980 or wait for the 980TI?

[777Driver]

Hey guy's,

Will be in the UK for 4 more weeks, was planning on picking up a replacement 980 (My old card fried back in April) I just read the 980TI will be available in a week or so.

Is anyone here going to move from the 980 to the TI? Have any prices been confirmed?

Cheers

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

They're announcing it next month, doesnt say it will be available next week.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...ce-geforce-gtx-980-ti-at-computex-next-month/

 

[CMDR_UKmouse]

I don't recommend picking one up in the UK. They are roughly 20% dearer.
I'm off to the US in 2 weeks time, and have ordered an Asus 980GTX through Amazon.com, being delivered to our corporate HQ.
The Asus card here in the UK is £460, and from Amazon US is £360.

Sorry, I don't have any info on the Ti models.

 

[777Driver]

They're announcing it next month, doesnt say it will be available next week.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...ce-geforce-gtx-980-ti-at-computex-next-month/

Awesome, that makes things easier for me, I'll get another 980. Strange, reports yesterday said it would hit the market early June.

 

[Olmis Aremja]

if it's only a week or so, it'd be wise to wait. Have any comparisons/benchmarks been released yet? I'd wait to see what the price/performance ration is compared to the other

 

[777Driver]

I don't recommend picking one up in the UK. They are roughly 20% dearer.
I'm off to the US in 2 weeks time, and have ordered an Asus 980GTX through Amazon.com, being delivered to our corporate HQ.
The Asus card here in the UK is £460, and from Amazon US is £360.

Sorry, I don't have any info on the Ti models.

Thanks, but I don't pay VAT, the card will cost £374

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

If it was me personally I'd wait till it is announced and realeased then get a GTX980 for the reduced price that they will drop to.
I currently have an Asus Strix GTX980, and cant give it enough praise.

 

[777Driver]

If it was me personally I'd wait till it is announced and realeased then get a GTX980 for the reducd price that they will drop to.
I currently have an Asus Strix GTX980, and cant give it enough praise.

That's not an option, I am only in the UK for short space of time. Can't hack the weather here anymore, I only come here to make sure my tenants haven't wrecked my place

 

[AndreyATGB]

Well wait at least for Computex (2nd of June) as both nvidia and AMD are likely to launch something new, especially AMD. 980 Ti is supposedly a Titan X with 6GB around $700, the leaked specs for 390X showed a ridiculous number of cores and HBM memory which should put it quite ahead of the Titan X. Regardless, if you can definitely wait for 2nd of June.

 

[tinimark]

That's not an option, I am only in the UK for short space of time. Can't hack the weather here anymore, I only come here to make sure my tenants haven't wrecked my place

What are you saying about our wonderful weather?
I will have you know I took my jumper off one day last week.....

for nearly one hour!

 

[777Driver]

What are you saying about our wonderful weather?
I will have you know I took my jumper off one day last week.....

for nearly one hour!

Haha, actually truth be told I do miss the rain in the UK. Spent the last 6 months between Dubai & Bahrain, it rained 4 times :/

 

[Kyokushin]

Hey guy's,

Will be in the UK for 4 more weeks, was planning on picking up a replacement 980 (My old card fried back in April) I just read the 980TI will be available in a week or so.

Is anyone here going to move from the 980 to the TI? Have any prices been confirmed?

Cheers

Always is better to wait

 

[CMDR Holycow]

I wouldn't spend any more real money on any maxwell card. Get by with a used 970 or 980... budget. Save your money for pascal.

 

[Karnath]

Live for the moment & wait for nothing buy..... buy .... buy....

Only kidding if your stuck in our wonderful country for another 4 weeks, it probably won't do you any harm to wait a little longer to see if anything is announced or leaked

 

[Adam Lusardi]

With negative inflation <so we are being informed> expect drops in price.

 

[betc]

980 Ti is a pretty big step up from the 980. rumors are saying it will be a bit faster than a titan x due to much higher clocks and personally i think they will also be aiming for closed loop water cooling like the 390x so it can be clocked even higher. they really need to compete with the 390x so they will throw everything they have at this card.

 

[Beavis Tingleball]

if the 980ti has the same amount of power vs. the 980 as the 780ti does vs. the 780 then I'd say 980ti all the way. the 780ti is still a beastly card.

 

[Spork]

I'm holding out for the 980Ti even though my 780Ti barely gets by on min settings. I don't want to find myself having to buy another card when the Vive/CV1 come out.

If my current card fried I'd probably get a 970 to tide me over.

 

[tinimark]

rumors are saying it will be a bit faster than a titan x due to much higher clocks

If they price the 980ti between the 980 and the titan x and it outperforms the titan then there's going to be a few irate customers in the nvidia camp!

 

[adoredtv]

If they price the 980ti between the 980 and the titan x and it outperforms the titan then there's going to be a few irate customers in the nvidia camp!

This is what happened the last time with the first Titan so why wouldn't they do it again?

There is TDP headroom in the Titan X to allow for better clockspeeds on the 980 Ti, but probably not an awful lot. The real issue is likely to be that Titan X is the full GM200 chip (the first Titan wasn't, it had one missing SMX while the 780 Ti was the full chip) so if Nvidia makes the 980 Ti as the full GM200 chip with higher clockspeeds, then they obsolete the Titan X completely. At least the last Titan had the full FP64 switch but these Maxwells basically have no compute in them at all, they're just full blown gaming GPUs. This is another reason why the Titan X has 12GB of VRAM - pure marketing to set it apart from the upcoming 980 Ti.

So for me it's likely that the 980 Ti will be missing one SMX but have higher clock speeds, making them perform very closely but with half the VRAM being what stops the Titan X buyers from being too irate (even though it's useless for gaming purposes).

One thing I know for sure is that the 980 is gonna be a lot cheaper this time next month.