MSI Skips Lightning Cooler For Current GeForce Maxwell Chip - Will Launch When Faster GM200 Arrives With GTX 980 Ti or GTX 990

It has been ii days since NVIDIA launched their GeForce Maxwell based GeForce 900 series graphics cards and reports are already emerging that more than powerful variants might hit the market within a few month's fourth dimension frame. The report is from Nordichardware who confirmed through an MSI representative on Friday during an press briefing who confirmed that they will skip their Lightning cooler variant of the Maxwell graphics carte in favor of college functioning fries.

MSI Skips Lightning Cooler For Current GeForce Maxwell Chip

Now this is really interesting news because GM204 is here to stay for a while and is the current flagship card in the GeForce 900 series family unit. Nonetheless, we know that GM204 is a chip derivative of the Kepler GK104 and Fermi GF104 family which are considered mid-tier chips however since Kepler generation, NVIDIA has managed the tune the performance of these chips to match their counterparts flagship offerings and even their own and we have seen the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 coming out non only faster than the GeForce GTX 780 and 780 Ti but too more power efficient. So there's that just NVIDIA has a few more Maxwell fries in hand that nosotros haven't seen withal. They take a budget-tier chip called the GM206 which might be introduced subsequently on with the GeForce GTX 960 or budget level offerings while the true flagship fleck aka the GM200 (we can't confirm whether it will be chosen the GM200 or GM210 but let's stick with the old for now since it did leak in the shipping manifestos a while ago) volition arrive a while later.

MSI themselves are saying that their Gaming Twin Frozr V cooling is enough for the current GM204 based graphics card yet the bigger and more badder Lightning GPU cooler will but be adopted for the loftier performance bit variants. Do note that the GM204 chip featured on the GeForce GTX 980 is a total chip, so at that place'due south no actress cores, no extra SM (Maxwell) units and no room for internal specifications changes. They can boost the clock speeds but seriously, there are custom variants which already practise that and practise it much better than NVIDIA'south reference designs.

So here MSI starts to spill the beans (kind of) by saying that the expect to see a more powerful Maxwell model in the about futurity equally indicated by Nordichardware.

"During a printing conference on Friday came MSI with the sad news that we should non expect any Lightning model of the Geforce GTX 980 a more positive annotation, all the same, was the reason for this decision - MSI expects to come across a more lavish and more than powerful the Maxwell model in the near hereafter. An interesting statement when MSI launched Lightning models of both GeForce GTX 770 and GTX 780th

Representatives of MSI said that they received no confirmatory information from Nvidia regarding upcoming GPUs, simply that one is expecting a Geforce GTX 980 Ti or GTX 990 model in the coming months." via Nordic

MSI says that they think that NVIDIA may launch a GeForce GTX 980 Ti or GeForce GTX 990 graphics bill of fare on the high-performance core. While its possible, I personally believe that NVIDIA might introduce a Titan esque naming or actually get with the one's quoted above. The GeForce GTX 990 volition probably exist reserved for the dual bit offer but considering a GeForce GTX 980 is near as equal as the GTX 690 in some cases, if the GM200 variant does come shut to Titan Z in terms of performance than nosotros can consider a heavy marketing on that card by NVIDIA. Regardless of that, AMD has news cards coming and even if they do turn out to be faster than the current Maxwell cards, then NVIDIA will have an respond to them in the form of a GTX 990 or GTX 980 Ti. Allow'south all hope that it doesn't stick with Titan like cost model of $999 US or $2999 US of Titan Z.

Source: https://wccftech.com/msi-skips-lightning-cooler-current-geforce-maxwell-chip-launch-faster-gm200-arrives-gtx-980-ti-gtx-990/

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