So, the 970 and 980 have launched. Great cards, though I'm a little disappointed that they are having a 256 bit memory interface. Why don't NVIDIA produce wider memory interfaces now if they used to do it for the 5xx series cards? 224GB/s seems a little low compared to the 320GB/s of the 290x and the 336 GB/s of the 780Ti, even though the 980 is faster than the 780Ti, and has insane memory clocks - more than 7GHz!
It just doesn't make sense to me that they're going for the small improvement in frequency rather than the large one in bit width. I saw the overclocking profile of the 290x Lightning and it was 1600 MHz memory for a total of 432 GB/s! I was like what the heck!
What do others think? Is there a logic behind this that I'm missing?
It just doesn't make sense to me that they're going for the small improvement in frequency rather than the large one in bit width. I saw the overclocking profile of the 290x Lightning and it was 1600 MHz memory for a total of 432 GB/s! I was like what the heck!
What do others think? Is there a logic behind this that I'm missing?