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Cheerio 980Ti

Not getting rid of my 980 Ti @ 1550MHz until either the Pascal refresh or Volta, whichever one impresses me more as it seems current Pascal is just Maxwell with really high clocks.
 
I have a new evga sc + 980ti here gathering dust.Great card and keeping that as backup.Gave gears 4 a whack on the pg348q with it to see how she performed and it was excellent.Amazing cards:)
 
Think i may be waiting to volta. Don't think 1080Ti is going to be much faster tbh seeing how much faster the titan is. Depends if i can hold out though lol.
 
Agree with a lot of other posters, the 8800GTX gets my vote

Still got an 8800GTS sitting in a box as an "emergency video card" that i picked up from the bay a couple of years ago for £12.
 
Orchid Righteous 3D. For 2 reasons. The name. The fact that it replaced an ATI Mach 64 1mb so was possibly the biggest leap in graphical/ visual performance i have ever seen, and that included SLI with 2x12Mb Voodoo 2's.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Well the 290 is now faster and is a year older and it comes with full speed Vram. It's a year older and actually seems to support dx12 unlike the gtx970 so imo it's a better card.
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Except it spent years not being as good. Judging how good a card is only by how it is 3 years later seems a bit weird to me, because you're still using that card for those entire 3 years and that time matters, too.

Also, there are still plenty of games where the 970 is plenty faster than a 290.

Lastly, the R9 290 was a $400 card on release. More if you wanted something other than the awful reference cooler.
 
djbully said:
For me, the best cards I had were

3) Radeon 6970 - Overclocked like a trooper.
2) Nvidia 8800 GTX/ULTRA - I had to run mine slightly underclocked, but still a beast for that time...
1) Radeon R9 290X - The Titan killer.
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For me it was a 5770 and 7850 which lasted the longest before upgrading because I was happy with how they performed at the time, More recently the Fury pro I have now has proven to be a much nicer card to live with than the 780 Classified and 290x Gaming which preceded it.
 
Aretak said:
Well, to be clear, I'm by no means voting for the 780 Ti. I only mentioned it because it's the nearest possible comparison to the 980 Ti, and by pretty much every metric it was the better card, relatively speaking. It was more powerful than its Titan for much less money, when being only slightly less powerful than the Titan X for much less money is one thing people always talk up the 980 Ti for. And just like the 980 Ti it was the most powerful GPU in the world when it was released (though the 290X has proven to be the smarter buy over time).
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It wasn't faster than it's Titan because that was the Titan Black. The original Titan had the 780 as it's stable mate, Once Hawaii released the fully chipped 780ti and Titan Black came out as the new top dog stablemates but they didn't have very long lifespans from what I remember which was doubly sad as it was also the one and only time you could buy an aftermarket Titan (Innod3d Herclules). Plus we was all hoping for a 6gb 780ti and instead got a 6gb 780 which was a cruddy move if you think about it, At the time I almost went for a 6gb HOF but I'm glad I didn't. While it was a nice card in it's own right it was released after the chip had lost it's appeal.
 
nashathedog said:
It wasn't faster than it's Titan because that was the Titan Black. The original Titan had the 780 as it's stable mate, Once Hawaii released the fully chipped 780ti and Titan Black came out as the new top dog stablemates but they didn't have very long lifespans from what I remember which was doubly sad as it was also the one and only time you could buy an aftermarket Titan (Innod3d Herclules).
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The Titan Black was released months after the 780 Ti. At the time of the 780 Ti's release, its Titan competition was the original, which is why it was such a good deal at launch. And even if you wanted to bring the Titan Black into it, the 780 Ti was equally powerful, with the same amount of CUDA cores. Again, better off than the 980 Ti in comparison to the Titan X. :)
 
I reckon the greatest was the Radeon 9700 Pro. I didn't have one though - had a 9500 Pro, which was probably the bang for buck king at the time, particularly if you wanted to enable AA and AF.
 
I've changed my mind. 7970 deserves to be no1. Reason being because its still going like a boss. It's not like after all this time its barely hanging with low settings etc but its still absolutely smashing it after nearly 5 years and showing no signs of giving up( cough cough looking at you 980ti.)
 
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