When is the GTX 800 Series release date?

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to be honest, i'm not an advance PC user and i don't even know what's the meaning of 20 or 28 nm and how does it work in the real life.
can u explain that to me if u don't mind, buddy? that will help me a lot :)
but, from my little knowledge of GPU, i think that 880 won't left 780 too far behind. and i think that won't do more than 40 fps on metro last light at 1600p resolution.
am i right?
 


http://www.techpowerup.com/199750/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-detailed.html
 


that 20nm/28nm thing is related to die shrink. both nvidia and amd needs that so they can get better performance without making their die getting any bigger. that is to explained it in the simplest manner.but right now going into smaller node become much harder than before due to physics limitation so it is much more complicated then before.

about 880 performance we might want to see AMD next top end performance first. usually nvidia will let AMD come out with their next gen gpu first. then nvidia will counter AMD performance accordingly with their part and price.
 
Rumors are toying with our minds! Earlier today, another rumor has emerged with the leaked specs of the GTX 880, and actually seems realistic. I don't know what to think anymore, I just know that it will be expensive, and my body is ready. But my wallet... not so much.

http://www.custompcreview.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-rumored-july-launch/20631/
 


vRam bandwidth looks weirdly low...
 


 


It really does, especially for a flagship card in 2014. I thought this had something to do with Nvidia's plans for unified virtual memory for Maxwell, but then I remembered at GTC 2014, unified virtual memory was "reassigned" to Pascal. This is still just a rumor, so I wouldn't take these specs 100% seriously.
 


Yeah I suspect you are right. Fingers crossed its actually the specs for the 860! if so, ill buy one lol!
 


i'm no gpu architecture expert but i heard saying that the increase of L2 cache in maxwell will compensate the lack of bandwidth in maxwell.
 


so far it is still speculation. but for sure 880 will be faster than current gen flagship (780 Ti). if the card end up slower it will not going to inherit the GTX x8x moniker.
 


I would be surprised. Their maxwell arcitecture should be 135% faster than the kepler(per core), and the gtx 880 has 3200 cores, which i guess should be faster.

The question is when is the 880 gonna come out then? If they release it now, they need it to be high price like the 780 ti to get good sales and not loose on the 780ti.

I think it will be very late this year or early next year. Maybe a little earlier if AMD makes a move.
 


I'm sure that the 880 is going to be faster than the gtx 880 however the 780 ti is a special edition card.

A TI series flagship in the lineup is unprecedented in Nvidia's recent future.

Based on the rumor that AMD is developing a card that has over 4000 stream processor cores, 7 ghz ram and a 512 mbit interface, I think that the Nvidia flagship will have to have a lot more power than the rumored specs to humble the beast mentioned above.

Maybe a 880 to succeed the 780 and a 880 ti to succeed the 780 ti?
 
I read somewhere that the GTX 880 will be the true successor to the GTX 680. It will use the GM 204 GPU and therefore, it will not be at the same level as the GTX 780. But with the advancement of the Maxwell architecture and the performance to watt ratio, I wouldn't be surprised if the GTX 880 still comes out on top. I've seen rumors that it will require only a single 6-pin power connector. But I read that it will have a 230w TDP. That does not make sense, though, since the GTX 680 used only 195w on full load, making that GPU the most power-efficient high-end GPU on record.
 


I have no doubts that the gtx 880 will be faster than the 780 however faster than 780ti is questionable.

 


to be honest i was expecting it to be like this: 880 will be true successor to 770/680 in terms of silicon (GK104 -> GM204) while performing a bit faster than 780 Ti (maybe in 15%-20% range). the true successor to 780 Ti will be 980/980Ti which is based on GM200/GM210 and it will significantly faster than current 780 Ti.

and about the R9 390X rumor while the spec seem impressive will AMD able to come out it sooner? for sure i don't think AMD will use 28nm node with such massive spec. on nvidia side some rumor already circulating about 880 based on GM204 will use TSMC 28nm node and will be launch around june or july frame time. if this is true then AMD might not be able to counter 880 soon enough. and by the time AMD coming out with R9 390X nvidia will most likely have big Maxwell to counter it. well that is if nvidia decides to attack with 28nm GM204. but if nvidia have no plans for other maxwell part with 28nm node then we could see nvidia coming out with GM200/210 based GTX880 to counter R9 390X directly.

but above else it really pissed me off to see GM204 as a $700 gpu. gpu based on GM204 should sell for sub $250 range. $300 maximum.
 


My best guess based on rumored specs is 10%-15%. I don't think this is a 780ti replacement. Remember the 750 was a 640 replacement. This looks more like a base 770 replacement. Hopefully that means it comes in around $300. The 780ti replacement will probably be marketed as 890ti. They are filling out the mid range before going to the high end in order to ramp 20nm volume and bring down costs / increase yields (you sell a lot more <$300 cards then $500-$1,000+) and because the die size of a 890ti would have way to low of a yield. The perfect 780s - the one's where you can turn on all the cores - are probably being binned for release as 890s later this year.
 
I don't think this is a 780ti replacement.
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at least silicon wise. just like 680 is not true successor to 580

This looks more like a base 770 replacement. Hopefully that means it comes in around $300
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if 880 based GM204 end up being faster than 780 Ti it could be replacing 780Ti place in $699 pricing mark. current MSRP for 770 is $329 but when nvidia first come up with GK104 with it was $499 with GTX680. not to mention the $329 mark was a nvidia response to AMD new price structure with their R series which originally set for $399 mark. so i bet if nvidia making 880 based of GM204 they will targeting $500-$700 mark.

The 780ti replacement will probably be marketed as 890ti
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maybe it will be 980. the x90 designation usually used for their dual gpu. it is very possible for nvidia to make 890 based on two GM204

They are filling out the mid range before going to the high end in order to ramp 20nm volume and bring down costs / increase yields (you sell a lot more <$300 cards then $500-$1,000+) and because the die size of a 890ti would have way to low of a yield.
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i think this is the problem right now. TSMC 20nm node. i heard that TSMC will only offering 20nm for SoC which is not really suitable process for manufacturing GPU.

 


They just announced the GTX Titan Z so I assume they will release the GTX 800 Series a month after the GTX Titan Z official release.
 


yep. thanks for that. at the very least we should know that the GM204 is a real part....and most likely still on 28nm :) .
 


Which would be a shame I reckon 🙁 considering how TMSC is is pressing ahead with smaller nodes for different processors.
 
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