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What to do with my GPU; Titan, 690, 670/680 sli or wait...

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nVidia may or may not release the Maxwell cards in the immediate future; but 2014 is a definite. Nobody knows what their plan is, but my guess is they'll milk The GTX600 and Titan sales for at least another year before they start getting us moist with their GTX700 [Maxwell] series; or at the very least, up until the end of this year->the beginning of next.

the rumours to date say that GTX780 is supposed to just be a refresh of Kepler released near the end of this year, Maxwell will be prototyping in 2014 but it would be very unlikely to be on the shelves before early 2015 and would be GTX800 if they keep with the same numbering system

AMD had originally said no new cards before end of 2013 but they then hinted at similar refresh 8*** series by the end of 2013
 
The titan review@[H] talks about 2GB not being enough using max settings in Hitman@1080p, single 7970+680 can't play it due to not enough grunt, but 2GB 680 SLi won't fair any better as it's running out of 2GB vram, this is happening now, so there will be more titles to follow.

Meh, keep your 480, don't add any AA, use SweetFX and downsample(nvidia inspector???), won't cost you a penny.;)

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I only ever had NVidia moved over to a 7970 and could not be happier, I had a few teething problems at the start but once got them sorted all is rosy.
 
Ok, so no time to reply in detail, but I have placed a pre-order for an EVGA Super Clocked Titan...

Rather than the prices coming down due to poor reception as some people predicted, the prices have been shooting up. two days ago I could get an EVGA standard Titan for £827, it rose to £838, then £858, now £899.

At lunch time today the Superclocked EVGA was £899 where I ordered it from, it has now shot up to £935/£939.99 depending where you look, with an ETA of the 15th of March.

EDIT, literalyy during the time it took me to post this the price for the Superclocked just went up again to £959.75... (from another retialer not ocuk)
 
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That's a little irrelevant as a company producing products under a contract for another company is a tad different. I'm sure AMD will have to prove their hardware software under the terms of the contract with Sony and maybe AMD won't provide any drivers anyway. Ie, build a graphics component to the specifications that Sony want and Sony will write the software to interact directly.

I don't deny however that AMD drivers these days are indeed as good as Nvidia's later in the product lifecycle, just that some products have been rushed to market in the past to gain a competitive advantage (ie, first DX11 cards for example).

Anyone who really knows their GPU history knows that nVidia are the ones who have the bad track record when it comes to drivers.

They have had much more serious driver related issues than AMD have ever had, ever. They couldn't even get launch Vista drivers working, and were responsible for a silly amount of Vista BSODs.

It has confused me for years how AMD have this driver stigma when nVidia's had the real problems.
 
Anyone who really knows their GPU history knows that nVidia are the ones who have the bad track record when it comes to drivers.

They have had much more serious driver related issues than AMD have ever had, ever. They couldn't even get launch Vista drivers working, and were responsible for a silly amount of Vista BSODs.

It has confused me for years how AMD have this driver stigma when nVidia's had the real problems.

And AMD are squeaky clean. Thread after thread you derp on the Nvidia attack and even stating you hate Nvidia, so I shouldn't be surprised to see these repetitive posts about Nvidia drivers.

They are as good or as bad as each other and get over it.
 
And AMD are squeaky clean. Thread after thread you derp on the Nvidia attack and even stating you hate Nvidia, so I shouldn't be surprised to see these repetitive posts about Nvidia drivers.

They are as good or as bad as each other and get over it.

If it's the truth, why is it an attack? I never said AMD was squeaky clean. This is a good example of a strawman argument.

My dislike for nVidia doesn't mean I'm not objective about them. I dislike them for the stuff they do, what's wrong with that?

Honestly, you never seem to be able to see past the fact that someone has said something negative about nVidia, the truth of it never seems to matter to you.

I know in general that AMD and nVidia drivers are as good as each other, but the truth is that nVidia has the track record of awful drivers, yet people continually say AMD does, when it's not the case.
 
Never really had a problem with either manufacturers drivers frankly. Maybe a couple of annoyances on a dual GPU setup.

AMD cards are better value and have been since the HD4xxx series - at least for mid range (1920x1200 @ 60 FPS with everything maxed)

NVIDIA have better value adds but that's shrinking.

560 ti was a good midrange card tho.

I'd buy a 7950 as the market stands.
 
Relevance to AMD GPU's = 0

This is relevant. I went from nVidia (GTX580) to ATi (2x7950) last month (not having any particular allegiance to anyone, I took advice on value/performance) and I am pretty fed up with all the driver issues in games and the nightmare I had just getting video to play back as good as my old nVidia without the help of Cuda. Every day it is one thing or another, the latest is the boost on the HIS not kicking in, or at least it does when it feels like it for about a minute.

I am now selling one of my 7950s and going to buy an nVidia card, I am sure that those that like messing about with drivers updates every fortnight or so and the catalyst front end is glitchy to say the least. The other 7950 will go into another PC for a mate.

In my experience nVidia is just a more complete product.
 
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If it's the truth, why is it an attack? I never said AMD was squeaky clean. This is a good example of a strawman argument.

My dislike for nVidia doesn't mean I'm not objective about them. I dislike them for the stuff they do, what's wrong with that?

Honestly, you never seem to be able to see past the fact that someone has said something negative about nVidia, the truth of it never seems to matter to you.

I know in general that AMD and nVidia drivers are as good as each other, but the truth is that nVidia has the track record of awful drivers, yet people continually say AMD does, when it's not the case.

I see perfectly well thankyou and we could both dig up crap about AMD and Nvidia till the cows come home. I put most of the errors down to PEBCAK. I am bemused why you feel the need to jump on Nvidia at every opportunity? This kind of nonsense makes you look desperate.

I am an Nvidia fan but I don't feel it is fair or just to jump into thread after thread and state AMD drivers are rubbish and need work arounds/fixes/cfg files edited to get them to work.

Remember the X79 and eyefinity issues that AMD owners had to suffer for months and months, which when AMD finaly fixed it, you still wouldn't have it as an AMD fault.

Did you work at Nvidia or something and get sacked? It is asinine to keep on like this when there is no real reason. If someone was to attack AMD, defend away but other wise, be the better man.
 
I see perfectly well thankyou and we could both dig up crap about AMD and Nvidia till the cows come home. I put most of the errors down to PEBCAK. I am bemused why you feel the need to jump on Nvidia at every opportunity? This kind of nonsense makes you look desperate.
It's like you're blind. What's wrong with you? You know full well I was responding to someone...

Additionally, I don't jump on nVidia at every chance, so stop lying.

I am an Nvidia fan but I don't feel it is fair or just to jump into thread after thread and state AMD drivers are rubbish and need work arounds/fixes/cfg files edited to get them to work.

Well firstly, that never happened, and secondly they don't need workarounds, fixes or CFG files edited. :confused:

Remember the X79 and eyefinity issues that AMD owners had to suffer for months and months, which when AMD finaly fixed it, you still wouldn't have it as an AMD fault.

Ahh, good ol' selective memory. I never said that it wasn't an AMD fault, I said that it's not possible to make an absolute statement about whose fault it is because there isn't enough info on it.

It's like you're pretending that you weren't making statements of fact, that it was definitely AMD's fault. You also used faulty logic to say why it was definitely their fault, ie, they fixed it, their fault. Well that's pretty bad logic isn't it?

Note, again, I never said it wasn't their fault, so you should refrain from lying about what I've said.

Did you work at Nvidia or something and get sacked? It is asinine to keep on like this when there is no real reason. If someone was to attack AMD, defend away but other wise, be the better man.

Oh lawd, again, it's like you're pretending post 20 didn't happen, and that I just came in to moan about nVidia.

Honestly, you don't even care about the truth do you? The bottom line for you is that I've said mean things about nVidia.
 
^^ I will not get dragged into this boring argument. For the OP's sake, I will remain on topic and not turn this into a war. I have no wish to get an infraction for a nonsensical argument.
 
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