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Nvidia’s GTX 980Ti is much cheaper than expected

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It’s Computex this week, and all eyes are square on Nvidia and AMD to see who’s going to make the biggest splash over the next few months with new GPUs. AMD is hogging the spotlight somewhat with its answer to Nvidia’s blossoming Maxwell range – and the team in green isn’t having it any longer. Before the show could even start, Nvidia have revealed details of their GTX 980Ti – including a very low price.

And I say low with regards to the extreme performance you’re going to be getting. The DirectX 12 ready GTX 980Ti will be on shelves tomorrow in select markets, boasting 6GB of GDDR5 RAM over a 384-bit memory interface (identical to the Titan X, although with less memory). The card will feature a standard 1000MHz clock speed, with a boost reaching 1047MHz. The memory clock stays at the relatively low level of 7GHz – which will most likely be able to reach much higher with little tweaking.

That’s all coupled with the GM200 chip, which features 2816 CUDA Cores, 176 texture mapping units and 96 ROPs. That’s just a touch less on the CUDA Cores of the Titan X, but again identical in every other regard. You’ll get one DVI port, one HDMI port and three DisplayPorts, with a 8+6 pin power connector running the card at a low 250W TDP. The biggest difference comes in the price. While the Titan X retails for a whopping $999, the GTX 980Ti will launch at an unexpectedly low $649. That’s only $100 more than what the GTX 980 launched at – with a remarkable boost in both speed and memory.

This puts to rest rumours of a price floating around the $800 mark, and there’s no doubt Nvidia really want to get the jump on AMD and their Fiji card with this. Early benchmarks place the GTX 980Ti ahead of the Titan X in terms of performance – even at higher than 1080p resolutions. It’s still not enough to get smooth 60FPS at max visual settings in 4K – but there isn’t a single card solution that gets close to that yet.

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What you will get, however, is a card that is all sorts of overkill for 1080p gaming, and even so for double that. This is Nvidia’s new flagship until they presumably reveal their Pascal range – which is rumoured to be their first with High-Bandwidth or stacked Memory. That’s going to be AMDs silver bullet this year, but it doesn’t exactly do much for the majority of gamers running 1080p and lower right now.

The GTX 980Ti, comparatively, does – and it’s going to take an extremely well priced AMD flagship to stand up to it.

Last Updated: June 1, 2015

18 Comments

  1. They’re nervous about the upcoming AMD flagship. Team Green normally puts a premium price on theirs on release, only dropping the price after AMD shows what they’ve got in response. That’s how they rake in the cash from the early-adopting suckers. For them to have a more reasonable price from the start shows it.

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    • Admiral Chief's Adventure

      June 1, 2015 at 08:45

      Team RED!

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    • DecimationPro

      June 2, 2015 at 08:22

      That is why I am waiting until the 390 before getting 2x 980ti’s, but trying to say that only the green team does it would be false, the 7000 series of GPU’s had no opposition for a year or so and AMD charged massive prices (some of their cards where overpriced by almost $200 just because of Bitcoin and because their wasn’t much of a challenge from Nvidia).

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  2. Pieter Le Roux

    June 1, 2015 at 08:10

    I would have liked the benchmarks to include the Titan X, since that’s the card it’s “replacing”

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    • Cuan Lohrentz

      June 2, 2015 at 07:59

  3. Mistake Not...

    June 1, 2015 at 08:27

    But can it run the Witcher?

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    • Admiral Chief's Adventure

      June 1, 2015 at 08:45

      Hah

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  4. Ottokie

    June 1, 2015 at 08:39

    Well this will definitely be my new upgrade from my old GTX 680, but gonna hold back until AMD scares team green a bit and the price go’s to normal.

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    • Matthew Holliday

      June 1, 2015 at 10:58

      double the performance from the 680 to the 980ti DOES seem rather convincing doesnt it?

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      • Ottokie

        June 1, 2015 at 11:34

        Surprised me when I saw it was almost double, but gonna hang back a bit and see what MSI, Gigabyte and EVGA do with the reference 980Ti card

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        • DecimationPro

          June 2, 2015 at 08:23

          EVGA already have their superclocked out.

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        • Matthew Holliday

          June 2, 2015 at 12:01

          unless you’re planning on overclocking, evga is a waste, msi often comes with a slight stock overclock and gigabyte will just do the same same but different.

          i would probably go for the Galax one if i had the option, stock overclock, longer warranty and looks muuuuuuuch better

          theyv got a couple of 970s and i must say, im impressed with my one.

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          • Ottokie

            June 2, 2015 at 12:40

            Biggest reason is because these company’s add much better cooling systems. I don’t like a lot of noise while I’m gaming 😛

  5. konfab

    June 1, 2015 at 09:11

    No man’s sky will still appear quicker on a PS4.

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    • DecimationPro

      June 2, 2015 at 08:25

      Yes but a $600 pc can play BF on the same graphics settings as a PS4, Consoles are overpriced, $400 for console, $50 for online gaming per year and $10 more per game… sounds like a solid rip-off.

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  6. Christian De La Espriella

    June 4, 2015 at 06:06

    Who cares AMD is good for low end systems

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    • Joe Tran

      June 5, 2015 at 03:50

      Can you not talk if you don’t know shit you uncultured swine. Fucking fanboy.

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      • Christian De La Espriella

        June 6, 2015 at 14:55

        Just because I am stating the facts you get mad and I am a fan boy? I use AMD for los end system where I dont need stability in demanding games. The truth is that AMD MAKES good cheap low end pArts which I use that is all

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