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980Ti SLI - silly to do it now?

Yes, pretty silly. At least see what news we get from all the tech conventions coming up in the next month or two.

I doubt you want to be speding £1000+ to find out you might be able to get the same performance in a few months time for significantly less.
 
Personally I would spend another £500 quid on a GPU. SLI/Xfire isn't in a good state at the moment. And are you going to be satisfied with your purchase when the new shiny cards come out form AMD and Nvidia this year?

I think not with how disappointed your gonna find SLI.
 
A GPU is out of date in a year. The people buying 980's will be replacing them with something equally expensive in no time at all. Buying top end GPUs every year is a mugs game.

I keep a TV five or six years and feel £1200 for enjoyment over that length of time is worth the money.

But I guess these things are subjective and I'm just giving my personal opinion :)
 
IvanDobskey said:
A GPU is out of date in a year. The people buying 980's will be replacing them with something equally expensive in no time at all. Buying top end GPUs every year is a mugs game.

I keep a TV five or six years and feel £1200 for enjoyment over that length of time is worth the money.

But I guess these things are subjective and I'm just giving my personal opinion :)
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As you've just proved a GPU is Not out of date in a year. Your 780 is doing just fine you said :D
 
Simon Belmont said:
As you've just proved a GPU is Not out of date in a year. Your 780 is doing just fine you said :D
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Yes, but the people who buy the top end cards do so every year ;)

Anyway, with the next round of cards only a matter of months away, there is no arguing that a 980 is a bad buy at the moment, let alone two of them.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Yes, but the people who buy the top end cards do so every year ;)

Anyway, with the next round of cards only a matter of months away, there is no arguing that a 980 is a bad buy at the moment, let alone two of them.
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Well he already has one so hes only looking at one more not two.

Might be next year before we get a 980ti replacement its unknown atm . If op has the money and wants that performance boost i say go for it
 
I probably wouldn't now - once the GTX1080 is out you can get a cheap GTX980TI for £250. But then I would probably proactively ditch a GTX980TI before the GTX1080 launched.

Only need to look what happened to the GTX580 and GTX780TI in the past.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I probably wouldn't now - once the GTX1080 is out you can get a cheap GTX980TI for £250. But then I would probably proactively ditch a GTX980TI before the GTX1080 launched.

Only need to look what happened to the GTX580 and GTX780TI in the past.
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I wonder how a GTX 980 Ti and a GTX 1080 would run together under DX12.

It is a different game now we have got DX12 as it should be possible to mix cards from different generations and vendors. This means you can hang onto your old card for Multi GPU use with your new card.
 
Kaapstad said:
I wonder how a GTX 980 Ti and a GTX 1080 would run together under DX12.

It is a different game now we have got DX12 as it should be possible to mix cards from different generations and vendors. This means you can hang onto your old card for Multi GPU use with your new card.
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Given that multi GPU will be down to the vendor code, do you think it will even exist in future? Resources must be prioritised, and surely that priority is Console > PC > multi GPU (if at all).
 
String said:
Given that multi GPU will be down to the vendor code, do you think it will even exist in future? Resources must be prioritised, and surely that priority is Console > PC > multi GPU (if at all).
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AOTS allow you to do it.

But yes the problem is with the game devs as to if they implement multi GPU setups.

Mantle was not too bad to use but what killed it was the game devs lack of support.
 
Right then. Looking at the info coming out of the AMD conference doodah last night, it seems cards of any real interest to me won't be out for at least a year. And by that I mean a proper leap like 780ti to 980ti leap i.e. almost double. Unless nvidia pull a major surprise, but I think that's very unlikely. That sound right?

Makes me glad now that I bagged a 980ti for a fairly stolen price of £480 around Black Friday time, and I'm now seriously considering adding another again for some SLI tomfoolery.

The 'wait for pascal/ wait for Polaris' mantra seems to be losing power to me massively.
 
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