4K video is old news to media professionals. And even tho there have been plenty of products built from the group up with 4K in mind, there are still a lot of legacy manufacturers that need to catch up. Nvidia is a leader in the video processing world. And while they’ve offered some 4K products already, the company believes they still have some improvements to make in how their products handle ultra HD signals.
This week, Nvidia unveiled what is soon to become its next flagship video processor, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. This new card will deliver better support for 4K resolution, allowing for 45 frames per second, compared to 19fps on the older GTX 680. In heavy graphics intensive situations, Nvidia says its new card can go even higher, all the way to 47fps at 4K on the GTX 980 Ti compared with 18fps on the GTX 680.
This new video processor is powered by Nvidia’s Maxwell microarchitecture, which supports the latest DirectX 12 effects. Video RAM has been upgraded to 6GB of memory compared with the previous card’s 4GB. This new Maxwell chips allow for high-resolution performance and lighting with better frame rates combined with better power efficiency. The GTX 980 requires half the power consumption of Nvidia’s GTX 750, which was powered by the first version of the Maxwell chipset.
The new version of Nvidia’s card will retail for $649 and the introduction of the GTX 980 Ti has also caused the price of the former flagship model, the GTX 980, to drop to $499.