Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards

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Whoa. Wait. everyone's changing the price to $329.00.. . This is what I hate. Yesterday they said It'll go on sale for $299.00 and today it's $329.00. I'm sorry I quoted you guys wrong the price. My bad.
 
This is a no brainer. If you already have an Nvidia 780 or 780 TI then you do not need to upgrade to either of these. However, if you have anything before those it is more than worth the upgrade for multiple reasons. I'm personally going to wait for the next version which is probably going to be the 980 TI in preparation for the consumer version of oculus rift 🙂
 
There's going to be a boatload of 670 and 680 GPUs flooding the used market now by those of us who held out over the 7-series. I'll take two 670s in SLI for $700 Alex! And I won't even need to upgrade my power supply and will have lower power consumption than my 680s....just...wow.
 
Why is it that my fav tech site - ie. Toms is always so SLOW to do reviews on GPU's?

Other sites already have reviews up for this card.

Can someone from Toms please cast some light on WHY your GPU reviews especially for Flagship GPU releases are always so late? The same exact problem happened with the R9-290x as well.

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So the story goes. 2 years ago, I bought a HD7950, thinking it'll last me to 2016. Just 4 years. In 2012, it was the top of the line card from AMD. I spent those years doing everything I can to stay up with the BF 3 & 4 gamers. OC'd it, modified the cooling system with fans, air dams, and watercooling. It was so tired when the psu took it out, I didn't have words for it's death, but the power hate from above, for the Coursair RM 750 psu. Just 2 years. That's how long my 7950 lasted.

 
Toms doesn't have to be the first, if you want a review fast you can look around the internet however toms is one of the most in dept which does take more time and really I don't mind. If I want info fast I am going to look elsewhere and there are a 1000 places to look. One more outlet telling the same story is not going to change anything here.
 
As another guy said: HDMi 2.0 is all I care about.
Ain't got no 780Ti to upgrade anyway but I do have a UHD tv to run at 60Hz for desktop. And lower TDP is always good. Power prices after taxes of all sorts is $0.50/kWh here.
 
It will be good to see AMD bring a competing product to market, not because you would necessarily want to buy it but it would push Nvidia to drop prices on these cards and release something better just like they dropped the price of GTX 770 and 780 and released the GTX 780 Ti after the release of the R9 290 and 290X.
 
The problem is that amd can't compete on power without completely ripping up gcn architecture. They are simply unable to make efficient gpus or cpus and have to resort to brute force.
 


It hasn't always been like that. The HD 5000 series were amazing. The competing product from Nvidia was the GeForce 400 series and they couldn't touch AMD/ATI for efficiency. I think Nvidia learn't a valuable lesson out of that and have come a very long way since then.
 


but it will break your wallet ... Don`t get me wrong .. i like this lower power consumption idea but for guys who already have a 780 or something similar getting this card for lower power bills .. at the cost of high price in the first place makes no sense ..since you`ll be spending your economy on the card itself ...
 


The GT 730 is the only card that got a full recommendation on that list this month.
The list though is all about performance per dollar, which is where AMD excels.
The list doesn't take into account Nvidia only features, power usage, heat, noise or quality of drivers which are all the reasons people keep buying Nvidia.
 
Waiting for the real test results. But it is nice to see that Nvidia has a change to compete AMD also in the price. But at this moment it remains to be seeing. The efficiency is definitely nice thing to see!
And if you have 780 or similar, then it may not be worth upgrading. Same as with CPUs...
 
the heat-sink no longer uses a vapor-chamber base ,it uses a base plate which reduces thermal capacity slightly. but hope other third party coolers from ASUS or EVGA change it to a vapor-chamber base .
 
I like this one. Overclocking should be a lot easier to accomplish with these new cards, or if you're like me and like to run them at stock, the noise levels (on an already excellent cooler) should be a fair bit lower. Tack $200 savings on a 780Ti for roughly the same performance and it's an attractive package.

It should also give NVidia some competitive agility to OC the Ti version significantly when they respond to the Radeon 390's.

Overall a good package. Well done!
 
CBA to read through all of these. Just gonna correct the most common misconceptions that the comment thread is being flooded with.

1) GTX 970 is amazing. Hexus.net did a test of EVGA factory-OCd one and it's within 5% of the stock GTX 980, go figure. Beast of a card, upgrading to if from my 560 Ti when I can have a friend bring it to me from the US. Unless GTX 960 comes out and costs less (like $250 which I got my 560 Ti for) and can be factory OCd to stock 970 level 😛

2) Maxwell architecture fixed the issue of narrow memory bus crippling performance by adding a considerable amount of L2 cache to the GPU. A 256-bit bus doesn't SOUND good, but the performance is just as good or better than a Titan with its 384-bit.

3) Lolwut, dropping TDP to 145W isn't worth it on GTX 970? Get real, the closes card out there in terms of TDP is GTX 670 with 170 W, and it has HALF the performance. Maxwell is an amazing breakthrough, you can now build badass Mini ITX gaming rigs wihtout even thinking of water cooling (except maybe for CPU)! Who was it there who wanted to take two 670s in SLI for $700? 10tacle? Well, you'd SERIOUSLY lose out. Factory OCd 970 is double performance with less power consumption than a SINGLE 670 and costs only about $350. How about that?

For real, guys, when are you going to study the new architecture and its benchmarks a little bit before bashing what you think isn't good? NVIDIA isn't stupid, there's a reason there's a Maxwell in every decent laptop with dedicated graphics and not... whatever AMD calls its most recent cards, I'm sick of trying to follow every new code name they cook up every month or two.
 
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