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NVIDIA GTX 980Ti - First Benchmarks - Performance Equal To Titan X, Reference Card Priced At $649

The NDA for NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980Ti will be lifted tomorrow, however Chinese website ZOL has posted earlier the first official benchmarks for this new GPU.

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hiredhelp3683d ago

The R9 295 x2 still holding up :0

TheOpenWorlder3683d ago

yeah..if you like a card with buggy ass drivers, no nvidia gameworks, and no gsync + crap = go for it

ABizzel13683d ago

And you just won the stupid of the month award.

Driver issues are present on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, and are on a per game basis, the VAST majority of games have no issue with either GPU, it's newer games that haven't had a chance to get proper updates that affect the GPUs, NVIDIA is usually quicker about this since they have the most market share thus more power over PC games, but AMD is usually no more than a week or 2 behind, and a powerful card will pull through regardless.

Gameworks is so minor it's not even worth mention.

Gsync is nice, but again GPUs this high up have no need when they're running pretty much every game at 80+ fps in 1440p.

Obviously you have nothing else to add.

For the High end the R9 295x2 is the BEST VALUE without question, unless you absolutely want a single card GPU, in which case the R9 290 and GTX 970 is by far the best card for when it comes to Price and performance (290x also), everything else is just overpriced for the gains you get over the 290 / 970 / 290x (10% - 20% fps boost, for $200 - $700).

TheFirstClassic3682d ago

I've been using r9 270x with no complaints. Great performence at an even better price.

hiredhelp3682d ago

TheOpenWorlder ladies and gentlemen .... Thankyou for your crap comment.

Captain_TomAN943682d ago

Haha try harder fanboy!

Gameworks = game doesn't work (For anyone)

G-Sync = Dead on Arrival

Nvidia Drivers = accidentally having your card's fan deactivated and melting. Look it up it was a big issue.

TheFirstClassic3682d ago

Just got witcher 3 and I'm getting 40 fps on high, but with hairworks off.

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ABizzel13683d ago

Best card for the money for the top end. It's as low as $550 with rebates. That's an insane deal, for a card that won't be beat by single card GPUs for another 2+ years.

Captain_TomAN943682d ago

Except in 2 weeks by Radeon Fury but enjoy your two weeks lol

sovietsoldier3683d ago

i think ill be upgrading my 770 at that price unless the 770 gos way down then ill pick up another 770.

Razputin3683d ago

On the same boat with you. I had 2x 970s, sold one because it was enough, but now I just want this to play all my games at higher resolutions and higher framerates.

ABizzel13683d ago

Why not just buy another 970?

WheatBread3683d ago (Edited 3683d ago )

I have an itx motherboard and case.

@Razputin
Same here. I just got a 1440p 144hz monitor and while the 970 is good at 1080p, it's kinda slow at 1440p.

kingmushroom3683d ago

LMAO i was thinking the same thing Got the Msi gtx 970 3.5g
ill put what ever i get for it on the 980ti.

Kenshin_BATT0USAI3682d ago

I dunno man. 2 970s are still the best for performance vs cost.

Then again, if your mobo doesn't support sli, 980ti is the way to go.

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crazychris41243683d ago

Wow didn't think the price was gonna be that low. Would love to see what these bad boys do when in sli. Also lets hope AMD steps up with the 300 series. We need the competition.

Kleptic3683d ago

There were leaked benches of the 390x about a month or two ago putting up similar numbers, and similar prices...whatever article it was did the exact same thing; matches Titan X @ ~$600

rumors are rumors, but i bet AMD will also have a TX matching card by late summer/early fall...

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NVIDIA Smooth Motion: Up to 70% More FPS Using Driver Level Frame Gen on RTX 50 GPUs

NVIDIA’s RTX 50 “Blackwell” architecture has been a bit of a bore for us gamers. Apart from Multi Frame Generation, which has limited use-case scenarios, there isn’t much to be excited about. It is achieved using GPU-side Flip Metering. The optical field data is generated using AI models in the Tensor cores.

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PNY NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU Review

Between the price, performance and power draw, with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, NVIDIA nailed the mainstream formula.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Leveled Up With NVIDIA AI-Powered DLSS and 4K Gaming

Nvidia writes:

The Nintendo Switch 2 takes performance to the next level, powered by a custom NVIDIA processor featuring an NVIDIA GPU with dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores for stunning visuals and AI-driven enhancements.

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ZycoFox88d ago

The raytracing probably doesn't even equal a low end PC GPU, even if it did it would probably be mostly useless. They'll probably force it in some game now that will run like shit maybe 30fps at best, just because "it can do it"

B5R87d ago

Raytracing is so unnecessary for a handheld. I just hope you can turn it off.

Vits87d ago

A lot of gamers don’t realize that ray tracing isn’t really about making games look better. It’s mainly there to make development easier and cheaper, since it lets devs skip a bunch of old-school tricks to fake reflections and lighting. The visual upgrade is just a nice bonus, but that’s not the main reason the tech exists.

So you can be 100% sure that developers will try to implement it every chance they get.

RaidenBlack87d ago (Edited 87d ago )

Agree with Vits .... but also to add, if devs and designers just implement RT to a game world then it won't always work as expected. RT is not just reflections but also lighting and illumination as well. For example, If you just create a room with minimal windows, then it will look dark af, if RTGI is enabled. Devs and designers needs to sort out the game world design accordingly as well.
DF's Metro Exodus RT upgrade is an amazing reference video to go through, if anybody's interested.

darthv7287d ago

So is HDR... but they have it anyway.

thesoftware73087d ago

Some PS5 and SX games run at 30fps with RT...just like those systems, if you don't like it, turn it off.

I only say this to say, you make it seem like a problem exclusive to the Switch 2.

Neonridr87d ago (Edited 87d ago )

sour grapes much?

"It probably doesn't do it well because it's Nintendo and they suck". That's how your comment reads. Why don't you just wait and see before making these ridiculous statements?

Goodguy0188d ago

Please. I'd like to play my switch games on my 4k tv without it looking all doodoo.

PRIMORDUS88d ago

Nvidia could have said this months ago and cut the bullshit. Anyway the rumors were true.

Profchaos87d ago

Would have been nice but NDA likely prevented them from saying anything

PRIMORDUS87d ago

TBH I don't think Nvidia would have cared if they broke the NDA. A little fine they pay, and they go back to their AI shit. They don't even care about GPU's anymore. I myself would like them to leave the PC and console market.

Tacoboto87d ago

This story was written half a decade ago when the world knew Nvidia would provide the chip for Switch 2 and DLSS was taking off.

Profchaos87d ago

Yeah but similar thing happened a long time ago when 3dfx announced they were working with Sega when they took the company public Sega pulled out of the contract for the Dreamcast GPU.

In response Sega terminated the contract and went to a ultimately weaker chipset.

So there's a precedent but that Nintendo would have much Of an option its AMD, NVIDIA or Intel

Profchaos87d ago

I'm not expecting of anything from ray tracing but dlss will be the thing that sees the unit get some impossible ports.

andy8587d ago

Correct. All I'm seeing online is it'll never run FF7 Rebirth. If it can run cyberpunk it'll run it. The DLSS will help. Obviously only 30 fps but a lot don't care

Profchaos87d ago (Edited 87d ago )

Exactly right when I buy a game on switch I know what I'm getting into I'm buying a game for its portability and I'm willing to sacrifice fidelity and performance to play on a train or comfortably from a hotel room when I travel for work.

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