Yet another PCB photo appeared with on it, a GPU seated. This time it is the GP104-400-A1 GPU which which would be the 3rd Pascal GPU surfacing, and kind of seems to confirm a 980 Ti successor, the interesting find here is that is has gDDR5X memory tied to it. http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-pascal-gp104-gpu-photo-surfaces-and-shows-gddr5x-memory.html
This could very well launch late 2016 with gddr5x whatever this is, the 1080ti. Since the mass production of gddr5x is still not active if I remember correctly. They did send samples already tho so the picture makes perfect sense.
https://www.micron.com/about/blogs/2016/february/gddr5x-has-arrived Available in 8Gbit density only = 1GB per chip => reason why 8 chips only = 256bit interface Apparently available as 13Gbps top, with 8 chips that's 416GB/s. What was Bandwidth on GTX 980 Ti? 337GB/s. That's 23.4% higher memory bandwidth and that's +- performance gain I would expect from this GPU (bit more if nVidia again improved compression).
Looking forward to actual reviews, but all these leaks will (as always) fulfill their purpose of hyping things up.
Little too early for my taste. Sure, we don't know exact details, but overall they've pretty much spilled the beans. This could turn into a boring launch, unless there is some secret sauce, or unexpected surprise.
1500Mhz Core 980-Ti are already +35% or even +40% better than retail version (1075Mhz boost core). They better bring some fat cookies to the table if they expect people to upgrade. And how overclockable are those new ships gonna be compared to 9XX serie?
All of these chips will fit in laptops. The GP104-400 will be the single card 200W limit for VR notebooks, with 180W variants.
Rule of thumb is to subtract 50 watts to know if it will be viable for MXM 3.0b. Full GTX 980 can be done and has been deveopled using 130eatts. Energy sweetspots make it possible. I knew 100% in 2014 when I had 3 way 980s that I essentially bought 3 notebook GPUs.
Entirely possible. Unrelated, this kind of stuff is probably the ONLY useful crap that comes out of that clickbait site.