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Verdict:

The arrival of the GTX 980 Ti causes a mild ripple effect to prices elsewhere in Nvidia's high-end GPU line-up. The GTX 980 - still a remarkably good card, by the way - drops down to $499, but the value-rific GTX 970 remains at its previous $330. In a world where price doesn't tend to scale in a linear fashion with performance at the premium end of the market, at least with the 980 Ti you are getting an approximate 30 per cent boost in frame-rates for an equivalent amount of cash compared to the older 980. However, the fact remains that GTX 980 and the new 980 Ti are still priced somewhat at the extreme side. How long they will stay there all depends on just how fast AMD's upcoming new Radeon actually is, and how much the firm intends to charge for it.

In the meantime, the new GTX 980 Ti will remain out of reach for many gamers - perhaps frustratingly so. But it's worth bearing in mind that today's halo product is tomorrow's more mainstream product. There was a time when the original Titan and its derivatives were just as expensive as Nvidia's current brace of ultra high-end cards. Fast forward to the arrival of the second-gen Maxwell architecture (and in particular the seismic debut of the GTX 970) and prices across the stack nose-dived. Doubtless, we'll see the same thing happen here in the fullness of time.

In the meantime, while the development of truly generational leaps in CPU processing power seem few and far between, it's great to see that the push for ever more powerful graphics hardware remains in full effect. Question marks remain over whether these new GPUs are being fully utilised (we really need DX12), and we still can't help but think that GM200 should be capable of more, but that can't take away from the many plus points of the product.

So, should you buy a GTX 980 Ti? As Ferris Bueller might say, "if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up", but do bear in mind the more limited returns at lower resolutions, and perhaps hold fire until we see the performance level - and asking price - of AMD's upcoming alternative.

See I like that it's slightly behind the Titan X but I find that because it;s slightly better than a 980 but behind a Titan X to be annoying when it comes to pricing because now the 980ti is the middle child that will be out of people's reach but won't exactly be as amazing as the older brother, I expect Nvidia to have it priced much higher than the regular 980 price at say £700-800, to which I will say "feck off" and wait until nvidia releses another line or two to price it down to a comfortable £300-400, or until AMD brings their A game and forces Nvidia to clamp down further on their prices.

Honestly I just want the 980ti to start out quite cheap if not near the same price as the 980, you;d get it flying off the shelves instead of dangling it up high like a carrot on a stick in the hopes you'll get the super impatient enthustiasts to bite first then dangle the carrot lower to get the rest to bite, just let us all have a bite and you;d get more money, having it start out high just means I'll suffer the waiting time and simply upgrade to a different GPU and forget your brand spanking new one, hell I should probably wait for AMD since Nvidia is starting out slightly powerfull but costing more, not in the mood for playing that game for the new few years.

Also Linus review of the 980ti, well slight review I'd think imo:

Er, it's in the £600 range. The 390X is worth waiting for first though.

As great of a value for the price it is currently, I think there are some urks to it that will make me skip it.

Firstly, its still eh on 4k which is expected and secondly, (correct me if I am wrong) it probably doesn't have all the dx12 feature sets. It seems to have dx12 tier 1 feature set but as I remember, there are 3 tiers of dx12 features but I forget if tier 1 means it has all of it or if tier 3 means it has all of it.

But yea, I would overall, wait for parcel unless you really want it

Yeah at first I wanted to wait for it but now we know the specs and prices mostly I think I'll just settle for the regular 980 to take me through since it's now made cheaper, that or I could wait for a future model that's even cheaper but the chances of that happen are slim so I'll probably go with the regular to hold me for 2-3 years because I really want to replace my 680 since my new hardware has all arrived and the 680 is the only old piece remaining with the new build.

damn cannot wait for new AMD card

That's impressive performance, breathing down the Titan's neck on 4k resolutions! But I think it'll be less bang for the buck compared to the 390x, which will likely perform slightly better and cost about 10-15% less.