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Is a 980ti really not going to cut it for 1440p anymore?
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You do realise NVidia make the fastest DX12 card you can get.
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I run BF1 with a Fury at 1440P Ultra settings and its fine, stays above 60 90% of the time
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yup that's why i own one
I guess his point was why do you try to take the focus away from the quality of a card when you own one yourself?
You could see why I suppose
The 980ti is a better overclocker than a 1080. Clock for clock the 980ti outperforms a 1080.
All the graphed results showing a 1080 running at faster fps, is because they are comparing a 1080 running at 1600mhz base clock, versus a 980ti running at 1000mhz base clock.
Once you start overclocking the 980ti, it outperforms the 1080. A 980ti at plus 1500mhz, outperforms a 1080 at plus 2000mhz, as can been seen from the results of Firestrike Scores, where overclocked 980ti scores, are higher than overclocked 1080 scores.
A 980ti is still a very capable card and it is not worth upgrading to a 1080, if you already have a 980ti.
The Titan X Pascal is a proper upgrade to a 980ti, as the performance of one Titan X Pascal is almost equal to the performance of 980ti SLI.
The other true upgrade, will be the 1080ti that is meant to be coming out sometime at the start of next year.
Firestrike 1080 Scores :
http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode...e/fs/P/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Firestrike 980ti Scores :
http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode...fs/P/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
All the graphed results showing a 1080 running at faster fps, is because they are comparing a 1080 running at 1600mhz base clock, versus a 980ti running at 1000mhz base clock.
Once you start overclocking the 980ti, it outperforms the 1080. A 980ti at plus 1500mhz, outperforms a 1080 at plus 2000mhz, as can been seen from the results of Firestrike Scores, where overclocked 980ti scores, are higher than overclocked 1080 scores.
A 980ti is still a very capable card and it is not worth upgrading to a 1080, if you already have a 980ti.
The Titan X Pascal is a proper upgrade to a 980ti, as the performance of one Titan X Pascal is almost equal to the performance of 980ti SLI.
The other true upgrade, will be the 1080ti that is meant to be coming out sometime at the start of next year.
Firestrike 1080 Scores :
http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode...e/fs/P/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Firestrike 980ti Scores :
http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode...fs/P/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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I'll not be upgrading my 980Ti's anytime soon. Anything over 50fps is plenty good enough for me, pretty sure I don't have sub 0.02s reflexes these days and probably never did. Plus apart from the screen itself being physically larger, I can't see the difference between 1080p and 4K from a few feet away anyway, except that all the text is too small for me to read...
£600+ for a GPU? I can buy another actual rifle or a case of Caol Ila for that.
Joys of old age.
£600+ for a GPU? I can buy another actual rifle or a case of Caol Ila for that.
Joys of old age.
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You're forgetting there are downsides to overclocking GPU's, don't the minimum's remain the same? For smooth gameplay the min's max and average should be as close as possible.
The only way to really compare performance IMO is base vs base. Anything gained via overclocking is nice to have albeit not quite the same as having a base clock at the same MHz. Lets not forgot turbo boost and throttling exists too.
I think some of the benchers actually return their cards to base clock when gaming for periods of time, ie, not benching.
If there were no downsides to running the higher clocks, and I don't think it's just down to cooling and efficientcy, it would be the base clock from the manufacturers.
Clock for clock comparisons are rubbish too as they're different architectures....
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I can tell when my fps is 60 and below. I don't know how people can't see the difference!
I bought a second 980ti as a stop gap because the 1080 performance increase was nowhere near value for money. However, I can't see me being able to resist the 1080ti when it lands... Unless it's over £800 at which point I'm likely to stick with the 980ti SLI.
I bought a second 980ti as a stop gap because the 1080 performance increase was nowhere near value for money. However, I can't see me being able to resist the 1080ti when it lands... Unless it's over £800 at which point I'm likely to stick with the 980ti SLI.
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Yeah that's not right, At all.
A 980 Ti Kingpin clocked to 1525 has a graphics score of 21,117.
A 1080 Classified clocked to 2100 has a graphics score of 24,304.
Those scores are for 4 card setups and actually mean very little as the cards are badly bottlenecked on standard firestrike.
If you are going to use that bench it must be the Ultra version for comparing 4 card setups.
The other thing to remember is the 980 Ti and Maxwell Titan are monster overclockers when using LN2 but not so good on air or water. Pascal cards are very good on air or water but not so good on LN2. Fortunately no one games using LN2.
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Still a good card that fetches a decent price second hand, I'll be keeping mine until i feel the need for an upgrade. Like maybe when hell freezes over and Valve release a new game using their new engine.. L4D3 is apparently not that far off.
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From eyeing them up I'd say the new Classified are a tad bit bigger than the 900 series Classifieds.
I think it all depends on what the user wants , if your wanting to make the most out of 1440p at 144hz then your gonna have to dial down a few settings with a 980ti to hit the 144 fps , but if your happy at 60hz the 980ti will still be a beast for quite a while I think 
... also comes down to how well optimised the game is , console ports are notoriously bad
... also comes down to how well optimised the game is , console ports are notoriously bad
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So you need to drop settings to get 60+fps? So the 1080 is already obsolete at 1440P? That's the level of argument in this thread. Troll ahoy! If it ain't a Titan Pascal it ain't worth a damn at 1440P!
erm, right. the point is, the fps in one game listed was that. i can tell you for sure that with gsync you wouldn't notice, im sure you would notice drops to 28 even with gsync on.
but lets cut the crap here, 980ti is fine, 1080 is better. both work, personally i wouldnt upgrade if i had a 980ti, but some would. its all about what the end user wants.
but lets cut the crap here, 980ti is fine, 1080 is better. both work, personally i wouldnt upgrade if i had a 980ti, but some would. its all about what the end user wants.