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AMD NANO £349 or the Zotac 980ti for £499

darknite

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Ok so I was going to get the Nano this week, I think it is a great price. Mentioned this to the wife and got a "yeah yeah no problem buy what you like" So I thought ah ha the wife is in a good mood should I point out there is a 980ti reduced from £569 to £499, so I mentioned it... She said "yeah yeah no problem buy what you like"

So is a 980ti worth an extra £150? I currently only game on a 1080 screen that might change to a 1440 so it does seem over kill.

So spend £499 because the wife says ok or be sensible and buy the Nano?

Brain can't take it :-(
 
Review the threads for the new Pascal and Polaris cards, and consider if you can wait, as you might spend now, and regret it when the new cards come out in a few (possible) months time.
 
The thing about Nano is that out of the box, it is more of a 980 competition, but beat it at vast majority of the occassion, but with an impressive TDP of 175W; if you raise power limit for the card, the clock speeds will no longer throttle and run at full speed at the cost of around 80W higher in power consumption (255W still pretty good for a high-end card), and this will put it at pretty much 95-98% of the Fury X's performance.

I think for most part, the 980Ti would be faster than at 1080p for most games that are dx11 and older, but moving forward, the Fury Nano is very likely to catch up with the 980Ti and probably even overtake it, like how back then when the GTX680 has a lead over the 7970 initially, but over time the AMD card caught up and overtaken it by a margin, and that's even more likely to be the case with dx12.

Overclocking wise, the 980Ti will offer much more performance increase comaring to the Nano, as the Fury series cards doesn't get much performance gain with overclocking...but obviously, overclocking the 980Ti would naturally resulting in higher power consumption and fan noise level.

So basically if you would like to get the extra performance for overclocking, you should go for the 980Ti...but obviously you'd have to pay the £150 extra for the privilege. And then there's of course that's the Gimp...I mean GameWorks to consider, and if you play a lot of those titles, you'd probably better to go with the 980Ti just in case.
 
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mods1965 said:
Review the threads for the new Pascal and Polaris cards, and consider if you can wait, as you might spend now, and regret it when the new cards come out in a few (possible) months time.
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Don't think I will regret buying now. Their will always be something better come along and you could wait and wait because of the next best thing. I am just after something now, the next week or 2. I was pretty sure on the nano, deal wise, but that 980ti does looooooook goooooood :-)
 
Honest answer is i would wait, but if the itch was too strong then id buy a nano and save the rest incase i was to regret it ( in a few months maybe ).

If you want it now then the Ti is the best card, is it worth £150 more, only you know that.
 
it's just a mindset thing in reality as they are quite different cards.

Want max performance? 980ti
Want max price to performance / value? fury nano.

If you're willing to pay the difference for the 980ti then that's well and good and it's currently the best performing card (short of overpriced TX) but it's just whether it's worth the price. For me I'd probably just jump on a nano at that price, can always sell it later on and jump to polaris / pascal as something tells me the 980ti price will depreciate a lot when the other cards come out or at least more so than the nano will of course. It's just not as competitive price wise and I'd expect it to drop when it's no longer the clear leader on performance but if you're not really concerned with value / resale / upgrades / energy usage etc. then it's probably 980ti.

Buying a card is more of a personal choice as you should be factoring in whether YOU are likely to upgrade / want the next series of cards, whether you mind the performance / price difference more and whether you mind the energy use etc. It's all readily available info but as stated the fury is better price / value / energy use / resale / upgrade but the 980ti is better overall performance / longevity (if planning on keeping the card). I myself never bother upgrading cards throughout the generations and just wait to buy an entire new system but if you don't mind swapping cards out then that can change your decision massively. All about your budget too, do you think 500 on a card is worth it or will the performance from the £350 card be enough knowing you've saved that cash for other stuff you might want?
 
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darknite said:
Don't think I will regret buying now. Their will always be something better come along and you could wait and wait because of the next best thing. I am just after something now, the next week or 2. I was pretty sure on the nano, deal wise, but that 980ti does looooooook goooooood :-)
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A shrink only comes every few years and are getting longer and longer as the processes get smaller and smaller , people are expecting/hoping a mid tier card where a 380x is now to almost or match a 980TI
 
queamin said:
A shrink only comes every few years and are getting longer and longer as the processes get smaller and smaller , people are expecting/hoping a mid tier card where a 380x is now to almost or match a 980TI
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Except it is unrealistic expectation...I mean one only have too look back at the history of moving from 500 series and 600 series, the 660 was still a bit chunch behind the GTX580, and it took a GTX670 to match 580's performance.

If a new Nvidia coming with around 980Ti level performance and beating it by a nose, you can bet it wouldn't be priced at sub £240; £200 would most likely be the EOL price of the 980Ti.
 
I would say if you're going watercooling or have excellent airflow the Nano has great performance for the cost.

The 980Ti would give you more performance in an all-around scenario, but £150 gap is pretty steep. 980Ti also overclocks like a beast.
 
if you can afford a 980Ti and your not worried about the amount of money you will potentially lose on it when you come to sell then get the 980Ti. A nano whilst not cheap in it's own right is better value and I would say at this stage a better choice if you plan to keep it for 18 months+, I suspect DX12 performance on it will be better as well.
 
For 1440p the nano is actually a pretty great card. While still behind my Titan X in performance, it can maintain high / ultra in pretty much most titles and this is at 3440 x 1440.

The defult fan profile on the card is on the weaker side to keep things very quiet and as a result it will more often then not sit at around 900-950 Mhz mark on the core. Notch up the fan abit and it will still run fairly quiet and maintain 1000 Mhz.

Having gone through two Nano's and keeping the later, both samples can be clocked abit to normally the 1050-1085 Mhz mark on the core and 545 on the memory (AMD Fiji cards over clock the memory in discrete steps of 500, 545 and 600, any other figure is rounded). Under water however they thrive very well and can go 1100 Mhz + stable no issue.

Having said that, if I was buying, I would pony up the extra cash for a 980Ti as it will preform better in most circumstances and be pushed fairly far with an OC.
 
Well it does sound like people are in favour of the nano over a Ti. In my head I am picturing the nano on my z9pe board. I think my raid card will actually be bigger :-)
 
Save the £150 and go for the Radeon Nano, if you ever get a higher res monitor the Nano actually is able to pull back more ground against the much pricier cards. At £350, the Radeon Nano is the higher end performance card to get right now Price VS performance winner.
 
+1 ^^^^^ it sits above the GTX 980 but below the 980TI, there isn't a huge amount of performance difference, save yourself £150.
 
darknite said:
Don't think I will regret buying now. Their will always be something better come along and you could wait and wait because of the next best thing. I am just after something now, the next week or 2. I was pretty sure on the nano, deal wise, but that 980ti does looooooook goooooood :-)
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Whilst it's true that there is always something new coming, there is a difference between buying at the beginning of the product cycle (when the 980ti was released) and buying right at the very end (immediately before the new cards are released).

The gamble isn't that there will be something better coming (there always is). The gamble is that you might have been able to spend £350 in a couple months and get £500 980ti performance, with newer features, DX12 support, and lower power.

That's the gamble.
 
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