Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA; /?n'v?di?/ in-vid-ee-?) is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. The company invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. GPUs drive the computer graphics in games and in applications used by professional designers. Their parallel processing capabilities provide researchers and scientists with the ability to efficiently run high-performance applications, and they are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world. More recently, Nvidia has moved into the mobile computing market, where its processors power phones and tablets, as well as auto infotainment systems. Its competitors include Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.

The following are the most notable product families produced by Nvidia:
[.] GeForce - the gaming graphics processing products for which Nvidia is best known.
[.] Quadro - computer-aided design and digital content creation workstation graphics processing products.
[.] Tegra - a system on a chip series for mobile devices.
[.] Tesla - dedicated general purpose GPU for high-end image generation applications in professional and scientific fields.
[.] nForce - a motherboard chipset created by nVidia for AMD Athlon and Duron microprocessors.

FAST FACTS
> Founded in 1993
> Jen-Hsun Huang is co-founder, president and CEO
> Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
> Listed with NASDAQ under the symbol NVDA in 1999
> Invented the GPU in 1999 and has shipped more than 1 billion to date
> 7,000 employees worldwide
> $4 billion in revenue in FY12
> 2,300+ patents worldwide


NVIDIA - http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html
GeForce Drivers - http://www.geforce.com/drivers
Blog - http://blogs.nvidia.com

Thinking of watercool my gtx980ti, our ringgit so low the block +backplate nearly cost RM700

rm700??? include dhl shipping is it?

USD175.97 X 3.85 = RM677.48

still dilemma non ref or ref 980ti.. if the difference in price is too huge, might go for ref then future cool it wit aio wc. gona hit the trigger this saturday !

still dilemma non ref or ref 980ti.. if the difference in price is too huge, might go for ref then future cool it wit aio wc. gona hit the trigger this saturday !

why not go for lower card 970 or 980 its not that bad if gaming for 1080p

980ti kinda overkill lol at least for now . Unless you are talking about 1440p (just nice) or 4k gaming (need to lower some settings)

why not go for lower card 970 or 980 its not that bad if gaming for 1080p

980ti kinda overkill lol at least for now . Unless you are talking about 1440p (just nice) or 4k gaming (need to lower some settings)

still dilemma non ref or ref 980ti.. if the difference in price is too huge, might go for ref then future cool it wit aio wc. gona hit the trigger this saturday !

i buy zotac gtx 980ti amp for 2899..someone offer me palit gtx 980 ti super jetstream for 2850 and got free batman game..so i think go non ref since it is bad day to build wc coz our ringgit so low

I am on 1440p, but 980 Ti only shine if you play a lot of latest games in highest settings...

980 Ti on Full HD - well it's gonna be blazing fast, you probably won't feel the difference between 980 Ti to 970, depending on game.

Frankly speaking, 980Ti makes very little sense at 1080p/60fps. Unless you're using a 120/144hz monitor and want to run the latest games at those frames locked, the 980Ti is not a good card at 1080p. You wouldn't appreciate the difference in performance between a 970 and 980Ti, not at 60fps.

You may downsample games, but understand that even until today, not all games works properly with downsampling. It's still quite a 60/40 thing.

But hey, it's your money though at the end of the day.
Well, both the Zotac GTX980 Ti Amp and Palit 980Ti Super Jetstream is using a 99% identical PCB and components to that of the Reference 980Ti.

People need to understand that just because there is a different cooler on an SKU, it does not always mean that the PCB is third-party.

ooo..i think u want non reference cooler..my bad..take asus strix or msi g1 gaming..i think both are custom pcb..price around 3.3-3.4k 

Insane in good or bad way?

ooo..i think u want non reference cooler..my bad..take asus strix or msi g1 gaming..i think both are custom pcb..price around 3.3-3.4k 

Strix sux unless u want to wc. Normally voltage unlocked.
MSI G1 Gaming.. looks good atm.

Zotac Amp Extreme temps are insane. U guys can check it out on the 11th.

Insane in good or bad way?

My Amp Extreme is getting 56C under full load........... in air-conditioned room. With out AC 60 Tops

Err I think you mistaken me for someone else?
Strix, MSI Gaming, G1 gaming, all voltage locked. Cannot bump above 1.25v, even with bios modding.
In a good way I believe. It is however a little noisy, still tolerable of course.

ooo..i think u want non reference cooler..my bad..take asus strix or msi g1 gaming..i think both are custom pcb..price around 3.3-3.4k 

My Amp Extreme is getting 56C under full load........... in air-conditioned room. With out AC 60 Tops

My Amp Extreme is getting 56C under full load........... in air-conditioned room. With out AC 60 Tops

guys my pc showing "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" like every 2 days like that.. im using gtx970.. is there any solution?
its making me annoyed..

you guys normally set auto update driver using geforce experience or manually update it?

I usually update manually as to avoid any bad driver they release.

isee.. my gtx770 facing driver issue/error when playing motogp15 or gta5 after latest drive update via geforce exp/.

What's the noise level / fan RPM at that reading?

isee.. my gtx770 facing driver issue/error when playing motogp15 or gta5 after latest drive update via geforce exp/.

Download hotfix hahahaha

what is thjat

better than WHQD driver

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=400347

Just got my Asus strix 980ti today. I can said the max temp on default fan setting running at 1404MHZ boost clock (gamingmode) is 75-76 celsuis in 41 % fan speed.it is very quiet. Next, i just adjust my own fan curve to 50-52% fan speed  which hv slighty audible fan noise but is very acceptable. The final temp is 68-69 celsius. DONT EVEN bother to increase the fan speed to 60% becoz is like blower Lol! Extremely annoying!  Oh, at last very very very minimal coil whine. Almost none. Sorry guys! Not gonna touch overclocking yet.

Where you buy and how much you got it for?

you guys normally set auto update driver using geforce experience or manually update it?

why not go for lower card 970 or 980 its not that bad if gaming for 1080p

980ti kinda overkill lol at least for now . Unless you are talking about 1440p (just nice) or 4k gaming (need to lower some settings)

i use DDU from guru3d to do a clean install everytime there is an update.
nah i don't agree 980ti is overkill for a 1080p.
review of 980ti
http://www.trustedreviews.com/nvidia-gefor...-results-page-2
most of the review benchmarks show that for a 1440p at ultra setting can most part reach the sweet spot of 60fps+ on average.

but if your planning using a 144hz gsync monitor, you can go above the capped 60fps when using vsync, by using the gsync. So you can take advantage of the higher fps.

only old monitors without gsync, you'd be interested only that the gpu performs on average 60fps ideally (because your locked there if your using triple buffer vsync).

So i'd say 980ti even on 1080p would be great with gsync ideally the acer predator gsync 144hz ips monitor :}

1440p for 27'' monitor is these days quite capable of being driven by the gpu especially by the 980 ti.

4k seems you need to lower your graphics settings. and especially lower AA which is less needed at this resolution.

the hardocp review pointed out what kind of settings tweaks was needed when trying to get a playable setting at the highest quality possible
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/06/15/...rd_gpu_review/7
Anyway there is actually a topic talking about this issue  1080p @60hz (vsync) monitor vs @144hz (gsync)
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/...last_for_1080p/
PS: another reason i think 980ti is needed even for 1080p, back when i bought the 680gtx, it barely lasted 2-3 years before i was not able to ultra setting some of the games by then   so i rather reduce the chances of that by future proofing when possible whenever i get a gpu upgrade every 5 years or so.

i use DDU from guru3d to do a clean install everytime there is an update.
nah i don't agree 980ti is overkill for a 1080p.
review of 980ti
http://www.trustedreviews.com/nvidia-gefor...-results-page-2
most of the review benchmarks show that for a 1440p at ultra setting can most part reach the sweet spot of 60fps+ on average.

but if your planning using a 144hz gsync monitor, you can go above the capped 60fps when using vsync, by using the gsync. So you can take advantage of the higher fps.

only old monitors without gsync, you'd be interested only that the gpu performs on average 60fps ideally (because your locked there if your using triple buffer vsync).

So i'd say 980ti even on 1080p would be great with gsync ideally the acer predator gsync 144hz ips monitor :}

1440p for 27'' monitor is these days quite capable of being driven by the gpu especially by the 980 ti.

4k seems you need to lower your graphics settings. and especially lower AA which is less needed at this resolution.

the hardocp review pointed out what kind of settings tweaks was needed when trying to get a playable setting at the highest quality possible
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/06/15/...rd_gpu_review/7
Anyway there is actually a topic talking about this issue  1080p @60hz (vsync) monitor vs @144hz (gsync)
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/...last_for_1080p/
PS: another reason i think 980ti is needed even for 1080p, back when i bought the 680gtx, it barely lasted 2-3 years before i was not able to ultra setting some of the games by then    so i rather reduce the chances of that by future proofing when possible whenever i get a gpu upgrade every 5 years or so.

well if you are talking about 1080p at 144hz monitor I suppose its fine but who wants to be stuck at that resolution ?
once you got a taste of  WQHD or UHD its hard going back

Also , I have to disagree on future proofing graphic card .  With the likes of NVIDIA 780 being outperform or same by 970 , the gap for new card would be higher .  Not to mention the introduction of HBM ram I think I probably have to change cards every year 

Funny thing is for processor I'm still stuck with sandybridge cant see any reason to upgrade apart from  power efficiency  , ddr4

DDR4 isnt much different than DDR3 beside the obvious higher clock speed

same goes for power efficiency. Devil's Canyon still has 95W TDP but just lower idles, nothing much. Skylake reported to come with 65W, but well have to wait for full Broadwell 14nm first before speculating on Skylake

theres somewhat not much reason to upgrade, CPU side wise

im on Sandy as well, and im on the fence on upgrading at all

Ideal has put Intel i7 5775C on their pricelist btw, whooping ~RM1.4k

do want, but dem its expensive

I find it ridiculous. The price almost on par with 5820k already...

It will be one of the most rare CPU in the market in future. Skylake is around the corner, it will only be useful for those who readily had H97/Z97 mobo. But again high chances are those people already had Haswell (refresh) CPU and won't consider upgrading anytime soon. Now with this insane price, not much new end consumers will opt for them. There's also news that OEMs will skip Broadwell and directly to Skylake.

So in short, it will be one rare "pokemon".

well if you are talking about 1080p at 144hz monitor I suppose its fine but who wants to be stuck at that resolution ?
once you got a taste of  WQHD or UHD its hard going back

Also , I have to disagree on future proofing graphic card .  With the likes of NVIDIA 780 being outperform or same by 970 , the gap for new card would be higher .  Not to mention the introduction of HBM ram I think I probably have to change cards every year 

Funny thing is for processor I'm still stuck with sandybridge cant see any reason to upgrade apart from  power efficiency  , ddr4

too many people to quote lel.

970 might be fine for 1080p for less than half the price which is substantial for most people, especially regular gamers (not truly enthusiast high end level pc gear).

but i think the 970s were 3.5gb vram 

some gamers at ultra use almost 6vram like mordor. 1440p recommended is minimum 4gb, with 6gb being ideal. 4k need minimum 6gb. 2gb vram is hardly enough these days i know for a fact because i have a 680gtx    i notice every now and then there was an error where it said ran out of vram (no joke). Hasn't happened lately, maybe because of newer gpu drivers    ?
anyway here is the direct comparison 980ti vs 970
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980-Ti...GeForce-GTX-970
here is a dragon age inquisition benchmark for 1080 and 1440p resolution using different settings from low, medium, high and ultra.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/drago...k_review,7.html
notice ultra for 970 is 50fps
for 1440p it was only 33fps for ultra
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/drago...k-review,8.html
bottomline
970

pro
---------
- more than half the price of a 980ti
- sufficient for 1080p even at ultra for a heavy title like DAI
cons
-------

3.5vram instead of 4vram. How this may affect gaming
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198223-...emory-problem/2

ultra settings on intensive games like DAI will only reach between 40-50fps. whereas a 980ti would hit 60fps and probably higher.

if you invested in a gsync monitor with 144hz, you'd definitely want a higher end card like a 980ti to achieve much better fps thx to gsync technology :}

too many people to quote lel.

970 might be fine for 1080p for less than half the price which is substantial for most people, especially regular gamers (not truly enthusiast high end level pc gear).

but i think the 970s were 3.5gb vram 

some gamers at ultra use almost 6vram like mordor. 1440p recommended is minimum 4gb, with 6gb being ideal. 4k need minimum 6gb. 2gb vram is hardly enough these days i know for a fact because i have a 680gtx    i notice every now and then there was an error where it said ran out of vram (no joke). Hasn't happened lately, maybe because of newer gpu drivers    ?
anyway here is the direct comparison 980ti vs 970
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980-Ti...GeForce-GTX-970
here is a dragon age inquisition benchmark for 1080 and 1440p resolution using different settings from low, medium, high and ultra.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/drago...k_review,7.html
notice ultra for 970 is 50fps
for 1440p it was only 33fps for ultra
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/drago...k-review,8.html
bottomline
970

pro
---------
- more than half the price of a 980ti
- sufficient for 1080p even at ultra for a heavy title like DAI
cons
-------

3.5vram instead of 4vram. How this may affect gaming
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198223-...emory-problem/2

ultra settings on intensive games like DAI will only reach between 40-50fps. whereas a 980ti would hit 60fps and probably higher.

if you invested in a gsync monitor with 144hz, you'd definitely want a higher end card like a 980ti to achieve much better fps thx to gsync technology :}

gsync ips 1440p monitor finally in malaysia

27" XB270HU-IPS RM2599 at Idealtech .... Sigh, if only IPMART would refund my money as soon as possible would grab this monitor without any hesitation

Except, the QC for the Acer XB270HU has not been stellar. Take a look over the OCN owner's club, the Reddit owner's club, and the Neogaf owner's club. The rate of RMAs has been quite high, even if it's not uncommon.

And remember, Acer Malaysia does not actually have the the XB27 as an official product here (or have they now, correct me if I'm wrong). If any issues, RMA will cost a lot of time and money.

guys my pc showing "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" like every 2 days like that.. im using gtx970.. is there any solution?
its making me annoyed..

same goes for rog swift lol . But those two are the best choice at the moment 

same goes for rog swift lol . But those two are the best choice at the moment 

But I'm going to be frank with everyone here, the 3.5GB vram thing? It's not an issue. Honestly, it's been blown out of propotion. Stop looking at just numbers and charts, they cannot tell the whole story.

I'm not going to disagree that 980Ti isn't a great card for 1080p, but it makes very little sense to buy a 980Ti to play at 1080p, 144hz (with or without Gsync). Paying a little more for a 1440p panel makes quite a significant difference, have some extra cash laying around and getting a 4k Gysnc monitor is seriously a whole new experience.

this is correct.

the performance is as it is, when people buy the card, it's bought for the performance.

Having 3.5GB doesn't make it lose performance, just some people aren't happy to feel "cheated".

Technically Nvidia isn't wrong because it is 3.5GB + 0.5GB so total is still 4GB.
Why not? Practically every game will run above 60 fps on GTX 980 Ti even with settings set to the max.

If the person uses 1080p all the way then it'll last for ages.

Once gone to 4K, slap on another GTX 980 Ti. That'll be sweet.

just won a lucky draw 980TI HOF today at orange estadium

thanks to Galax Malaysia...still drooling till now  

yeah, its one of those odd releases that doesnt seem to have anywhere to fit in

its suffering from the "<Insert nex gen> is near, wait it out longer" syndrome

on the bright side of going consumer than Extreme series, you save alot from not getting LGA2011 board

Skylake at least had the decency to support DDR3L instead of pure DDR4

But hey, cheapest LGA2011V3 is a Hexacores, while the 1.4k i7 is still a Quadcores.

Mobo wise, LGA2012V3 is expect to last at least another year, while H97/Z97 pretty much EOL by this year end.

If you are rich enough to invest on high end i7 (consumer) and Z97, the Haswell-E combination is just marginally pricier while significantly more "future proof" as compared to the consumer counterpart.

just won a lucky draw 980TI HOF today at orange estadium

thanks to Galax Malaysia...still drooling till now  

NVIDIA AIBs Silently Cut Prices on High-End Maxwell Cards
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-aibs-silently-c...29-gtx-980-479/
 

Got the asus sli bridge for second rig. Upgrading its ssd while at it. Cheap man. Massive drop in prices from corsair
Decided main rig will get evga pro v2 bridge. Currently using evga pro v1 on it.

this is correct.

the performance is as it is, when people buy the card, it's bought for the performance.

Having 3.5GB doesn't make it lose performance, just some people aren't happy to feel "cheated".

Technically Nvidia isn't wrong because it is 3.5GB + 0.5GB so total is still 4GB.
Why not? Practically every game will run above 60 fps on GTX 980 Ti even with settings set to the max.

If the person uses 1080p all the way then it'll last for ages.

Once gone to 4K, slap on another GTX 980 Ti. That'll be sweet.

Can't disagree with that. GTX 980 Ti handles 1440p 144 G-sync comfortably.

glad to hear that. now for a new monitor... any recommendation for 1440p 144 g sync monitor ? cheapest to most exp.  TN or IPS

But I'm going to be frank with everyone here, the 3.5GB vram thing? It's not an issue. Honestly, it's been blown out of propotion. Stop looking at just numbers and charts, they cannot tell the whole story.

Concluding

Our product reviews in the past few months and its conclusion are not any different opposed to everything that has happened in the past few days, the product still performans similar to what we have shown you as hey .. it is in fact the same product. The clusterfuck that Nvidia dropped here is simple, they have not informed the media or their customers about the memory partitioning and the challenges they face. Overall you will have a hard time pushing any card over 3.5 GB of graphics memory usage with any game unless you do some freaky stuff. The ones that do pass 3.5 GB mostly are poor console ports or situations where you game in Ultra HD or DSR Ultra HD rendering. In that situation I cannot guarantee that your overall experience will be trouble free, however we have a hard time detecting and replicating the stuttering issues some people have mentioned.


The Bottom line

Utilizing graphics memory after 3.5 GB can result into performance issues as the card needs to manage some really weird stuff in memory, it's nearly load-balancing. But fact remains it seems to be handling that well, it’s hard to detect and replicate oddities. If you unequivocally refuse to accept the situation at hand, you really should return your card and pick a Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 980. However, if you decide to upgrade to a GTX 980, you will be spending more money and thus rewarding Nvidia for it. Until further notice our recommendation on the GeForce GTX 970 stands as it was, for the money it is an excellent performer. But it should have been called a 3.5 GB card with a 512MB L3 GDDR5 cache buffer.

well thats why i read the reviews and they point out that games like mordor when ultra max settings will indeed use up lots of vram as high as near 6gb.

yes most games aren't as aggressive like that, but it's there, and most noticely for higher resolutions, or newer games like that on ultra settings.

sure if people don't mind lowering setting to not ultra then shouldn't be an issue. but i don't fall under the category of users that like playing with anything other than ultra

but ignoring the vram capacity altogether that clearly affects some titles as non issue is clearly wrong way to go about it :/ as some of us would then rather get a card with 6gbvram or more.
so using an example try convincing people get a 4gb vram fiji over say a 980ti with 6gbvram especially at the same price point. thats a tough sell

not only do most titles perform slightly better fps for 980ti, but it also has more vram. and according to reviewers the capacity does matter. not me who said this, but professional reviewers go look :}
sources
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/middle-ea...tress-test.html

http://wccftech.com/shadow-of-mordor-ultra...xture-6gb-vram/

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_di...s_6gb_of_vram/1
PS: that said, i seriously doubt blizzard games will ever be pushing the gpu much    not holding my breath for legacy of the void. i suspect it's just gonna be as gpu intensive as the old sc2. it's only games like mordor, crysis that they push the limits.

anyone bought 980ti custom cooler and able to redeem the arkham knight code?
After i key in all the info, it proceed with my card is not eligible for it. btw is asus strix 980ti.

Its from steam btw. Bro use one np. Second one just keeping it atm.

Bro, wat do you mean by np?