[Update]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Official MSRP Will Be $299 US - Non-Reference Models Will Retail Around $329-$349 US

The title says it all, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 will retail at an official MSRP of only $299 Usa. While we earlier speculated a price point of effectually $349 US, it seems like NVIDIA is going to surprise anybody by selling the GTX 970 for just $299 US which is quite the sweetness spot for gamers aiming for 1080P and 1440P resolutions. GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Official MSRP Will Be $299 Usa

The news was broke by one of our nigh trusted sources who revealed that NVIDIA'southward second best Maxwell offering in the GeForce 900 series will retail for just $299 Us. The source didn't reveal the verbal MSRP for the GTX 980 merely told that it could exist anywhere around $449 up to $499 US. But the pricing for the GeForce GTX 970 is more or les confirmed and that'southward really good news for the unabridged PC gaming community. I am pretty sure NVIDIA will have a deal or 2 on their upcoming cards which might add together even more value such every bit a bundle for Borderlands: The Pre Sequel or Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt which will entice users even more to drift towards the green team.

That'southward all that was confirmed notwithstanding it too makes me wonder, how volition NVIDIA fill the massive gap betwixt the GTX 980 and GTX. Suppose the GeForce GTX 980 does finish upwardly with a $499 U.s. cost which seems likely then there's a skillful $200 difference between the ii cards and NVIDIA needs something in between to fill the gap. Now hither's what I call up (do note that every give-and-take posted subsequently this line is speculation), the GeForce GTX 970 has three SMM units disabled so we come across two bit variants of the GM204 SKU. The GM204-200 fused on the GeForce GTX 970 has 13 SMM units with 1664 cores while the GeForce GTX 980 has 16 SMM units with 2048 CUDA Cores. We haven't seen such a large amount of units disabled in a generational switch. The GeForce GTX 680 and 670 had 1 SMX divergence while the GeForce GTX 580 and 570 also had 1 SM difference. The GeForce 700 series did change a few things merely even those cards had ii SMX units difference between the GTX 780 and 1 SMX unit divergence betwixt the Titan and Titan Black / GTX 780 Ti.

NVIDIA has a launch of their upkeep friendly GeForce GTX 960 planned for Oct side by side calendar month and the card may hitting the market at a price bespeak of $199 - $249. Now the pricing of the GTX 960 make sense simply that'due south almost probably because it is based on a GM206 bit which is reportedly a cut downwards variant of the GM204. So the GM 204 bit has three SMM units which are left to exist enabled. Could NVIDIA probably launch a Ti variant for the GTX 970 with a SMM or 2 enabled in the long run at $399? I can't confirm nor deny this just that sounds very interesting. Nevertheless, whether that happens or not, the $299 US price for reference and $329-$349 US price for custom GeForce GTX 970s sounds really nice peculiarly when they'll exist available to grab this weekend from retailers effectually the globe.

Update: The source has now pointed to the GeForce GTX 980'south MSRP which should be set at $549 Usa. The $549 United states of america brings information technology closer to the original pricing of the Radeon R9 290X. It makes sense since retailers have already cut prices on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and can now be seen in the market for $499 United states. The card is merely around ten to fifteen% (This is simply a guess, actual numbers tin can be higher) slower than the GeForce GTX 980 hence why the $549 Usa makes the Maxwell based card a valid option. However, equally earlier pointed out, this leaves a huge gap in betwixt the GTX 970 and GTX 980. The GTX 980 is around $200-250 U.s. more expensive and NVIDIA may launch a few more GM204 SKUs in the future to fill this section since their GM204 yet has three SMM units left to be enabled later on.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Specifications:

	GeForce GTX 570	GeForce GTX 580	GeForce GTX 670	GeForce GTX 680	GeForce GTX 770	GeForce GTX 780	GeForce GTX 780 Ti	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 980
Codename	GF110	GF110	GK104	GK104	GK104	GK110	GK110	GM204	GM204
Procedure	40nm	40nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
GPU Core	Fermi	Fermi	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Maxwell	Maxwell
SM Units	15 x 32	16 ten 32	7 ten 192	8 10 192	8 x 192	12 x 192	15 x 192	13 10 128	16 ten 128
CUDA Cores	480	512	1344	1536	1536	2304	2880	1664	2048
ROPS	xl	48	32	32	32	48	48	TBC	64
TMUs	60	64	112	128	128	192	240	TBC	128
Cadre Clock	732 MHz	772 MHz	915 MHz	1006 MHz	1046 MHz	863 MHz	875 MHz	1051 MHz	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1464 MHz	1544 MHz (Shader Clock)	980 MHz	1058 MHz	1085 MHz	900 MHz	928 MHz	1178 MHz	1216 MHz
Memory	1.2 GB GDDR5	1.5 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	two GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	four GB GDDR5
Memory Passenger vehicle	320-Bit	384-Bit	256-bit	256-flake	256-bit	384-Bit	384-Flake	256-fleck	256-fleck
Memory Clock	three.lxxx GB/south	iv.0 GB/due south	half-dozen.0 GHz	6.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	6.0 GHz	seven.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	152.00 GB/south	192.4 GB/southward	192.0 GB/s	192.0 GB/south	224.5 GB/south	288.six GB/southward	336.0 GB/s	224.5 GB/south	224.five GB/s
Texture Fill up Rate GT/s	43.92	49.41	102.v	128.8	134	166	210	145.0	TBC
TDP	219W	244W	170W	192W	220W	250W	250W	148W	175W
Power Connectors	half-dozen+vi Pin	8+6 Pin	6+6 Pin	vi+6 Pin	8+half dozen Pin	eight+6 Pin	eight+six Pivot	6+6 Pin	6+half-dozen Pivot
DirectX 12 Support	Yes	Yes	Yep	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yep
Launch	December 7th 2022	November 09 2022	May 10th 2022	March 22nd 2022	May 30th 2022	May 23rd 2022	December 2022	18th September 2022	18th September 2022
Price	$349 US	$499 US	$349 US	$499 US	$349 United states	$499 Us	$699 US	$299 Reference $329+ Custom	$549 Reference $549+ Custom