MSim
11.5 gb vram

wmmills
Lol, its not 48gb of vram....they will be mirrored like all other sli setups so it will still be 12gb. Lets not let our imaginations runaway with us now.

Tropickz48gb of VRAM!

Fettle

Tropickz48gb of VRAM!

No.

Grey_Beard
Depends on what AMD does, but there may not be a GTX989Ti. The next few months will show if this is even a possibility.

seta8967

Grey_Beard
Depends on what AMD does, but there may not be a GTX989Ti. The next few months will show if this is even a possibility.

Im praying that the 390x beats the 980 by 20-30% and cheaper forcing Nvidia to release a 980ti that is 50+% higher than a 980. Which would hopefully be a titan with 6gb and all the titan features cut out. Put the price at 700 and I think it will sell.

Scarlet-Tech
Why would they release the "980ti" with a completely different gpu? It will be at nearly the 8-9 month mark when amd even tries to do anything, it would seem, so why not move into the next series. 780 gk110.. 780ti gk110. 980 gm204 To 980ti gm200/210? At this point, it would make more since to release a single gpu 990 that would destroy AMD to replace the dual gpu line for lower cost than a dual gpu option of the past, at the same price at the same cost of the old dual gpus.

Either way, looking at the records, the 700 series was completely different than most other previous line ups. It was interesting and it would seem that the 900 isn't going to follow suit just yet, but could in a moments notice.

It's all speculation until AMD gets off their butt, but it would seem they are tak in ng their time in an attempt to do something amazing rather than rushing a quick fix out. I like that idea, and hopefully they learn something new and release something awesome, even if NVIDIA makes an immediate release to undermine them. I would actually consider purchasing one just to keep a little variety in home.

Scarlet-Tech

seta8967

AMD is targeting June release of 390, only 3 months as oppsed to 8-9 months like you suggested. This puts pressure on Nvidia to make a contender sooner than later. Since AMD doesnt have another dual-gpu planned, there isnt as much of a rush for Nvidia. Though Maxwells price to performance is very suited for a dual gpu option.

The 980s gm204 isnt cut down so they cant make an improved 980 series based off of gm204. So they have to base it off a new design (hinting at gm200).

I agree that the 700 series is very unique and we cant judge sthe future of nvidia card off them.

I will be purchasing a 390x just to benchmark.

First: read NVIDIA launch led the 980 8-9 months ago, where amd launched the 290x how long ago? I wasn't saying amd was launching in 8-9 months.

Second, I know the gm204 is at its full capacity, which I why I am curious why they would ever release something with a completely different gpu core (see gm200/210) and then name it nearly the same thing. Like I mentioned, gk110 was 780 and 780ti. They didn't release the 780 gk110 and then 780ti gk110, so it would make sense to either start this year's release as a completely different name or make a 990 single card that can outperform most dual gpu configurations, but still fall behind the Titan X, which will be more of a production card anyway.

Either way, I will standby patiwntly, instead of doing like some of the goofball out there, and NOT freak out about anything that hasn't been announced. The price and performance are both just skeptical speculation and it will be so close to the 12 month mark after the release of the 390x, that NVIDIA could push with the 2015 high end game specific flagship rather than a production card that everyone wants to use for gaming instead.

lehpron

seta8967

Grey_Beard
Depends on what AMD does, but there may not be a GTX989Ti. The next few months will show if this is even a possibility.

Im praying that the 390x beats the 980 by 20-30% and cheaper forcing Nvidia to release a 980ti that is 50+% higher than a 980. Which would hopefully be a titan with 6gb and all the titan features cut out. Put the price at 700 and I think it will sell.

Titan-X will already be 50% ahead of GTX980, might as well rebrand Titan-X as "980Ti" and debut it cheaper, but that isn't the plan.  I think we're guaranteed 390X will be 20-30% ahead of GTX980-- if it were debuted at the same price, then nVidia to drop prices in order to debut something else between GTX980 and Titan-X.  But if Fijit debuted expensive, maybe not.