NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Costs $350 Less Than TITAN X, Performs Similarly

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 31, 2015 @03:11PM from the most-of-the-price-of-a-chromebook-pixel dept.

Deathspawner writes: In advance of the rumored pending launch of AMD's next-generation Radeon graphics cards, NVIDIA has decided to pull no punches and release a seriously tempting GTX 980 Ti at $649. It's tempting both because the extra $150 it costs over the GTX 980 more than makes up for it in performance gained, and despite it coming really close to the performance of TITAN X, it costs $350 less. AMD's job might just have become a bit harder. Vigile adds The GTX 980 Ti has 6GB of memory (versus 12GB for the GTX Titan X) but PC Perspective's review shows no negative side effects of the drop. This implementation of the GM200 GPU uses 2,816 CUDA cores rather than the 3,072 cores of the Titan X, but thanks to higher average Boost clocks, performance between the two cards is identical. And at Hot Hardware, another equally positive, benchmark-laden review.

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Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-31 15:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You can thank LCD manufacturers for not providing any real consumer options beyond 1080p for the better part of a decade. With accessible 1440p and 2160p displays, we return to choosing game resolution in lieu of graphics settings (albeit with less finesse than CRTs).
My only hope is the major review sites resume reviews that explore lower detailed settings at higher resolutions. At the present, I'm not so interested that this card get under 30fps at 4k a/ 4x AA; I'd rather know if it hits 60+fps with 0x AA.