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** THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: GTX 980 & GTX 980Ti SUPER 48HR SALE!! **

Minstadave said:
Think that's an extreme example. A normal 980 soundly beats the 480 in most things, especially when overclocking is taken into account:

http://www.babeltechreviews.com/rx-480-vs-gtx-1060-vs-gtx-980-overclocked-showdown/3/
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I agree. I'm not saying the 480 is a more powerful card generally but if I was buying a new card with future proofing in mind, it's hard to ignore the emerging trends that AMD is squeezing more performance out of their cards via the new APIs. It's starting to look like good optimisation (AMD) vs. pure grunt (Nvidia).
 
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dits said:
you're saying 980ti's that are left will be back up at £400!! JESUS
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Yes NVIDIA are funding the entire channel until September 11th on sell out, after this date NVIDIA will no longer fund sales.

As our stocks are low we shall restore prices to £350-£400 as they still sell at such prices albeit slowly but with little stock it is of no concern to us and were happy for them to drip feed out. :)
 
The RX480 is a nice card, I have got 4 of them but there is no way I would recommend them over a 980 Ti.

It may be possible to find the odd game where the RX480 does well but in the vast majority it is an easy win for the 980 Ti.:)
 
Kaapstad said:
The RX480 is a nice card, I have got 4 of them but there is no way I would recommend them over a 980 Ti.

It may be possible to find the odd game where the RX480 does well but in the vast majority it is an easy win for the 980 Ti.:)
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Absolutely, especially at higher reasons.

The 480 largely performs between 970 to 980 levels, is weak at overclocking and uses too much power for the performance it offers. Yes there is a glimmer of hope with its DX12 performance in some specific games, but not all as the benches I posted earlier show - to my eye it's a bit of a lame duck, especially at £250 - a £300 980Ti destroys it in nearly everything.
 
would it be worth swapping out my 1060 for the ti? only intended to keep the 1060 for a year or two at most then sell it and move onto whatever comes next. i only play at 1080p 60hz my tv.
 
Still great cards IMO, if Volta really is due middle of next year i can hold on to my 980Ti no problem til then.

They also walk all over the PS4 Pro GPU, but i don't think that's unexpected :p
 
ree said:
would it be worth swapping out my 1060 for the ti? only intended to keep the 1060 for a year or two at most then sell it and move onto whatever comes next. i only play at 1080p 60hz my tv.
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Not for what you are using for.

A 980 Ti would be about 30% to 40% faster but it is a lot of money for the upgrade.

The 980 Ti also uses a lot more power and therefore produces a lot more heat too.
 
Kaapstad said:
Not for what you are using for.

A 980 Ti would be about 30% to 40% faster but it is a lot of money for the upgrade.

The 980 Ti also uses a lot more power and therefore produces a lot more heat too.
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Agreed, if you were playing at high res then yes but at 1080P the 1060 will be fine for some time.
 
Kaapstad said:
Not for what you are using for.

A 980 Ti would be about 30% to 40% faster but it is a lot of money for the upgrade.

The 980 Ti also uses a lot more power and therefore produces a lot more heat too.
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ok thank you will just fight off the impulse buy in me lol
 
heartburnron said:
I think the R9 Fury at £300 is a safer bet if you want similar but more future proof performance when compared to the 980ti. I've certainly seen it quite significantly out performing the 980ti in some of the DX12 / Vulcan benchmarks in the more recent games.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-...ess-graphics-card-r9-fury-4tf9-gx-234-xf.html

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_page..._graphics_performance_benchmark_review,9.html
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I think you win some kind of reward, recommending a 4GB card as a 'safer bet' and 'futureproof'.

4GB is not enough for 1080P max details in a few new titles, let alone 1440P, making it a total joke of a GPU.

The 980ti with 6GB VRAM is a much better choice at this price point.
 
danlightbulb said:
And for how long will this be the case? Is the 1070 worth £100 more than a 980ti?
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£100 more like £39


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £698.98
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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These cards are quite keenly priced, but if you look at the 1060 and 1070 prices the newer cards are only £30-40 dearer.
Good prices though if they are the cards you are after.
 
Amazing prices imo, even though Maxwell is kinda meh for DX12/Vulkan I don't think it matters that much yet, those APIs are still in the early stages.
 
Nasher said:
Well, look what happened with the 780s.

People started noticing it's performance dropping way below AMD equivalent cards soon after the 9 series was released. Even in some older games it started performing worse.
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That scaremongering!

Few months ago Techspot published very interesting Then and Now article compared 6 generation of Geforce GPUs ran with all graphics settings maxed out.

http://www.techspot.com/article/1191-nvidia-geforce-six-generations-tested/

6 generations Geforce cards tested:

GTX 1080 - 27 May 2016
GTX 980 Ti - 2 June 2015
GTX 980 - 19 Sept 2014
GTX 780 Ti - 7 Nov 2013
GTX 780 - 23 May 2013
GTX 680 - 22 March 2012
GTX 580 - 9 Nov 2010
GTX 480 - 26 March 2010

Games benchmarked:

Rise Of Tomb Raider - 28 Jan 2016
The Witcher 3 - 18 May 2015
Dragon Age: Inquistion - 21 Nov 2014
Sleeping Dogs - 8 Oct 2014
Metro 2033 Redux - 27 Aug 2014
Watch Dogs - 27 May 2014
Thief - 28 Feb 2014
Battlefield 4 - 29 October 2013
BioShock Infinite - 25 March 2013
Tomb Raider - 5 March 2013
Crysis 3 - 19 Feb 2013

It is really amazing that GTX 480 can run Rise Of Tomb Raider fine when the driver stopped optimised 5 years ago.

Battlefield 1 open beta at 1080p on DirectX 12 ran just fine on GTX 680 and 780 with no drivers optimised.

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Oh I just googled tried to see if Techspot had Then and Now article on Radeon generation and found 5 generations article below.

http://www.techspot.com/article/942-five-generations-amd-radeon-graphics-compared/page4.html

Surprised GTX 980 performed very well compared to 290X 2 years on when Nvidia stopped optimised drivers, it is incredible GTX 480 outperformed 5870 in all games.
 
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