Just as rumors started spreading that AMD is about to unveil its next generation Radeon cards, NVIDIA did a preemptive strike by announcing an impressive high end GeForce card: the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
GeForce GTX 980 Ti is powered by 2816 CUDA cores with 6 GB DDR5 RAM. By numbers, the GTX 980 Ti comes second to the TITAN X which is powered by 3072 CUDA cores and sports 12 GB DDR5 RAM. Given that TITAN X costs $1000 and the GTX 980 Ti costs only $650, it is clear that the price difference is more than enough to make up any differences in hardware specifications.
Happy surprise is, there is no discernable performance difference between the two cards in all real world benchmarks, even at QHD resolution.
According to our hardware experts, only a handful of AAA games can utilize 6 GB of graphics memory, so the TITAN X's extra 6GB don't really make a difference in modern games. As for CPU performance, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti managed to close that gap thanks to its slightly higher average boost clock.
