I am am buying the 1080ti, I posted on my original thread.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/980ti-to-1080ti.18805264/
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/980ti-to-1080ti.18805264/
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Upgrade to 1080Ti or wait?
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That would be great and all but why, I would gain nothing from it and just throw money in the toilet - because the more I read, the more I understand that the 1080Ti will not handle 4k on Max Settings in many games (not just AAA titles) and on a 40" 4k display downgrading to 1440p resolution looks absolutely terrible (I am about 14" from the display). Plus there is a factor you have not considered when going out and buying a new GPU every couple of months (and it is not cost or affordability, I earn plenty of money) - it is called Wife (and they are not so easy to upgrade).
Very disappointed not to hear something from NVidia on a new consumer GPU at CES yesterday
To put things in perspective with Volta.
I have Volta and it can not handle 4k on max settings either.
A Titan V is about 35% faster than a 1080 Ti, this is nowhere near enough to totally max out all games @2160p/60htz with the MSAA turned up. To do that would need 3 Volta cards running mGPU.
The way to look at a 1080 Ti is it's ok to run 2160p with high but not max settings and a Titan V is slightly better.
You have to keep in mind though that Titan V is not designed for games and the drivers are not optimised for games either - everything I have read seems to offer the opinion that the next gen NVidia gaming GPU (probably Volta) will perform much better for games than the Titan V. We will have to wait and see of course...
The drivers are optimised as they have had the Titan V ready to go for months.
To optimise the Titan V for gaming would involve removing the DP and tensor cores which would maybe increase performance by about 5% or 10%, doing the same on the original Titan Black/GTX 780 Ti resulted in nearly zero increase in performance.
Volta is not a great gaming platform.
I think it's going to be May or June before the next round of consumer cards are released by Nvidia. Surely, if they were coming as early as March there would have been something shown at CES.
If you need a card to play now I would just go ahead and get the 1080TI. Like Kaapstad said, the next generation of cards won't max out 4K either.
There is one other thing, even if Nvidia do release their next line of cards in March, you probably won't get the Ti version until much later in the year.
So buy 1080Ti now and upgrade to the next generation Ti when it is released.
If you need a card to play now I would just go ahead and get the 1080TI. Like Kaapstad said, the next generation of cards won't max out 4K either.
There is one other thing, even if Nvidia do release their next line of cards in March, you probably won't get the Ti version until much later in the year.
So buy 1080Ti now and upgrade to the next generation Ti when it is released.
I reckon that the 1180 will not be much better than the 1080Ti, Could be wrong that is just my guess based on the 1080Ti, the 1180 estimated specs, and the memory bandwidth etc. Also the Titan V does not look better for gaming (relative to the cores and specs etc.) even though it is 12nm and volta architecture. Could be they release some amazing architecture which is miles better. But I reckon the 1180 would not be worth upgrading from a 1080ti except for lower power and newer drivers, the 1180Ti would be the only significant upgrade and will probably be 2019.
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Well the problem there is obvious, lowering from 4k to 1440p is bound to look worse than it would look on a native 1440p monitor. Plus if you're sitting that close to such a large screen I'm not surprised either.
At least that upcoming 8k screen with AI scaling looks promising, and prob uber expensive for a while. Scaling is always an issue because of rubbish interpolation etc, makes lower resolutions look worse than they really do.
Well I am sat that close because I spend most of my time working - I bought the monitor for work not for gaming and never realised at the time that gaming would be such an issue on it. I spend a great deal of time doing legal research which involves a lot of side by side document comparisons and a lot of reading in general - so 4k screen real estate is incredibly useful for my job. Had I realised it would be such a problem I would have simply purchased 2x 1440p screens which would have given me the same screen real estate but would have allowed me to switch to a single monitor for gaming purposes - hindsight is 20/20 as they say but it doesn't fix the situation I am currently in.