Errr..planning to get gtx 970, should i buy or wait for next year new cards. Advice is needed

The general consensus was that AMD would get first dibs at consumers in 2016 with their Polaris line of GPUs, but it turns out that might not be the case with a string of reports popping up over the last 24 hours suggesting that NVIDIA might beat them to the punch.

The reports come not long after AMD announced a substantial price cut to the Radeon R9 Nano to $849, and adds an extra touch of spice for anyone who was preparing for a GPU upgrade to go with their early adoption of VR this year.

Techfrag ran with the supposed leak that NVIDIA would use the Pascal architecture for all of their releases in 2016. Furthermore, the first of those releases will come in April. They’ll also be what’s called “TITAN-grade” products, which is understood to mean a Pascal-equivalent replacement for the current TITAN offerings.

The core series of GPUs, meanwhile, will reportedly be shown off in June. That could mean that NVIDIA will use Computex as the stage to show off the successors to the GTX 950/960/970 series, although whether they’ll be made available in Australia at the same time is another matter entirely.

One fun aspect of all this rumour-mongering is the specs. The GP100 chip, which will be the flagship Pascal GPU, will supposedly sport a staggering 32GB of VRAM. It’ll also be using HBM2, rather than the GDDR5X memory which will be used for the core Pascal GPUs.

Will the Taiwan earthquake affect the Pascal production?

TSMC, had initially expected semiconductor wafer shipments to be down by less than 1%, but it is now emerging that the drop in shipments could be higher, because the damage to one of its facilities, Fab-14, is worse than originally assessed.

TSMC, in an official communication to its clients, assured that 95% of the foundry machines could return to functionality within 2-3 days after the earthquake. To that effect, machines in Fab-6 and Fab-14B have been fully restored.

SOS please. I got around 40-50 fps playing 4k with my Gainward 980ti (slightly overclocked the overclocked card)

currently on 670 here, what is a suitable 'best bang for the RM' upgrade for me?
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new driver 362.00 out already anyone tested yet

The new GeForce Game Ready 364.51 WHQL drivers for Tom Clancy's The Division, Need For Speed, Hitman, and Ashes of the Singularity are now available to download via GeForce Experience.

RIP

980ti Darwin Awards

364.51 no longer beta, is WHQL already
can download from nvidia website already

Woot! http://wccftech.com/nvidia-launch-pascal-editors-event-may/

Nvidia is planning to launch its next generation Geforce, pascal based lineup a few weeks before Computex 2016.