I, like many others have skipped the 1070/80 in the wait for the 1080 Ti or AMD's equivalent.
Usually it would be a simple choice for me, nvidia... however the development of API's are making me reconsider my initial thought of buying 1080 ti - allow me to explain...
My new cards performance in games will be impacted by certain factors;
NV said pascal has Async Compute, but its not as good?
if i'm going to spend £800+ on a GPU i want to buy the one which will perform better under these API's, DX11 will be redundant soon, Is AMD going to beat NV due to the new API's ??
Usually it would be a simple choice for me, nvidia... however the development of API's are making me reconsider my initial thought of buying 1080 ti - allow me to explain...
My new cards performance in games will be impacted by certain factors;
- DX11 - Nvidia wins majority
- DX12 - Depends on game e.g. AOTS/Hitman (AMD > NV) - Tombraider (NV > AMD)
- Developers optimisation fairness - Games are coded to perform better on AMD and NV GPU's
- Vulcan/OpenGL - im not educated enough to fully understand but i believe Vulcan works better on AMD hardware.
NV said pascal has Async Compute, but its not as good?
if i'm going to spend £800+ on a GPU i want to buy the one which will perform better under these API's, DX11 will be redundant soon, Is AMD going to beat NV due to the new API's ??
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