speeds compared to the 680 ON top of the extra GPU Boost 2.0 which boosted the clock-speed a bit further if you kept the temperature low.. and on top of an overclock. even though they were the same GPU. and yeah i heard of those rumors of the R9-300 series i don't think we arent going to see that till about next summer or fall its only been about a year since the R9-200 series dropped. it would be too soon, all we know is that AMD is secretly working on something and that they finally got their shit together with a reference cooler.
until the 295x or 390X Drops and then we're running like forrest gump to our online retailer to get our new flavor of crack. (crack being a new GPU lol)
THey dont impress me, i allready saw these specs, the GTX980 will be inbetween a GTX780 and 780Ti, Basicly the same as a R9-290, but the 290 is still allot cheaper.
So Nvidia decided that the best way to go for this generation of cards is to cut back everything for a 165W power consumption, glad to see Nvidia is worried about card performance. Also 4.6 TFLOPs, yeah right XD Unless 16 extra ROPs can pull reduced CUDA cores, reduced TMUs, and a narrower memory bus by 1 TFLOP over the 780 I say Nvidia is nuts
I'm pretty disappointed because they still haven't increased their bus width and the rest of the increases in specs are pretty much the same regurgitated improvement that they give every generation of cards (although both AMD and Nvidia are guilty of these slow incremental improvements, probably due to an extraneous limiting factor). The stupid high memory clocks are only needed because of a smaller bus width and having clock rates that high will inevitably add instability to the cards.
Based on 750TI maxwell cores. Would also make the die size on this 30% larger... I hope transistor costs are much lower below 28nm... This should put it above the titan. Ofcourse the titan and 780s are clocked much lower, they probably have way more headroom, too match a 1250Mhz OCd frequency raw power on a 780 you would a frequency of 1,395 on this card assuming these specs are real. I have a feeling that is not going to happened, but I could be wrong, that is only about 200Mhz higher than the boost clock, but there is no guarantee cards will all reach the boost clock.
If this is real it should be a big performance improvement over the 770. Ofc AMD might be waiting for the lower node later this year or early next year, who knows?
It would probably give performance similar to the R9 290, I am assuming a $400 RRP. This is still a big improvement in terms of price to performance on the Nvidia Side. The 970 will probably also trounche the 280x and the 960 the 285 by a bit. Unfortunately it doesn't make much sense if you could have already brought a R9 290 ages ago, you will probably see AMD respond by price cuts if they are placed to close in terms of pricing. Which they might not be.
I'll give props to Nvidia for going "green" but IMO i really don't care how "green" the video card can be while running Crysis 3 on Uber Max graphics doing 360 no scopes. What they should've done is give us a wider bus for the RAM, clock the memory higher, and lower the core clock speed (if they kept the "green" stuff). I miss seeing the 512-bit memory bus and I bet that if the 980 has a 512-bit bus, it would be the fastest card known to date. Im glad though that Nvidia finally realized that 4 GBs good enough for high resolution gaming.
Huh, does not really seem like an upgrade to anything.
Lower power consumption is nice but gamers don't really care a lot and want raw performance for the most part. GPUs are looking like AMDs game now. Although I would be interested to see if the 4224 core rumours are true about the 390x, if they are Nvidia have lost.
Also hurray 4GB RAM, I know it is not terribly importabnt right now but with the price of screens coming down fast and with the the increase of triple screen setups and ultra widescreen/1440p/4K it feels like these new 900 series cards will not keep up. Not that the current AMD capabilities are any better at the moment, it looks like they are planning for the jump to 4K.
Definitely one thing I like about the 970 is that I should be able to SLI two of them on my current power supply. But I'm only going to do that if they retail at $3-350. At $400 I'll definitely be avoiding it and wait for a 390x.
The current price being suggested is 329 for the 970 and the leaked benches put it around ref 290x performance or a good aftermarket r9 290. It could all be bullshit though just like half the rumors around the r9 290 and 290x were before launch.
