NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card Priced At $649
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB video card is no longer under embargo and we are finishing up our review on the card. We were hoping to get Windows 10 drivers from NVIDIA before the card launched, but that failed to happen. We were really curious to see how DirectX 12 performance was looking and to open up the DirectX Caps Viewer and see what feature level support was being offered by the second generation Maxwell card before we published our review!
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB is priced at $640 and will include a bundled copy of Batman: Arkham Knight. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 is moving down to the $499 price point, which is a nice $50 price drop. No other changes were made to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX line-up, so it now looks like this:
- GeForce GTX TITAN X: $999
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti: $649
- GeForce GTX 980: $499
- GeForce GTX 970: $329
- GeForce GTX 960: $199
The GM200 ‘Maxwell’ GPU used in the GeForce GTX 980 Ti video card ships with 22 SM units and has 2816 CUDA Cores enabled. There are 176 texture units, 3MB of L2 cache and 96 ROPs. The GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 38% more CUDA Cores and texture units than a GeForce GTX 980. The TDP on the card is 250W, which is the same as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti runs at a base clock frequency of 1000MHz, while the boost clock speed is 1075MHz. The 6GB of GDDR5 memory on the GeForce GTX 980 Ti uses a 384-bit memory interface running at 7GHz effective memory clock. Peak memory bandwidth is 336.5GB/sec!
NVIDIA also has the GeForce GTX 980 Ti reference card crushing the AMD Radeon R9 290X at 4K Ultra HD resolutions. AMD’s Radeon R9 290X isn’t really in the same price category as the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, but it’s the best single-GPU card in AMD’s arsenal right now.
Hopefully this bit of information will hold you over until our review is up later this week!