Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 8GB GDDR5 Allegedly Inbound - Landing in November

So something pretty exciting happened regarding the Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 flagship. Hermitage Akihabara, i of our most authentic sources I might add, has posted with confidence that Nvidia is preparing to launch 8GB versions of their flagship. Needless, to say this is pretty big news, because not but will this help boost Maxwell sales even further, but likewise counter any 8GB variant that AMD rolls out. NVIDIA Maxwell Third Generation Delta Color Compression

Nvidia preparing 8GB variants of Maxwell GTX 980 - targeting the 4K Gaming Standard

For single GPU configurations 4GB retentivity is usually sufficient for most games, non counting an insane amount of Skyrim mods running meantime. Yet once y'all start entering the realm of 4K, retentivity and motorcoach width starts to affair a lot. The last generation rival from AMD, namely the R9 290X has a huge bus width (512 bits) so it has an automatic advantage over whatsoever 256 scrap GPU. Nvidia employs alot of software wizardry and color compression techniques to brand certain that the modest omnibus does non get a trouble, but since they are talking about increasing memory to 8GB I wondered how that would fare in situations that actually benefit from the excess vram.

Currently no single carte du jour (Dual GPU cards exercise not count as a single carte du jour technically) can run modern games at 4K resolution at high or near-to-high settings. It is because of this that GPUs usually dont have more than 4GB of memory. However, if you are entering the realm of multi-gpu configurations than playing at 4K finally becomes a reality, and if y'all are applying copious amounts of anti aliasing and mods, that vram is going to get eaten upwards pretty fast. As most of y'all would know vram does not stack in crossfire or sli configs, information technology is considering of this that whatever cards which boast 8GB of retentivity is built ideally for Multi-GPU employ.

A Dual Crossfire or SLI setup is usually the virtually optimum setup that offers good value and very decent scaling. So if you are going shopping for cards in the holiday season, and the 8GB version has a loftier premium, I would advise skipping information technology unless y'all plan to upgrade to SLI or are into (very very) heavy modding. For casual modding needs, 4GB variants volition more than than suffice. The card is allegedly landing in November this year and HA mentions again that the GTX 960 is queued for the first quarter of 2022.

#Nvidia prepping GTX 980 with 8GB mem. Two of these in SLI equals skillful future proofing for the next couple of years. http://t.co/KgjjdgLZ9t

— Usman Pirzada (@usmanpirzada) October 30, 2022