NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, its latest high-end graphics processor.
Positioned a notch below the GTX Titan X, and above the GTX 980, it is designed to offer playable frame-rates at 4K Ultra HD resolution, with high-levels of visual details.
Based on the same 28 nm GM200 silicon as the GTX Titan X, the chip features 2,816 CUDA cores, carved out by disabling 2 of the 24 streaming multiprocessor units on the silicon; 176 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 6 GB of memory.
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti features nearly identical clock speeds to the GTX Titan X, with 1000 MHz core, 1076 MHz GPU Boost, and 7012 MHz (GDDR5-effective) memory.
The TDP is rated at 250W. The reference design card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and DVI connectors.
Full DirectX 12 Support as well thus being the first DirectX 12 enabled card with Feature Level 12_1 support that allows conservative raster and raster order views aside from the Level 12_0 features that include Tiled Resources, Typed UAV access and Bindless textures. NVIDIA also confirms that they will have Maxwell doing Asynchronous compute that AMD has recently shown off the benefits for in their slides. Their will be more control over hardware by the developers and low overhead will allow more draw calls and better performance for PC hardware.
The card is capable of 4-way SLI.
It starts at US $649.99.
With this launch, NVIDIA cut prices of the GeForce GTX 980 to $499.99.
A comparison for a better view:
| Card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | 28nm GM200-400 | 28nm GM200-310 | 28nm GM204-400 |
| CUDA Cores | 3072 | 2816 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 192 | 176 | 128 |
| ROPs | 96 | 96 | 64 |
| Core clock | 1002 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1127 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1089 MHz | 1076 MHz | 1215 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1753 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory | 12GB GDDR5 | 6GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Bandwidth | 336 GB/s | 336 GB/s | 224 GB/s |
| TDP | 250W | 250W | 165W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6pin; 1x 8pin | 1x 6pin; 1x 8pin | 2x 6pin |
| Display Outputs | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DP | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DP | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DP |
| MSRP | $999 US | $649 US | $549 US |
All the vendors are coming out as well with factory-overclocked speeds, and custom air- and liquid-cooled designs like:
ASUS Unveils GTX 980 Ti DirectCU III STRIX and ROG Poseidon GTX 980 Ti Graphics Cards – Triple Fan Powered Massive Design
The MSI with the award-winning Twin Frozr V thermal design.
EVGA also presented its entire lineup.
The first reviews are also live:
