in February 2013 NVIDIA introduced the
world to the concept of the1 th000 MSRP
graphics card with an obscene amount of video memory 6 gigs then 3 months after
that they gave us a slightly cut down GPU with half as much RAM for a much
lower price now it looks like the cycle
is repeating 3 months ago NVIDIA refreshed the Titan with the new Titan X
also $11,000 very high performance and loaded with vram 12 gigs this time
around and now they're giving us the gtx980 ti a slightly cut down Titan x
with half as much vram at a much lower price so does it impress or is it a mess
let's find
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would tell you about the looks of the gtx980ti if I thought there would be any
point to doing such a thing it looks like every other Enthusiast grade
graphics card out of NVIDIA in the last couple of years I mean come on you guys
at least change something I mean RGB is cool these days Razer even made an RGB
mouse pad how about RGB Lighting on top of the card something GH
well we'll do the tour pretty quickly then this time around next to the green
and only green GeForce logo our two SLI fingers on the left for up to four-way
SLI support and a six pin and8 pin for
power on the right the card connects to your motherboard with a backwards
compatible PCI Express 16x gen 3 plug and to your display with any or all
three of the DisplayPort 1.2 connectors enabling up to 4K surround g-sync if
you're into that sort of thing or you can slum it with DVID or HDMI 2.0 if
you're not specs wise there are no major
surprises if you watched our video on the GTX Titan x a little while back it's
pretty much that except minus some it's based on the same gm200 core features
the same base and boost clock speeds at 1 GHz and 1075 MHz the same 384-bit
memory bus connected to the same 7 GHz gddr5 and the same 250 W TDP as its
bigger blacker brother with only the reduction in SMS from 24 to 22 so about
a 10% reduction in cacor and texture units and memory from 12 gigs to a still
very beefy 6 gigs to differentiate it
which is really interesting to me I mean what purpose exactly then did the
titanex serve at ,000 to give Gamers eager to have the
big Kepler architecture core a less than
thre Monon head start on gm200 performance because after GTX 780
launched you could make Arguments for the Titan and the Titan black that came
later along the lines of well they're also you know great compute cards with
fp64 double Precision performance that's Leaps and Bounds ahead of the gaming
cards not the case this time and with
gtx980ti coming in at $350 less than Titan X the only reason
to buy the King of the Hill seems to be bragging rights as we'll see when we
look at the performance numbers for now let's talk Tech though because as usual
NVIDIA is launching some new stuff alongside their sexy new GPU their new
VR features sound really interesting I mean we've been stuck at 28 nmet chips
plumbed up to gddr5 for a long time so
it takes a very different sort of innovation to squeeze more and more
performance out of what is at a very base level pretty darn similar
technology and that's where stuff like third gen Delta a color compression
comes in to make the most of the available memory bandwidth and seems to
also have been the inspiration alongside the very demanding requirements like
high frame rate stereo 3D rendering and high resolution for VR for NVIDIA's use
of multi-res shading as a way for the GPU to render less of a frame in virtual
reality to realize anywhere from a 1.3 to 2x performance gain by effectively
not bothering with pixels that would have been cut off if in the required
fisheye conversion we hope anyway we're still waiting for retail head-mounted
displays to verify any of that and GNC got some updates too some of which are
not even remotely related to this graphics card like the fact that g-sync
for laptops is Now official instead of some weird leaked driver from ASUS but
more on topic Window mode works now so fullcreen Window mode Gamers will be
able to take advantage of the undeniably better experience that is variable
refresh rate gaming DirectX 12 feature
level 12.1 is another interesting one it's not really new per se since other
Maxwell cards and even AMD's Tonga gpus will support it but we have more details
about directx12 so lots of DirectX 10 or
11 cards can take advantage of the lower CPU overhead and more bare metal
programming techniques to squeeze extra performance from the GPU we already knew
this but now we know that only card
supporting level 12.1 will get some newer prettier rendering features all
right so with that out of the way Luke's on a plane to Taiwan so I'm going to
talk performance today this baby was hooked up to our usual x99 platform with
16 gigs of ddr4 memory a core I 759 30k and ASUS x99 Deluxe and all of that and
we ran using the latest beta drivers from both AMD and NVIDIA with a focus on
recent Andor demanding games at 4K resolution no cards were
overclocked and there was really only one surprise here the GTX 9 80ti
performed just about the same like within our margin of error as the Titan
X across the board I had to rerun the numbers a couple of times just to be
sure but after some tinkering I figured
out what was going on I think r980 TI
whether it's thanks to some extra power budget from the fewer functional units
or just a lucky sample naturally boosts
up its clock speed higher than our Titan X in the same operating environment on
the same driver in the same games as far
as overclocking goes I'm not sure where the two will end relative to each other
maybe let me know in the comments if you want to see an overclocked 980ti
followup to this video but at stock speed don't be fooled by the similarity
in price and product name between the GTX 980 and the 980 TI if you're an
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a dumbass you're buying at least if you're shopping on the NVIDIA side a GTX
9 70 or a 980 TI with the Titan X and
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