RandomnessFirst: Greatness.Over.Disappointment

Recently there has been a wonderful release of a very incredible and somewhat affordable beast of a graphics card. Just like the very well-known and extremely expensive card, the GeForce GTX Titan X, Nvidia has released its GeForce GTX 980 Ti. As most of you computer fans know the 980, when released, was the most ‘popular buy’ of the year. Right off the shelf it was an amazing and affordable graphics card that showed great potential. Until now I truly believed the 980 was the best GPU for the price, but now I have changed my mind.

The 980 sells for about $550, and less with a rebate, making it the best reason to pick one up. It's affordable and packs a big punch. The specs on the 980 are great and is a powerful addition to any build. It runs off of 4gbs of GDDR5 RAM, has 2048 CUDA cores, base clocked at 1126 MHz, and booted at 1216 MHz. The GTX 980 has 128 texture units, 64 render output units, and is juiced with a minimum of 165w. This was about 10 months ago!

After the 980 was release, the legendary Titan X was released and became a show stopper causing jaws to drop with its spectacular looks and benchmarks. Only drawback was the price costing nearly or more than $1000. The price is understandable though. It’s a powerful piece of hardware that definitely earns the ‘Legendary’ title from me. This thing has 12gbs of GDDR5 RAM, 3072 CUDA cores, base clocked at 1000 MHz, and booted at 1075 MHz. It has 192 texture units, 96 render output units, and run on 250w. This thing can make you go blind with the amount of beauty it produces. Until now.

NOW, we have Nvidia’s GTX 980 Ti and it’s a monster! This card can proudly sit next to the Legendary Titan X with its head held high. Unfortunately, I haven’t tested anything out for myself but from the reviews, benchmarks, and basically everything I have seen about it, I have fallen in love. This card is a reduced version of the Titan X, falling slightly short on a few specs, but produces just as much beauty. Plus it’s about $400 LESS. It runs off of 6gbs of GDDR5 RAM, has 2816 CUDA cores, base clocked at 1000 MHz, and booted at 1075 MHz. It has 176 texture units, 96 render output units, and runs on 250w. In my opinion, numbers like these should range to at least $800 but it can be bought for $650 or less, depending on where you get it from.

It’s crazy to me how far these GPUs have come in such a short time and I can’t decide whether to get one of them now or wait another two years for something better. Not enough time has gone by where these GPUs can actually gain credit for their abilities. Either way it’s definitely exciting to see what will come next and how long it take.

So if you had to choose one of the three G.O.D cards that Nvidia has released in the past 12 months, which would you rather have? The amazing GTX 980, the GTX beast 980ti, or the Legendary Titan X?