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I was thinking a generation ahead I think. Just remembered the 780Ti was a big deal because it was fully enabled and was so much cheaper than the the Titan.
 
780 6GB did exist though. EVGA initially intend to make 780Ti 6GB as well. but it seems nvidia did not allow that to happen because they want to push people into buying titan black if they want 6GB (and i don't like this move from nvidia). i believe there are people want 8GB 980 and 970 as well. if 970 have 8GB model then people most likely will not care much about it's memory segmentation fiasco. but in the end we know nvidia can't give 980/970 8GB treatment because 980ti was set to have 6GB in the future. part of it it does not make sense for slower card to have more memory than slower card. 960 4GB allowed to exist because it's memory did not exceed the amount on 980/970. if 8GB 980/970 exist people will demand 980ti with more than 6GB VRAM. and obviously nvidia can't give 12GB on 980ti because that 12GB is "exclusive" for the titan.

nvidia memory config made a lot more sense this generation save for 1060 3GB maybe. but those 1060 3GB was meant to be cheaper alternative to the original 1060. some people said it should have at least 4 but if nvidia really do that then they will be forced with weird memory config once again which end up making the last 1GB a bit more "problematic" to be used in games.
 
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35% faster than a 1080, overclocks another 15-20% on the stock cooler, 11GB of GDDR5X all for .......drum roll.....$699!

Exactly what I paid for my 980 Ti!

So much for not blowing any money this month. :)

Seriously that's about $200 less than I thought it was going to be.
 
I can't not get one at that price especially as my 980 Ti should bring ~$300. That reduces my out of pocket costs and makes it too good a deal to pass up.

If it had been $899 like I expected I would have waited a while. As is I'll probably buy one in April.
 

The live stream was terrible for me and kept dropping out. I missed those announcements.
 


Don't worry, Nvidia will have their stream uploaded on youtube or twitch. They usually always do that.
 
11gb vram.... wtf? what kind of config is that? is part of it gimped? $699 is sweet, where i hoped it would be. 2.1-2.2ghz looks to be the sweet spot for aftermarket usual suspects if the stock nvidia cooler can already give up 2.0ghz. kingpin said the titanxp chip wanted to go higher than 2.0ghz but the power delivery design was holding it back, along with the high stock temps. but with a 30% overclock at 2.0ghz+ that chip is an absolute gaming beast pretty much matching sli 1070s.
 
It's a good announcement and they didn't go for another 970 this time. They did cut the VRAM that was not going to be accessible like the rest. Good for them.

I am wary of the ROP count, but the Mhz bump should more than compensate. Was the Titan XP a good OC'er? I would imagine max-OC vs max-OC the Titan XP might edge out the 1080ti, but the price still makes the new ti the better deal.

Overall, I think it was a good announcement for consumers, specially with the 1080 discount. I gotta admit that is very tempting.

Cheers!
 


my take is the chip used in 1080ti are "harvested" the same way nvidia did for GTX970. just look at 1080ti ROP count. it is less than titan XP ROP count despite having the same amount of CUDA core available to them. maybe they can put 12GB on the card but that will make another "memory gate" fiasco. so this time they just put 11GB on the card and be done with it. no more faster and slower VRAM portion like 970.
 


the VRAM still accessible but nvidia will need extra effort on the driver side so there is no issue when the card start accessing the slow portion of the VRAM. having own 660 and 970 i have experienced it first hand what kind of issue they can have with such weird memory config. though the thing nvidia did with 970 is a whole lot better than what they did with previous card such as 660.
 
here is Tom's write up on the 1080ti announcement http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,33775.html

seems the odd 11 GB of ram was needed due to the disabled memory controller. not looked into it much at all but i assume the missing controller would be needed to manage an extra 1 gb of ram, so that gb had to go. that and the ROP that was disabled was probably feed by the missing ram and thus was not needed. either way, looks like a winner to me.

dropping the price of the 1080 $100 and more than likely trickling down to the lower cards is the best news to me. i don't need nor want this beast but love being able to get the others at a cheaper cost. now waiting for Vega to finishing sorting out what is what and i'm all in for a new build. :)
 


According to the announcement, NVidia will allow board partners to spec faster memory when ordering future 1080's and 1060's for their designs.
 
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