Report: GeForce GTX 980 Will Cost $599
The rumor mill has churned out some pricing info for the upcoming GTX 980 and GTX 970.
The rumor mill is working hard on the upcoming Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards. Just yesterday we saw images of the new GTX 980, along with specifications, and today we finally have word on pricing information.
The rumored prices stem from a report on 3DCenter.org which states that the GeForce GTX 980 will carry an MSRP of $599, while the GTX 970 will cost $200 less at an MSRP of $399. Placing it on the product stack, if you consider that the GTX 780 Ti sells for upwards of $600 while a GTX 780 can be found for around $450, we would expect the GTX 980 to sit right between the two, while the GTX 970 will perform slightly slower than the GTX 780. This product stack placement is supported by the calculated benchmark scores.
Ultimately, the GTX 980 and GTX 970 will probably bring you performance levels very similar to their predecessors, for a similar price tag, with a lower TDP and larger frame buffer. The increased amount of graphics memory will help the cards drive higher-resolution monitors.
Do note that these are merely rumored prices. Hopefully, we'll know more when they launch later this week; we expect the announcement to come on September 19 during the Game24 event.
UPDATE: It has come to our attention that we misread the graphs, resulting in erroneous conclusions. Taking another crack at it, we can see that based on these numbers the GTX 980 appears to perform about 11 percent better than a stock GTX 780 Ti, with the GTX 970 sitting somewhere between the GTX 780 and the GTX 780 Ti. Note that the stock GTX 780 (clocked at up to 900 MHz) isn't even listed on the table. Ultimately, this means that the GTX 980 and GTX 970 appear to perform a lot better than a quick glance at the table would suggest. Commenters, we appreciate your sharp eye.
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They'll probably lower the price of the 780 ti, just like what happened with the 780 when the 780 ti was released.
The point would be to milk every penny from consumers until R9 3xx comes along.
that said… a 180w tdp is a huge improvement of worthy praise.
The 980 is what it is intended to be, a card faster than anything offered by the competition. The Ti or whatever card nVidia holds in it's back pocket won't be released till after AMD shows it's hand. To quote Yogi .... "It's déjà vu all over again"
The question I am seeking to have answered is how much overclocking headroom they have will they leave .... stick with the typical 25% or drive the clocks up closer to the edge like the R9 series.
Gotta read more closely before you draw conclusions on performance differences. The article is misleading in that it isn't comparing apples and apples. The 780 Ti in the graph that it is being compared with is overclocked. The base clock of the 780 Ti is 876 Mhz. The ones shown in the graph are at 928 (5.9% OC) and 1150 (31.3% OC). The stock 980 is 3% slower than the 31 % overclocked 780 Ti not the stock 876 Mhz 780 Ti. The 980's base clock is 1126/1127 depending on source.
The 5.6% (1190 / 1126) OC on the 980 scores 13005
The 5.9 % (928 / 876) OC on the 780 Ti score is 11096
That's a 17% performance difference at the same ~ 6% OC
Or consumers need to get smart (yeah right) and buy only on the tock.
And i always hate fan boys living in a fairy tale where they see their brand with over 30% more performance over the competition... you have nothing to base your assumptions on and you still make them ....
It's all in how you interpret the data.... the graphs just say a 31% OC'd 780 Ti is 3% faster than a stock 980. See two posts up.
The 980 is 17% faster according to the charts at same OC level ..... The 780 was 21% faster than the 680 in TPUs game summary .... not sure about firestrike.... we'll know in a few days. Still not much of a surprise.....certainly typical.
Well I can understand the rush to publish something and maybe missing the fact that none of the 780 Tis they put in the comparison chart were at stock settings. I agree author should have checked put videocardz.com shuda made that clear too.
Then again, I'll bet the rash of articles poo pooing the 980 will run 2nd only to those poo pooing Apples new phone
The fact that we only see a 6% OC in that chart I wonder if that's indicative of nVidia following suit.
But 180 TDB .... dang you water cool a pair of those with a lot less radiator....a 360mm rad with 1250 rpm fans and ya done .... or even a 280 at 1400 rpm.
I wouldn't doubt if nVidia does bump the price up $100 given the price of the 290x, if there's enough stock around still, why sabotage what they are getting for the 780 / 780 Ti. No doubt they have room to sell it at $499 and that's where it will go when AMD answers. Good for those that wait ..... not so good for early adopters.
No, Tom's, it's not supported by the benchmark scores. Go look at what the site that you're using AS YOUR VALIDATION says... out of three tests of the 980, two of them are faster than a 780ti, and one of them is 3% slower. That's not "between the 780ti and the 780."
Do some research, or at least please read the articles that you're putting in your own stories.
In addition, those are synthetic benchmarks. We have no idea how well these things are actually going to perform, which means that all articles like these are doing is adding fuel for the trolls and misinformed. (Who are mostly misinformed from your own incorrect articles.)
Have you found anything that shows a performance increase at 4 GB. Other than this, which shows that some games will show 1 fps or so gain at 5760 x 1080 at 4 GB, I haven't found anything indicating a performance advantage. Yes as it says in last paragraph, some games will use more than 2 GB, but the performance didn't change at all # 5760 going from 2 to 4 GB
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/gtx-770-4gb-vs-2gb-tested/3/
With this such a common subject of conversation, it's surprising that there is such a dearth of test data on the subject.