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Upgrade from a 980 ?

Until Vega releases there are no AMD upgrades. Nvidia have 3 cards available today, The 1070, 1080 & the Pascal Titan X. If you are considering second hand a 980ti is also an option but I'd go for a 10 series personally, It's possible a 1080ti will release around when Vega does which should be in the first half of 2017.
 
nashathedog said:
Until Vega releases there are no AMD upgrades. Nvidia have 3 cards available today, The 1070, 1080 & the Pascal Titan X. If you are considering second hand a 980ti is also an option but I'd go for a 10 series personally, It's possible a 1080ti will release around when Vega does which should be in the first half of 2017.
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Depends, the rx480 is quicker if you use dx12. The older nvidia cards are pretty awful at it.
 
Yeah I would suggest waiting to upgrade. It is what I am doing. Although I may even sell my 2 x 980's to put towards the next GPU as will be going single card in future.

It makes no sense to upgrade at this time when other cards are only a few months away. If it was 9 months it may be different but 2 months isn't long.
 
Curlyriff said:
It makes no sense to upgrade at this time when other cards are only a few months away. If it was 9 months it may be different but 2 months isn't long.
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Ah, someone speaks common sense at last. I cannot believe that some people on these forums are going out and buying 1080s right now and are not willing to wait a few months to see what happens with either the Vega line up or the release of the 1080Ti.

Surely with a few new card releases they may even benefit from saving a few sheckles or even if they dont...they havent really lost out on anything. What they gain is the knowledge that they didnt waste their money by being too haste.

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980 with your Swift is not too bad at all really. Depends on the game of course but on BF1 for me i have to go down to medium to get >60fps.

But i would certainly look at a 1070 or a 1080 IF you needed a card NOW.
IMO going from 980 to 980ti doesnt make sense, just get a 1070 for the most up to date platform per say.
 
980ti is getting a little old now so I wouldn't recommend it unless you got second hand cheaply after selling your old one. Something better will come up soon I'm sure. In the meantime a regular 980 is still doing a good job.
 
I was in the same conundrum as you foster grant and was going to wait for the Ti. However I have this feeling that it might be priced stupidly, so I cashed in the 980 while they still had reasonable resale value and got a 1080
 
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