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1600p 980ti or Titan X?

ntemples1

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just a quick bit of advice really please, as the thread title asks which card would be better at 1600P?

I realise the 980ti (amp extreme) is faster but i guess I'm asking if the 6gb memory is sufficient or would I be better off with a Titan x (money not an issue)

Cheers.
 
ntemples1 said:
just a quick bit of advice really please, as the thread title asks which card would be better at 1600P?

I realise the 980ti (amp extreme) is faster but i guess I'm asking if the 6gb memory is sufficient or would I be better off with a Titan x (money not an issue)

Cheers.
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If money is not an issue why not just get the TX?
 
ntemples1 said:
Would it be overkill though for 1600p memory wise?
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You can never have too much memory, DX12 is not log away, one can do a lot more with it in development terms, that could push the memory usage up.

For me if money is not the issue i would go overkill just for the certainty of it being enough.
 
TX is better than 980Ti.

If money is a concern then Ti is probably the more 'sensible' choice. If you can call buying a £500 GFX card sensible that is :D

FWIW I've been playing games at 4K for the past few hours, and at settings that allow 60FPS I've not even breached 3GB VRAM.
 
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ntemples1 said:
just a quick bit of advice really please, as the thread title asks which card would be better at 1600P?

I realise the 980ti (amp extreme) is faster but i guess I'm asking if the 6gb memory is sufficient or would I be better off with a Titan x (money not an issue)

Cheers.
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Why not just get two GTX 980 Tis?
 
TX is pretty pointless now that the Ti is out, you don't need the VRAM and if money is no object just get 2 Tis. If 4GB at 4K is only JUST an issue if you really try hard to make it an issue (won't occur using actual usable settings in games), then 6GB at a resolution with half the pixels will be fine.

Although at 1600p a single Ti should max everything at 60 FPS. The only reason I can for anyone buying a TX over a Ti atm is for something crazy like 3x 2560 x 1440/1600/4K gaming, but even then I would say the Ti is fine for the 3x 1440/1600, maybe not for 3x 4k though.
 
Thanks for the replies guys, I think I'm just going to go with the zotac amp extreme edition when I've sold my house in a week or two, having had sli for ages I was looking for a single card solution so won't want to get 2 980ti's, was just wondering about the vram.
 
^^... What he said...

Particularly if you SLI a couple of TX's and max out the settings in 4k...
You'll soon blast past 6GB of vram... :)
 
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ntemples1 said:
Thanks for the replies guys, I think I'm just going to go with the zotac amp extreme edition when I've sold my house in a week or two, having had sli for ages I was looking for a single card solution so won't want to get 2 980ti's, was just wondering about the vram.
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get the fastest 980Ti you can then.


I expect in 12-18 months time then it would be possible to have a playable game use more than 6GB of Vram at highest setting, but new Nvidia cards will be out in 9 months or so.
 
I have never understood why it is when it comes to VRAM some people are continuously dogged about X amount being enough for an amount of time somewhere in the distance as if they have a crystal ball.
This even when money is not an object.
As if given the choice between a 12GB TX and 6GB TI one would pick up the TI because it has 6GB and not the TX because it has 12GB, makes no sense what so ever....

Look, there are games out there which benefit from having huge amounts of VRAM, the more the card has the more Pre-loading of textures it can do and thus the smoother and more fluid the performance.

Also, i can make my own Game which will need the 4GB i have available at 1080P and at decent performance levels, as a matter of fact in one of my creations i am starting to worry about how much VRAM its starting to demand.

With DX12 you will get 15x the Draw-Call through-put, what that means is DX12 can call 15x more objects at any given time than the current DX11 can.
More objects = more VRAM.

I'll stick with my advice and leave it at that :)
 
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This even when money is not an object.
As if given the choice between a 12GB TX and 6GB TI one would pick up the TI because it has 6GB and not the TX because it has 12GB, makes no sense what so ever...
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You do realise a TX is faster than a 980 Ti.:D

The above is something the LN2 benchers like to forget as these days they spend more time benching AIB partners 980 Ti's to get them to sell.

MingBin 980 Ti anyone lol.
 
I'd go aftermarket 980Ti and bank the savings towards a future card, by the time 6GB becomes an issue you'll probably be looking to upgrade to a faster/more modern GPU anyway.
 
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