Welp, NVIDIA released their GTX 980 Ti, and they praise themselves to have built a graphic card that will suit your 4K gaming needs.
This comes like such a great news for me – I just bought last year’s model for about $550, and now the price dropped to $500 <insert angry face here>.
But let’s not talk about my anger issues. NVIDIA’s new GTX 980 Ti will cost about $650, and it’s a much improved graphic card – first off, it has about 6GB of RAM, and it will run on NVIDIA’s new GM200 GPU.
The GM200 GPU is at the center of their Titan X card series – you know, the ones that cost about $1000?! It’s absurdly expensive, and only if you’re into rendering video you should buy it. In my opinion, it’s overkill for the average user.
The new GTX 980 Ti will feature the new 2,816 parallel processing CUDA cores with 176 texture units – that’s about %40 more than what its older brother sports. The company claims that it’s perfect for 4K gaming, and it can actually run GTA V at 60fps – of course, with everything set to the max.
Also, NVIDIA’s GTX 980 Ti is 50 percent faster than its predecessor when you take a look at the graphic card’s memory bandwidth – it makes sense, because it runs smoother, and better when you throw big detailed textures at it. The Titan X does the job way better, but it costs $400 more.
Even though this seems pretty great, and it really is pretty great, can’t really say that I’m keen on changing my graphic card. I just bought last year’s model, and it was a huge investment on my part. The thing is, I don’t need 4K gaming in my life, and I can enjoy every bit of The Witcher 3, or Batman Arkham Knight, as someone who buys a $650, or a $1000 graphic card.
Take a look at what 4K Gaming really is, and you decide if it’s really worth it:
But I do applaud NVIDIA for their constant advancements in technology – their $200 GTX 960, and $330 GTX 970 are top-shelf affordable graphic cards.
Gaming has become much more pleasant, and much more easier to get into. I started to game way back in the 90s, and getting a personal computer meant that my mum, and dad had to a) work till they drop , b) sell an arm and a leg, and c) eat only Ramen for six months.
I’ll stick to 1080p gaming thank you very much.
What about you dear reader? Are you planning on buying NVIDIA’s new GTX 980 Ti for 4K gaming? Or are you sick and tired of hearing 4K all around the office? Tell us in the comment section below!
