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[Renekton]

That's nice. Good thing Apple exists so they have a reason to hurry the fuck up.

It's hard to say lol, Apple SoCs have pretty small die sizes. It doesn't mean TSMC is ready for 16nm 400mm^2 that we need for our 1440p ultra fix.

 

[KillaKalz347]

Isn't that the Pirate Islands “Bermuda” chip? That one might be awfully tempting if Nvidia doesn't bring out Big Maxwell cards until Q4 2015.

There's several chips that are rumored, the Bermuda XTX is the high end that will most likely have the stacked HBM that Nvidia had posted on their road map, difference is that AMD has theirs ready for production.

 

[AmyS]

There's several chips that are rumored, the Bermuda XTX is the high end that will most likely have the stacked HBM that Nvidia had posted on their road map, difference is that AMD has theirs ready for production.

Neat.

Also read rumors about AMD's next generation GPU architecture after Pirate Islands, which is apparently Faraway Islands

http://wccftech.com/amds-future-gpu...ed-faraway-islands-features-20nm-coming-year/

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/39883...d-next-gen-faraway-islands-in-2015/index.html

https://semiaccurate.com/2014/08/26/amds-faraway-islands-interesting-story/

Always take with a grain of salt but, it's not unreasonable to assume AMD has several architectures in the pipeline at any one time, like Nvidia, and as per usual.

 

[Rats Off To Ya]

I might be in the market for one of these bad boys come February. My 670 isn't exactly long in the tooth but THE WITCHER DEMANDS IT.

 

[Pifje]

My GTX 570 just dies when trying to play at 2560x1080. I am never again buying a GPU with that little RAM (1280 MB) from the get-go. I'm guessing only 4 GB to 6 GB would be future proof at the moment. Preferably 6 GB. If the manufacturers have got a 6 GB versions for offer at a decent price, I might bite on the GTX 980.

 

[JaseC]

Man, I really hope it's priced decently. It better be under $600 AUD.

Import from Amazon. It's what I'm going to do. I imported an EVGA 670 back in September 2012 (or thereabouts) and even accounting for the shipping cost and exchange rate I still saved close to $100 compared to buying the same model locally.

 

[RubenCordeiro]

A 980 should make for a very nice upgrade from my SLI'd 560Ti's.

I'm exactly in the same situation as you. My 560 ti SLI setup still runs most games on high settings, but the low VRAM (1 GB) is becoming a serious bottleneck.

However, I expected a bigger leap from the Nvidia 9xx series. I don't know if I'll pull the trigger now.

 

[TronLight]

More info seems to have been leaked about the 970:

http://wccftech.com/maxwell-geforce-gtx-970-alleged-specs-leak-shots/

1644 CUDA cores (had leaked earlier)

4GB GDDR5

32 ROPs

1051+ MHz core clock (1178 boost clock)

7.0 GHz memory clock

~150W TDP

Synthetic benchmarks do seem to put it around the performance level of the 780.

My reaction right now: Hell yes! That's awesome!
My reaction when they will announce the price: Yeah I can't afford that.

 

[Honey Bunny]

I'm increasingly thinking of sticking with my 670 until 20nm, even though I'm gaming at 1440p now. I hope the price announcement sways me the other way. But this is Nvidia.

 

[SmartBase]

In sort of related news, someone took pics of Galaxy's 970 card. They also got a CPU 3DMark score on an i3 for some reason.

Also, count me in the 560 Ti group, although I have the 448 core version.

"Galax" is hardly a typo I expect Galaxy to make on their backplates.

 

[Human_me]

My GTX 570 just dies when trying to play at 2560x1080. I am never again buying a GPU with that little RAM (1280 MB) from the get-go. I'm guessing only 4 GB to 6 GB would be future proof at the moment. Preferably 6 GB. If the manufacturers have got a 6 GB versions for offer at a decent price, I might bite on the GTX 980.

In the same boat.

 

[Xyber]

My GTX 570 just dies when trying to play at 2560x1080. I am never again buying a GPU with that little RAM (1280 MB) from the get-go. I'm guessing only 4 GB to 6 GB would be future proof at the moment. Preferably 6 GB. If the manufacturers have got a 6 GB versions for offer at a decent price, I might bite on the GTX 980.

It's either 4 or 8GB to chose from with the new cards.

 

[Witchfinder General]

Import from Amazon. It's what I'm going to do. I imported an EVGA 670 back in September 2012 (or thereabouts) and even accounting the shipping cost and exchange rate I still saved close to $100 compared to buying the same model locally.

Even cheaper than going with PC Case Gear? What about warranty?

 

[KillaKalz347]

Neat.

Also read rumors about AMD's next generation GPU architecture after Pirate Islands, which is apparently Faraway Islands

http://wccftech.com/amds-future-gpu...ed-faraway-islands-features-20nm-coming-year/

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/39883...d-next-gen-faraway-islands-in-2015/index.html

https://semiaccurate.com/2014/08/26/amds-faraway-islands-interesting-story/

Always take with a grain of salt but, it's not unreasonable to assume AMD has several architectures in the pipeline at any one time, like Nvidia, and as per usual.

They mentioned their new CPU architecture using SMT, called Zen. Should be out in 2016 too. Let's just hope we see the HBM sooner rather than later, a 4224 stream processor card on 20nm would be a monster, just about as fast as the 295X in a single card.

 

[TC McQueen]

"Galax" is hardly a typo I expect Galaxy to make on their backplates.

Considering the fact that they have no actual warranty registration page on their website, I can't discount the possibility that they did make such a typo.

The new Twin Frozr V render is pretty nice though:

 

[TC McQueen]

Well, there's a shot of a Zotac 970 that seems to confirm the numbering scheme for these cards:

 

[megateto]

Import from Amazon. It's what I'm going to do. I imported an EVGA 670 back in September 2012 (or thereabouts) and even accounting the shipping cost and exchange rate I still saved close to $100 compared to buying the same model locally.

Customs is what scares me. I don't even want to think about how much could they take from a +600$ videocard. Importing to Europe, or at least Spain, has become quite hard.

 

[KillerKlown]

If that is truly the card in that pic above it looks so small.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Well now, count me in the good old 560Ti group!

Yeah, I guess that card is about 3 years old now. It has actually done well by me, although truth be told I have not updated the drivers in ages, due to the fact that the most recent drivers were causing it to crash.

I figure I need to upgrade though in order to play a game like Wolfenstein properly which I want to do.
.

As (yet another) 560Ti owner, I can tell you it runs it beautifully with a couple of settings knocked down a bit.

 

[JaseC]

Even cheaper than going with PC Case Gear? What about warranty?

Yeah, PCCG is the site I used to compare. As for warranty, that's not something I've looked into deeply, but I'd say it probably depends on the manufacturer. EVGA, for example, doesn't care which support centre you opt to send your card to (US, Germany or Taiwan) and will pay the return shipping fee.

Customs is what scares me. I don't even want to think about how much could they take from a +600$ videocard. Importing to Europe, or at least Spain, has become quite hard.

Fortunately import fees and such aren't an issue here unless your package exceeds AUD$1,000.

 

[desu]

Gimme more DisplayPorts on my GPU please :|.

The 970 looks pretty small.

 

[Newboi]

Neat.

Also read rumors about AMD's next generation GPU architecture after Pirate Islands, which is apparently Faraway Islands

http://wccftech.com/amds-future-gpu...ed-faraway-islands-features-20nm-coming-year/

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/39883...d-next-gen-faraway-islands-in-2015/index.html

https://semiaccurate.com/2014/08/26/amds-faraway-islands-interesting-story/

Always take with a grain of salt but, it's not unreasonable to assume AMD has several architectures in the pipeline at any one time, like Nvidia, and as per usual.

It's funny. You linked Semiaccurate's opinion piece, but did you read it?

It'll pretty much shut down the whole Faraway Islands idea.

 

[Foxyone]

I'm kinda hoping the 970 would be $350-$375 to undercut the R9 290 (which has been ~$360 before), but I guess even at $400, it would still be replacing the old 4GB 770 with something ~30%+ stronger.

 

[Dictator93]

I'm kinda hoping the 970 would be $350-$375 to undercut the R9 290 (which has been ~$360 before), but I guess even at $400, it would still be replacing the old 4GB 770 with something ~30%+ stronger.

Yeah that would be nice, and reasonable.

But that will probably not happen.

 

[michaelius]

Gimme more DisplayPorts on my GPU please :|.

The 970 looks pretty small.

And make HDMI 2.0

 

[brotkasten]

Well, there's a shot of a Zotac 970 that seems to confirm the numbering scheme for these cards:

That seems like a rather small PCB for a higher end card. Interesting.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

That seems like a rather small PCB for a higher end card. Interesting.

For sure. Is that even 8"?

 

[Chanser]

That seems like a rather small PCB for a higher end card. Interesting.

Seems to be an efficient card.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Neat.

Also read rumors about AMD's next generation GPU architecture after Pirate Islands, which is apparently Faraway Islands

http://wccftech.com/amds-future-gpu...ed-faraway-islands-features-20nm-coming-year/

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/39883...d-next-gen-faraway-islands-in-2015/index.html

https://semiaccurate.com/2014/08/26/amds-faraway-islands-interesting-story/

Always take with a grain of salt but, it's not unreasonable to assume AMD has several architectures in the pipeline at any one time, like Nvidia, and as per usual.

thanks for the links

You haven't heard anything about AMDs new GPUs because you aren't really looking. Their new line of GPUs will be called Pirate Islands. The 390X is rumored to have over 4000 stream processors, 96 rops, and a 512 bit memory bus. AMD also developed stacked DRAM with SKHynix which is available right now for production right now.

Right, a bunch of unsubstantiated and contradicting rumors for a vague 2015 release date and not a peep out of amd themselves about what is coming
It's not much to go on this early

At least it sounds like a high end card.

That seems like a rather small PCB for a higher end card. Interesting.

Seems about right for a midrange card, which it is...

OT: Noone is talking about that 3d mark extreme score from the article with the pictures of the gpu? If that score is accurate the gtx780 is 15 percent faster than the 970, the previous synthetic benchmarks rumored said it was equivalent to the 780.
I hope that 3d mark score is not correct

 

[TC McQueen]

The 3D Mark score was apparently CPU based and was done on an i3.

 

[SneakyStephan]

The 3D Mark score was apparently CPU based and was done on an i3.

thanks, that's a relief

 

[mkenyon]

The 3D Mark score was apparently CPU based and was done on an i3.

Wait wait. If it was ran on both with the i3, their relative scores should still be accurate enough. There's only two sections of Firestrike that tax CPU.

 

[Dries]

Can't wait to upgrade my 770 2GB to a 980 (4GB?)! The Witcher 3 is gonna be awesome.

Also, would my overclocked 2500K (somewhere between 4.0/4.3 ghz, still have to fine tune) bottleneck a card like the 980?

 

[Yoda]

I would actually make it so that my EVGA step up program will still be valid. The thing is though, is it worth it to step up to a vanilla 980 w/ reference cooling from my EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified?

No, unless you are really hurting in the VRAM department the change would essentially be identical or worse (as your card's overclock potential will most likely be > than the 980stock/initial batch).

 

[CyberPunked]

What's the expected VRAM for the 980?

 

[Seanspeed]

Wait wait. If it was ran on both with the i3, their relative scores should still be accurate enough. There's only two sections of Firestrike that tax CPU.

Was just a single benchmark, not a comparison.

 

[mkenyon]

Ah, thought it was a reference to this:

Can't wait to upgrade my 770 2GB to a 980 (4GB?)! The Witcher 3 is gonna be awesome.

Also, would my overclocked 2500K (somewhere between 4.0/4.3 ghz, still have to fine tune) bottleneck a card like the 980?

Need to wait for the game to be out to get an idea of how well it takes advantage of more threads. But most likely, it won't hamper much at all.

 

[Yoda]

What's the expected VRAM for the 980?

4GB on the initial model. Prob a 6 and/or 8 GB model AFTER their next highend chip (next TITAN or w/e replaces it).

 

[Lum1n3s]

Sooooo I'm perfectly fine with my Gigabyte 780TI OC edition? *Phew*

 

[shiftplusone]

I'm still rockin a 670

Should I upgrade this spring to one of these? something else?

Should I just set fire to my PC?

help me gaf

 

[TC McQueen]

I'm still rockin a 670

Should I upgrade this spring to one of these? something else?

Should I just set fire to my PC?

help me gaf

If you have the cash and feel like you need the upgrade, buying one of these new cards might not be a bad idea.

 

[McHuj]

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2621/geforce-gtx-980.html
www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2620/geforce-gtx-970.html

If these numbers are remotely true, the 970 should be a decent upgrade over my 670. But I may wait until witcher 3 hits.

 

[BishopLamont]

AMD needs to really step up, I don't wanna keep delaying a new card purchase.

Pure performance gains may have stagnated recently at the top end, but i still find it absolutely fascinating that if these rumors are true, the new 970 card is the same power draw as a 7850/660. That's absolutely mind blowing to me

Yeah if only they passed the savings to us...performance and price wise.

 

[SneakyStephan]

AMD needs to really step up, I don't wanna keep delaying a new card purchase.


Yeah if only they passed the savings to us...performance and price wise.

Yeah

 

[Kezen]

So...The 970 shouldn't even be faster than a 780 ?

What are you doing Nvidia.

 

[McHuj]

So...The 970 shouldn't even be faster than a 780 ?

What are you doing Nvidia.

What are you basing that on?

 

[CentroXer]

Videocardz, are they really reliable source?

 

[mkenyon]

Videocardz, are they really reliable source?

There's nothing reliable at this point.

 

[michaelius]

Videocardz, are they really reliable source?

No they will post anything that falls in their hands - in the end true or not clicks are coming.

 

[Chris R]

970 looks like a nice card if my 670 dies