Waiting for 980?

[RahiSan]

Smicha: I'm living in Austria, so i bought it at a shop called cyberport in Vienna.

I also think that with new drivers the performance should increase, but I didn't want to wait until that happens.

[smicha]

From the tests http://www.extremetech.com/computing/19 ... 0-review/3
it is clear that 980 is 47% faster than 680.

But 680 on octane scores 2.7-3 ms/s, while 580 scores 3.5 ms/s. So simple calculations lead us to conclusion that 980 should score with good drivers at about 1.47*3=4.5 which is the result guys from overclock.net reported. 980 gives 4.5ms/s (and massively overclocked) while 780 scores 7.3 ms/s @stock. That's it!

I am more and more convinced that 980 is a piece of crap. I don't buy this story about 170W and green nvidia - reality shows it sucks 285W. How can we talk about new technology if it still uses 28nm and has 2x6 power connectors and 2048 cuda cores. 980 should have 4000 cuda cores, full size chip, 2x8 power pins, suck as much electricity from my wall that light would go off, and I don't care if it is 250W or 400W. We have 1600 PSU to handle 4 such beasts, and if this is not enough we can connect another one. 580 was my fist gpu and it is still fantastic card. But this 980 is just a joke.

Maybe this is only me but 900 series is a complete disappointment. And imagine that TITAN 2 will have 4096 cuda cores and will score e.g. 9ms/s - which is slightly above 780Ti.

I hope I get 3x 780 6gb by Monday, watercool them, overclock'em heavily and will hear how my 1350W PSU (1500W at peak) sucks current from my walls.

[riggles]

Oh my goodness. This card has been out for like a day. Calm down.

[geo_n]

Maxwell based cards are also slow rendering displacements. Guess its not optimized yet.

[enigmasi]

I've heard that 9xx series will be replacement of 6xx series, so don't expect too much about cuda side

[glimpse]

I hope I get 3x 780 6gb by Monday, watercool them, overclock'em heavily and will hear how my 1350W PSU (1500W at peak) sucks current from my walls.

that's an evil plan =) grab them while You can! =) pluss You'll have extra 2Gb of vRam, that might be helpful on the long run =)

[smicha]

Thanks glimpse. I'll do my best

[glimpse]

p.s. Might be too early judge performance in Octane =) I know that it's the same Maxwell as in 750Ti, but it has been updated:

http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelfora ... ever-made/ - guess, compute capability, CUDA version does make a difference as probably OTOY should make some code adjustments =)

for me anyway, these 4gigs is a no go..- better more power draw, bit more heat, but more vRam too =)

[eklein]

Their might be samothing going on with Octane or drivers on this test. Check this http://www.sweclockers.com/recension/19 ... 6#pagehead notice the performance test for Cycles CUDA rendering in Blender 2.71. The 970 has the same performance as 780ti. The 980 is at least 15% faster than the 780ti.

[Seekerfinder]

How can we talk about new technology if it still uses 28nm and has 2x6 power connectors and 2048 cuda cores. 980 should have 4000 cuda cores

My thoughts exactly...
Seeker