Ten months ago we saw the launch of the GTX 980. Two months ago we got a look at the latest halo card in NVIDIA's Maxwell-based product stack, and can see that NVIDIA got us interested with the GTX 980, then slammed the proverbial door on any of the single GPU cards in AMD's aging product stack. Now we finally get our hands on the card everyone knew had to come out of the skunk works at NVIDIA: the GTX 980 Ti! While the GTX Titan X is the card to have to futureproof your gaming system with 12GB of GDDR5 memory and 3072 CUDA cores to handle the load when making the switch to 4K gaming and rolling in upcoming VR tech. So how does that pan out when you chop 6GB, two streaming multiprocessors, and 256 Cuda cores out of the equation? That's what we are here to find out boys and girls.

Today the latest card from NVIDIA, the GTX 980 Ti, comes to fruition and is finally available to the gaming public. Cards will be available from most of the AIB partners, with prices starting at $649 for reference cards, like the one I am looking at today.