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Just purchased 1080gtx, better than 980ti sli?

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I don't understand why a 980Ti owner would jump to a 1080 tbh anyway. It's like being a 970 owner jumping to a 1060. Id rather wait for 1080Ti before making a decision to jump or wait for volta. For the proper high end not the make believe high end.

If you were to do it today, it is not as good, because the 980ti has now tanked in value, and the 1080 has gone up since launch. Still, the 1080 is noticably faster and is definitely and upgrade, not "the same", as someone said before. Compared to SLI 980ti, you will get 100% working performance in every game with no microstuttering, also about 200w power usage instead of 500w from SLI 980ti.
 
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I looked through both of those and almost all the results are ~30%. Not 15-20%. Divison is the worst there approx 20-25%. I worked it out from another review a few months ago, it was about 25% overall. 25% is quite a lot if you consider that the titan X is only around that much better than a 1080.

Different to what I'm seeing (unless my maths are wrong, which is quite possible). Quite a number of the anand results look less than that to me, though there are a few nearer the 30% mark with maybe one or two a little more than that.
 
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This,

I don't think it's an odd side grade as mentioned as he already said he wants to do away with the issues SLI causes for him with whatever games he plays, That may simply be the lack of support for specific games but it's a perfectly reasonable move for those reasons especially once he sells the 2 980ti's as that reduces the outlay. At the end of the day he'll have a card that can run any game at acceptable levels upto 1440p/1600p with no mgpu issues and once he's sold the Ti's depending on the card he bought it could have cost as little as £100 extra.



That's probably it, In some of the games he plays it does not work and if he has specific games he uses regular it will be a big deal for him.

This! finally someone with a brain :D
 
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Don't think so

If you are going to go down the single card route get a Pascal Titan.

Easy to say though if you can afford a over grand a pop for one every time they come out, and it's not all that long until they are superseded by something much cheaper. So they are not good value for money, at least in my opinion.

I will always get a single card to avoid multi GPU issues too, probably one of those things that will never be sorted to work 100% flawlessly now.
 
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Easy to say though if you can afford a over grand a pop for one every time they come out, and it's not all that long until they are superseded by something much cheaper. So they are not good value for money, at least in my opinion.

I will always get a single card to avoid multi GPU issues too, probably one of those things that will never be sorted to work 100% flawlessly now.

Lets be honest here, they are not good value, at all. But I don't think the people that get TXP really care.
 
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Just purchased an Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme from ocuk as getting sick of some of the newer stuff having sli problems! Do you guys think this single card will be faster than my previous 2x msi 6g 980ti's in sli? thanks.

if the 980ti's are running stock I would swap for a 1080 custom. if the 980tis are running at 1500/2000 then I would stick with the 980tis. I was seeing an improvement of 10-15% from a single 980ti to single 1080.

when running 1500/2000 on the 980ti I did not class a move from 90fps in the division to 110fps average (1080 classified) as worth it.

in terms of stock to stock performance the 1080 custom aircooled cards are well engineered and run more quiet on air than the 980ti. also something to consider.
 
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I can think of 600 reasons, why a single 1080, is the best idea.. then wait about 12 months and you can have titan XP performance for 1/2 MSRP.

Looking forward to it !!!!

But for now if some one wants the best single card performance it is the Pascal Titan.

Best part about the Pascal Titan is the 12gb of VRAM, there are already games that use more than 8gb making the PT a good investment if you go SLI later.

What is also interesting is anyone who uses 980 Ti SLI is not really going to be put off by the Pascal Titan price.
 
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One reason would be if they have a VR headset where the 1080 is significantly faster.

Or maybe it isn't (just googled this)

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...U3vCIMAaDMYOlMApw&sig2=A-OqHtoVJkchPS4k2Gk5pg

For VR maybe but its not something ive looking into and i doubt its even that popular at the moment. It's probably as popular as 4k gaming right now.


If you were to do it today, it is not as good, because the 980ti has now tanked in value, and the 1080 has gone up since launch. Still, the 1080 is noticably faster and is definitely and upgrade, not "the same", as someone said before. Compared to SLI 980ti, you will get 100% working performance in every game with no microstuttering, also about 200w power usage instead of 500w from SLI 980ti.

today? It tanked in value as soon as the 1080 came out and even before that people was getting £450 at best for the top end 980Ti which cost them at tad over £600 when they bought them so that's atleast £150 depreciated there. Not to mention it was over £600 for a 1080 so they need to find another £180 on top of that although 1080 has gone up in price now. 1080 is what 20% faster give or take with both cards overclocked to a moderate overclock. So all that hassle and at least a extra £180 for 20% give or take speed to me is just not worth it. It seems faster because all the benchmarks from reviewers has 980Ti at the lower end clock speeds like 1100 -1200 where as the 1080 will boost up to anywhere upto 2000. Most 980Ti will clock to 1450. My 980Ti will happily sit at 1550 with extra voltage bump or at 1542 on its stock volts.

OP has yet to sell his cards so two 980Ti will net him about same or just over what a 1080 would cost yet 980Ti SLI provides much more performance than 1080 in games that support SLI. Still don't see the point. Unless SLI just
hasn't been that great then perhaps but personally id settle for just a single 980Ti and wait for the 1080Ti.
 
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For VR maybe but its not something ive looking into and i doubt its even that popular at the moment. It's probably as popular as 4k gaming right now.




today? It tanked in value as soon as the 1080 came out and even before that people was getting £450 at best for the top end 980Ti which cost them at tad over £600 when they bought them so that's atleast £150 depreciated there. Not to mention it was over £600 for a 1080 so they need to find another £180 on top of that although 1080 has gone up in price now. 1080 is what 20% faster give or take with both cards overclocked to a moderate overclock. So all that hassle and at least a extra £180 for 20% give or take speed to me is just not worth it. It seems faster because all the benchmarks from reviewers has 980Ti at the lower end clock speeds like 1100 -1200 where as the 1080 will boost up to anywhere upto 2000. Most 980Ti will clock to 1450. My 980Ti will happily sit at 1550 with extra voltage bump or at 1542 on its stock volts.

OP has yet to sell his cards so two 980Ti will net him about same or just over what a 1080 would cost yet 980Ti SLI provides much more performance than 1080 in games that support SLI. Still don't see the point. Unless SLI just
hasn't been that great then perhaps but personally id settle for just a single 980Ti and wait for the 1080Ti.

1080 is about 20-30% faster depending on game, if you ebayed your 980ti BEFORE the 1080 came out, then got 1080 on PO, it is a decent upgrade, now the 980ti has lost another approx 50-100 in value and the 1080 has gone up, although you can still get a good one for 600. So yes as I said it was a better deal before, eg. ebay 980ti before pascal launch then get 1080 PO.
 
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Lots of peeps are pointing out the negatives of your decision, I suppose you asked which was faster, and the 980ti's are quicker, but with a single card you have less noise, less power consumed and less heat outputted, you also wont have any potentially weird issues with Sli.

You also have more video memory which could prove useful further down the line. So although it wasn't necessarily a wise investment, its not all doom and gloom :)
 
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1080 It makes games smoother at 3440x1440, where they were not smooth enough on the 980ti... In new games pascal is more like 30%. All I can say is it definitely has better performance than 980ti, definitely does not feel "the same", the difference between for example 55fps avg, and 70fps avg.

This^

My Acer x34a is much better with a 1080 then 980Ti.
 
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