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Revealed: Nvidia's Next Flagship Graphics Card, the GTX 980Ti

New GeForce GPU carries 6GB of memory, costs $650.

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Nvidia has divulged new details of its GeForce 980Ti, the latest addition to its line of premium-priced graphics cards.

Starting at $650 (and bundled with a copy of Batman: Arkham Knight), the GTX 980Ti carries six gigabytes of GDDR5 memory. That's about half the capacity of Nvidia's $1000 Titan X graphics card, but Nvidia believes the 980Ti can perform to a similar standard at about two-thirds of the price.

A gallery below offers a closer look at the new GPU.

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Much like with the Titan X, the 980Ti has a 336GB/s maximum bandwidth. Its display outputs are 1x HDMI, 1x DVI, and 3x DP, while it has two power connectors arranged as 1x 6pin and 1x 8pin.

Meanwhile, the GTX 980, due to its drop down the pecking order, will now be sold at $500.

Nvidia's new GeForce prices follow:

  • Titan X: $1000
  • 980 Ti: $650
  • 980: $500
  • 970: $330
  • 960: $200

Mark Aevermann, a spokesperson for Nvidia, told GameSpot that the GTX 980Ti was built with DirectX 12 features in mind.

"This is, by all rights, our flagship GeForce GTX GPU, built on the GM 200 chip," he said, "and we designed it for a lot of the top-end PC features, such as 4K, VR, and G-Sync. These are the things that this card excels at."

Further reading: DirectX 12: A Game Changer for Xbox One and PC?

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All I see is insecure PC gamers.

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@gamingfan: You mean "irrelevant" PC exclusives like Total War and Arma 3? These games have much more depth than console exclusives (generally corridor shooters/fighters or multiplayer grinders), and wouldn't be possible without keyboard and mouse.

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Yawn.

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@gamingfan: Nothing to see here, just someone who is complaining because they can't play on a PC.

And for the record, Wii-u is good, yes. But none of the consoles can compare to what a PC can do. It's expensive yes, but Still something.


Consoles are consoles, they can not compare to PC.

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@gamingfan:

Gee, look "i can't afford this, therefore i must sht on everyone who can..."

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I play exclusives. You think I care about some graphics card?

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@gamingfan:

If you don't, why are you here? What is this article about? Buritos?

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@frozenuxx@gamingfan: I guess he already beated the only great exclusive, bloodborne, from consoles abou 20 times and now has nothing else to play besides knack, the order and the overhyped of us remastered. Better go spread bs in a pc article like a salty peasant.

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@zeca04@frozenuxx@gamingfan:

Same kind of people who can't wrap their mind around why someone would buy that kind of hardware. "Oh my god, they have to be so crazy" because obviously because we all share the same wallets, with the constrains and occupations on this goddamn planet. I do a lot of 3d/2d work and some video editing, having a rather powerful PC comes with those activities. And i happen to enjoy gaming, that's like killing 2 birds with one stone. No console is going to give me both.

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@frozenuxx@zeca04@frozenuxx: I understand. I use some programs because of college as well and pc really helps. Plus, where i live, building a pc is far, far, far cheaper than consoles. Comparison, i got witcher 3 for 1/3 the price of the game on ps4.

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@gamingfan: Enjoy your knack then. If you're really that happy and dont care for pc articles, why are you here being salty?

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Nar, I'll enjoy splatoon, yoshi's woolly world, xenoblade chronicles x, devil's third, fatal frame v, starfox wii u, shin megami tensei x fire emblem, zelda wii u etc.

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I would but hey, stick to your dogsh!t multiplats.

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I have free online as well on the wii u. I dont play online on the ps4. Shouldnt of bought it really, I have buyers remorse.

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@gamingfan: Plot twist: many pc gamers have, gasp, wii u!

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Because Nintendo make the best games.

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@gamingfan: No best enough to keep you entertaining and avoid being salty in pc articles, it seems, lel

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@vackillers@gamingfan: It is good arguments, but it kind of backfires, considering how many PC gamers roam consoles' discussions.

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Doesn't mean I care. All you guys have are multiplats and irrelevant PC exclusives. I play the best games in the industry.

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"irrelevant pc exclusives" oh lol valve makes more money from dota annual tournament thab sony has seen in years

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I'm a pc rig owner, ps4 owner and soon to be xone owner and pc's don't run games "x10" console quality. What are are you high?

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@Intellijosh: They don't cost 2x more either plus game are cheap

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You don't play the best games at 10x the quality. Not possible with wii u games, sorry bro. Im just here to annoy pc fanboys. Dont have a problem with its fans.

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@gamingfan: Oh no, PC gamers can't play as squids shooting paint all over the place? How will we get over it?

A fun fact: You can play any of the actual classic Nintendo games on a PC with emulation anyway.

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Go play total war lol. Cant play any wii u games.

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@gamingfan: Is that an insult? Total War is fine. Don't play it, but if that's really what you got, I can do it too.

Go play Sonic lol. Cant play any PC games.


I'll stick to The Witcher 3 and then move on to the giant backlog of games I have beyond that while my Wii U collects more dust. I played better versions of these Wii U exclusives on my Super Nintendo.

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@gamingfan: Considering most of exclusives on PS4 were shltty or avg indies tht everyone was overreacting to,I don't see your point here

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@priestwithgun@gamingfan: I don't recall them not being graphically superior to PC games regardless of what people thought of the gameplay.

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@alaskancrab@priestwithgun@gamingfan: Oh wait what


SO now u r touting games with black bars and effectively 910p being superior to 1080p,so much for your silly greatness

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You talk like the ps4 is my primary platform. Games like The Witcher 3 are stop gap games to me.

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@vackillers@gamingfan:

Pretty much, that's typical.

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I'm buying two of these. Once MSI busts out their Gaming variants.

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"I prefer consoles over PC Gaming cause I don't want to update every year" -Console Gamer

First off, you don't need to update every year. That's a choice.

Secondly, with that mentality technology would never progress. Just cause you don't want to drive tech forward, doesn't mean others can't. If it were always that way, we would still all be on Atari 2600s and paying $120 for Custard's Revenge.

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@GSGuy321: Who says you can't drive tech forward?

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GTX 970 at $330? Please GS tell me where, the cheapest I've seen is over $400. Not even to mention the other cards....

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@DarkNeoBahamut: There you go: << LINK REMOVED >>

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Is the new AMD fanless? That's what I need. Superquiet for the living room.

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@GSGuy321: "In the latest picture leaked of AMD's upcoming flagship graphics card, codenamed "Fiji-XT," we get a final confirmation of the reference-design card's length, particularly its short PCB. Since this card uses a factory-fitted AIO liquid cooling solution, and since the Fiji XT package is effectively smaller than that of Hawaii, with the surrounding memory chips gone (moved to the GPU package as HBM stacks), the PCB is extremely compact, with just the GPU package, and its VRM. Speaking of which, the card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. The coolant tubes stick out from the rear of the card, making their way to a 120 x 120 mm radiator, with a single included 120 mm PWM fan. With this card, AMD is doing away with DVI altogether. Connectors will be a mixture of DisplayPort 1.2a and HDMI 2.0."

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GTX 980 is more than enough for gaming right now. anything over that is overkill. You can even say 980 is overkill. But at 1080p, GTX 980 will suffice until the next-gen of Nvidia cards with HBM.

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@hypnotika25: You assume everyone games at 1080p. 2560x1440 is the current enthusiast go to resolution, with 4k quickly creeping in. You can get 1440p ips 144hz g-sync monitors as well, which is fantastic.

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@Acquire@hypnotika25: They do look pretty damn good.

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@Acquire@hypnotika25: I will vouch for that!

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@hypnotika25: some of us have 4k screens

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@Shilleto@hypnotika25: the cost of them is stupid high right now for a good one and the tech is not really there yet I have yet to see displayport 1.3 cards and monitors so bascily you can get a 60hz and nothing more for a high price

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@fvckgabenewell@Shilleto@hypnotika25: 60hz is great because i cap my games at 30fps because any higher makes me sick

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The amount of peasantry in comments is high. Let me remind you that a 150$ 750ti card still beats your PS4.

A built gaming PC can be as low as 500$ and still be superior, not counting the cheaper games, the FREE online, mods, the huge library...

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@Sohayboom: True. Too bad the peasants will still rely on lies and "urrr spend 19847102948 more on consoles".

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@Sohayboom: Maybe. I have a 750ti and I've played the Witcher 3 both on my system and a PS4. At least with my build the Witcher 3 runs and looks slightly better on PS4. Maybe on a different build with a 750ti you could get better results. I have no idea. My name is not Tom and I don't have a Computer Hardware site.

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@Rotondi@Sohayboom: If you're telling the truth you may be experiencing a bottleneck.

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Not sure how much longer my OC 770 can last on ultra settings, maybe I'll see what prices these things are here in the UK, $650 usually means something like £600 or something silly.

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And next year there will be something better... and this is why I stick to consoles for gaming. At least this way I know whoever I'm playing against, rich or poor, has the same graphical/performance advantage as I do. They've been milking performance since the early 90s. I remember how awesome 66mhz up from 33 was... and how much it cost. Then up to 133, etc. I'm sure most of these "new" cards have the technology to be way better but the companies hold off each year to milk the costumers. Well there's my rant for the day. :)

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@joshrmeyer: same reason I just dont upgrade everytime something comes out I have a 7970 that I payed $300 for and it still beats a ps4 I wont be upgradeing tell next year when 4k cards are the normal even then I will game on a 1440p mointor or a 1080p tv

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That's smart and the way I'd do it too if I had some money to build a PC. Just upset about how much money I've dropped in the last 20-25 years, when I know the tech is available (probably military use) I have a decent i7 Asus laptop that can run any program I use well including photoshop. But a built in video card... so no FFXIV for me... the reason I bought a PS4. Anyways as someone else mentioned, new fancy cards mean last year's model will drop in price, and maybe I can get a decent rig one day and it'll be able to play games at max settings for more than a year.

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I came from a console only background. But this generation is extremely weak. And with companies tightening the belt don't expect any new consoles any time soon. Pretty sad. Can't even get 1080/60; that should be a minimum.

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@fvckgabenewell: if they had consoles that at least got 60 fps ultra in games like the witcher 3 then yeah Id be down but 30 fps is a real let down. that and games that are $60 a pop

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Yeah the 30 fps is a little rediculous. Biggest complaint by far on consoles. The next wave of consoles better at least match the current high end PC when released. Like ps5 for $500 optimized to match a comparable $8-900 PC. 4K, 60 FPS. Which really shouldn't be hard.

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@joshrmeyer: 4k 60fps shouldn't be hard? it's 8 times the the graphical performance without increasing graphical fidelity, from last gen to current gen the reason consoles couldn't get 1080p 60 is because devs increased the graphical fidelity as well making games not only 4 times more demanding from 720p 30fps but more like 8-10 times, so I wouldn't hope for 4k 60 fps for consoles for next gen, I think 1080p/1440p 60fps is more in the realms of reality. it usually is that you get the high end in 3-4 years to avg consumer lever and 4 years from now the consoles will be 7 years old, so I would say that next gen consoles would get the performance of a 980, maybe 980ti, and these cards still don't do 4k@60 in a lot of games with everything on max

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@Alurit@joshrmeyer: the thing is 4k ultra at 60 fps will be a thing for Nvidia and AMD around this time next year.

I don't see why ps5 and the next xbox wont be doing that the jump in GPU and ram performance going to 14nm from 28nm and HBM2

HBM stacks is going to bottle neck on CPU and other parts of the like the PCIe aslo 4gb of HBM is half the bandwidth of a 8gb stack it go's from 512gbs to 1024gbs every time you dubble the ram you dubble the bandwidth.


there has been a major hold up in tech for GPU for the last 2 or 3 years they have been useing 28nm they were going to use 20nm for 900 and 300 lines of cards from Nvidia but they didn't get there hands on it so they are skiping 20nm and going right to 14nm manufacturing for the next line of cards.

I'm not sure but AMD may of go there hands on some 20nm chips for the flagship GPU that will come with the HBM


my guess is high end cards will have 16bg of ram just to have bandwidth that is close to the clock speeds of GPU/CPU


If AMD and Nvidia didnt have some many patents on GPU tech Intell whould have a monoply on everything they are alredy manufactureing 10nm chips and they don't out source like AMD and Nvidia do for chips and I'm sure they are working on the next node right now

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@fvckgabenewell@Alurit@joshrmeyer: a next gen console would be at the same price as a quite decent pc... honestly i don't want to be mean but, the games get more demanding each generation i don't see a 4k 60fps console anytime soon... like anytime... unless they sell those new consoles at around a 1100 USD price point or even more, the graphics in the games will increase but the fps and resolution will pretty much be the same, remember the games get more demanding each time and consoles have to be "affordable" to the public, and not some mini-pc for 1100 USD or more i don't even see consoles getting more than 40-45 fps 1080p next generation...

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Well that sucks... guess I'll wait on a 4k tv til ps6 then? Lol I really don't mind 1080 anyways.

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Goodbye my old friend 780ti, welcome 980ti. Seen some benchmarks on Guru3D and it's double the performance of the 780ti. Prob be approx. $900-$950 in Australia.

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@digitm64: Link please?

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@GSGuy321@digitm64: << LINK REMOVED >> There are about 38 pages of it, this is just Witcher 3 benchmark example

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awwwww man -_-


NEED!

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