980 ti k|ngp|n???
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photonboy
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Ripoff IMO: http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/news/hardware/vgacards/36075-reviewed-evga-geforce-gtx-980-ti-kingpin.html
EVGA site lists four models between $850 and $1050 USD.
Yes, they got up to 1592Mhz overclock so let's use 1550MHz and assume that some of the better $650 to $700 cards can reach at least 1400Mhz. So that's 10% faster theoretically (usually doesn't translate to 10% improvement in games though) such as 66FPS instead of 60FPS.
Basically the best of the GPU's chosen to ensure overclocking and a bit more money for other components including a better cooler.
EVGA even already has a liquid-cooled version that should perform close to that (1480MHz with GPU at 50degC tested by Jayz2cents) though the pump can be problematic... not sure if that's still a thing with newer models (pump noise).
EVGA site lists four models between $850 and $1050 USD.
Yes, they got up to 1592Mhz overclock so let's use 1550MHz and assume that some of the better $650 to $700 cards can reach at least 1400Mhz. So that's 10% faster theoretically (usually doesn't translate to 10% improvement in games though) such as 66FPS instead of 60FPS.
Basically the best of the GPU's chosen to ensure overclocking and a bit more money for other components including a better cooler.
EVGA even already has a liquid-cooled version that should perform close to that (1480MHz with GPU at 50degC tested by Jayz2cents) though the pump can be problematic... not sure if that's still a thing with newer models (pump noise).
photonboy
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Update:
I assume from the above article I linked that they used a reference GTX980Ti for comparison.
That has a BOOST clock of 1075Mhz.
If they overclock the Kingpin to 1550MHz that's a 44% overclock... but as I said it doesn't scale that way so looking at several games I saw closer to 30% frame rate improvement.
*Then if you can easily overclock cheaper cards to 1400MHz which is a 30% boost that makes me question of pushing further to 44% would really make much difference to most games or if we're running into a CPU bottleneck? (of course it depends on the game and DX12 in the future will mitigate this).
Whatever... I'm seriously questioning if we'd see more than 5% gains over an overclocked, cheaper GTX 980Ti though.
I assume from the above article I linked that they used a reference GTX980Ti for comparison.
That has a BOOST clock of 1075Mhz.
If they overclock the Kingpin to 1550MHz that's a 44% overclock... but as I said it doesn't scale that way so looking at several games I saw closer to 30% frame rate improvement.
*Then if you can easily overclock cheaper cards to 1400MHz which is a 30% boost that makes me question of pushing further to 44% would really make much difference to most games or if we're running into a CPU bottleneck? (of course it depends on the game and DX12 in the future will mitigate this).
Whatever... I'm seriously questioning if we'd see more than 5% gains over an overclocked, cheaper GTX 980Ti though.
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