NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti confirmed to feature 6GB memory - VideoCardz.com

[zMeul]

source: http://videocardz.com/55419/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-confirmed-to-feature-6gb-memory

 

First of all, we can confirm that the next installment in GeForce 900 series is codenamed GTX 980 Ti. NVIDIA took the same path as with TITAN BLACK and GTX 780 Ti. GTX TITAN X will continue to offer maximum memory capacity (12GB), while GeForce GTX 980 Ti just a half of this enormous frame buffer (6GB).

 

Both cards share the same board model and probably the same reference cooler. The difference is, GTX 980 Ti will be available with custom cooling solutions (unlike TITAN X, although there are few exceptions).

 

We are aware of few GTX 980 Ti models already. We can tell you to expect a full variety of coolers: reference, custom-air-cooled, watercooled and hybrids.

 

We can also confirm that GTX 980 Ti will have five display outputs: three DisplayPorts, HDMI and DVI-I, so same as TITAN X. We were unable to confirm the existence of ‘metal enhanced edition’, so I wouldn’t probably pay too much attention to this rumor.

 

What still remains unconfirmed are the specifications. Although everyone is confident GTX 980 Ti has full GM200 silicon, we cannot confirm this to you just yet. We can however confirm, that GeForce GTX 980 Ti will sport GM200-310 GPU. How does it differ from GM200-400? We don’t know (yet).

 

 

[Pugs501]

Oh boy

[flibberdipper]

Wow, there is literally no info in that pic!

[aduman]

How is this news? It's not even a rumor lol No info at all. This is why I hate rumors, especially in GPU market.

[sirtoby]

 

 

This post however, is based solely on our new information provided by credible source (thanks Jen-Hsun!).

I smell bullshit. These are pure speculations which are not worth talking about

[JoaoPRSousa]

Are they sure it's 6GB?

[SurvivorNVL]

If nVidia is possibly planning on allowing all their partners to put custom air and liquid cooling on the Titan-X's, then there is somewhat little reason for the 980ti--unless it were a few frames behind the Titan X, a few above the 980, but that'd put it's price around $680-$850.  Eh.  Speculation.  We'll find out within the next few months.

[duriel]

Are they sure it's 6GB?

 

it has to be.

[EpicAdom]

MOAR GPU

[MrDynamicMan]

Yay. But seriously, it's 384 bit bus. That means it can only have vram in multiples of three. Three gigs is not enough, and 9 and 12 gigs are overkill.

[Wauthar]

So basically the 980Ti is a Titan X with 6GB less memory...

I didn't know what I was expecting.

[duriel]

So basically the 980Ti is a Titan X with 6GB less memory...

I didn't know what I was expecting.

 

stronger than the titan x with less memory

otherwise correct

[Notional]

So basically the 980Ti is a Titan X with 6GB less memory...

I didn't know what I was expecting.

 

That's what a lot of people are saying, but it could be a cut down version of GM200 too.

[Deedot78]

Suspected price???

[MEC-777]

Again, I don't get why people don't think the 980Ti (if it's real) could or should be faster than the Titan X. The 780Ti was faster than the original Titan, we could very well see the same thing happen here. 

 

IMO, the Titan cards shouldn't be grouped in with the other Geforce cards. Titans are more of a niche product. 

[PerfectTemplar]

Wait, why can we confirm this when Nvidia didn't?

[Thony]

980ti better perform little worse than Titan or all the titan owners can riot for paying just for VRAM...

[ChrisxIxCross]

ARE YOU READY YET? @TheSLSAMG

[bob345]

Yeah, it's "confirmed" lol. It's not confirmed until Nvidia says it is. These rumor mils can claim all they want,but that does not make their info real

[ItsAFeature]

Again, I don't get why people don't think the 980Ti (if it's real) could or should be faster than the Titan X. The 780Ti was faster than the original Titan, we could very well see the same thing happen here. 

 

IMO, the Titan cards shouldn't be grouped in with the other Geforce cards. Titans are more of a niche product. 

 

Well this time there isn't a GM200 with more cores. The original Titan wasn't a full GK110 so they had the room to release a 780ti with all cores enabled and then a Titan Black with the same amount of cores.

 

So if the 980ti is faster than a Titan X it will be because it's clocked higher. Which is entirely possible as the Titan X has some headroom with the reference cooler and more headroom will be available for board partners with their own custom coolers.

 

But then Nvidia will have a hard time selling a Titan X Black which is simply an overclocked Titan X.

 

I'd wager the 980ti will be a cut down GM200 with somewhere in the neighborhood of 2560 cuda cores. That would make it ~25% faster than a 980. Right now, all the yields of Titan X's chips that don't have 3072 working cores have to be cut all the way down to 980s. I bet Nvidia would love being able to sell a card in the middle that takes advantage of the chips that didn't quite yield 3072 cores.

[FakezZ]

Wow, there is literally no info in that pic!

Actually there is a whole lot. We now know that we don't know shit

[gunjumero]

Yeah, it's "confirmed" lol. It's not confirmed until Nvidia says it is. These rumor mils can claim all they want,but that does not make their info real

"This post however, is based solely on our new information provided by credible source (thanks Jen-Hsun!)."

That's not enough for you  :lol:  ?

[silberdrachi]

Are we even sure the damn thing is even coming out? ive yet to see any site other than really shady rumor sites talk about this.

[MEC-777]

Well this time there isn't a GM200 with more cores. The original Titan wasn't a full GK110 so they had the room to release a 780ti with all cores enabled and then a Titan Black with the same amount of cores.

 

So if the 980ti is faster than a Titan X it will be because it's clocked higher. Which is entirely possible as the Titan X has some headroom with the reference cooler and more headroom will be available for board partners with their own custom coolers.

 

But then Nvidia will have a hard time selling a Titan X Black which is simply an overclocked Titan X.

 

I'd wager the 980ti will be a cut down GM200 with somewhere in the neighborhood of 2560 cuda cores. That would make it ~25% faster than a 980. Right now, all the yields of Titan X's chips that don't have 3072 working cores have to be cut all the way down to 980s. I bet Nvidia would love being able to sell a card in the middle that takes advantage of the chips that didn't quite yield 3072 cores.

 

All of what you said makes sense. I think they need to be careful because if the 980Ti is cut down too much, it may be out-gunned by the 390X, which it will be directly competing with. 

 

But this is the thing, if we forget about the Titan X in the Geforce lineup, the 980Ti needs to be (and should be) as fast as Nvidia can make it. 

 

IMO, it's the Titan X that doesn't make sense, not the 980Ti, in terms of where they fit among the lineup. AMD has their line of "gaming" GPUs (R7, R9 series etc.) and there is no "super special niche" Titan equivalent. In their last generation, the 290X is their top-dog card (dual GPU cards aside) and that was it. Nvidia had their 780Ti to compete with the 290X, but also this more expensive card that doesn't really perform any better than the 780Ti, but has loads more Vram and costs a lot more. What was the point of the original Titan? To be a workstation workhorse and for those who just want the most expensive card, regardless. This new Titan X makes even less sense to me because it's even less of a workstation card than it's predecessor and could quite possibly be outperformed by the 980Ti (if it's real).

 

Unless... Nvidia is maybe changing the way they do things, and they perhaps now want their "Titan" branded cards to actually be their best performing cards, in terms of gaming.

 

 

Oh, the speculations...

 

Regardless, this is going to be an interesting next couple of months to watch AMD and Nvidia duke it out.

[typographie]

I'm not convinced that simply saying "our source is credible" counts for much. I'd kind of like to see some official Nvidia information linked somewhere that I could check out for myself if they're going to use absolute terms like "confirmed." This sounds sketchy to me.