I'm kind of expecting 6GB standard for the 980 (with a 384-bit bus). I don't know if they'd do a 3rd x60 card with 2GB VRAM though, so maybe it will be a 3GB GPU with a 192-bit bus (I've no clue though).
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I'm kind of expecting 6GB standard for the 980 (with a 384-bit bus). I don't know if they'd do a 3rd x60 card with 2GB VRAM though, so maybe it will be a 3GB GPU with a 192-bit bus (I've no clue though).
copelandmaster
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Since the 780ti in fall 2013. What do you mean already? Titan came out Feb/March 2013, ages ago.
Shit, 1 year ago yesterday morning, I ordered a MSI GTX 780 Gaming edition, that variants release day!
immortal-joe
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I've been sitting on a EVGA GTX 580 for years. Just upgraded to an SSD setup. Just waiting for the 8 series to come out already.
Some games do, mostly modded ones.
Skyrim for example can hog 5-6GB with plenty of heavy mods.
I had a GTX580 but upgraded to a GTX670 which gave me 15-20% more FPS. If this GTX880 gives me 100% performance boost from a 670 then it's worth all da moneys in the world (not really)
Skyrim is a 32-bit application, i.e. can't use more than 4GB memory.
A 780Ti is already 100% faster than a 670, so the 880 will definitely be more powerful.
We're talking about VRAM, not RAM here.
There are also 4GB patches to make the game work better with lots of heavy mods.
I still have a GTX580 coupled with an old i7 2600 and it still rocks.
Im waiting until my computer cant play almost any new game and only then ill buy a new graphic card (i hope 20nm is a standard by then)
Sodding_Gamer
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I've not long bought a 770. You guys seem to know your stuff.. I'll be playing The Witcher 3 when it's out next year, I would like to get a 780Ti or 880 when it's released. What's the best way around this financially?
I mean financially as in shall I just keep my 770 and then sell it once the new cards are out. Or sell it now and get more money for it and just nab a 780Ti instead?
I'm not privy to gfx details to be honest so not really in the loop. Any help is welcome!
Edit: I do need to upgrade my PSU at some point this year which I will get round to soon. I just can't afford to get an 880 there and then without selling my current one, so really my question is do I sell it now and just stick with a 780Ti or do I gamble and wait till 880's released and hope I get some money off my 770.
I mean financially as in shall I just keep my 770 and then sell it once the new cards are out. Or sell it now and get more money for it and just nab a 780Ti instead?
I'm not privy to gfx details to be honest so not really in the loop. Any help is welcome!
Edit: I do need to upgrade my PSU at some point this year which I will get round to soon. I just can't afford to get an 880 there and then without selling my current one, so really my question is do I sell it now and just stick with a 780Ti or do I gamble and wait till 880's released and hope I get some money off my 770.
Buying an R9 290 is a decision I constantly regret- performance is really dodgy, there are constant small frame drops and some kind of stuttering in a LOT of games. Its very rare to see a constant 60FPS. I would say my 6950 was more consistent; despite the lower FPS in newer games. Could I somehow be limited by 4GB ram after upgrading to Windows 8?
GoncaloCCastro
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It's interesting that I bought a 570 for The Witcher 2 and here I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 880 for the Witcher 3.
I have to say the 570 is a great card, nowadays I have to lower a few settings but apart from that it's still going strong.
I have to say the 570 is a great card, nowadays I have to lower a few settings but apart from that it's still going strong.
That doesn't sound right. Is it a reference card? My 290 is fine but it's an MSI Twin Frozr.
Are you using the latest catalyst drivers?
Stick with the 770 until later this year. As these rumours get more frequent and detailed, it means the card is getting closer to release. NVIDIA won't announce the card until a few weeks prior to it being on the shelves.
DeFiBkIlLeR
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Put that many mods into Skyrim and it becomes pretty much unplayable frame rate wise on even the most powerful setups, so apart from screenshots I really don't see the point of doing it.
4GB cards are the sweetspot if modding Skyrim is your thing and still want to be able to actually play the damn thing.
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CouchMaster
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Boss★Moogle;119485415 said:
Pretty amazing card for the money you pay for it, got mine for $300 plus 50 for G10 and VRM heatsinks and rocking it at 30% OC stable. Every game I throw at it runs at 60fps maxed out at 1080p. I can happily wait till 20nm refresh now instead of this middle of the road update.
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Thats like their new roadmap though. They're not gonna change that?
Vigilant Walrus
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I have a i7 950 3 GHz processor. It's 3-4 years old now, but getting a new computer in the nearby future is not going to be an option for me. A console and my laptop will have to let me survive.
However, do you think that I could still get life out of my rig if I got something like a 870? I am afraid that the GPU will be bottlenecked by the CPU because it's 3 years old. It's not overclocked (you can't overclock this chip very well) so it's not been very stressed by high temps.
However, do you think that I could still get life out of my rig if I got something like a 870? I am afraid that the GPU will be bottlenecked by the CPU because it's 3 years old. It's not overclocked (you can't overclock this chip very well) so it's not been very stressed by high temps.
Azzurri
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Me too man, will be 4 years in a couple months. I want to start a new build; mITX actually and think I will just go ahead with a 295x2 until Pascal in 2016.
RukusProvider
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It'll need to be shit awesome for me to jump from my 780Ti
Windom Earle
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Yep, GTAV will also be my main indicator to upgrade or not. So far my 680 is still beasting, so maybe I'll be able to hold out for 20nm.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Did you read the rumor? They said the 4gb model is the default model, that is the rumor at least.
Vulcano's assistant
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Even if Titan had just released. How can this be anything but good news?
The Janitor
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I don't think that will be too difficult, if you stick with postAA. It's when you throw in decent AA you run in to trouble, that will probably require more than 1 GPU.
I'm assuming the best AA options will be DX11 MSAA or downsampling (both very demanding techniques)
Videocardz published a side-by-side photo of the three chips, which would seem to confirm the fact that what they call a GM2xx is actually a 28nm chip. The GM2xx GPU shown is almost exactly the same size as the GK110 — far larger than the GK104. Given that Maxwell runs larger than Kepler, this would make sense — the GK107 is 118mm sq, while the GM107 (GTX 750 Ti) is 148mm sq. Based on what we know of Maxwell, this implies that the new core either packs far more cores than the old GTX 680 and GTX 770, or an absolutely enormous L2 cache. When Nvidia built GM107, it boosted the L2 from 256KB to 2MB — an equivalent step up for this core would work out to 4MB of L2.
Take the GK104, add more cores, and octuple the L2 cache and you could easily hit GK110 die sizes on the same 28nm node. Consumer availability is being loosely forecast for Q4 2014, though we’re not standing behind that guesstimate.
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/1...t-to-8gb-of-ram-while-amd-plans-august-update
Seems pretty reasonable for GM204 / GTX 880
I would guess you are currently running something like AMD 5870 or NVIDIA 480 so I would say upgrading to something like 870 would bring quite a leap in performance. The CPU will certainly start to be lagging behind, but depending of the game it might be a smaller or larger bottleneck.
What I have overclocked my 920 to 3,9Ghz I would say it's easy, but it needs good cooling. I would say that getting a overclocking of 3,7Ghz should be really easy if you fallow a guide. Overclock of around 4.0 or over should be possible if you have a really good tower/watercooler.
FacelessSamurai
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I am in the same situation as you, Core i7 950 (OCed to 4GHz though with a noctua cooler, 4.2GHz was a bit unstable after 2 years for some reason), 12 gigs of RAM (6 sticks of 2GB for that triple channel), Dual GTX 580s 1.5GB as well 3 SSDs. I still think the rig is phenomenal as far as 1080p gaming goes, but I've been wanting to upgrade either this year or the next to go 1440p or 4k, and I don't feel like putting another 2k on a rig, so I'd keep a GTX 580 as a Physx processor and put in a brand new card to give it a few more years of life until the next big thing arrives (DDR4, PCIE 4.0, etc).
I am wondering the same thing though about the CPU being a bottleneck for a new GPU, however, considering it used to be Intel's enthusiast socket (socket 1366 --> socket 2011) and it's a Core i7 and still performs very well, I am guessing it shouldn't be but then I have no way to confirm myself :S Don't think any game fully uses this CPU yet though, unless I'm mistaken?
Here's hoping they don't go crazy with the vRAM requirments. :lol
Watch_Dogs
GTX 580 as Physx processor is kinda overkill, I think
not to mention GTX 580 maybe more power hungry than your next card
Sectorseven
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A few games are set up to simply consume whatever amount is available, so it's not a fair indication of PCs lacking VRAM.
Anyone talking about 4GB+ of VRAM probably has in mind at least 1440p gaming and higher,
Haswell-E comes out this year with socket 2011-3 (note haswell-E wont work in a normal 2011 socket it has to be 2011-3)
6 core CPUs as the base. Should be a really nice upgrade with DDR4 RAM as well.
The 950 is really old now so I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to be a bottle neck. It's fallen quite far behind the current crop of consumer CPUs
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+950+@+3.07GHz
FacelessSamurai
..but cry so much I wish I had some
Tempting, didn't know DDR4 was coming out so soon, although I doubt the wife will let me spend that much money for a new rig so soon, which is why I need to see if I can make a compromise and just buy a brand new video card
Videocardz, haha.
Seriously they cannot really be sure 100% that this is gm204 by looking at a picture of the die. It could be the gm210 (big die) on 20 nm and that would be the reason why it's a tad bit smaller then the gk110.
I'm pretty sure it's the 28nm tho, Nvidia will be able to sell it for a few months before amd's new card and then proceed to release the real big die on 20nm. gm107 is 86% faster then gk1007 so yes a smaller die could be releasing 20-25% faster then a 780ti and 40% faster then a 780 with less power consumption.