The 980 Ti is not gimped at all. 980 Ti has the exact same performance as the Titan X. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GGvvjmb5L4

When will you guys release the backplates for standard ACX 980 Ti?

Anybody else have regrets about just having bought a pair of 980 classys??

Anybody else have regrets about just having bought a pair of 980 classys??

980 vs 980 Ti has a 10 - 15 FPS difference on average. At some point the extra CUDA cores stop making a difference on the games out right now. I'm just going to take a wild guess and say around 2300 CUDA cores is the cap with the games out right now which is probably why Titan X and 980 Ti have the same performance and only a 13 - 18 FPS difference 980 vs Titan X

The problem is the difference in number of cuda cores between 980 and 980ti is bigger than the difference in cuda cores between 980 and 970. That combined with the fact that the 980 Ti reference stock is barely lower than the 980 and oc'd to to 1400 makes me feel like nvidia massively screwed all 980 and Titan x owners.

It doesn't matter how many cuda cores it has. My point was that the 980 vs 980 Ti has the same performance gap that the 970 vs 980 have.

The number of cuda cores does matter. That's like saying a six core cpu is as good as a quad core at multithreaded apps. The performance gap is bigger than the 980 vs 970. You have 2 gigs more, a larger bandwidth bus, and 800 more cuda cores. 970 is missing about 500 cuda cores and ~0.5gb ram but it's on the same architecture. So it's not like there's that much difference. 980 vs 960 is about a fair comparison as 980 vs 980ti. Wow now I really feel screwed.

The problem is that the extra six gigs of memory in the Titan x won't be of much use for at least 6 months or so. We haven't even seen games running dx12. My guess is Titan x was a preemptive step for dx12. I also think that nvidia knows what the r9 300 series is looking like on paper and they priced the 980 Ti about $100 lower than it was supposed to be so they could grab as much of the market share as they could before the 300 series came out.

By that point Pascal will be released and you will feel even more cheated. Pascal is due some time next year. Also as far as gaming the 6 core is not much better than a 4 core. DX12 is supposedly going to take advantage of more cores but we've all heard this before with DX10 and DX11 and you see how that went...

Keep in mind 980 Ti was supposed to be released in February. I'm secretly hoping that there'll be another ram gate so i can feel better about having gotten a second 980 classy. Seriously I would've returned it to Amazon if I hadn't already put it underwater.

Gaming wise yes the 6 core is actually worse unless you get the 5930k or the 8 core 5960x. But smart people don't build a gaming PC just to play games.

Well the thing with dx12 is it really depends on the game using the api...I think it'll be really rough at first and then things will smooth out in time...I wonder if I should sell my 980s...