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Graphics Card Upgrade From GeForce GTX 780 to GTX 1080?

pastymuncher said:
Why the massively overpriced Asus 1080? The Zotac Amp edition is a very good card at £630. If you really want RGB there's the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme Spectra RGB at £680 and the core is only 25mhz less than the Asus while the memory is 800mhz more than the Asus. Zotac cards also have a 5 year warranty compared to Asus 3 years. What res do you game at?
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Now you tell me ;)

I normally game at 1080, I have dual BenQ 24" 1080 144hz. Perhaps 4K could now be on the cards now?

In fact....."No!" must...resist...spending...more...money. I swear the wife's going to have a seizure as it is.
 
I'd strongly advise if possible to try before you buy (or be prepared to return or something) with 4K - IMO it isn't for everyone.
 
Rroff said:
I'd strongly advise if possible to try before you buy (or be prepared to return or something) with 4K - IMO it isn't for everyone.
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This 100%

It is not gaming that is an issue it is everything else.
My self I went from 24" 1920*1200 to 27" 2560*1440and for gaming it is fantastic but just using windows or browsing the web, I hate that I have to use scaling 110% in my case because my eyesight isn't that good.
I can only imagine that 4K would be even worse.
 
Rroff said:
I'd strongly advise if possible to try before you buy (or be prepared to return or something) with 4K - IMO it isn't for everyone.
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bru said:
This 100%

It is not gaming that is an issue it is everything else.
My self I went from 24" 1920*1200 to 27" 2560*1440and for gaming it is fantastic but just using windows or browsing the web, I hate that I have to use scaling 110% in my case because my eyesight isn't that good.
I can only imagine that 4K would be even worse.
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Really? This sounds disappointing.
 
I'm on a 27" 2560x1440 and haven't had the text size/scaling issue - I definitely wouldn't go smaller than 27" though (2560x1440 on a 25" for example is very hard to use for anything other than gaming IMO).
 
mikedigitales said:
I'm on a 27" 2560x1440 and haven't had the text size/scaling issue - I definitely wouldn't go smaller than 27" though (2560x1440 on a 25" for example is very hard to use for anything other than gaming IMO).
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Yup I wouldn't be able to go smaller.
Of course every bodies eyesight is different, so as Rroff suggested definitely try before you buy if you can.
 
Although not the same as setup as yourself, its pretty similar, with the same motherboard. I've recently moved from a 7970 CF setup, so a touch worse than you 780ti, depending on your GPU OC.

Can't comment on your relative gain without having had the same card, but I can tell you that since getting the card a month or so ago, I have been loading up everything I have and putting the GPU through its paces. I game at 2560x1440 60hz and with a lesser i7 930 at 4.2

Since getting the card I have played the following with a locked 60fps, bar the odd hitch here or there:

Batman Arkham Knight
Gears of War 4
Witcher 3
CoD Infinite Warfare

This is with details at max, with the only exception being maybe turning down and particle affects (if necessary) as they tend to be CPU bound.

Long story short, using the 1080 on that platform doesn't seem to completed obliterate its performance. In fact, on the well coded ones above, such as GoW4 and IW, I am able to oversample to nearer 4k and still maintain the framerate I want. Basically its performed admirably.

I'm happy as I think this card will last quite while. 2560x1440 seems to be a sweet spot, as when engines become more demanding then the native resolution is detailed enough to look good but not too hard to drive, but oversampling still gives decent results for my eyes at the moment.

And when I eventually move up hopefully next year, might look to get a 6700k platform when the new ones come out, and pick up the cast offs!!! which should help out more.

Any questions let me know

JP
 
The 980X will definitely bottleneck at a technical level, it might be beyond 60fps but it will be there - I agree with people saying a GTX1070 is a better move.

@jonathan_phang, I think this would be a good example, every game will work perfectly but being realistic you would have gotten the same results with a GTX1070.

Say if you went to 1440p 144hz, then the bottleneck would become apparent.

However, on the flip side, if you moved to 4K or 1440p with forced super sampling applied, the bottleneck is eliminated as GPU becomes strained.
 
I would either wait for the 1080Ti or get a 1070 the 1080 is a waste of money for a very small difference in performance. If you are planning to spend £800 on a asus 1080 you might as well get the Titan X Pascal at that point. Better ways to spend your money and get better performance. A 1080 on that system is not worth it. I would be either thinking about updating the platform and the graphics at the same time to get a real benefit, the 980x is still a good cpu and when overclocked will do well with a 1070 and double your current performance in games.
 
Terrorfirmer said:
@jonathan_phang, I think this would be a good example, every game will work perfectly but being realistic you would have gotten the same results with a GTX1070.

Say if you went to 1440p 144hz, then the bottleneck would become apparent.

However, on the flip side, if you moved to 4K or 1440p with forced super sampling applied, the bottleneck is eliminated as GPU becomes strained.
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This factored into my thinking when I got it, but I went with it anyway, as I was definitely going to go the SuperSampling route where it permitted perf wise, and the next upgrades are likely to be CPU/mobo and then monitor. Really wanting to go either 21:9 or 1440p 144Hz. But... £££, until then the 1080 lets me game at the levels I want.
 
jonathan_phang said:
This factored into my thinking when I got it, but I went with it anyway, as I was definitely going to go the SuperSampling route where it permitted perf wise, and the next upgrades are likely to be CPU/mobo and then monitor. Really wanting to go either 21:9 or 1440p 144Hz. But... £££, until then the 1080 lets me game at the levels I want.
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21:9 3440x 1440 is the game changer, 4K is pointless right now unless you want to get 2 1080's or a pair of Titan X pascal's.. but still even then I would rather have 21:9 as it is just so much nicer to use and feels better to me than any 16:9 setup.
 
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Purgatory said:
21:9 3440x 1440 is the game changer, 4K is pointless right now unless you want to get 2 1080's or a pair of Titan X pascal's.. but still even then I would rather have 21:9 as it is just so much nicer to use and feels better to me than any 16:9 setup.
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Yes, and the good thing here is that if 21:9 support is lacking, then you can still get a fallback to a Native 2560x1440 (with SS or whatever) to tide you over. Must really do some research into 1080 performance at that resolution....
 
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