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1600p 980ti or Titan X?

Kaapstad said:
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.
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Yes, leaving that aside for a moment it also has 12GB of VRAM ;)
 
Money not an issue, get 4x TX. Then do DSR.

Reality is I'd say 980ti fine for 1600p right now. Many of us running 980s/970s on 1440p144hz.
 
I had the choice and went TX. They clock well and the huge frame buffer is nice plus it'll be good if you pick up a cheap one down the line for sli. The Ti may be faster when Overclocked but the TX overlooks as well :)
 
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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Selling your house just so you can afford a new GPU now that is what I call an enthusiast :D
 
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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Double up your 780Ti with W10 an DX12 vram is stackable, gone are the days of low vram :D
 
rtho782 said:
Money not an issue, get 4x TX. Then do DSR.

Reality is I'd say 980ti fine for 1600p right now. Many of us running 980s/970s on 1440p144hz.
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If money is not an issue, he should just contact nVidia and have them manufacture a custom card for him for a few hundred thousand dollars. Maybe get a Pascal prototype for a few million, lol.

But seriously, there are a lot of factory overclocked 980 Tis that will beat a stock Titan X out of the box in terms of performance, noise and temperatures. I would personally get a good 980 Ti like the Gigabyte G1, MSI 6G, or the Amp Extreme. Basically Titan X-beating performance for minimum effort. Or, if you want to put in a little more effort, get a Titan X and overclock/watercool it.
 
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Even if money's 'not an issue', that doesn't necessarily mean that value for money is beyond consideration...

A Titan X is for a very specific customer these days, most people will have better use for the money (regardless of how much they have).
 
oldestgregg said:
If you are being sarcastic you should maybe tell him Cyber. Too many people already think this will happen :)
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How am i being sarcastic? there's plenty of info of it on the tinterweb.

I too thought it ws witch craft until i read it on numerous sites.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/mantle-to-allow-vram-stacking-in-multi-card-setups/

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/direc...ce-directx-9-explicit-multiadapter-explained/

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/both-mantle-and-dx12-can-combine-video-memory.html
 
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CyberCrow said:
How am i being sarcastic? there's plenty of info of it on the tinterweb.

I too thought it ws witch craft until i read it on numerous sites.
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because even IF it does happen, it won't happen how you think it will - each GPU needs direct access to all of the textures it needs for a particular frame, otherwise you get either stuttering or texture pop in... if you are doing either AFR or SFR, the textures are going to be mostly the same, so the actual amount of VRAM you free up by having a separate pool for each GPU is actually pretty small

it really isn't as simple as just saying "vram will stack so 3GB x 2 becomes 6GB", because accessing the VRAM on the other GPU via pcie will be painfully slow by comparison
 
Il leave that down to the experts to sort out an see what happens, ive got access to another 780ti so il try it out when it drops as im not impressed with the 9x series.

If its as you say why are all these websites/forums showing different? an stating that they will stack?
You got any links claiming/saying that they will not stack?

Sorry to sound like a jerk but this is the only reason ive not jumped to a Titan my self.
 
Because it was mostly AMD marketing speak when Mantle was first released, none of the mantle games went this route and Johann Anderson went on record as saying that alternate frame rendering was still the most viable, performance wise. CivBE went with a version of split frame rendering, but still didn't optimise the memory management in this way.

Basically it is entirely reliant on developers putting in a lot more work on multi-GPU rendering paths, which history shows they are very reluctant to do, when straight AFR or a simplified SFR schema is much simpler.

It might happen on a few independent PC only titles, but as a general rule I don't think it is going to be very common as a method. Looking at other games that have tried to get clever on texture management, you end up getting lots of texture pop in.

The same with explicit multi adaptor, I think it is going to come with it's own host of issues that will end up with it not being widely supported.

Don't worry, you don't sound like a jerk, if it ends up on a bunch of PC "news" sites then it starts to sound believable. I'm just extremely skeptical it will actually happen.
 
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Yep, same here, I'm eyeing up buying a 2nd 980ti when DX12 drops, but it will depend on game reviews / benchmarks as to whether it improves multicard support / scaling.
 
I think a 980ti would be fine for 1600p.

If I had the money though I'd go for a TX simply for the peace of mind regarding vram etc.
 
Thanks for the answers, I was only saying money not an issue as i can pick up a titan x second hand from my uncle for around £650, the 980ti Amp spec ed. is around £580 new, so not really an awful lot in it. I was curious about the vram as most of reviews/benchmarks these days only use 1440p then jump to 4K, missing out 1600P!
 
CyberCrow said:
How am i being sarcastic? there's plenty of info of it on the tinterweb.

I too thought it ws witch craft until i read it on numerous sites.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/mantle-to-allow-vram-stacking-in-multi-card-setups/

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/direc...ce-directx-9-explicit-multiadapter-explained/

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/both-mantle-and-dx12-can-combine-video-memory.html
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In theory its said it will happen but no one knows when this will actually happen.
 
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