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

@viciouskiller:

How old are you? Five?

Do your parents know you're on the internet like this?

@viciouskiller: DX12 can't give you performance beyond what the hardware is capable of. DX12 mainly remove CPU bottlenecks if one exists and it's implemented appropriately.

@viciouskiller: DX12 is not going to be that big of game changer the big deal will be when every card has 8GB of HBM and going from 28nm nodes to 14nm that and standard 1.3 display ports on everything

@inmate_of_death: that all depends on what you are upgrading from. the argument can always be made, oh i'll just wait till the next one, sometimes you have to just pick one and go for it buyers remorse be damned

@inmate_of_death: yeah its a long wait is all

aslo looking for displayport 1.3 as you can't push more then 60hz out of 1.2a at 4k so it makes Gsync and freesync kinda usless on anything past 1440p if you can't run it any faster then 60 frams per second

I see it as a huge mistake with the 980 ti and titan x not to have dispaly port 1.3 the 980 ti in sli can't push a Gsync monitor past 60FPS

@suppaphly42: Hmm, what card do you have now?

@skipper847: not crap really. for the price it's nothing special, that's for sure. if you're doing 1080p it should suit you fine, but $350+ for that is a bit ridiculous.

@skipper847: No, it isnt.

@oflow: it has the same chip as the titan x, but with 9% less cuda cores and SMs, and half the ram so it's a slightly cheaper version of the titan x with almost the same performance, but they decided to name it 980 ti for some unknown reason, where they could have named it something like titan s

@oflow: 6GBs of memory vs 4GB. 384bit vs 256. ~$100.

@oflow:

2816 CUDA Cores compared to 980's 2048

A little bit more texture units

Slightly less core and memory clock than the 980, just like the Titan X

Greater memory bus width

2GB more VRAM

3 billion more transistors

All in all, it's gonna be a little faster but not a ton. The 2gb extra VRAM is nice though.

@mikey1611: I'm surprised Nvidia released the 980 TI before Fiji. I was expecting Nvidia to tweak it as response to Fiji. I really hope Fiji good, I don't want Nvidia to slow down increasing performance of their GPUs like Intel's CPUs.

@mikey1611: Can only be good for everyone.