GTX 800 series?

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I would like to formally apologize for this, the sources I used were recent but unknowingly to me quoted very old sources, my bad guys. I really am sorry. Really. I feel stupid lol.
 

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I guess for people who don't already have pretty good rigs and are planning on buying them soon will have to choose between waiting 6-7+ months or just going with that they have handy now. I sense DDR4 and Haswell's will also be delayed.

Then again, damn.
 

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August 6th is many months ago?
 
Well I wouldnt trust the second article. Posted 4 months ago before the initial release date was hinted at and saying it was delayed?
More recent posts (on here) stated mid September, the first link may be mildly more trustworthy, but any source that links to other articles as their sources, typically shouldnt be trusted.
 

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The August 6th article is citing this article as the source of its information: http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/18535-nvidia-maxwell-i-20-nanometer-drojer-till-2015

..which is dated March 31, 2014.

Edit: Also, that article only says that 20 nm Maxwell chips are being delayed until 2015, not that the entire generation of cards is. It confirms what I thought was already well-known: GTX 880 will be 28 nm Maxwell.
 

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Tom's has been predicting sub-780 Ti performance, $400-450 price tag, and September release for the GTX 880. I think that all fits with it being a 28 nm release. The big guns (880 Ti maybe?) will be 20 nm and in 2015.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gtx-880-nvidia-september-launch,27364.html

It may phase out the GTX 780, but that's already overpriced and generally less compelling than the R9 290. Its due for a shake-up anyway.
 


the article itself might be new but the info used in the article itself is old
 


honestly i'm not saying tom's hardware predicted it more likely they pick the info from other source. i think the first info about 880 will in mid september (paper launch to be exact with actual availability in late september) is coming from videocardz. these guys is always the first when it comes to latest rumor about GPU. and the september release for 880 is reinforced by the interview with Gigabyte rep/exec during China Joy event saying that they will release custom cooled GTX880 (called GTX880 Gaming G1) by late september or early october at worse.
 

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So much as I can maintain high to max at 1080p for at least a year or so I'm good. I'm gonna upgrade for sure though, I like having the latest, greatest, biggest and baddest. Hah. At least with NVIDIA, not an AMD fan.
 


At 1080p, you could have all that with just one of those GTX 780Ti's.... What's the other one for?
 

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Metro Last Light and Crysis 3, hah.

As for DX12, games aren't really utilizing it yet so I'll be glad to wait for the 880ti.

 

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It would be better to just wait and read the benchmarks once the 880 is available, because despite which rumors are more/less likely to be true we really don't know anything concrete.

I think your GTX 780 Ti's already support DX12 anyway, by the way. My understanding is that all DX11 GPUs from Nvidia will support DX12 already (so all the way back to GTX 400's), as well as AMD HD 7000's and R-series. Might require Windows 8 or 9, though.