NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and 970 to cost $599 and $399?

Posted on Tuesday, September 16 2014 @ 11:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Looks like the launch pricing of NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 900 series will be pretty high. TPU came across information that suggests the GeForce GTX 980 reference model will carry a $599 MSRP, almost the same price as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. The GeForce GTX 970 on the other hand is expected to launch for $399, which is close to the pricing of the GTX 780.

Based on the 28 nm GM204 silicon, the GTX 980 features 2,048 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs; while the GTX 970 features 1,664 CUDA cores, and 104 TMUs. Both feature 256-bit wide memory interfaces, holding 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.

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