Nvidia Previewed Unreleased Graphics Card At "Secret" Meeting

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What could Nvidia be hiding up their sleeve?

The yet unannounced board is said to be launching “soon” and was showcased to attendees of the “secret” meeting this past week. Interestingly we’ve not found any leak pertaining to this upcoming product launch, so it’s definitely been one of Nvidia’s better well kept secrets.
 
Well there is the GTX 980 for laptops, has that one been released yet?
 
Wolfkin said:
Well there is the GTX 980 for laptops, has that one been released yet?
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That's been announced on nvidia's website and companies like Clevo and whatever have already announced that they will sell designs based around it so it's probably something else. Maybe Pascal on 16nm transistors or something using an AMD-like HBM would be my guess, but what do I know? I'm just a forum troll. :p
 
GTX990 dual Maxwell according to a source that was there.
 
Secret meeting in New York City huh... Must be nice to spend money like that and poor ol AMD is cash strap lol :p

I hear its going to be a single slot gpu just like the old days




:D
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That's been announced on nvidia's website and companies like Clevo and whatever have already announced that they will sell designs based around it so it's probably something else. Maybe Pascal on 16nm transistors or something using an AMD-like HBM would be my guess, but what do I know? I'm just a forum troll. :p
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As much as I would like them too, I would think it is way to early to have a working Pascal ready enough to show for the press. But hey, we can always dream. :)
 
waiting to find out... would like to sell off my crossfire 290's for something worthwhile.... i shall wait and see
 
I would totally buy a 990 single card foot print. God my 980 ti is already so damn powerful.

I got 6150+ in the Valley Bench on Ultra which is a top 50 world wide score
 
caddys83 said:
Secret meeting in New York City huh... Must be nice to spend money like that and poor ol AMD is cash strap lol :p

I hear its going to be a single slot gpu just like the old days




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AMD took the press to Hawaii back in 2013. Big spenders. :eek:
 
I'm thinking the 960ti ... they have a price gap between the 960 and 970 so I'm thinking it's that, plus AMD is coming out in October with the 380XT so Nvidia gotta compete with it.
 
NVIDIA flies the press first class to a product unveiling, AMD had to take a bus to their own product unveiling. This is the sad state of the GPU industry today.
 
Not too far from a possibility of an end of the year/January release for Pascal. Would be almost 1.5 years from GTX980.
 
960ti or 990 (maybe both) is my guess. Pascal is not launching till 2016 at the earliest.
 
Dual 980 or 980Ti cores(GTX 990) on single PCB. Probably spoil AMD Fury X2 plans. I'm guessing $999 or $1,300 depending on cores used.
 
Wasn't there supposed to be a Ti version of both the 970 and 960?

I don't see how that would have made sense, 960ti would be close to a 970 and 970ti close to 980.
 
tonyftw said:
960ti or 990 (maybe both) is my guess. Pascal is not launching till 2016 at the earliest.
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yeah 990 is a possibility since AMD coming out with the dual Fury X soon and it might be both cards as you said.. When I thought about it, them flying people out to see it, it has to be a big deal so I'm leaning more toward the dual GPU 990..

Nvidia going to have the same problem as AMD with Pascal, making enough of them, which will drive up the price a lot. Being the majority used video card maker has it's draw backs..
 
It's called "preventing everyone from buying AMD after the DX12/Vulkan performance results". Nvidia is screwed right now with all the DX12 benchmarks floating around. So of course they have a preview of their new super special non existing graphics card they wouldn't have produced in a short time.

Most likely it's a 990 graphics card with one hell of a overclock cause with DX12 the 980 Ti isn't as attractive compared to the Fury X. Not that I'd buy either graphics card. Meanwhile the 390X is like destroying everything Nvidia has in their high range product.

As the people from ExtremeTech put it.

"The fact that a stock R9 390, at $329, outperforms a stock GTX 980 with an MSRP of $460, however, is a very nice feather in AMD’s cap."

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Half of ExtremeTech's article is them attempting to justify AMD's ridiculous benchmarks (which you just cited).

with DX12 the 980 Ti isn't as attractive compared to the Fury X
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If you can source that with some independent benchmarks I'll throw my 980 Ti in the 'For Sale' forum right now.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
Half of ExtremeTech's article is them attempting to justify AMD's ridiculous benchmarks (which you just cited).


If you can source that with some independent benchmarks I'll throw my 980 Ti in the 'For Sale' forum right now.
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Anandtech's benchmarks for Fable DX12 show the Fury X around 6-9% slower than the 980 Ti. Not sure why anyone would believe that the Fury X is going to ever be worth 980ti money.
 
Abhaxus said:
Anandtech's benchmarks for Fable DX12 show the Fury X around 6-9% slower than the 980 Ti. Not sure why anyone would believe that the Fury X is going to ever be worth 980ti money.
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The problem with Anandtech's and TechReport's reviews are they used 980 Ti's with a stock overclock from the card maker. So if you bought a regular 980 Ti then those benchmarks don't represent you.
 
Ashbringer said:
The problem with Anandtech's and TechReport's reviews are they used 980 Ti's with a stock overclock from the card maker. So if you bought a regular 980 Ti then those benchmarks don't represent you.
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I am sure someone that buys a reference clocked 980 ti and cares about performance is capable of moving a slider over.

Good luck getting a worthwhile OC on that Fury X though...
 
Ashbringer said:
The problem with Anandtech's and TechReport's reviews are they used 980 Ti's with a stock overclock from the card maker. So if you bought a regular 980 Ti then those benchmarks don't represent you.
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So, just like Fury cards then. :) (you do realize they're maxed out from the factory just to keep up, hence why AMD won't unlock voltage - no headroom)
 
Seems kind of desperate at this point to keep bringing up DX12 and async benchmark bar chart when we've yet to see commercially available games.

Why can't people just enjoy their AMD card without going into every thread about graphic card and repeat that same thing that has been debated to death anyway.
 
Hornet said:
Seems kind of desperate at this point to keep bringing up DX12 and async benchmark bar chart when we've yet to see commercially available games.

Why can't people just enjoy their AMD card without going into every thread about graphic card and repeat that same thing that has been debated to death anyway.
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Because they have to overcome bad public image, poor sales, etc.
If Nvidia were leading in DX12 it would simply be 'par for the course' and I doubt we'd be hearing much about it at all. The AMD community is very... passionate.
 
Do we know if Kyle or Brent went out to this secret meeting? I guess they'd be sworn to secrecy.
 
You know I have an AMD card in my machine right now and if I were to buy a new card tomorrow it would likely be a 390 or 390x because that would be my best upgrade for my dollar at this time. But if money wasn't a factor I would be sporting team green for my next purchase.
 
doz said:
Not too far from a possibility of an end of the year/January release for Pascal. Would be almost 1.5 years from GTX980.
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Q1 2016 puts it on the usual 18 month release cycle that we're accustomed to pretty much at this point. We keep hearing how both are ready to jump on 16nm, but I don't think they're going to do it prematurely just to be the first and risk massive production failures and undercutting existing products.

Nvidia of all people is in no big hurry. AMD on the other hand might step on their feet again if they don't rush a 16nm much faster than their current 2 year cadence.
 
Hornet said:
Seems kind of desperate at this point to keep bringing up DX12 and async benchmark bar chart when we've yet to see commercially available games.
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Most people aren't buying new GPUs like crazy anymore so if you have a 290 or 970 you're pretty good for a few more years. Which means looking forward to using DX12/Vulkan based games. Also some existing games may even get a DX12/Vulkan patch, like Arkham Knight, WItcher 3 and DOTA2. So some existing games could change with a patch.


Why can't people just enjoy their AMD card without going into every thread about graphic card and repeat that same thing that has been debated to death anyway.
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Honestly this forum hasn't had much talk about DX12 and Async Compute. As far as I'm aware I'm the one who's bringing this up. It's a dead horse on other forums just never seen it mentioned here.

Liger88 said:
Nvidia of all people is in no big hurry. AMD on the other hand might step on their feet again if they don't rush a 16nm much faster than their current 2 year cadence.
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It's probably the other way around cause right now Nvidia is in a bad spot with DX12/Vulkan. Sure right now things look great for Nvidia but do you know how many Nvidia owners are pissed about DX12 and Async Compute? While the Fury X doesn't look much better compared to the 980 Ti, but it isn't like the 980 Ti is a clear win. Oh and don't forget how a 390 is outperforming their 980.

So what is Nvidia about to WoW the world with? A 990 Ti Duo with two GM200's and 24GB of VRAM? Probably cost as much as a car this time. There seriously a market for graphic cards this expensive? Wouldn't you be better off buying a Quadro, cause I can only see professionals needing this?

And of course AMD will respond with their Fury X Duo just to one up Nvidia just like how Nvidia is tryign to one up AMD with DX12.
 
DPI said:
Do we know if Kyle or Brent went out to this secret meeting? I guess they'd be sworn to secrecy.
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I'm sure they can at least tell us if they went. I know for a fact that Nick from LinusTech flew over for the meeting.
 
Fixall said:
I'm sure they can at least tell us if they went. I know for a fact that Nick from LinusTech flew over for the meeting.
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Ashbringer said:
Nvidia is in a bad spot with DX12/Vulkan. Sure right now things look great for Nvidia but do you know how many Nvidia owners are pissed about DX12 and Async Compute? While the Fury X doesn't look much better compared to the 980 Ti, but it isn't like the 980 Ti is a clear win. Oh and don't forget how a 390 is outperforming their 980.
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I can't tell if you seriously believe what you posted or if you're just trolling. :/
 
Ashbringer said:
It's probably the other way around cause right now Nvidia is in a bad spot with DX12/Vulkan. Sure right now things look great for Nvidia but do you know how many Nvidia owners are pissed about DX12 and Async Compute?
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Well, n...

Ashbringer said:
Honestly this forum hasn't had much talk about DX12 and Async Compute. As far as I'm aware I'm the one who's bringing this up. It's a dead horse on other forums just never seen it mentioned here.
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Um, okay, good answer. To your own question.
 
Pascal with DDR5 ram? Small Pascal? Nvidia still has room to grow with DDR5 considering the 980 is only 256bit, moving to 384bit will give them a 50% increase in memory bandwidth. 512bit double the bandwidth. Big Pascal can use HBM2 but little pascal I don't think needs it yet.
 
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