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So who is actually going to buy a 1070 or 1080 ?

X-Mikuru_Beam-X said:
I was always under the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the regular 980's wernt much of a bump over the 780's, and so if the 1080 is roughly equivilent to 980SLI a single GTX1080 wouldnt be much faster than what I have?

For the record I have had zero issues running SLI on the games I play these last 3 years :)

I play FPS multiplayer games almost exclusively and I suffer dreadfully with headaches if motion blur is present so running 144 - 165hz would be ideal for me! Right now Im getting around 120fps in BF on custom (near to ultra) settings...
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The 980 was quite a bit faster than the 780.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Matrix/6.html

Wait for reviews though because all we have so far is NVidia spiel and of course they are biased :)

Yes spot on Sean and I worded it wrong. It certainly isn't twice as fast as SLI 980s :D
 
I've been looking at 970s lately as a replacement for my Radeon 6870 so I think a 1070 will be perfect. Price will decide though.
 
Still currently running a slightly OC'd 7850 and think now's the "right" time to make a significant upgrade, given the new architectures n' all, so I know that I will be buying a new card sometime over the summer. I'm guessing (... :D) that either side will provide me with a huge upgrade so either way I'll be happy. But it's not like I can buy the card right now, so might as well ride out the wait and hold off till AMD comes out with whatever they've been planning (so currently thinking 1070 vs. 490/AMD-equivalent.)

To be honest though I could probably upgrade to a 970/390 right now and still be super impressed with the gains over my current card, so even if AMD doesn't come out with raw performance like Nvidia just did (e.g. omg faster than Titan X!!! ... :p) but instead opts-out for a more budget orientated/..."mainstream" card that's still "faster" than a 390 (by how much who knows) but on the cheap, that might be the wiser upgrade path.

As it stands though the 1070 looks impressive either way.
 
I will be buying a 1080 if the benchmarks show they are 980 SLI beating and the launch price is within reason, otherwise I will wait for the 980Ti equivalent.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I will be buying a 1080 if the benchmarks show they are 980 SLI beating and the launch price is within reason, otherwise I will wait for the 980Ti equivalent.
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It's pretty simple. When scaling is around 70-100 percent on the 980's it won't be faster. Multi card support ain't great these days so I would not be surprised to see the 1080 being faster in multiple games.
 
1080 for me. My 780s are too much of a bottleneck at 1440p now (combination of 3gb and the sli profile lottery). I'm hoping I'll get a good 18 months of 1440p/60fps goodness out of it.
 
Going to be very interested in reviews of both these cards :)

My 760 is definitely due for update, but it's really down to whether the new GPUs can drive games like Kerbal Space Program, Subnautica, WoW and Minecraft at 4k resolution. If neither's up to the job, then there's no need for me to upgrade...
 
Got a single 970 at the moment, will probably consider a 1070 depending on performance and price. Happy to wait a little while for everything to "settle" after launch.
 
Will definitely be getting either the 1070 or 1080 to replace my 970. I'm waiting until the custom cards are released though and seeing what the price of those will be.
 
Providing I will get a reasonable upgrade in performance, I'll probably grab a 1070 to replace my 560ti...
 
Gregster said:
If Jen Hsun's claims are correct, the 1080 is supposedly twice as fast as 980 SLI, so it will be a huge performance jump for you.
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from the chart on Nvidia website , the actual game ( not VR ) 1080 is seem to be around X 1.7 time faster than 980

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I made the mistake of having my head turned by the amazing offers on 780 gtx's when the 980 came out and thinking I could get 2 x 780 for the price of 1 980 and it being the same or better (boy was I wrong)

I will be putting my bargain blinkers on and going straight for the 1080 this time, had it with poor, problematic and non existent SLI support in a lot of games these days.
 
Diagro said:
Its not a fully fledged DX12 card. Not interested sorry.
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Depends if AMD can push titles with AS support, if not and Nv don't push it, then it won't matter a jot.

Have my doubts, thinking it's Maxwell all over again in regards to AS, technically it can do it, just that it's utter cack at it and imposes a performance penalty.

So going with that thought, unless an Evga 1070 is £320 max, doubt I'll change my 970 for another mid range part and just hold out.
 
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