GeForce GTX 880 ES Intercepted En Route Testing Lab, Features 8 GB Memory?

[Mooshi]

I honestly don't care if Maxwell rolls out with 28nm the first round. My GTX 560 Ti needs upgrading and  the GTX 750 Ti is already really efficient. Waiting till 2015 for 20nm Maxwell is too long.

[Lays]

Amd has a 512 bit bus, we currently have 384 bit on the 780/titan/ti/black

 

Why would they go backwards when their competition is already in front of them in terms of memory bus?

[Lays]

why? not like we need 8gb...

 

Considering 4 way SLI can't even use 6 gigs yet, 8 gigs is so retardedly dumb lol.

 

People spazzing about 6/ 8 gig cards don't make sense to me..

 

They think "omg it's better for 4k"

We may have the VRAM for 4k, but we sure as hell don't have the GPU horsepower required to drive that much VRAM usage yet.

 

4 titans and a 3930k @ 5 ghz can barely push above 4.5 gigs of usage with playable framerates.. And that's a good $5,000+ worth of equipment just in CPU/board/graphics cards alone..

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1415441/7680x1440-benchmarks-plus-2-3-4-way-sli-gk110-scaling

[Keudn]

Considering 4 way SLI can't even use 6 gigs yet, 8 gigs is so retardedly dumb lol.

 

People spazzing about 6/ 8 gig cards don't make sense to me..

 

They think "omg it's better for 4k"

We may have the VRAM for 4k, but we sure as hell don't have the GPU horsepower required to drive that much VRAM usage yet.

 

4 titans and a 3930k @ 5 ghz can barely push above 4.5 gigs of usage with playable framerates.. And that's a good $5,000+ worth of equipment just in CPU/board/graphics cards alone..

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1415441/7680x1440-benchmarks-plus-2-3-4-way-sli-gk110-scaling

I think the other thing we need to think about is by putting more VRAM into cards it allows developers to use higher and higher resolution textures, VRAM doesn't get used just by resolution, but texture quality and resolution can greatly benefit from more VRAM, even in the best looking games today, if you go up close to the walls, floor, etc. the textures really aren't all that stunning, give developers 8GB of VRAM to play with and the texture quality will be greatly increased in the coming years

[Lays]

I think the other thing we need to think about is by putting more VRAM into cards it allows developers to use higher and higher resolution textures, VRAM doesn't get used just by resolution, but texture quality and resolution can greatly benefit from more VRAM, even in the best looking games today, if you go up close to the walls, floor, etc. the textures really aren't all that stunning, give developers 8GB of VRAM to play with and the texture quality will be greatly increased in the coming years

 

 

Yes but the GPU still needs to constantly render those textures, and they just aren't strong enough to keep up with those huge amounts of VRAM usage

[Keudn]

Yes but the GPU still needs to constantly render those textures, and they just aren't strong enough to keep up with those huge amounts of VRAM usage

True, but Nvidia isn't stupid, if they are putting 8GB of VRAM in their cards they have a good reason for it, especially since they usually put lower amounts of VRAM in their cards compared to AMD

[Lays]

True, but Nvidia isn't stupid, if they are putting 8GB of VRAM in their cards they have a good reason for it, especially since they usually put lower amounts of VRAM in their cards compared to AMD

 

 

Ofc.

[That Norwegian Guy]

How much would 4K surround need?

 

About 5GB. Depending on the texture res within the game of course. Star Citizen 4K? Yeah, 8GB will probably be necessary.

 

As for the rumour, it's bullshit unless Nvidia somehow figured out how to make their VRAM 12.000Mhz.

[Dylan522p]

Why are we jumping to conclusions and saying this is the 880? Wouldn't this be the midrange card and the GK210 be the high end? That would explain the 256bit memory bus, and nvidia is cramming the vram into their 800m series so why wouldn't they do that with the high AND mid range desktop cards as well??

Nvidias been doing the mid-high end card then flagship for the last 3 arches.

[Jayvin]

Anytime now Nvidia.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Anytime now Nvidia.

Not when the Titan Z is still lurking around...

[Guest]

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I want

[ajoy39]

Putting 8 GB of vram on a 256-bit bus would be the most pointless this a GPU maker has ever done. Dat bottleneck.