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4k gaming what's best single card out there ?

A single 980 TI MSI Lightning will be fine.

No single card on the market will give you over 60 FPS with ULTRA settings currently on new titles in 4K

Most people will buy 980 Ti and then put the settings on High and tern MSAA off. you will get 60 FPS then , but only really need this for shooters.
 
Kaapstad said:
You have just pointed out one of the TitanXs strengths @2160p. To do the resolution properly you are going to need 3 or even 4 cards. To do this you need reference cards or watercooled cards, the TX is ideal for this.

As to out of the box speeds there is a TX that is nearly 12% faster than the normal reference one.:)
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The Tx is great for Sli at 4k but the op asked about single card options and the Titan offers nothing over the Ti 99% of the time. A reference Tx won't overclock as well as a non reference Ti and because they do not allow non reference Tx's you're better off with a Ti or going with water to get the most out of the TX. If you just want an air cooled graphics card to stick in your rig with no messing about the fastest option is the Ti.
 
nashathedog said:
The Tx is great for Sli at 4k but the op asked about single card options and the Titan offers nothing over the Ti 99% of the time. A reference Tx won't overclock as well as a non reference Ti and because they do not allow non reference Tx's you're better off with a Ti or going with water to get the most out of the TX. If you just want an air cooled graphics card to stick in your rig with no messing about the fastest option is the Ti.
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The fastest option is a watercooled TX.

The sensible option for value is the 8gb 390X.

The GTX 980 Ti sits between the two above for bang per buck.
 
Think anyone going for 4k right now with the current hardware available is either being impatient or fair enough they have the money to burn

With HBM, dx12 and die shrink so close a new card that combines all of these features will surely be the answer to 4k that everyone is waiting for

I hope, pretty bored of waiting to be honest :(
 
That's fine I can't justify £1500 on a monitor and graphics card to barely make use of the monitor I'm not an early adopter for that reason, I'll get a new gpu and 4k screen next year when the gpus have the grunt for a steady 60 plus fps in 4k until then I'm staying at 1080p, ultra settings and 8x aa at over 60fps
 
When more power is available, games also become hungrier, or developers lazy to optimize.
I don't really see high end (1400p @144Hz and anything above that) moving away from dual cards any time soon!

So far the best cards can barely keep up with some games @1440p/60Hz, and 100Hz+ will hopefully become the new standard in the next few years.
 
Still too early in my opinion to be worrying about 4k. Pascal and possibly AMDs new Arctic islands is the best time to jump on it. These cards will have more memory (probably) and should be significantly faster. Id say save your money and wait till next year!
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Thats what they said last year....always put off today what should have been done yesterday.
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Upto OP really. If he wants to jump on 4k then it goes like this.

Money no object then currently Titan x is the best single card.

Money on more of a budget then get a good 980Ti as in non refference which will clock quite a bit and perform a bit better than a TX but with less memory.

Then your looking at a Fury x which in my opinion isn't worth looking at because of the price. If it was a bit cheaper than it falls just behind a 980Ti but because of the price 980Ti wins everytime.

So jump now and possibly be abit underwhelmed and then see the pascal cards next year which honestly should see a much bigger jump as its moving away from 28Nm and is getting HBM2. And then he might regret jumping so early. It's upto OP tbh mate his money his decision we can only tell him which is the best currently and guide him to what might be out soon.
 
Relentless81 said:
That's fine I can't justify £1500 on a monitor and graphics card to barely make use of the monitor I'm not an early adopter for that reason, I'll get a new gpu and 4k screen next year when the gpus have the grunt for a steady 60 plus fps in 4k until then I'm staying at 1080p, ultra settings and 8x aa at over 60fps
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To run the top current games (GTA V, Watch Dogs, The Witcher 3 etc) on a single card maxed out @2160p you are going to have to wait for big Volta in 2018. Pascal next year won't be anywhere fast enough.

Waiting is a terrible option as you will never get to do anything.

Remember in 2018 when you can play todays top games maxed on big Volta there will be games around that will push the bar far higher.:eek::)
 
Kaapstad said:
To run the top current games (GTA V, Watch Dogs, The Witcher 3 etc) on a single card maxed out @2160p you are going to have to wait for big Volta in 2018. Pascal next year won't be anywhere fast enough.
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Nvidia leading on that pascal will be more than capable to handle 4K. More then double performance then Maxwell. A single pascal GPU should be able to handle most settings on ultra. Volta might be overkill at 4k. Now 8K that's a different story
 
Simon Belmont said:
Nvidia leading on that pascal will be more than capable to handle 4K. More then double performance then Maxwell. A single pascal GPU should be able to handle most settings on ultra. Volta might be overkill at 4k. Now 8K that's a different story
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Pascal is going to be 60% to 90% faster than Maxwell, this is nowhere near enough to max todays games. You need 4 TXs too max them @2160p which is more than twice as much as big Pascal will deliver.:)
 
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