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hey everyone i am steve from gamers nexus net and today we're talking about the new gtx 980ti from nvidia this has just launched as part of Computex and the 980ti has had a lot of rumors around it for quite a while now but yes it is a real card it is here and there have been a few rumors that came out recently that we're on and the major one is price the gtx 980ti is priced at 650 dollars which makes it extremely competitive and puts it at about where the 780 Ti was when it first launched along with this introduction comes the price drop of the GTX 980 which was originally $550 MSRP it's at around 550 to 600 for retail depending on who you bought from and the 980 has now been dropped to $500 so you've got a 150 gap in there the Titan axe still remains at $1000 and is a bit more powerful than both of these cards the market placement for the gtx 980ti has it still strictly focused as a gaming card and this is a thin for maxwell maxwell it's very gaming focused and that's something I'll discuss in a moment it's also positioned to take advantage of virtual reality displays as they come out and of 4k and 1440 resolution monitors and to this end there's been a bigger push to focus on memory bandwidth and increased processing power themes like that looking at the core specs of the three primary cards we're talking about today we'll throw in the Titan X as well the 780ti had 2880 cuda cores on it when it first shipped and three gigabytes of video memory and this was a very powerful card for its time the GTX 980 shipped at 2048 CUDA cores so it's about 800 fewer and had 4 gigabytes of video memory and the 980ti has 28 16 cuda cores 2816 with 6 gigabytes of video memory for reference the Titan X which is a gaming focus Titan not a dual precision Titan has 3072 feet of course a bit more than the 980ti and 780ti and the Titan X also has 12 gigabytes of video memory make a note though that the CUDA cores efficiency has improved greatly with Maxwell they're about 40 percent more efficient than on Kepler and for this reason the 7 TI and 989 80 TI are not directly comparable by pure numbers when looking at core account the 780ti would be advantaged in some applications that care less about gaming related technologies or technologies like delta color compression that are definitely an aid to bandwidth and gaming tasks but may not be too useful when you're dealing with things like raw encoding so Adobe Premiere Photoshop applications like that strive for all of the processing power they can get their hands on and to this end having increased compute power would actually be beneficial for you for gamers the core count doesn't really matter too much as a raw number when you're looking between architectures because it is a nonlinear comparison we can't look at Fermi architecture and directly compare core count to Maxwell for instance and this is true for CPUs as well Intel AMD both have different architectures from generation to generation the gtx 980ti has 22 streaming multi processors or SMS and each one has 96 kilobytes of shared memory which is a pretty big increase over the 780 Ti which had 64 kilobytes of shared memory the 980ti has a 176 TM use or texture mapping units and I've described this on the website if you're curious what those are it's also got an increased memory bandwidth over the gtx 980 by 50% which puts it at three hundred thirty six point five gigabytes per second so that's one of the more noteworthy differences all the other specs are on the screen the target audience for this video card is definitely gamers it is not meant for users who want precision the Titan Z and original Titan are still better for that than even the Titan X which has 130 seconds the DP throughput of single precision processing but for gaming we don't really care about dual precision in fact it can actually be a hindrance because you're doing all this extra processing that we don't want for a video game it's not a simulation it's not a scientific application so it doesn't need that extra layer of precision the gtx 980ti has the same GM 200 GPU that the Titan X comes equipped with just with fewer cores they of them are disabled and obviously it's using less memory on the heart itself as with all Maxwell devices at least the second iteration of max why for the 750ti the architecture the technology all that's going to be the same as what I've discussed in the GTX 980 video in the past and the Titan X videos and articles Bo of the core items include things like Delta color compression which I mentioned previously it looks at Delta values frame to frame temporally of the colors presented in a game and then it uses the Delta between those two color values rather than an absolute this reduces the power required to derive the new color and rendered to the screen and all that so it improves our efficiency overall I'd like to make a quick note before getting to the benchmarks that and videos put out a lot of other news this week as well including updates on DirectX 12 which is Microsoft's product of course and I don't want anyone to confuse the fact that the DirectX 12 technologies and the gtx 980ti are not mutually exclusive you don't need the 980ti to use some of the DX 12 technologies that are being discussed this week any DX 12 feature level 12 112 underscore one is how its it on paper is going to be supportive of the conservative raster that's being discussed and of other tech for DX 12 so you don't need a TI you can get just the 980 just or Titan X or 970 or any other card that supports 12 for its feature level or 12 underscore one for the conservative raster and those other texts and AMD will be in the same boat as that's once they start pushing new cards out just to quickly go over a few of those DirectX 12 features that Nvidia and Microsoft are talking about a copy tags and other events conservative raster and volume tiled resources are the main items that are being showcased right now volume titled resources is an addition to the existing tiled resources function and DirectX this adds a third parameter to data structures when handling game assets so that's what volume tiled resources does it adds a third parameter and that third parameter can be something like volume quite simply and this ensures that for example visible components of a texture are drawn to the screen but the parts that you Chansey aren't wasted in the GP we're not burning resources retaining the full texture if only a small piece of it is used if you know what rastering is then conservative rastering is basically just an advancement on that for GPU technology and this is a feature that's not unique to the 980ti but will be available on it rastering is when the geometry of a game is translated into pixels and you can see on this image that we have here what's going on the GPU takes samples from the middle of the pixel and then it looks to determine whether that sample is inside or outside of the geometry so if you sample the middle of the pixel and it's inside the geometry then it's shown green in this image and it translates into pixels with conservative raster and it's a bit different conservative raster and counts any piece of geometry touching a pixel as in the geometry so if you have a piece of the pixel hanging in between the geometry and outside of it but it's sample is just barely outside of it it will still be counted as in the geometry and that reduces the shimmering edge of a fine line in game by including adjacent pixels and then filters them appropriately talking about the benchmarks for the 980ti we did a ton of benchmarks there are a lot of charts I tested 4k 1440 and 1080 for various games with a whole suite of video cards we excluded some of the lower end cards because it's really not within the price range of the TI so if you're looking at this you don't care about like a 250 X 78572 DTI for the most part because there are so many charts and this is so deep I recommend that you go to the article for the full benchmark information if you want to see a particular game I'll just recap it here quickly in Metro last light at 4k with high and high settings tessellation and quality the 980ti performs effectively identically to the Titan X this is within margin of error where one FPS away through this end if you're just gaming and you don't care about some of the other things that the Titan X would be good at then you should definitely be considering the 980ti perhaps in opposition to the Titan X and save quite a bit of money the 780ti sits at 35 FPS below the 980 now there is current a driver issue with a 7/8 700 series cards including the 780ti where they're underperforming that's being worked on but either way it's clear that there is a large gain and performance with the 980ti over the last generations card looking at shadow of mordor on 4k we replaced a CEO on our benchmark with shadow of Mordor the Titan X and 980ti again are just barely outside of margin of error so there is a real difference here the Titan Max is just better by a small difference of 2 FPS and then the 980 s at 35 FPS so that's a bigger jump it's got much lower 0.1% values as well at 24 verses 30 and 33 1440 the Titan axis again 2 FPS ahead of the 980ti the 980 s at 62 FPS well within playable range and even the 780 Ti the 970 the 290x are all fine 285 s getting a bit on the the slower side to the point where you wouldn't be able to play for 1440 with this here's a few other charts like Far Cry 4 grid I've got the Witcher as well and the Witcher is worth noting we disabled hair works anti-aliasing and used SSAO for this right more linear comparison with the test we've already done which were inclusive of AMD and AMD is not very good at tessellation so they're not very good with hair works so that is all for the benchmarks I'm showing you a couple more here just in case but do check the article linked in the description below for the full review including a discussion of the architecture and things like that if you're not familiar with it from the previous cards the 980ti is an interesting device it launched at $650 which makes it extremely competitive even with NVIDIA zone Titan Max and it's very similar to a Titan X I don't want to say that it's basically a Titan X because there are some core differences literally there are fewer cores and there's the half the vram games right now don't use 12 gigabytes of video RAM not that I can find at least and very few of them use more than for a couple will if it's available but the performance gap does start doing the lane depending on which game they're testing so 6 gigabytes is ample and the core count on the 980ti is certainly ample as well it's basically the same performance as the Titan act with the games we tested and if you're playing similar games you're considering these two cards I would push you hard toward the 980ti it is a significant value game over the TX the 980 is now 500 dollars and it might be 550 after the the manufacturer changes and that's a big enough difference where you should still be strongly considering a 980 as well depending on what your budget is the ti is a good performance gain at higher resolutions at 1080 the 980 is still a very strong card it's not going anywhere it does fine with 1440 on some games especially most games with settings lowered but the 980ti is a better performer for the higher resolutions like 4k most definitely and 1440 at times were the 988 falls flat and then Andy's closest competition that I have available is the 290x they of course have the 295x2 video card but that is a dual GPU solution and is not directly comparable to a single GPU solution like the 980 TI so I'm not going to draw those comparisons because they're not comparable they're very different in their execution of what they're trying to do and I just don't have one so I can't test it anyway the 290x is still a cheap card I hesitate sometimes with recommending AMD right now strictly because of the driver the slowness of driver updates and that's not me being mean the AMD it's if you look at their drivers December was the last day will update and then they did put out a beta patch just recently for The Witcher 3 so that's good at least they're doing stuff like that but at the end of the day if you're looking at the 980 TI it's because you're ready to spend 500 plus dollars so I would strongly suggest looking at these charts for the 980 TI 980 and Titan X I would say probably eliminate the Titan X unless you have a specific reason to buy it and I would not be aware of that reason so that's up to you the 980 TI is a good card for high resolutions 980 is still very strong even at the high resolutions but the hundreds $150 gap is enough to make you consider depending on how much money you've got available for this build if you want the the TI or the 980 and the 980 TI is very good value happy with a card and it performs well and then for things like premier and Photoshop if you're mostly doing that and not gaming then and you've got a 780ti that's still a perfectly good card for those types of tasks and I don't know that I'd recommend upgrading right now unless your card sort of on its last legs or if you could use the extra video memory and that just depends on what you're doing which applications you're using you'll have to research that so that is all for this video card check the link in the description below for the full article and of course if you like our work please check out our patreon page this is a new drive we're doing to help generate additional funding for all these lights and the new set we're building stuff like that I will see you all next time thanks for watching you