Not 1920, not 2560, but 2048 CUDAs are powering the new flagship card from NVIDIA.
GeForce GTX 980 has 16 Streaming Multiprocessors Maxwell (SMM), which give us 2048 CUDA cores in total. For comparison, GTX 970 has only 13 SMMs (1664 CUDAs), so there's a 384 CUDA difference between these two cards.
GeForce GTX 980 is advertised as GK104 replacement, it is much more power efficient and much more powerful than first Kepler processor.
They are positioning this as a replacement to GK104? I'm confused. Why would they position a GeForce GTX 980 as a replacement to a GeForce GTX 680 (two generations old) or GeForce GTX 760 (two teirs lower from the last generation)?
I know it is a mid range chip that makes up the GeForce GTX 980, but it's comparing that specific GPU by name to an earlier chip. It'd make sense for the new chip to replace the older one internally to nVidia, but the GeForce GTX 980 being positioned as a replacement to either the GeForce GTX 680 or GeForce GTX 760 makes little sense to me. Bad wording of comparison on the article's behalf, or... am I missing something? I thought the GeForce GTX 980 was replacing the GeForce GTX 780, regardless of the chip either uses?
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Originally Posted by DampMonkey
Can somebody more Nvidia-literate than I explain why this would have less CUDA cores than a 780? What am I missing?
+ as we can see from the change in SMMs per GPC there have been some relatively big changed to maxwell even after that slide was released with GM107 and 750Ti.
The cards that are launching this week are 2nd generation maxwell.
Great to see some concrete evidence finally. Getting excited for the launch even though I have no plans to purchase. I just love gpu launches for some reason.
+ as we can see from the change in SMMs per GPC there have been some relatively big changed to maxwell even after that slide was released with GM107 and 750Ti.
The cards that are launching this week are 2nd generation maxwell.
So, in simple terms - is it much better than 700 series and is well worth the price? Or is it marginal, like 10%, increase in performance vs almost 50% increase in price (local shops do that where I live)? At least from technology PoW.
They're getting revealed during the livestream that starts on the 18th and goes on for 24 hours afaik.
+ as we can see from the change in SMMs per GPC there have been some relatively big changed to maxwell even after that slide was released with GM107 and 750Ti.
The cards that are launching this week are 2nd generation maxwell.
They're getting revealed during the livestream that starts on the 18th and goes on for 24 hours afaik.
+ as we can see from the change in SMMs per GPC there have been some relatively big changed to maxwell even after that slide was released with GM107 and 750Ti.
The cards that are launching this week are 2nd generation maxwell.
So I am guessing GM110 or whatever will be big die Maxwell will be the next generation of Maxwell GPUs? Not in the GTX9xx series unless they release a 980Ti? Its more what I am waiting for.
So, in simple terms - is it much better than 700 series and is well worth the price? Or is it marginal, like 10%, increase in performance vs almost 50% increase in price (local shops do that where I live)? At least from technology PoW.
A small, probably around a 10% increase over the 780Ti for the 980 and supposedly a good price. Retailers can always gouge though.
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Originally Posted by MxPhenom 216
So I am guessing GM110 or whatever will be big die Maxwell will be the next generation of Maxwell GPUs? Not in the GTX9xx series unless they release a 980Ti? Its more what I am waiting for.
Now that makes more sense as I was saying in another [of the gazillions that exist by now] thread. 1920 Cores was too low and was going to eat into the additional overclock headroom in order to match and beat the GTX 780 Ti.
On the other hand, that first picture seems fake.
"The World's Most Advanced Graphic Card" ?
It should be "Graphics".
Edit: ok, I was enlightened that while this picture is indeed not properly written, the original source is at fault, not VC, so it isn't fake.
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