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GPU Dilemma

CrabCrust

CrabCrust

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Afternoon everyone!

So the time has come to upgrade my GPU and it seems to the worst possible time to do so!

I currently have a GTX 970 and I mainly do Sim Racing titles on VR, such as rFactor2 and Assetto Corsa. I do want to play more games going forward however I am currently on LOW settings on everything and it makes me sad. I have no intention of going to 4k to be honest.

The other thing I mainly do with my PC is rendering 3d models in 3DS Max.

I have a total budget of £1700 but the plan was to put aside £950 for a PC upgrade (will make a separate thread for that) So that leaves about £750 for a new GPU.

Here is my dilemma - I'd love the GTX2080ti but way out of my budget. I would settle on a 1080ti but almost want to refuse paying £750 for a GPU that is End of Line and possibly more expensive because of that reason. So I guess the 2080 is a good option but I am worried that because it's not a Ti it won't quite do the job. I forgot to mention that this needs to be really future proof. It's rare I get a chance to upgrade and spending this much money on a PC is already quite a push but the wife understands that this is what I enjoy.

Anyways, any advise will be helpful, thank you.
 
Have you thought about the Vega56/64? Decent price for the amount of power you get - would leave lots of money available for a system upgrade!
 
Get a used 1080 for now... and Skip this awful 2080 gen entirely...Its not ready, its not even that fast and it sucks at Ray Tracing....:p

And its overpriced :p
 
easyrider said:
Get a used 1080 for now... and Skip this awful 2080 gen entirely...Its not ready, its not even that fast and it sucks at Ray Tracing....:p

And its overpriced :p
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Yeah this was an option too but something scares me about used. Perhaps it’s the fear of the unknown on how it was used. I don’t overclock anything, I’m unsure about others. Mining too!
 
We need your full system specs.
I'd say you need at least a 1080 for it to be a worthy upgrade over a 970.

If I was in your position I'd wait (I went from 780 to 1080 about a year ago, 1080 prices are nuts now).
There's so many people passing on the current gen, if nvidia wants money from those people they're gonna have to release something cheaper.
"Gaming at any cost" can't be the way forward.
 
billysielu said:
We need your full system specs.
I'd say you need at least a 1080 for it to be a worthy upgrade over a 970.

If I was in your position I'd wait (I went from 780 to 1080 about a year ago, 1080 prices are nuts now).
There's so many people passing on the current gen, if nvidia wants money from those people they're gonna have to release something cheaper.
"Gaming at any cost" can't be the way forward.
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I currently have this -
- 16gb (4x4) Corsair Vengeance (https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categ...l-Channel-DDR3-Memory-Kit/p/CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R)
- i7 2600k
- Gigabye GA-Z68XP-UD3
- MSI GTX 970

Are you referring to a 1080ti sorry? My issue is that the wife wants the money spend ASAP so she can then focus on saving for a holiday. We know if we keep the money there it’ll get spent on rubbish :(
 
BongoHunter said:
At 1080p I would expect a 1070ti or Vega56 to be at max settings tbh
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1080p eh a rtx 2080 will definitely have the power to play 1080p just fine all on max with a high fps.

So yeah I recommend the rtx 2080 to you for 1080p and if you buy this you won't be let down, maybe the processor would bottleneck it but nonetheless it is what your after.

Rtx 2080 is overkill for 1080p in my opinion.

Dan
 
The i7 8700k definitely will have the power so I am confident that will have no bottleneck especially if you overclock the processor.

If you overclock the 8700k at 5ghz then that will be a stonker.

As for Vr I don't know but a rough guess would be a yes due to how powerful the rtx 2080 is.
 
2080 should have the edge in performance over the 1080ti, but not by much.
Plus it has newer tech - tensor cores and (ostensibly) real time ray tracing.

If you do 3d rendering, wouldn't the Vega 64 be a good/better buy?
They're better than the equivalent nvidias for pro software and rendering loads - be worth checking the benchmarks of the 64 against the 1080ti/2080 for things like 3dsmax.
 
For non-gaming work the AMD cards are miles better tbh. Far more raw processing power. Geforce cards are only for gaming really.
 
Had a very quick look - the Vega 64 is 20% faster in Blender than the 1080ti (which I suspected).
The 56 is also faster.

If you do a lot of 3d rendering and you don't game at 4k - the sapphire vega 64 nitro plus they're selling here for £419 would be a good buy.

The current gen of nvidia cards are way overpriced imo.
 
Vega 64, should offer a nice boost and also let you use freesync which will give you an easier time if/when buying a new monitor.

Also it's a nice way to give the finger to nvidia, which they deserve atm.
 
as others have said, VEGA64 if you do 3d word and also @1080p resolution it has more than enough horse power, to be honest with some adjustment of settings even 4k is not a stretch.
 
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