Nvidia came out with its GTX 980 Ti last June 2, during the Computex event held in Taipei. The 980 Ti is an accelerated version of Nvidia's current flagship graphics card, the GTX 980, which is powered by the same Maxwell architecture found in the most powerful graphics card available today, Nvidia's Titan X. Building over the 980, the 980 Ti currently sits as the most powerful graphics card within the Geforce 900 series. Steven Walton, in his article published on Kotaku.com, branded the card as "overkill without excess".
The 980 Ti is built using the GM 200 GPU core, which produces the same base and boost clock speed of 1000Mhz and 1075Mhz, respectively, as that of the Titan X. Although the same GPU, the 980 Ti has 2 less streaming multiprocessors and lesser cuda cores, at 2816, compared to the Titan X. The memory specification for the card lists a 7 Gbps 6GB GDDR5 VRAM connected to a 384-bit memory bus.
GTX 980 Ti fits smoothly into the motherboard using a backwards compatible PCI-E Gen 3 plug. The card also has 4 display outputs for a multiple monitor setup. Three of the outputs are DisplayPort version 1.2, which allows the 4k surround experience.
Nvidia's 980 accelerated version offers support for various software and hardware adjustments. G-sync, 4-way SLI, Gamestream and Shadowplay are all supported. The card also supports DirectX 12 and 12.1. It offers a maximum digital resolution of 5120x3200 and maximum VGA resolution at 2048x1536.
This 250-watt card has produced benchmark results that are comparable to that of the Titan X for every task while running on stock settings. In a performance review video, Linus Sebastian of LinusTechTips, a technology-oriented Youtube channel, recommended the 980 Ti over Nvidia's Titan X and the GTX 980 due to a much better performance than the 980 and close to no difference in performance with the Titan X. Prices for the 980Ti starts at $649, $350 lesser than that of the Titan X.
