regular vs TI

[Drwilyam]

i was looking to upgrade an old pre built system for gaming and i've heard of TI versions of nvidia video cards so what's the difference? is it just more VRAM? 

[shadowbyte]

they're usually faster and sometimes have more VRAM

a 780 and 780ti are pretty similar, but a 980 and 980ti are completely different, the 980ti absolutely destroying the 980

[scottyseng]

2 minutes ago, Drwilyam said:

i was looking to upgrade an old pre built system for gaming and i've heard of TI versions of nvidia video cards so what's the difference? is it just more VRAM? 

Usually more CUDA cores and VRAM. They are between the regular non ti flagship and the Titan of that generation.

[Paula_The_Butter_Fairy]

it is just a model in between the next one and the existing one I would recommend the 1050ti if your going to upgrade on the cheap side

[ARikozuM]

It depends on the card and generation you're comparing.

[RadiatingLight]

It's usually a completely different chip.

GTX 980ti is WAY faster than 980 (30% or so) because the 980Ti is simply a cut down Titan X Maxwell.

 

The GTX 1080Ti, if/when it is released, will be a cut down version of the Titan X Pascal, while the GTX 1080 (non Ti) is not related to the titan X at all

[Glenwing]

1 hour ago, Drwilyam said:

i was looking to upgrade an old pre built system for gaming and i've heard of TI versions of nvidia video cards so what's the difference? is it just more VRAM? 

There's no special relationship between "normal" and "Ti" cards, they are just different graphics cards. "Ti" means NVIDIA ran out of model numbers so they had to make up some in-between names.

[richardthecool]

Ti versions of GPU's are just upgrades of older models, sometimes their small upgrades such as some more VRAM and CUDA cores and other times they can be HUGE upgrades and the only thing tying the Ti model to it's original counterpart is its microarchitecture