Nvidia's Upcoming GTX 980 Ti: What We Know So Far

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Nvidia is set to release the GTX 980 Ti graphics card in Q2 2015, targeting the enthusiast market. The GTX 980 offers a performance increase of 5-10% over the GTX 780 Ti, with enhanced energy efficiency and compatibility with DirectX 12. Users have reported challenges with proprietary Nvidia drivers, particularly on Linux operating systems, which can complicate updates and functionality. Windows 7 users also face issues with automatic driver updates.

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Read on a tech website that the next big release of graphics cards from Nvidia is going to be the GTX 980 Ti and should launch sometime in Q2 2015.

Should I wait until the Ti edition of the GTX 980, or should I go ahead and buy the regular 980?

The 980 is only about 5-10% faster than the 780 Ti, but is much more energy efficient and compatible with DX12, which is why they are making a pumped-up version of the 980 to appease the enthusiast GPU market.

Have any technical details about these new cards been released?
 
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The drivers are proprietary.

If you run a linux OS, keeping up with nVidia drivers is a PITA, broke my latest version change two weeks ago.

CPU grafix sux.
 
I'm using Windows 7 HP 64-bit

And for some reason, I no longer receive automatic updates telling me if there are new drivers for me to download.
 

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