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Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 Gaming... disappointed

That's just the way Nvidia's GPU boost technology works. As long as the temperatures are nice and cool, these cards will boost way above what GPU-Z says.
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- Post #33
- Jun 17, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 Gaming... disappointed

I haven't tried overclocking it yet, by my G1 980 Ti does 1367 MHz (starts at 1380, drops at like 65C) straight out of the box; ASIC score 77.3%. Personally, I've found higher ASIC scores on Maxwell/900 series to correlate with higher stock boost speeds, but not by too much really. Not sure...
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- Post #15
- Jun 16, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 Gaming... disappointed

Is that the stock speed it boosts to or overclocked? If the latter, what does it do at stock?
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- Post #12
- Jun 16, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How/why did Amd/ATI fall behind Nvidia?

I agree, G80 (the 8800 GTX) was a big turning point. Nvidia started producing monster dies, introduced CUDA, and solidified the foundation of their modern development strategy with that chip/card. Stuff like CUDA are part of a clever and long-term proprietary technology push from Nvidia which...
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- Post #29
- Jun 14, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How/why did Amd/ATI fall behind Nvidia?

In hindsight? AMD did overpay for ATi, their CPU section is so relatively poor that Radeon iGPUs aren't saving them, maintaining their own fabs would have been more conducive to their CPU development, Intel's process node and R&D advantages are giving Broadwell the headroom to clobber AMD's APUs...
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- Post #25
- Jun 14, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How/why did Amd/ATI fall behind Nvidia?

AMD bought ATi for an amount they couldn't afford ($5.4 billion), had to ditch their fabs (Global Foundries) because they couldn't afford them anymore, released a failure with Bulldozer, and subsequently starved ATi of R&D funds. The end-result, only really visible in the past few years, is...
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- Post #19
- Jun 14, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[Rumor (Various)] AMD R7/9 3xx / Fiji / Fury

I was wrong to use the term "pixel fillrate" to describe the impact of ROPs. 3Dmark's color fill test is not actually a test of pure ROP performance, but is heavily-influenced and limited by effective memory throughput (notice how Tonga excels at the test with its color compression techniques...
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- Post #614
- Jun 12, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[Rumor (Various)] AMD R7/9 3xx / Fiji / Fury

That's not what I meant. I'm not talking about people forgetting clock speeds exist. I meant that people always forget what clock speed does (as a multiplier for shaders, TMUs, ROPs, and separately, memory). Hence why Fiji would be at a disadvantage relative to GM200 in pixel fillrate if...
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- Post #488
- Jun 11, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[Rumor (Various)] AMD R7/9 3xx / Fiji / Fury

I didn't say 1.5 GHz was 50% higher than stock or anything magical, but it (and the higher stock frequencies too) is way higher than GCN parts can normally do which is a crucial factor in Maxwell performing well above what other chip specifications indicate.
- Serandur
- Post #418
- Jun 11, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[Rumor (Various)] AMD R7/9 3xx / Fiji / Fury

Clock speeds; everyone always forgets clock speeds. GM200 custom models should easily hit 1.4-1.5 GHz at least with, what, 1.15-1.2 GHz boost speeds even on stock reference designs? If Fiji's anything like the 285 and 290X, it won't overclock to nearly the same level as easily (average for those...
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- Post #415
- Jun 11, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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expreviewfiji=Radeon Fury

Definitely. There are so many possibilities and experimental chips/design ideas which don't even make it to retail that we don't know about and are infinitely more interesting than the products we eventually get. We just don't get those products because they're difficult or costly to manufacture...
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- Post #99
- Jun 2, 2015
- Forum: AMD
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GTX 980Ti finally launched - MSRP $649 - Reviews

My apologies, I wasn't questioning your decision, just responding to part of escrow's post out of context.
- Serandur
- Post #417
- Jun 2, 2015
- Forum: Nvidia
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GTX 980Ti finally launched - MSRP $649 - Reviews

I don't buy reference cards, period, for these reasons and am planning to wait it out for custom models. But the thought of waiting until late June (as rumored) for these custom models has me writhing in agony. I really thought, when the 980Ti was announced, we'd be seeing those models within a...
- Serandur
- Post #415
- Jun 2, 2015
- Forum: Nvidia
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GTX 980Ti finally launched - MSRP $649 - Reviews

Hm, saw this and got worried about the 980Ti having the VRAM issue like the 970. From Anandtech's review: "As for texel and pixel fillrates, the results are both as-expected and a bit surprising. On the expected side, we see the GTX 980 Ti trail GTX Titan X by a bit, again taking a hit from...
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- Post #137
- May 31, 2015
- Forum: Nvidia
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WCCF: AMDs Flagship Fiji XT GPU Debuts Radeons Titan Equivalent Branding

6144 GCN shader part incoming.
- Serandur
- Post #75
- May 21, 2015
- Forum: AMD

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