NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Specs Revealed

Updated: April 11, 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 Specs Revealed today by website Tyden.cz. For NVIDIA fans waiting to see what their favorite green team is up to it seems the cat has been let out of the bag and the first specs (Albeit Rumored) have arrived on the net in a timely fashion. This new card will feature Maxwell architecture and will feature SMM (Streaming Multiprocessor Maxwell) SIMD designs, which were introduced in the TX 750 Ti that made its debut a few weeks back now. Although only a rumor at this time this story is floating around the web.

The new GPU core is called the GM 204 and should be able to put a wallop on the GK110 as newer technology usually wins the performance war. Obviously we will see more of just about everything, more CUDA, more memory, TMUs, ROPs etc and maybe more. NVIDIA will most likely start off at the lower end and slowly push their way into the higher-end more expensive type cards. For now this is what we have seen and the supposed specs are listed below. This information is not directly from NVIDIA corporate so there may be some changes in the final specs, but for now at least it seems the new 8 series is coming very soon.

20 nm GM204 silicon
7.9 billion transistors
3,200 CUDA cores
200 TMUs
32 ROPs
5.7 TFLOP/s single-precision floating-point throughput
256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
4 GB standard memory amount
238 GB/s memory bandwidth
Clock speeds of 900 MHz core, 950 MHz GPU Boost
7.40 GHz memory
230W Minimum Power

Larry Holmes

230w is the onlything appealing literally just need a 550w for a 880 and i7 xD
- Sean
  
  You can do that anyway? Im running 3 SSDS, 3 HDDS a 4770k @ 4.2 and a 780ti fine on a CX500?
  - Azrama
    
    Interensting. Post your build. I would like to put it into a power consumption calculator to see how this is possible.
  - Josh
    
    BULLSH*T
  - teronsorensen
    
    i mean you can theoretically do that…its not very safe and i highly recommend you get a higher watt power supply because thats really not safe and you should protect the money you spent on all that equipment….i mean im waiting on 880 because i dont want to run a 780 ti on a 750 watt power supply because well i want maxwell power efficiency and ease of mind after dropping 800 dollars on a card lol.
    - Kasper
      
      will I be able to run gtx880 instead of a 680 without going 200 W up in Powersupply currently running 680×1 i7 3770k x1 1 HDD 1SSD 16 gb ram,?
      - teronsorensen
        
        What you’re going to want to do is compare the TDP from the 680 to the 880 when it finally releases. there’s no way to say for sure at this point but it’s looking like a yes to me if you gave yourself some room with your current power supply. Again I can’t stress enough that we simply don’t know for sure though.
nesquick

It looks more like an upgrade from the gtx 770… or the gtx 780 is better than the gtx 880 lol
- teronsorensen
  
  well the 880 is looking to STOMP the 780 ti and 780 due to the massive amount of vram its bringing to the table. its possible we may even see an 8gb card if the chinese manufacturers interception of specs was accurate…possibly even a reference based water cooler since the card is going to be so powerful…in fact its possible that water cooled cards may become the standard rather than the premium for the higher end cards.
  - Black
    
    lol Another idiot who thinks the size of the memory matters. 4gigs would be more then enough even for 4k. The bandwidth is what matters.
    - teronsorensen
      
      I never said vram is all that matters… But it will matter on the 880 due to many factors in the industry for the future. Plus H. 265 will take a 4k movie file and basically cut the size in half. And because file sizes are going to get larger across the board and multiple monitor or 4k setups are becoming more popular, yeah vram matters buddy.
    - teronsorensen
      
      Wait after reading my original post again you’re right I did sound as though I was saying vram is all that matters… And you are right, it doesn’t, however it’s starting to matter more and more just like tdp is starting to matter more and more.
      - Black
        
        The easiest way to determine what gpu to get. Get the one with the highest memory bandwidth you can afford. That simple.
  - nojustno
    
    VRAM doesn’t make anything faster unless it needs it, and right now 4GB is the sweet spot, unless you are running 3+ GPUs on 3+ 1600P monitors.
Seth Hoke

These specs seem…I don’t know, wrong? The 3200 cuda cores sound right, but a smaller memory bus than the 780 AND the R9 290x? Doesn’t make much sense to me, especially with these cards being more 4k ready.
- zodiark
  
  well the gtx 580 had a 382bit memory bus the the 680 only had a 256 bit memory now the 780 had 382 bit then 880 will probley have 256bit see now
  - Seth Hoke
    
    Such logic. Wow. Lol no. If it does end up being 256 I’ll eat a shoe.
    - eater
      
      better start eating a shoe now.
      - Seth Hoke
        
        Why? Over some unconfirmed specs ‘leaked’ from ONE website? When all evidence and common sense says otherwise? No, I think no.
      - teronsorensen
        
        Well looks like your having shoe for dinner because it is in fact going to be 256 bit but the reason its able to be 256 bit is because the gm204 is not a GK110 or 104 architecture the nanometer processing is different and therefore the bit rate is able to be different. its unclear if the 880 will be 28 nanometer or 20 nanometer due to the company that manufactures the gpu’s stating they need to retro fit their assembly line. it seems more like future fitting to me but maybe cards used to use 20 nm processing? im not sure i just started getting into computers last year. i owe a lot of my knowledge to youtubers like elric!
      - nojustno
        
        No. No GPU has EVER used 20NM before now. No, these specs are not 100% confirmed. Elric does this shit all the time. Releases speculation as fact ALL the time, & it is quite silly. Likely only doing it for click bate.
        Nothing here is fact. Not a single thing.
      - Preston Oneal
        
        When did he ever insist that this information was to be taken as fact? He very clearly stated that these are “supposed” specifications of the card.
      - jalebi Singh
        
        actualy, one of amd’s iGPU uses 20 nm gpu cores and 28nm cpu cores.
      - ssj12
        
        Going by history, the 880 will have 256, the 980 will have 382.
  - Nicolas Baron
    
    And the GTX 285 had freaking 512bit, so yeah, seems likely.
    - NojustNo
      
      GTX285 also used GDDR3. SOOOOO GET your facts straight before making ignorant statements.
      - Preston Oneal
        
        And your point is? He never said one incorrect thing. Where do you draw the idea that he needs to get his facts straight?
- Jeffrey
  
  I think I remember NVidia saying a while back that they managed to get better efficiency out of their bus’s, so now their lower bit bus’s are now just as strong as higher bit bus’s that you would see on AMD GPU’s. Don’t quote me on it, it’s very vague to me because it’s been a while since I read their article about it.
  - NojustNo
    
    It simply doesn’t work like that. A larger on die cache can help some, but memory bus width is still memory bus width, and a 256k bus even @ 7.5GHZ would be a major issue for people looking to run 4K.
    - Jeffrey
      
      Once again, Nvidia said something about it. Go to them about it.
      - Preston Oneal
        
        He doesn’t need to go to them about it. He is simply stating a technical fact.
- Keon Fraites
  
  I think it was claimed that this would be on the lower end of the GPU’s (Not the High end gpu) Might be Mid end, I saw a high end spec leak preview (Also not directly from Nvidia) being around 6,000 cuda cores.
Mohammad

DAFUQ?? now we dont know how is this going to perform because just by seeing the low bandwidth of the memory or other specs good or bad we cant judge it because the most important thing is the driver and how the software uses the hardware but still it looks like cheap plastic and I hate it, I guess I will keep my HD 7990 till next AMD R300 or GTX 900 series
- Seth Hoke
  
  I seriously doubt that that thumbnail is what the 880 is going to look like, I’m almost positive that is a reference 660 or 670. That and these specs are not to be trusted just yet.
- Elijah Daugherty
  
  That’s a 660, not the 880.
Robin B

780 may be better then 880 but they start off at the lower end so the best 7 series card may be better then the lowest/lower 8 series card. just like 5-6 and 7 series.
- teronsorensen
  
  it looks like this year they went a bit backwards actually it looks like they are releasing monster cards first to compete with amd’s strategy this year. but i could be wrong because everything might be changing at nvidia due to 295 x2 and titan z delayed TWICE!
Eric Slattery

This would be a beast of a card……….at 1080p. With that crappy memory bus, it probably will not handle higher resolutions very well.
- McLegendary
  
  Maxwell is stupid efficient with it’s memory bandwidth. 256 bit on maxwell is equal to 384 bit on Kepler, maybe even higher if they really push it.
- teronsorensen
  
  Mclegendary is completely right…just look at the 750 ti running maxwell
Dani Filth

Clock speeds are still at 900 mhz for how many years now 5? i lost count.
David

GTX 480 320-bit 1280MB GDDR5 @ 133.9GB/s
GTX 580 384-bit 1536MB GDDR5 @ 192.4GB/s
GTX 680 256-bit 2048MB GDDR5 @ 6.0Gbps = 192.2GB/s
GTX 780 384-bit 3072MB GDDR5 @ 6.0Gbps = 288.4GB/s
GTX 780Ti 384-bit 3072MB GDDR4 @ 7.0Gbps = 336GB/s

GTX 880 256-bit 4096MB GDDR5 @ 7.4Gbps = 238GB/s???

If the 880 specs are correct, then I guess wait for an 880Ti?
- Elric Phares
  
  I think there are not 100% correct as they came from a Euro Website, but maybe there is some truth in them as well.
  - Seth Hoke
    
    That’s what I was thinking, no way this thing has a 256 bit bus…more likely 512 but 384 would probably do the trick.
    - DevilChild96
      
      NVidia have stated that Maxwell can get similar performance with a smaller memory width. So with that in mind we may get similar performance with a 256 bit bus that we would with a Kepler with 384 bit bus. Plus the fact that this thing would have 4320 cuda core equivalent to kepler is awesome, that is practically double the 780.
  - zilox
    
    wait, so because the info was from EU, its fake? Really rick…
    - Elric Phares
      
      Don’t read so much into it, that is not what I meant at all..
  - John Mellinger
    
    yeah none of this adds up. Nvidia has taken a huge role now on gearing for 4k. Not to mention stepping up it’s gameworks program with all new effects and updates to effects already out that are going to need more gpu power. I think the min v-ram on this card is going to be 6gigs given the fact that Evga has a 6gig 780ti on the market Not to mention with more and more high end PC titles that are not console ports on the way such as Witcher 3 I am sure Nvidia is not going to want people to wait two too three gpu generations to be able to play it on the highest settings and get a decent frame rate at higher resolutions. But that’s just my speculation. I just hope TSMC gets it’s head out of it’s A because from what I been reading we might not see anything 20nm from both green and red team till as late as Q2 2015.
John Mellinger

With all the BS affecting Nvidia and AMD dealing with 20nm because of TSMC I would not even believe any spec’s from a website like Tyden.CZ… No way would Nvidia have such low specs on a flagship single gpu with the likes of the 295X 2 on the market at only $1499. Not to mention with the delays from TSMC we might not even see 20nm cards till late as Q2 2015 from both Green and Red teams. Untill I see offical leaks I will just take stuff like this with a grain of salt.
YuggY

Being that PCIe is the bottleneck and that memory is cheap, i really can’t understand why these graphics cards wont come with 16GB or 32GB or mem for more $50 to $100… and please widen that 256bit interface… these cards should be built for speed…
Secret

I think we will have to wait for further information on this…
Erik Hiebert

I would have expected much higher memory bandwidth than that… so much for pushing the 4K movement (granted, 4K is pretty dumb for gaming). I think with a memory bandwidth that low it’d struggle to play at 1440P even o__o
kane Brennan

Doesnt matter what the spec is, as soon as the non reference fan version gets released I will buy.

If your an enthust PC gamer like me you buy the latest and best as and when they get released. Hence why I have the i7 3930k and 780 Ti
Jhonson

This card is not ready for 4k I think GTX titan Black and z and r9 290×2 deserves to be pluged in a 4k monitor.