What to do?

[Absorbentsolid]

Okay so after opening multiple threads about how my GTX 780 has died after formatting it my PC twice everything now seems normal.

I pulled the trigger earlier today on a 980ti hydro copper and i had ordered the Oculus Rift and it gets delivered at the end of May.

Question is do i return the 980ti hydro or keep it?

Either i stick with the 780 and wait for Pascal whenever that is and just have my OR sitting in a box or keep the 980ti and be ready day one.

What would you guys do as the 980ti is £650 and i think if the pascal cards really are 10x faster i think they'll start around £600+ just a hunch ofc but none the less.

Few things i was thinking about was my 780 won't be able to play day one with the rift but if i waited for pascal the OR will be sitting collecting dust in the mean time as i'll have to wait for EK etc to make blocks for the pascals.

Any advice?

 

[Rroff]

If you are serious about VR the 780 isn't the most useful in that regard (and will rapidly be less so as time passes) regardless of the implications of Pascal.

 

[Absorbentsolid]

Yeah that is true, I just wish we knew a little more about Pascal and what they meant by 10x faster. Like 10x faster than what a 980ti or are we talking entry level cards.

 

[Rroff]

10x faster was in some random performance per watt for compute tasks or something - ingame performance is likely to be less than double performance in older games (probably more like +45% tier for tier) and maybe a bit over double in games that use newer shader techniques better supported on the new architecture.