Post by Eorl @ 12:33pm 12/09/14 | 17 Comments
According to Kdrama Stars (via VG247), the 800 series will be skipped due to a disparity that it would create confusion with Nvidia's desktop and mobile product lines. The GTX 980 and GTX 970 will front the line, with the GTX 960 supposedly following slightly later. The current 780Ti, 780, 770 and 760 cards will continue to be officially supported for the mean time, presumably along with the mighty Titan Z.
Those wanting to know the nitty-gritty can check out Videocardz article, which perpetuates that the top-of-the-line GTX 980 is built using a 28mm chip clocked at 1000MHz with 4GB of video memory. The card is estimated to be around 30 per cent faster than the 780Ti.
Nvidia's 900 series is expected to launch in October 2014 according to tech giant Gigabyte. As usual with pricing over here, expect the Australian launch to have cards going for well above the $400 mark.
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Posted 12:40pm 12/9/14
The 980 will only marginally beat the 780Ti. The 780 has a 384bit memory bus and the 980 goes back to a low CUDA core count, 256bit bus. It's the half ass chip in nVidia's 'tick tock' cycle. The larger Maxwell chip to be found later on either a 'Titan 2' type card, of the 1000 series.
What will be interesting is the litecoin mining performance. The GTX750Ti was pulling 300khash at 60 watts of power. That type of power:performance hasn't been reached until Maxwell. I'm guessing the 980 to pull about 800-1000khash while drawing under 200 watts.
Posted 02:29pm 12/9/14
Posted 06:10pm 12/9/14
Posted 06:24pm 12/9/14
Yeah same, from reading this article I'm presuming that we want to be watching the prices of the 7xx's?
Posted 06:34pm 12/9/14
Comes down to risk. Is it worth a local warranty for the extra $110 australia tax over the headache of mailing a faulty card back.
Posted 06:43pm 12/9/14
I had a single 580. I went to 680's because they were cheaper than the 580 at the time of upgrading and remained that way all the way through. I'm not convinced any cards with the full 2880 core GK110 will drop below the price of the 980 before they drop off the market, maybe $50 off current prices. The next series will have a ton more power then a 980 - these are the mid range for nVidia.
680, 1500 cores - Kepler
780, 2880 cores - Kepler
980, 1600 cores - Maxwell
1080, ?? (I'm guessing low 3,000's) - Maxwell
Posted 07:18pm 12/9/14
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Posted 07:47pm 12/9/14
If you overclock your cards, not really. Just match the clocks. Otherwise one that boosts to the same frequency stock would be nice.
Any 680 will work with any 680. I see stutter when the clocks don't match on my cards so feel free to raise/drop one so they both match under load.
Posted 09:45am 17/9/14
Posted 12:57pm 17/9/14
Should I get my dad to buy a new 970 and i SLI his old one as we have the same video card
Posted 02:30pm 17/9/14
I'll assume they are only 2GB 670s? I mean, there is no cost of your upgrade as you already own both cards, so yeah that can happen. If he's keen on a 970 then you're set.
Then in the future he might go big maxwell (1000 series) and at that stage a 970 SLI would be nice as well for you.
This also depends on your mobo of course, SLI permitting.
Posted 07:13pm 17/9/14
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-officia
I was thinking about a 770 once the prices dropped, but given the price I think I will get a 970 instead.
Posted 11:48pm 17/9/14
Posted 08:43am 18/9/14
Well turn up the eye candy gfx, and see if your card can handle it.
Do you like the new gfx? Do you dislike the slow frame rate? Do you want to make it faster for $500?
I haven't played half the eye candy games out there because they're simply s*** games to play. BF4 (an example of s***) would run 'all ultra 1080p' on a 780, but if you want to turn up that res scale to 200% (supersampling, SSAA, 4K rendering res) then you'd need a second 780 to keep up the pace. Same goes with Arma 3, all Ultra 1080p no problems, but res scale at 300%+ and you'd need more cards.
You'd also need a CPU and mobo that support SLI obs.
Posted 01:21pm 19/9/14
$549 and $329 USD