We had previously received estimation from Sweclockers of an expected release date of Oct/Nov but now they have confirmed it. This is big news people. This means that we are not going to be skipping the year 2014 entirely after all and will be receiving a new performance class form Nvidia based on the 28nm Maxwell. We have already seen the engineering sample of the Maxwell GTX 880 and this more or less confirms that we are going to be seeing leaked benchmarks very very soon. The core that will be housed is the GM204 circuit which will be used in the highest end GPU released (Geforce GTX 880). Now since reports indicate that Nvidia has completely scrapped the GM100 chips, we are looking at second generation Maxwell Architecture.
it's marketing plans , they time the GPUs release with a big AAA title
now looking at the games coming out in oct/nov it makes perfect sense , if GTAV isn't coming out in oct/nov no need to worry ACU + COD are enough to push the maxwell line
Know that feeling, my AMD 6870 couldn't cope with 2560x1440 gaming, picked up an Asus GTX760 from Newegg for $225 after Asus' July rebate and came with a coupon code for full version of Watch Dogs $59.95, that should do fine till Maxwell arrives.
Lol, so true, coming from a non crediting rumor mill forum scraper especially.
Comical, my gtx 680 sli kicked 2560 into the dirt years ago. Citing bus width as Performance is like citing core count.... Completely off base.
Look up any review of the GK104 cards and the performance dip from 1080p to 1440p compared to higher bandwidth cards like the 7970. Just because you could run games at the time of the cards release without noticing the performance drop doesnt mean that vram bandwidth isnt a limitation at higher resses.
Also, any previous monitor from 'years ago' like whatever you were using at that res up until now was only ever running at 60 Hz. So if youre getting anything over that in FPS, you'ld never notice the difference.
Now I'm talking about 1440p @ 144 Hz, meaning I want to be maintaining 144 FPS. Every bit of performance drop counts for that, and 256 bit 7 Ghz Vram doesnt have the bandwidth required to push that resolution, or higher when I eventually get three of them without significant performance drops.
The only comical thing is that youre still stuck looking at obsolete tech like a 60 hz monitor, and ofc an FPS drop of 120-100 at 1440p @ 60 hz would have never been noticable to you 'years ago'.
For people who are looking at buying the Asus ROG Swift, the worst thing you could possibly do is to pair it with these overpriced mid range GPUs with only a 256 bit memory bus.
But people wont. It will probably be priced at like $500-600, 256 bit GM204 and just 10-15% faster than a GTX 780 ti, and people will still rush out and buy it, further delaying the real high end GM200 so Nvidia can rake in the profit like with GK104.
The only comical thing is that youre still stuck looking at obsolete tech like a 60 hz monitor, and ofc an FPS drop of 120-100 at 1440p @ 60 hz would have never been noticable to you 'years ago'.
For people who are looking at buying the Asus ROG Swift, the worst thing you could possibly do is to pair it with these overpriced mid range GPUs with only a 256 bit memory bus.
Cute, but memory bus width doesn't tell the whole tale, and I'd run 2560 since 2008. I then moved to 2560 110hz PLS a long time ago and now run 4K in 2014 which is far more demanding. You talk of obsolete tech? You're rolling in it if you want to go by that benchmark
. Bottom line is bus width is but one statistic on the spec sheet amongst many that determines end performance. Learn some tech before spreading more misinformation, please.
Even on the basic premise of your uninformed propaganda you are incorrect because bus width doesn't mean bandwidth, it is one factor used in calculating the actual bandwidth of the card for memory along with the clock rate. Simply stating "256 bit SUXORSSSSSSSS!!!111111oneone" is absurd just as saying "QUAD CORE SUXORSSSSSS!!!!111oneone" would be for a CPU. Without architectural info, clock speeds, and a whole trove of other factors, it's completely wrong.
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But people wont. It will probably be priced at like $500-600, 256 bit GM204 and just 10-15% faster than a GTX 780 ti, and people will still rush out and buy it, further delaying the real high end GM200 so Nvidia can rake in the profit like with GK104.
Further lack of understanding of tech and market values. If it performs better than a 780 Ti and is hundreds of dollars less MSRP it's a good value proposition for consumers. And who cares about the bus width when it's but one factor amongst many in determining the performance? I care what the product delivers, not whether the spec sheet gives me more imaginary bragging rights.
But people wont. It will probably be priced at like $500-600, 256 bit GM204 and just 10-15% faster than a GTX 780 ti, and people will still rush out and buy it, further delaying the real high end GM200 so Nvidia can rake in the profit like with GK104.
Even if it's 256-bit it will probably be more powerful than the GTX 780 Ti with more memory and maybe HDMI 2.0 support. $500 is not bad considering that it's the same price as the GTX 780. The GM200 should go around $700-$750.
Except GDDR5 Vram clocks are in fact limited to 7 Ghz, so 256 bit Ghz @ 7 Ghz on a GTX 680 is going to be identical bandwidth to 256 bit @ 7 Ghz on a GM204, wow, great upgrade.
And there is loads of information from back when the GTX 680 and 7970 initially came out showing massive performance drops going from 1080p to 1440p on the 680 compared to the 7970 with its higher bandwidth, this isnt propaganda, its simply something that you're still unaware of because you never read about it.
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Cute, but memory bus width doesn't tell the whole tale, and I'd run 2560 since 2008. I then moved to 2560 110hz PLS a long time ago and now run 4K in 2014 which is far more demanding.
I remain hopefull they will price them rather low. $550 for 880 would be nice, but if it's higher than that, I'll consider the 870 instead. Hopefully 870 will match the performance of 780ti.
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