Nvidia 800 series predictions...

[JDS]

We've all seen it..."Should I wait for the 800 series or upgrade now?" and/or someone suggesting to hold off until they are released, but what are we predicting the 800 series will look like? What's the expected performance increase, power consumption, etc..?

[Mateyyy]

I would never trust these "predictions". We have nothing official about desktop 800 series cards from Nvidia. You can't say now that "OH THE GTX 880 LAUNCHES ON THE 6th OF THE 9th MONTH AND IT GETS 690 FPS IN BATTLEFIELD 4 AT MEGA-ULTRA SETTINGS!" or anything like that. What we can trust, but not 100%, is those images which show the Nvidia chips like GM204 and those other things...

 

If you think about it, power consumption is probably going to be lower because of the efficiency of Maxwell, 20-25% max performance gains in the 800 series, probably Nvidia's gonna do the same thing they did with 600 and 700 series, the 880 is going to be based on a lower end chip, and the 980 will be on the GM210 chip or whatever it's going to be called.

[JDS]

I'm expecting around a 10-20% increase in performance and better energy / heat efficiency. Nothing insanely special in performance, maybe in power consumption, though.

I'm excited to see what the performance looks like compared to the 780 Ti vs. The 800 series flagship.

[Quest]

Look at the 750ti.

If that's anything to roll with, which, let's assume it's not for the sake of not being too hopeful, then I expect way lower power consumption and way better thermals, as others have said.

In-turn, they should be overclockable as nuts, and I look forward to that fantasy.

But of course, we'll probably get a few re-hashes of this gen's cards and a few shiny ones that aren't completely up to snuff, then a couple months later a new card will be announced which is what the 880 should have been but coming to market much more expensive, but it's the GTX 880ti, or GTX Behemoth/Colossus/Leviathan/(insert synonym to Titan here), and then several derivatives of those cards over the months.

[Virgule]

Is there any talk of AMD's new series ? The R9 3XX or something...

[Sauron]

I'm expecting a couple of gpus that are 10% faster than the fastest cards we have now and a slew of rebrands or cards that perform about the same as what we have today but at a lower price. A bit like this generation was over the last.

[JDS]

Look at the 750ti.

If that's anything to roll with, which, let's assume it's not for the sake of not being too hopeful, then I expect way lower power consumption and way better thermals, as others have said.

In-turn, they should be overclockable as nuts, and I look forward to that fantasy.

But of course, we'll probably get a few re-hashes of this gen's cards and a few shiny ones that aren't completely up to snuff, then a couple months later a new card will be announced which is what the 880 should have been but coming to market much more expensive, but it's the GTX 880ti, or GTX Behemoth/Colossus/Leviathan/(insert synonym to Titan here), and then several derivatives of those cards over the months.

In a perfect world...

[chitradev]

Hey here is an article from videocardz.com that details a possible roadmap for the deployment of the GM204 chips and possible SKUs. This is something to chew on for the time being.

 

http://videocardz.com/51009/nvidia-preparing-four-maxwell-gm204-skus