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So I was looking at the Steam Hardware Survey thing...

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980Ti was an expensive card (~£600), not many would spend so much on a GPU. 1080Ti is the top end norm today, but overpriced at the moment, should be ~£700. You can get the Titan Xp SW edition from Nvidia for £999, or lose the plot completely and go for the new Titan V, £2700.

Using 1440p/60Hz, I went from a Gigabyte 980Ti G1 Gaming to a EVGA 1080Ti FTW3, very happy with the upgrade. What resolution are you using?
 
Regarding 85%, NV pwns AMD when it comes to gaming ATM.
Titan V makes the 1080 Ti look cheap hence people bought more of those than 980 Ti's :). Dunno really, but the 980 Ti was quite an expensive card at the time and not sure how long it was on the market vs 1080 Ti. I think the 10 series cards have been very popular, despite higher pricing, the 1060 obviously the sweet spot for price vs performance. 1080 and 1070 now been on the market for maybe 20 months so not surprising to see those up there.
I have a 730 I use just for display at 1440P.........but do people really game with one? I tried FarCry 2 with it and I could have made a cup of tea between frames :D
1060 or greater performance on a CPU would probably be quite a big seller?
 
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Steam surveys are not independently verified for a very good reason. Enough said.
 
It's a popular card but don't forget this is an enthusiast forum and most elsewhere wouldn't want to pay £600 (price at release).

Although they are cheap as chips now. Recently picked up one for £150 with a dodgy fan which I replaced for £15.

Most gamers on steam are still on 1080p or less with low-mid range cards 960/970, 1050Ti/1060 etc.
 
The whole steam survey thing is messed up anyway with the 65% of the chinese people in steam that came into it when that game was release a couple of months ago.
 
VincentHanna said:
980Ti seems popular here because it's an enthusiast forum.

Reality is that most PC owners don't have expensive GPUs
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Yeah. You just need to look on most twitch streamers info on their hardware. Most are on 980 or 1050/1060 and 1070.

Not a lot are on Ti’s, granted there are some with the occasional 1050 Ti and 1080 or so.
 
varkanoid said:
So let me get this right just cos your 980ti is not "popular" you now want a 1080ti :rolleyes:
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Yes absolutely.

No I jest :)

Honestly speaking I was going to get a 1080TI a long time ago, but that plan was put to bed...

But recently Ive been thinking to go 4K and will need a meatier GPU to go with it... hence thinking about the 1080TI

However I'm assuming now is not be the best time due to GPU prices being so high? Whats driving this? Cryptomining?
 
I borrowed a 4k monitor from work without gsync and I was surprised how well the plain 1080 did. The 60hz was very noticeable coming from 144mhz though.
 
Cavallino said:
However I'm assuming now is not be the best time due to GPU prices being so high? Whats driving this? Cryptomining?
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The mining and memory prices one two combo...hopefully something miraculous will happen to allow sensibly priced GPU's to reach people who aren't mining, and at the same time mobile phones cease iterating and the memory that would have been bought up by Apple et al. goes into the wider market.
 
a 1080ti won't run 4k/60/ultra at stable fps for the latest and greatest games, if true 4k is the goal, probs best to wait till the next iteration ti comes around
4k isn't all that either imo, i couldn't see much of a difference. i'd rather have 1440p with higher fps and ultra settings than 4k. dropping down your settings just to run 4k seems a bit counterintuitive lol
hence i sold my 4k/60 monitor for a 1440p/75 panel.
 
varkanoid said:
I borrowed a 4k monitor from work without gsync and I was surprised how well the plain 1080 did. The 60hz was very noticeable coming from 144mhz though.
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True that.
I am so spoiled with the 144hz on my desktop (even without freesync these days), that the gsync laptop at 60hz everything but strategy games feel unplayable.
 
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