01 Wolverine wrote:
Hey Alton, i agree with Arne and Randy,yes gtx 970 sli for $660 usd, price is low enough.
Actually since you have a 780 the rule of thumb for electronics is upgrade every other generation(Pascal in 2016)
Spend your money wisely
There are already rumours that GTX 980 Ti or GTX Titan
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The Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 970 have barely arrived and the dust hasn’t even settled yet. That doesn’t hold anyone back though and we’re getting new leaks on the next generation of cards, or rather just the GPU so far.
A Czech IT publication got their hands on images and information on the new GM200 chips. If the normal schedule holds up, we can expect cards with this GPU in about 2 months time. These are rumours and unconfirmed information, but the site has been accurate in their predictions and leaks about the GTX 980 and 970, as well as many other products.
The future graphics card equipped with the Gm204 GM200 chip might be named GTX 980 Ti, or it could be a possible new GTX Titan. The GM200 has a die size of 551 mm² and is still built on the 28 nm technology. It is said to have 20-22 SMM’s and 2560-2816 CUDA cores. The memory bus runs on a 384-bit interface and the amount should be increased to 6 GB.
Allegedly the new GPU can perform 50% higher than the current GTX Titan Black and double that of the 780 Ti. All of this while consuming less power. The two mentioned cards use about 250 watts each, where the new cards are speculated to use just 200 watts, or possibly even less. That isn’t much for that kind of power.
According to the rumours, the core is done and test samples have been sent to customers. The source also revealed a dual-core flagship GTX 990 using GM204 cores, something that I’m sure will get consumers excited in many. The possible launch time is mentioned as December, which would fit well into the normal schedule from tape-out to finished product. Merry Gaming Christmas indeed. Or could this indeed be scheduled for CES 2015 in January?
http://www.eteknix.com/next-generation-nvidia-gpu-leaked/
Within 2 months? Seems possible if we look at the import data below. Customer samples of the GM204 were shipped about three months before the product release this september. First customer samples of the GM200 were shipped in mid-August, if we use the same timeframe we can look to a ready GM200 in November. I highly doubt Nvidia will release it already in November and f*** all GTX980 buyers, tough they did the same with GTX Titan release and GTX 780Ti following. :mad:
I think CES2015 in January and MWC2015 in February could be more Tegra-oriented events, while Nvidia GTC event in March could be one of the possible launch events.
28nm? At least AMD announced there will be no 20nm GPU in 2014. TSMC has recently announced the first 16nm FinFet network processor, but they said nothing about mass production for 20nm for other products than SoCs.
If Nvidia comes with a 28nm GM200, I'm asking myself how they will go through 2015, you can't port a 28nm design to a 20nm in a short time and AMD more or less clearly stated their next GPU will be 20nm.
