Hardware & Technical Announces GTX 970 and GTX 980 for September
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These are not the highest-end Maxwell GPUs.
GTX 980 makes my freshly bought 780 old :S
I wish I was rich id buy two GTX 980 Sli and id be happy for 6 months
I wish I was rich id buy two GTX 980 Sli and id be happy for 6 months
GM 200 very high end, will come in 2015 - GM 204 is equivalent to GTX 780 ti but with 30-40% less energy consumption, according to rumors. I was right to wait and not buy Kepler
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LOL, you will always be right not to buy any card, because there will always be a better one right around the corner.
LOL, you will always be right not to buy any card, because there will always be a better one right around the corner.
The energy consumption is essential and represents a real evolution which is not so frequent
The MSI GTX 970 Gaming with the new Twin Frozr V might look like this
It depends on your intentions. If you want to play game now then you will buy a GPU now. Otherwise you can wait all the time as there will always be something better to be released some time later.
<nods> Yeah... at some point, you simply have to dive in!
These days yeah! As soon as you have the budget for the kit you want, you may as well plop for it and not wait - unless you have something very specific in mind.The old days of knowing your 486DX4/100 would be top dog for years are long gone.
Of course
I do not agree with your reasoning in the particular case of the transition from Kepler to Maxwell. Indeed, if it is confirmed that the energy saving is 30-40%, so it's a clean break compared to Kepler. And it is worth it to wait a bit. I speak for the GM 204 generation. Concerning ED, currently, there is no really of game. There is a beta. It's not the same thing.
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The energy consumption is essential and represents a real evolution which is not so frequent
The energy / capability trade off is made every time that there is either a die-shrink or a new GPU model. It happens frequently enough.
Comparing GTX580 then GTX Titan - their power consumption is about the same, however GTX Titan provides about twice the performance of GTX 580.
GTX980 is somewhere between GTX780 and GTX780Ti, however, consumes far less power.
So both transitions Fermi->Kepler and Kepler->Maxwell are about the same in terms of power-efficiency.
The energy reduction concerning Maxwell will allow to cross a big step forward compared to previous generations. Previous GPU are really too greedy for the energy
Ok simple example: GTX 580 and GTX 660.
1. They provide about the same performance just like if we compare GTX780Ti and GTX980 now.
2. GTX660 consumes 30% less power compared GTX580 just like GTX 980 compared to GTX780Ti?
What is different now with GTX970/980?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_660_Gaming/24.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/572-nvidia-geforce-gtx-660/page11.html
I speak of the consumption in watts. For example, a 780TI consumes 250 watts. If a 970 consumes 150/175 watts, for me this is a major break. Because we are well below 200 watts
And here's a GTX 970 before the hour
