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** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **
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Depends what the 980 ti went for and how much the 1080 are
Yes lower power is a major plus and higher clock speeds for sure
but the rest VR & mem compression from what i have seen nothing as really changed on the architecture from maxwell apart from a large shrink
Yeah im seeing completed listings at £320 all over the place.
I can get £250 for my card. so only £70 to upgrade to a 980Ti!
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Once upon a time for that outlay you could get a 70% improvement in one year. The price is getting higher and the improvements are getting lower. If Amd/Nvidia came in with the big guns at a similar price nobody would be complaining.
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Not quite sure what people were expecting? 20-30% better than a 980ti with potential for a decent 3rd party one with better cooling to be 40%+ faster is exactly where I thought they were going to be and I'm still buying one.
Were all these 980ti sellers thinking Nvidia had understated the cards and they were magically going to be 100% faster?
And its still looking good that a 1070 should be pretty much on par with a 980ti which if those cards are £300-350 then its not going to do much for second hand 980ti values................
Seems perfectly reasonable to me too, for what will probably be £150-200 depending on sales price of my 980Ti.
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They are not as they probably used a setting where this was the case. They might even have saturated the gtx980's memory. I think we know Nvidia would show a best case snerario as would AMD.
There are rare times when they release a card with insane gains, like 8800GTX, but I guess they have learned their lesson from this and now drip feed the progress to maximise milkage.
If the 1080 is £520+ and not £200 better than the 1070 then it's simple - get the 1070 just as lots of us went for the 970 over the 980.
As the 970/980 is OK for 1080 then no way in one generation is their replacement going to be OK for 4K - 4 times the grunt needed not the 1.7 we're getting.
But that 1.7 times + 8GB VRAM + other Pascal goodies is fine for me - no idea why everyone were expecting miracles.
As the 970/980 is OK for 1080 then no way in one generation is their replacement going to be OK for 4K - 4 times the grunt needed not the 1.7 we're getting.
But that 1.7 times + 8GB VRAM + other Pascal goodies is fine for me - no idea why everyone were expecting miracles.
If the 1080 is £520+ and not £200 better than the 1070 then it's simple - get the 1070 just as lots of us went for the 970 over the 980.
As the 970/980 is OK for 1080 then no way in one generation is their replacement going to be OK for 4K - 4 times the grunt needed not the 1.7 we're getting.
But that 1.7 times + 8GB VRAM + other Pascal goodies is fine for me - no idea why everyone were expecting miracles.
As the 970/980 is OK for 1080 then no way in one generation is their replacement going to be OK for 4K - 4 times the grunt needed not the 1.7 we're getting.
But that 1.7 times + 8GB VRAM + other Pascal goodies is fine for me - no idea why everyone were expecting miracles.
Yeh I already know that but saturating the 980 memory would be false advertising... actually it wouldn't...
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Yes that was a massive gain
but for me the biggest was and i know i am going way back was glide api on a voodoo coming from software renderer in quake ...oh them sparks
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Yes that was a massive gain
but for me the biggest was and i know i am going way back was glide api on a voodoo coming from software renderer in quake ...oh them sparks
I was just thinking about that today! I remember plugging in my first ever GPU a voodoo card and quake going from 2fps to smooth butter and amazing graphics. It was like the jump from .midi to .mp3. Amazing.