1080 Ti or...?

[bobboberts]

I potentially have the ability to get a Gigabyte 1080 Ti for about £350. Is that a good deal or for that kind of money would I be better off adding a few pounds and buying something new?

Worth adding that for the short-term I'm only gaming at 1080p; longer term I'm looking at moving to 1440p and a new build, so in the interim I know I would be CPU bound (have an 4790k, if I recall.)

Thoughts?

 

[krooton]

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/kr00t0ns-gpu-buyers-guide-september-2019-rough.18866119/

Good price for second hand, especially if you don't care about Turing features, however I have heard people say Gigabyte graphics cards aren't that great in terms of quality these days.

 

[leon4112]

buy it for 350 even without warrenty its a steal.

 

[bobboberts]

How would it compare to a 2070 Super (assuming I paid a bit more)?

 

[JediFragger]

buy it for 350 even without warrenty its a steal.

Whoa whoa whoa I wouldn't go that far! Not when the 5700XT isn't that far off and will come with 2yrs.

 

[JediFragger]

How would it compare to a 2070 Super (assuming I paid a bit more)?

About the same but at least you'd have warranty.

 

[bobboberts]

About the same but at least you'd have warranty.

Interesting. What 2070S is the current favourite?

 

[nhornby51743]

Interesting. What 2070S is the current favourite?

I have the Palit Jetstream, hits 2Ghz out of the box.

 

[patent122]

Only if it's Aorus or even FE. The Windforce ones are really low quality, don't even have backplates. Gigabyte went from being top tier manufacturer of Maxwell cards to being one of the worse ones currently (Palit is better now than gigabyte).

 

[Panos]

I potentially have the ability to get a Gigabyte 1080 Ti for about £350. Is that a good deal or for that kind of money would I be better off adding a few pounds and buying something new?

Worth adding that for the short-term I'm only gaming at 1080p; longer term I'm looking at moving to 1440p and a new build, so in the interim I know I would be CPU bound (have an 4790k, if I recall.)

Thoughts?

Which gigabyte? Because it sold reference model and is big no no.
Also consider it won't have warranty. So as someone said above with that money you get 5700XT.

For 2070S new you have to add 50% to your budget, without getting more than 8% the performance of the 5700XT. (before tweaking the latter).
Your pic.

 

[Scania]

I potentially have the ability to get a Gigabyte 1080 Ti for about £350. Is that a good deal or for that kind of money would I be better off adding a few pounds and buying something new?

Worth adding that for the short-term I'm only gaming at 1080p; longer term I'm looking at moving to 1440p and a new build, so in the interim I know I would be CPU bound (have an 4790k, if I recall.)

Thoughts?

A 1080ti for 1080p is massive overkill, plus as you say yourself your cpu will bottleneck the card anyway albeit not hugely, the higher your resolution the more work you throw at the GPU making it easier for the CPU to catch up with it to feed the information of what you're doing in-game so for the a 1080ti to render a scene at 1080p your not making it break sweat, 1440p will help but still I’d say a 1080ti is something of an overkill.

I’ve got the 4790 (non k) and a 1080ti Amp Extreme, but I run @4k so it isn’t really an issue for me as per the above.

£350 is a lot for a second hand card with no warranty, I’d personally look at something more suited to 1440p which you could easily get within budget and with a warranty brand new.

 

[willhub]

I'd not say 1080Ti for 1080P is massive overkill.

 

[patent122]

1080Ti is perfect for 1080p when you're playing at 144hz or just want to max out games, it's not overkill. It was overkill at launch but not now

 

[jommy999]

£350 is a steal price . I would love to get one that price myself .

 

[greatash]

I would just get a new 5700XT for a similar price. Full warranty, same performance, newer features.