Mulling over an upgrade for 4K

[Jim99]

What's the point in choosing resolution over textures, tessellation and effects? You're just going to be polishing a turd. Surely it would be best to find a middle ground?

I have a 4K monitor, so either I run it at 4K native or stretch 1080p across 28".

In most of the games I've tried, 1080p looks pretty terrible no matter the game settings.

1440p would probably be better for me in terms of gaming, but for desktop work I love having the 4K.

 

[David230]

I have just upgraded from a single 780 sc to a MSI gaming 980Ti. My main reason for this like a few people was to get the most out of my 4k display running max settings.

The 780 would not cope well in GTA 5 or project cars at 4k some games I ran at 1440 or 1080 because of this. Yes you can knock the settings down a little to get playable framerates but as I wanted to keep settings as close to max as possible I decided to upgrade now to the 980Ti as someone who was holding out to see what fury x could do upon release.

Onto the MSI Gaming 980Ti performance.

4k max settings Project cars is 70fps (rain physics 50fps), GTA 5 is 50fps all settings max using 4171mb video memory which is without MSAA or reflection MSAA which take vid mem to nearly 6GB.
10% overclock will see around 8% fps increase.

This is impressive given the 780 would struggle to hit 30fps with quite a few of the settings, off.

Second card is on the horizon though I think never had a SLI setup before and now I thinks the time to try for solid 60fps in all games with what seems to be a very good scaling percentage of around 170-180% scaling!