NVIDIA recently showed off their GTX 980 Ti graphics card at Computex 2015 Taipei and now they’ve given us a closer look at just what it can do. Originally launched in late May this year, the card is NVIDIA’s latest flagship graphics card that has the biggest baddest specs to date in a closed Media event in Singapore.
The event itself was essentially a recap on the Computex launch but to also give regional media a tantalizing taste of what the GPU is capable of.
For those who aren’t already on the Maxwell platform, the GTX 980 Ti is a tremendous upgrade, being up to three times faster compared to a GTX 680. The new design also consumes less power than its predecessors and runs cooler and quieter in a much smaller frame to fit in smaller PCs.
All Maxwell GPUs support DX12 which in turn allows for more realistic smoke, fire and lighting effects as well as needing much less resources to do its magic. Also the GTX 980 Ti features a whopping 6GB of memory and CUDA cores which lets you play games at 4K, making it pretty future proof if you are worried about it getting outdated too soon.
Of course, being able to game on the go is a must and NVIDIA will also be working in conjunction with big brands like ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and custom PC and notebook builders Aftershock to produce incredibly powerful gaming laptops. The night saw four high end laptops put on display for the crowd to see with the Gigabyte Aurus X7 Pro-Sync, MSI GT72 G, ASUS G751 and the Aftershock P770ZM-G out on the floor to play around with. We managed to get to play some games like GTA V on the notebooks and despite being pushed to full throttle the notebooks didn’t even break a sweat and there was nary a stutter from the games which is quite amazing.
The brand is also working hand in hand with Acer and ASUS to produce monitors ready to handle the powerful graphics and required refresh rate to give you the best gaming experience to feast your eyes on. Best part? some of the upcoming displays are 4K ready and some of the Acer Predator monitors are even curved!
To end the presentation, NVIDIA gave us a look at the Mech tech demo (which incidentally is what they named the giant robot) that was produced exclusively to showcase what the GeForce GTX 980 Ti can do with conjunction with DirectX 12. Both the card and the software together makes for very convincing special effects, shadows and particles with Ray Traced Shadows as well as Volume Tiled Texturing and Conservative Rastering to make things all the more realistic.
Unfortunately NVIDIA hasn’t announced when exactly we will be getting a taste of the notebooks or the monitors but the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is retailing at $649 (about RM 2431 after conversion) but the local pricing could be vastly different.
You can check out the announcement trailer here as well as the Mech tech demo below to get a look at just what the NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti is capable of.
