Monday, 22 September 2014


The GeForce GTX 980 is our fastest and most efficient GPU. Faster framerates, new rendering techniques and superior image quality combine to deliver next-generation game experiences at Ultra HD resolutions and on Virtual Reality headsets.

New Thinking, New Experiences, Better Performance

The new Maxwell architecture is a major leap in GPU engineering, bringing new ideas to the table that will enhance and improve your experiences in meaningful, impactful ways. For this to occur, every element of Maxwell has been fine-tuned to perfection, and every decision carefully considered to give PC gamers the maximum benefit.

While great strides have been made in rendering emotion, hair, geometric detail, and many other gaming features in recent years, realistic lighting remains one of the most challenging problems faced in real-time graphics. Many games look excellent, but because systems and platforms have lacked the necessary rendering power, most features are simulated or faked. With Maxwell, GPUs now have the horsepower to dynamically render indirect light for the first time, using NVIDIA's VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) technology.
With this technological leap in real-time illumination, we have been able to recreate the famous moon landing video, revealing why the lighting in those 45 year-old pictures looked 'wrong' to conspiracy theorists. In games, VXGI enables lighting far beyond the realms of what is currently possible, greatly improving realism. True shadows, real ambient occlusion and fully dynamic, highly detailed reflections are just a few of the effects that are enabled by VXGI. Currently, this tech is being built for popular game engines like Unreal Engine 4, and will be available for game developers by the end of the year.

    n addition, Maxwell is the world's first GPU architecture to support HDMI 2.0, providing enough bandwidth to output 4K at 60Hz over HDMI. And beyond 4K, Maxwell can output simultaneously to multiple ultra HD-resolution screens. For gamers, that means three 4K G-SYNC panels in a Surround configuration, commonly referred to as 12K, and a forth HDMI-powered screen for watching Twitch.

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