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NVIDIA GTX 880 Specs Rumored - Midrange Chip Again

DieH@rd said:
R9 290 is a phenomenal card for a great price of $399.When it and 290X appearead, they undercut Nvidia by a lot. 290X reached performance of Titan, and it costed $450 less, forcing nvidia to reshuffle all their prices.

Sadly, miners fucked everything up for AMD.
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At the time, Nvidia also undercut Titan for 450 dollars.

290 is an outlier and I've never seen a release like that. That's why I own one.

But AMD in general is no more consumer friendly than Nvidia.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
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Why is this SO ACCURATE?

If I end up having the money to buy a GPU (and honestly, I need to buy new shoes and pants, since mine have holes in them now, but I can't afford to replace 'em), I'm definitely going to sell my 7950. Should make some reasonable bank since they're in such high demand.
 
Nvidia will be on Maxwell architecture for several years before Pascal, which in turn has pushed Volta back, and I would not expect Einstein (mentioned in the past but not shown on roadmaps AFAIK) before 2020 at the soonest.

Einstein is apparently Nvidia's furthest-off GPU arch.
 
Jibbed said:
'Mid-range'... haha, yeah sure.
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I was thinking the same.

If Nvidia released a $15,000 high-end GPU, would the $3,000 Titan Z become low end?

If the price listed in that chart is accurate, this GPU costs more than high-end GPUs not that long ago. This is not a mid-range GPU for the average consumer in any way.

Anyway, there are a couple of disappointing numbers in those specs, but I'm excited to see that the first 20nm cards are on the way (finally).
 
GoofsterStud said:
The 880 number brings up nostalgia.

Anyone remember the 8800GT days
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I'd upgrade my 770 to an 800 series if that was the case, Right now, it seems like it'll be worth the wait until the generation after that, Quite disappointing to be honest, because I wanted to keep up with new technology now that I have a good job....
 
I feel good with my 780TI. I wasn't sure if it was going to be a good purchase long run but it looks like it will remain competitive til 2015.

Regarding this current card I have no issues with them releasing GM104 at first. It will certainly be the fastest single GPU on the market and that's all that really matters. Never understood the fuss over the 680 especially since it was more then competitive with AMD's best offering.

I pretty much buy everything in this rumor aside from the price. Prices for GPUs aren't set until weeks before launch. It's clearly speculation on the authors part.

500 dollars and this is a great release. Incremental but it's not like anyone is GPU starved at the moment especially with the PS4/Xb1 setting the baseline so low.
 
Glad I got my card. I was hyped for maxwell, but the way things were going, I figured I'd gamble on my new card. Now to put it on auto notify for when it goes on sale again and buy another while nvidia drags their feet.
 
I also have a 580 and was thinking about upgrading it to a new maxwell but well, i guess ill wait for a steam machine 2 years down the road.
Out of curiosity, how does a 580 compare with Ps4 gpu?
 
The term "GM204" and the 256-bit memory interface only small suggest, however, that the "right" high-end Maxwell will appear later.
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Hell to the no for me then. I would have been pissed had I bought a 680, only to have the massive improvement that is the 780 come out a year later

GTX 980 it is then.
 
copelandmaster said:
Hell to the no for me then. I would have been pissed if I would have bought a 680, only to have the massive improvement that is the 780 come out a year later

GTX 980 it is then.
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You're right, Nvidia should have stopped making GPUs after the 680. AMD shouldn't have released the 290X too. And fuck Intel for releasing new CPUs every year.

Also, who asked for the Xbox One and PS4? Not me. Sony and Microsoft should have kept the generation going for another decade at least.

I'm such a plebe and I hate progress, fuck things I can't have.
 
Eh, now i feel better about having just bought a 780 instead of waiting and waiting for this damn Maxwell.

I'll change card in 3 or 4 years.
 
So would I get reasonable performance gains from a 680? I'm running at 1440p at this point, and generally I upgrade every other card generation, but I'm not sure this is going to end up being worth it.
 
piratepwnsninja said:
So would I get reasonable performance gains from a 680? I'm running at 1440p at this point, and generally I upgrade every other card generation, but I'm not sure this is going to end up being worth it.
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Well, with Kepler and now Maxwell, generations span two series. GTX 6xx and 7xx are both Kepler. Your GTX 680 is still being sold as the GTX 770. Waiting for a generation between means the GTX 1000 series, or whatever they will call it.

This will be a good jump over the 680 though.
 
piratepwnsninja said:
So would I get reasonable performance gains from a 680? I'm running at 1440p at this point, and generally I upgrade every other card generation, but I'm not sure this is going to end up being worth it.
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Well even a 780 Ti is a reasonable upgrade from a 680.

However whether its worth it? I think not especially for the price tag of 700+

If i were you i would wait for GTX 980.
 
Actually it's not too surprising. It's around 1.5x as good as a 780 which is pretty usual. But I thought they already moved onto higher bus rates since the 7xx series.
 
Looks like I'll be using my gtx 780 ti for a long time.
That 256-bit memory interface is hard to believe though with AMD already on 512-bit.
 
blastprocessor said:
Well not the 880 GTX as that's 230W.

I have the 660 GTX (OEM) in my X51, which is 130W.

So keep an eye out on the 860 GTX and see what the power figures are. I think you're looking at 170W tops in X51.
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That's right. The GTX670 TDP is at 170W. Forgot about that. So the 860 it is then. Will the increase in VRAM will also affect the TDP?
 
will wait for official specs and impressions, but if these are accurate i might just go for 780ti 6gb if the pricing works out that way.

i do want to see how it performs though. hopefully the official announcement comes along shortly so we can finally put the 'waiting for maxwell' shit to bed
 
The obsession over the bus is kind of funny. It's not a linear progression. We've had cards with 512 bit buses nearly a decade ago.

Not saying it isn't important but on it's own it means nothing.
 
Well, I'm pretty sure NV has a research center in Prague so I suppose it's not inconceivable that this data leaked from there.
 
hemtae said:
It should be midrange in the same way the 680 was midrange upon release.
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So it won't be midrange then. Got it.

Seems a lot of people don't know what midrange means anymore. This will be a high end card a step down from the enthusiast level cards.
 
Piggus said:
So it won't be midrange then. Got it.

Seems a lot of people don't know what midrange means anymore. This will be a high end card a step down from the enthusiast level cards.
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They mean its mid range as far as the chip architecture goes.

But no it wont be mid range based on pricing.
 
Piggus said:
So it won't be midrange then. Got it.

Seems a lot of people don't know what midrange means anymore. This will be a high end card a step down from the enthusiast level cards.
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It's objectively their mid range Maxwell chip. There is a better one that they're not going to release at first for consumers.

It's not meant that it is "mid range" in terms of what else is available. It implies a few things that might not be obvious at first.

1) New generations of cards are now to be spread over the course of two series.

2) Gains are not going to be the same super high levels that they once were.

3) The high end stuff is going to be slowly leaked, at first as ridiculous parts such as the Titan, and later as a GTX 980.

I should expect condescending yet uninformed posts from a Duck. :P
I'm sorry if that hurts too much, I mean it with a tongue in cheek, mostly
 
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