NVIDIA has unveiled its most powerful gaming graphics card yet in its regional briefing, the GeForce GTX980 now punches more horsepower under its hood and introduces a great amount of features to boost gaming graphics quality.
The GeForce GTX 980 is the world’s fastest GPU, yet with a TDP of just 165W, it’s also the most efficient. This remarkable combination of performance and energy efficiency is all made possible thanks to NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture. Maxwell GPUs have been designed to deliver 2x the performance/watt of prior generation GeForce GPUs.
Maxwell introduces a major speed bump in its Memory Clock and Bandwidth from the previous Kepler chipset and NVIDIA has included much more CUDA cores on the GeForce GTX980 this time, which results in producing extremely beautiful graphics yet with increased performance.
MFAA (Multi-Frame Sampled Anti Aliasing) is also introduced to further enhance gaming graphics detail, which combines multiple AA sample positions to produce a result that looks like higher quality anti-aliasing but with better performance.
GeForce GPUs will also support Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), bringing the crispness of higher resolutions like 4K to gamers’ existing displays. The GeForce ecosystem also remains the most innovative, with features like ShadowPlay, which now supports recording at resolutions up to 4K at 60 fps.
For game developers, NVIDIA has also introduced the GameWorks SDK to further enhance graphics quality for their games to make full potential of the new GeForce GPUs. Developers will be able to make their games look more realistic with features such as HairWorks and PhysX particles.
The greatest hit feature would be the VR Direct, GeForce GPUs will be able to perform on virtual reality gaming at a low 25ms response time. We were being treated to the Oculus Rift and it’s pretty responsive, the 3D graphical effect is stunning and you won’t feel dizzy at all thanks to its extremely fast response time.
The new GeForce GTX980 and GTX970 GPUs ships now, expect them to pop up at local retail stores already but you certainly won’t be able to do virtual reality yet.
