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in February 2013 NVIDIA introduced the

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world to the concept of the1 th000 MSRP

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graphics card with an obscene amount of video memory 6 gigs then 3 months after

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that they gave us a slightly cut down GPU with half as much RAM for a much

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lower price now it looks like the cycle

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is repeating 3 months ago NVIDIA refreshed the Titan with the new Titan X

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also $11,000 very high performance and loaded with vram 12 gigs this time

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around and now they're giving us the gtx980 ti a slightly cut down Titan x

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with half as much vram at a much lower price so does it impress or is it a mess

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let's find

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out the Corsair HX 1200i power supply

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link digital for advanced monitoring and control click my face to learn more so I

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would tell you about the looks of the gtx980ti if I thought there would be any

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point to doing such a thing it looks like every other Enthusiast grade

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graphics card out of NVIDIA in the last couple of years I mean come on you guys

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at least change something I mean RGB is cool these days Razer even made an RGB

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mouse pad how about RGB Lighting on top of the card something GH

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well we'll do the tour pretty quickly then this time around next to the green

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and only green GeForce logo our two SLI fingers on the left for up to four-way

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SLI support and a six pin and8 pin for

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power on the right the card connects to your motherboard with a backwards

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compatible PCI Express 16x gen 3 plug and to your display with any or all

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three of the DisplayPort 1.2 connectors enabling up to 4K surround g-sync if

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you're into that sort of thing or you can slum it with DVID or HDMI 2.0 if

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you're not specs wise there are no major

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surprises if you watched our video on the GTX Titan x a little while back it's

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pretty much that except minus some it's based on the same gm200 core features

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the same base and boost clock speeds at 1 GHz and 1075 MHz the same 384-bit

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memory bus connected to the same 7 GHz gddr5 and the same 250 W TDP as its

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bigger blacker brother with only the reduction in SMS from 24 to 22 so about

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a 10% reduction in cacor and texture units and memory from 12 gigs to a still

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very beefy 6 gigs to differentiate it

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which is really interesting to me I mean what purpose exactly then did the

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titanex serve at ,000 to give Gamers eager to have the

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big Kepler architecture core a less than

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thre Monon head start on gm200 performance because after GTX 780

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launched you could make Arguments for the Titan and the Titan black that came

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later along the lines of well they're also you know great compute cards with

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fp64 double Precision performance that's Leaps and Bounds ahead of the gaming

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cards not the case this time and with

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gtx980ti coming in at $350 less than Titan X the only reason

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to buy the King of the Hill seems to be bragging rights as we'll see when we

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look at the performance numbers for now let's talk Tech though because as usual

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NVIDIA is launching some new stuff alongside their sexy new GPU their new

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VR features sound really interesting I mean we've been stuck at 28 nmet chips

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plumbed up to gddr5 for a long time so

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it takes a very different sort of innovation to squeeze more and more

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performance out of what is at a very base level pretty darn similar

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technology and that's where stuff like third gen Delta a color compression

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comes in to make the most of the available memory bandwidth and seems to

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also have been the inspiration alongside the very demanding requirements like

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high frame rate stereo 3D rendering and high resolution for VR for NVIDIA's use

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of multi-res shading as a way for the GPU to render less of a frame in virtual

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reality to realize anywhere from a 1.3 to 2x performance gain by effectively

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not bothering with pixels that would have been cut off if in the required

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fisheye conversion we hope anyway we're still waiting for retail head-mounted

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displays to verify any of that and GNC got some updates too some of which are

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not even remotely related to this graphics card like the fact that g-sync

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for laptops is Now official instead of some weird leaked driver from ASUS but

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more on topic Window mode works now so fullcreen Window mode Gamers will be

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able to take advantage of the undeniably better experience that is variable

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refresh rate gaming DirectX 12 feature

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level 12.1 is another interesting one it's not really new per se since other

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Maxwell cards and even AMD's Tonga gpus will support it but we have more details

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about directx12 so lots of DirectX 10 or

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11 cards can take advantage of the lower CPU overhead and more bare metal

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programming techniques to squeeze extra performance from the GPU we already knew

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this but now we know that only card

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supporting level 12.1 will get some newer prettier rendering features all

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right so with that out of the way Luke's on a plane to Taiwan so I'm going to

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talk performance today this baby was hooked up to our usual x99 platform with

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16 gigs of ddr4 memory a core I 759 30k and ASUS x99 Deluxe and all of that and

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we ran using the latest beta drivers from both AMD and NVIDIA with a focus on

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recent Andor demanding games at 4K resolution no cards were

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overclocked and there was really only one surprise here the GTX 9 80ti

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performed just about the same like within our margin of error as the Titan

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X across the board I had to rerun the numbers a couple of times just to be

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sure but after some tinkering I figured

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out what was going on I think r980 TI

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whether it's thanks to some extra power budget from the fewer functional units

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or just a lucky sample naturally boosts

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up its clock speed higher than our Titan X in the same operating environment on

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the same driver in the same games as far

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as overclocking goes I'm not sure where the two will end relative to each other

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maybe let me know in the comments if you want to see an overclocked 980ti

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followup to this video but at stock speed don't be fooled by the similarity

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a dumbass you're buying at least if you're shopping on the NVIDIA side a GTX

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