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Read above, I wasn't talking about todays figures or even anytime soon. I did say it's still a few years away when 4k performance is achievable on a single mid range card.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Coming This Summer Featuring 3072 CUDA Cores and 6GB of GDDR5
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Read above, I wasn't talking about todays figures or even anytime soon. I did say it's still a few years away when 4k performance is achievable on a single mid range card.
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Im not sure how steam survey works but I would hazard a guess that the majority of steam users gaming below 1080p just have steam installed for something like Football Manager.
If it was to look at people that play more modern graphically intensive games I would imagine most are 1080p +
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What I'm saying is that even though 1080p came out years ago and mid range hardware can easily run most games on max now, there's still many people who game at lower resolutions. Only ~1% are at 1440p let alone 4k. Isn't it expected people will adopt 1440p before 4k and even then wouldn't it take a few years? It could be that those under 1080p are on laptops that don't support the resolution in the survey.
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There's very little native 1440p content whereas 4k is already everywhere and is only going to increase.
1440p also isn't that big of a jump whereas 4k looks a world away from 1080p.
We'll find out with time I guess but I just can't see 1080p remaining the standard until the next consoles are released.
1440p also isn't that big of a jump whereas 4k looks a world away from 1080p.
We'll find out with time I guess but I just can't see 1080p remaining the standard until the next consoles are released.
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Next 7 years of gaming will be centred around what the XBONE/PS4 can provide.
970, especially with the potential boost DX12 will bring, will be just fine for many, many years to come. ..Unless you are one of the 0.000001% of the market who feel they must have 4k in order to simply enjoy a game.
Unless NV gimp the drivers for the 970...
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4k gaming will only take off, when there's enough 4k content to watch when you're not gaming and even with 4K Blu-ray, there wont be enough films to watch because there wasn't last time either........... 1080p Blu-ray was a waste of time for the first 2 years.
most people only game 10 to 20% of the time !!!.....so you'll have no 4K content to watch and everyone is starting to realise this, 1080p is by far the most sensible option for the next 2 years.
4K isn't everywhere like you say, it's nowhere and this is the problem,
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Had my 4K TV about a month or two and I have run out of 4K content(from Netflix). 
Will possibly move to 4K gaming this year though, either via the PC and a new 4K monitor or building a small rig for the front room(can fit a Titan X in a case the size of an Xbox).
Will possibly move to 4K gaming this year though, either via the PC and a new 4K monitor or building a small rig for the front room(can fit a Titan X in a case the size of an Xbox).
Nope, they're charging big bucks for the Fiji cards (and seperate branding)
While they are "rebrands" its not that terrible as it sounds. It looks like the memory alone will be around the 7ghz mark.
Now leaks/rumours says that the 390/390x will be gcn 1.1 but the 380/380x will be 1.2 but that makes no sense to me really cause then we will have lower tier cards with better tessellation performance. I wouldnt be surprised if the 390/390x will be hawaii specs upgraded to gcn 1.2. But time will tell and im most likely wrong
Had my 4K TV about a month or two and I have run out of 4K content(from Netflix).
Will possibly move to 4K gaming this year though, either via the PC and a new 4K monitor or building a small rig for the front room(can fit a Titan X in a case the size of an Xbox).
you will get bored watching 4K content, you'll return to your normal viewing habits very quickly and find nothing..............it's ok right now because at least we have quite a lot of HD TV....
ANYWAY THAT'S ENOUGH FOR NOW
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The only time i'll try 4K gaming is when single high end cards can run it at a consistent high frame rate, right now all they can manage is 30-40fps average with massive dips reaching as low as 15fps or so in newer titles. That's still pretty poor (for me) but if i had a 4K TV in the next year or 2 i might try my PC on it.
Witcher 3 shows we still need powerful cards for 1080p, so yeah i'm not holding my breath for 4K. I'll be staying 1080p at least this year also. Might stick to it another 2-3 years or go 1440p.
I'll also still be getting a high end card from AMD likely, people can call it overkill or whatever they like for full HD but i like smooth high frame rates.
Witcher 3 shows we still need powerful cards for 1080p, so yeah i'm not holding my breath for 4K. I'll be staying 1080p at least this year also. Might stick to it another 2-3 years or go 1440p.
I'll also still be getting a high end card from AMD likely, people can call it overkill or whatever they like for full HD but i like smooth high frame rates.
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I'm looking forward to being able to set everything to the limit and not worry at all about frame rates once I get a 980ti to use on my 1080p, 60hz monitor
Complete overkill, but it'll be nice to not have to worry about what settings to turn down for a while.
I will be upgrading to 4k g-sync at some point, by that time I should be able to pick up a used/cheap 980ti to go SLI.
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+1. Skipping 4k for now. I'm looking into 1440p monitors and will buy a new high end card to go with it.
I think 1440p is going to step over 1080p and become the new mainstream res. Since I got into pc gaming it's escaladed up from 1024x768>>1280x1024>>1600x1200>>1920x1080, and now I feel 2560x1440 is the benchmark .
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I'm looking forward to being able to set everything to the limit and not worry at all about frame rates once I get a 980ti to use on my 1080p, 60hz monitor
Complete overkill, but it'll be nice to not have to worry about what settings to turn down for a while.
I will be upgrading to 4k g-sync at some point, by that time I should be able to pick up a used/cheap 980ti to go SLI.
i'm with you on this just go for 1080p overkill.
i love to mod games and the extra grunt the 980Ti could provide might be what i'm looking for, with huge texture packs and the newer games coming out i think it will be a good buy.
i'm especially looking forward to the new deus ex game with will apparently make use of dx12 features
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Does anyone know if the pooled memory features on DX12 will be backwards compatible to pre-Maxwell cards?
Irrelevant tbh as by the time anyone implements a game with it they will be obsolete.
People should really just ignore that feature for the time being. Any implementation of it will be very disappointing and not be like running AFR with access to all VRAM as many seem to think.
People should really just ignore that feature for the time being. Any implementation of it will be very disappointing and not be like running AFR with access to all VRAM as many seem to think.
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Tried explaining this earlier but some believe cards like the 970 will be around for years because of DX12
Tried explaining this earlier but some believe cards like the 970 will be around for years because of DX12
Condescending in the extreme.
If you think 970's won't be able to run games for the next few years and won't receive a boost form DX12 then you're just plain wrong.
..and yes, I bet I can predict the comeback from you almost word for word, ZZZzzz
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