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Stay with 980 Ti or upgrade to 1080 ?

Personally I am going to stay with the 980ti. I've had it for 6 months and performs really well at 1440p in games like GTAV and Witcher 3.
I think Ti owners may as well wait to see what the 1080ti brings as the 1080 just isn't a big enough performance increase to merit the upgrade price.
Most 980/970 & below owners will prob wanna upgrade which makes sense as you will get a 50% increase in performance or more and so that is worth it. If us 980ti owners get 50% increase on a 1080ti then that will be worth it, depending on prices of course :)
 
IvanDobskey said:
And all the people pinning their hopes on the 1070, I really can't see it being much faster than a 980ti, if at all.
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It will be at least as fast,like the 970 was to the 780 ti. Forget overclocking and throttling concerns as ref 980ti's like do the same in a case.1070 non-fe should be great clockers
 
easyrider said:
Loads of people will get a 1070 when it hits and sell their 980ti

Loads and loads.
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I don't think that will the case at all. Why would you pay a lot of money to "swap" your GPU for one that (most likely) performs the same (or slightly worse).

Your living in cloud ****oo land.
 
bb gun said:
Well the reviews are up for the 1080 and it shows quite a leap from the 980 Ti which is impressive but really sad for me since I bought my 980 Ti in November last year seeing it beaten so fast where my 980 Ti had little usage (not reaching it's limits in games) and I'm in the same dilemma I was when I was wanting to buy 980 Ti out of fear that the Pascal will easily beat it so I'm generally curious what do you folk think.

While I don't regret buying my 980 Ti that late in the year even when Pascal was announced with it's die shrink I bought my 980 Ti because I was impatient and wanted a GPU to last me for couple of years playing games on 1440p but seeing how much increase the 1080 is I'm wondering is it a smart move to upgrade to 1080 or stay with my 980 Ti ?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in forward.



EDIT: I have MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming Edition (OC-ed), if anyone is wondering.
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personally i wouldn't upgrade, the founder 1080 trottles in gaming after 10-20min to the base clock, which your OC 980Ti most likely match or exceed, and the oc ability of the 1080 is limited by voltage and power supply, what i would do is keep the OC 980Ti and wait for some AIB to make a custom card with new PCB that adds one 6 pin and different bios, then wait for reviews to see how well it overclocks, if it does then you can pick one.
i would also keep track on the release date of Vega or 1080Ti, wouldn't be smart to pick 1080 couple months before the release of true high end graphics.
 
DarrenM343 said:
You'll buy a 1080 friday. I can feel it in my bones :D.why wait/do a sidegrade to 1070. Get 1080 and enjoy the extra performance now then upgrade again later.this is the voice of your subconcious speaking.....
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Nope,

I'll be waiting until June 7th...

unless a 1080 I like comes in at 500-550 :p
 
What resolution do you game at and is any game you play now unplayable on your 980Ti
if not then dont upgrade

i know all the hype makes you think your somehow missing out but really your not
 
@ 1440p (without GSYNC) It might be a temping upgrade but at the very least I would what for AIB cards, there is noway I would be splashing out for a FE card, noway.

Louder card, thermal throttling, just stock speed, and considerably more expensive to boot, I just can't comprehend anyone be excited by the FE cards.
 
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lowrider007 said:
@ 1440p (without GSYNC) I might be a temping upgrade but at the very least I would what for AIB cards, there is noway I would be splashing out for a FE card, noway.

Louder card, thermal throttling, just stock speed, and considerably more expensive to boot, I just can't comprehend anyone be excited by the FE cards.
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Me neither...
 
I can't give anyone else advice on how to spend their money. The only thing I can say is that I have agreed the sale of my 980ti and will be getting an AIB / 6+8pin 1080.

People are free to draw their own conclusions or decide what to do with their own money, that's what I'm doing with mine.
 
easyrider said:
Driver optimisations, Power, heat, overclockabilty...

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Driver optimizations are a none factor with this generation lol. They are basically Maxwell on a die shrink and some tech added for people that want to correct the screen issues with multi monitor setups.

If any gimping occurs by Nvidia to the 900 series they will in most cases gimp the 1000 series too, unless they start using card ID's to deliberately gimp and then watch the legal issues crop up and how quickly they will claim it was an accident haha. Nvidia you can't trust anymore after some of their recent games with the 970, the Kepler gimping that was "accidental" as they stated and fixed. Also anyone that owned a Nvidia laptop in the past will also remember their lies regarding why their GPUS on laptops would fail.. due to the solder balls they used and the heat their GPU kicked out.. Nvidia has had a pretty shady past regarding "mistakes", you just have to google it.

One thing that makes me happy about the 1000 generation is it is Maxwell die shrunk and not Pascal, the only Pascal is the GP100 so far and that is a compute card not a Graphics card. They have stuck to their promise a Pascal GPU with HBM memory and Pascal architecture, but that will not come to Geforce gaming cards this generation. Volta Geforce cards will have HBM memory on the Big chips not the Mid-range.
 
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