Rumor: GTX 880 to Launch Mid-September
Change of plans -- the GTX 880 will now be launching in September.
Recently, there was a rumor that Nvidia would be announcing its GTX 880 graphics card at Gamescom 2014. Now, it seems that might not be the case, and that instead we could be seeing a launch sometime mid-September. At least this is what VideoCardz.com has been told. The launch would be a paper launch, where the graphics card would officially be revealed. We won't necessarily get all the tech-specs of the card officially confirmed by Nvidia, but we certainly will get a fairly good idea of what Nvidia is gunning for with the GTX 880.
VideoCardz.com's mockup of the GTX 880
The rumored specifications are that the card will be based on a GM204-400 GPU. The model name for the reference board is PG401. Onboard we expect to find 4 GB of GDDR5 memory that will run over a 256-bit memory interface. This might sound like a rather narrow memory interface, but remember, the Maxwell architecture doesn't suffer as big a performance hit on narrower memory interfaces as Kepler does.
Pricing should sit between $400 and $450, with performance right between the GTX 780 and 780 Ti. Hopefully, there is truth to this expectation.
The cards are supposed to launch a few weeks after the mid-September paper launch. Note, this is still all a rumor, so sit tight.
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I'm sure the 860 and 870's will be lovely. But don't beat around the bush on the flagship card.
It will when the new crop of games needs more than 2GB of texture memory (GTX690 is two 680s on one card, with 4GB total memory, 2GB effective). Watch Dogs maxed out needs 3GB, for example. Wolfenstein I think, too.
no need to wait for an announcement, NVidia made this card because someone was drunk and thought... "Hey! I know! lets make a new card to take peoples money and replace the current crop of 780/ti's that are still more powerful than most people need! and heres the catch... it wont even have better performance! mwahahahaahahahahahahahahahha!"
no need to wait for an announcement, NVidia made this card because someone was drunk and thought... "Hey! I know! lets make a new card to take peoples money and replace the current crop of 780/ti's that are still more powerful than most people need! and heres the catch... it wont even have better performance! mwahahahaahahahahahahahahahha!"
+1 to that Brother
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No one's released a new architecture for a LONG time. That's what I'll be waiting for.
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You mean like Maxwell?