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[Various] Nvidia GTX 980 / 970 reviews

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To a packed crowd in Los Angeles, and a global audience watching on the Game24 livestream, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed our latest GPU architecture: Maxwell. Setting a new standard for PC gaming with innovative new technologies that accelerate performance, increase image quality, and give you new ways to play, Maxwell's cutting edge technology is brought to life in two brand new GPUs: the GeForce GTX 980 and the GeForce GTX 970.

The GeForce GTX 980 is our fastest and most efficient GPU. Faster framerates, new rendering techniques and superior image quality combine to deliver next-generation game experiences at Ultra HD resolutions and on Virtual Reality headsets.

Enter the next-generation of PC gaming, now.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/maxwell-architecture-gtx-980-970

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Creating the thread now since we don't know exactly when the NDA is lifting. If this launch follows the normal NVidia launch schedule the NDA will lift today in around 3 hours (countdown link). Could also be tomorrow at the same time or at some special time due to the game24 event.

In any case the thread will be updated when reviews start going live.
 
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Going to stick with my 780s but new GPU launches are always exciting.
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been waiting since the 600 series. fingers crossed.
 
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Isn't today just the announcement? AFAIK the journalists are out there, not writing their reviews.
Journalists were briefed last week (and reviews are mostly done). The livestream starts on the 18th (or 19th for some people), however normally NV NDAs lift on Thursday 9am EST. So again, we don't know when the NDA is lifting this time.
 
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Well, worst case scenario is sometime after the event starts (hopefully it's sooner, but I'd understand if they wanted to keep the suspense):



http://game24.nvidia.com/event

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Price is $330 for 970 and $550 for 980
If the GTX 970's price turns out to be true I'll be just as amazed as curious to know why Nvidia is being so aggressive with the pricing. Does AMD have something up its sleeve to release very soon or this is just Nvidia being amazing ?
 
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Well, worst case scenario is sometime after the event starts (hopefully it's sooner, but I'd understand if they wanted to keep the suspense):



http://game24.nvidia.com/event
If the GTX 970's price turns out to be true I'll be just as amazed as curious to know why Nvidia is being so aggressive with the pricing. Does AMD have something up its sleeve to release very soon or this is just Nvidia being amazing ?
It doesnt make a sense such a difference between the flagship and the second gpu. Except if there is a 970ti
 
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If the GTX 970's price turns out to be true I'll be just as amazed as curious to know why Nvidia is being so aggressive with the pricing. Does AMD have something up its sleeve to release very soon or this is just Nvidia being amazing ?
The BOM, not counting in the actual chip's R&D, will be rather low on these cards as they have already mass-produced and designed the cooler, the PCB, and 28nm is a mature node. The chip is relatively small (under 400mm2) to boot.

I also would posit, as someone else did recently I believe in Videocardz's comments, that this may be a push towards attempting to shift some focus towards PC gaming from the consoles (which haven't been doing too well) and push their primary market up a notch by launching with extremely competitive pricing (750 Ti can go in any PC practically for $120-140 and make it game-capable up to 1080p with 2GB of VRAM... GTX 970 would be an enthusiast card for the masses with 4GB of VRAM and high performance with a low power draw and pricing compared to past generations, and 980 would be their halo product to anchor the rest of the line).

I can tell you as a developer that the PC climate and desire to reinvigorate the PC gaming market may have quite a bit to do with the price range on these cards, perhaps not as large a factor as the actual costs to manufacture and profits they believe they can make, but it surely is on their radar from quite a few devs
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. Nvidia doesn't benefit much by consoles becoming bigger.
 
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This is the calm before the storm. These next few hours may be the slowest of my life.
 
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There has to be a 970 Ti coming for 429.99
Or the 980 is $449.99. We'll know soon. see below.
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Well I just saw the official slide and wanted to share the price.

Anyway, it looks like DSR will be automatically enabled in Experience. There's a Diablo 3 screenshot with 4k resolution in DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution).
Thank you, two 970's for me then
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. Now the decision... reference cooler or custom PCB + non-ref, for SLI.... the low TDP may make it practical.

And that is an extremely interesting tidbit about the DSR feature. I'm very curious as to how it impacts the image quality... maybe I would just go back to my 115hz X-Star DP2710 @ 2560x1440 if it works well
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, as good as 4K is there is a difference in the responsiveness and blur to my eyes, although not as critical a factor as the added detail afforded by the higher res. so far to me. If I could strike a happy medium.... hmmm.
 
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If the GTX 970's price turns out to be true I'll be just as amazed as curious to know why Nvidia is being so aggressive with the pricing. Does AMD have something up its sleeve to release very soon or this is just Nvidia being amazing ?
Might be because they lost some GPU marketshare last quarter. Margins were still really high and profits good but I imagine they'd also want to keep their marketshare well above 60%.
 
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This is the calm before the storm. These next few hours may be the slowest of my life.
I am so glad I'll have work to help that time go by! ^_^
 
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The GeForce® GTX™ 980 is the world's most advanced graphics card, powered by the new incredibly fast, power-efficient NVIDIA® Maxwell™ architecture. With twice the performance of prior-generation cards* and exciting new gaming technologies, this innovative GPU provides an elite experience on virtual reality, HD, and ultra-resolution 4K displays.

Enjoy hyper-realistic real-time lighting with advanced NVIDIA Cone-Traced Global Illumination, as well as NVIDIA G-SYNC™ display technology for smooth, tear-free gaming. Plus, you get Super Resolution technology that delivers a 4K experience on a 1080p display.

The GTX 980 even delivers great gaming to go with NVIDIA GameStream™ technology that lets you stream PC games to NVIDIA SHIELD™ devices.
Just some marketing text
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. Fluff, but it passed a minute, right?
 
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Do not forget, even if the 970 seems to be super cheap that the performance gap between the 970 and the 980 should be much bigger than previous generations.

The 970 has 1664 cuda cores and the 980 has 2048. That is a ~23% increase

The 670 has 1344 cuda cores and the 680 has 1536. That is just a ~14% increase.

Price of the 970 seems to be super low, but in reality it is just a worse card compared to the "flagship".
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Still the performance/price is going to decide whether or not the 970 will be a good bang for the buck and I can see the 970 ending up in many rigs, but the higher performance difference should explain the big price gap between these 2 (If I didn't do any mistakes or have data wrong that is)
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Exciting times. Still deciding whether I should upgrade from my 670's in sli
Tough call.Maybe I should wait until the prices settle a bit,They are usually overpriced at launch anyways
 
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