Will you be ditching your 980 TI\TX for Pascal?

JediFragger · 30 Jan 2016 at 11:59

Yup, if only to avoid nVidia's active 'downgrade' program

Tbh if the next Titan is 2x the performance of the current Ti then I probably will. Playing with a 40in 4k panel at present (bought for Bro, doesn't need it til next weekend) and I'll be needing the horsepower....

savagesam117 · 30 Jan 2016 at 12:29

I most likely will, need something new to play with, won't be until November next year though at least I don't think though.

Dicehunter · 30 Jan 2016 at 12:47

I'll get the next Matrix card to replace my current 980 Ti Matrix

kazuya1337 · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:17

DarrenM343 said:
Maybe, but advancing game technology and graphics means an upgrade is probably on the cards every 2 years or so if you want to play the latest games well. No amount of driver improvements will overcome that after a few years the hardware is obsolete.

It's quite the opposite TBH, Hardware tech is vastly outstripping what is being used in gaming, remember 1080p isn't even standard in this Console generation and the vast majority of PC gamers are using 1080p compared to 1440p and 4K, a 780Ti is still a great card at 1080p and a 980Ti/Titan X is huge overkill.

My personal opinion is in gaming we could do a lot better with optimising software rather than battering it with raw overkill GPU power because if Dev's optimised PC games to the levels of Console Games because of fixed systems and then allowed us then to customise our settings depending on how fast our PC is I'm sure you would see huge gains.

Ayahuasca · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:18

Depends on the performance jump, if it's 50%+ I most likely will.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:19

Nah will be sticking with 980ti which eats up games at 1440p. Won't be going 4k until its running at 144hertz.

BriT · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:22

Had my 780 3 years now so due an upgrade

maybe the 1080.

Would help if i read the op properly lol dont' own a 980/ti so no

llamadal · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:26

Ayahuasca said:
Depends on the performance jump, if it's 50%+ I most likely will.

This, in no rush to replace the 980ti though

Razor Time · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:46

When the 1080Ti is released I will no doubt upgrade.

VincentHanna · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:53

Doubt it.

So long as SLI works, i've not found anything that the Titan X can't cope with even at 4k/60fps.

DmitryD · 30 Jan 2016 at 14:58

I will ditch my 980 TI for at least 75% faster GPU, ideally double, which should be possible with Pascal Titan.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:05

Can't be the jump being more than 20 percent more with pascal tbh, but time will tell.

Simon Belmont · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:05

5960xNvidiaGamer said:
Nah will be sticking with 980ti which eats up games at 1440p. Won't be going 4k until its running at 144hertz.

I don't think a GTX980ti eats up anything at 1440p. A lot of games It just barely gets 60fps. Pascal should be the real game eater at 1440p and 4K should be much better then maxwell ever has done.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:07

Simon Belmont said:
I don't think a GTX980ti eats up anything at 1440p. A lot of games It just barely gets 60fps. Pascal should be the real game eater at 1440p and 4K should be much better then maxwell ever has done.

Every game I have tried its maxed out with ease, 1530core on my card and I have seen it struggle on no games.

Freddie1980 · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:11

Cooper said:
Do explain, I've not noticed any performance drop in PC, in fact SLI performance is better than its ever been.

As the guy below your post said fallout 4 1.3 patch. Performance might get fixed but thats not what I was getting at. The performance hit isn't even across generations Kepler is far worse off the Maxwell, the same has been seen Project Cars. If this trend continues were newer games run much worse on prior generation cards then I wouldn't be happy abput shelling out 500 plus on Nvidia's hardware.

JediFragger · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:15

Simon Belmont said:
I don't think a GTX980ti eats up anything at 1440p. A lot of games It just barely gets 60fps. Pascal should be the real game eater at 1440p and 4K should be much better then maxwell ever has done.

To be fair a lot of benchmarks are showing the stock Ti numbers. Aftermarket cards plus overclocking further can add 35-40% easily :cool:

JediFragger · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:16

Freddie1980 said:
As the guy below your post said fallout 4 1.3 patch. Performance might get fixed but thats not what I was getting at. The performance hit isn't even across generations Kepler is far worse off the Maxwell, the same has been seen Project Cars. If this trend continues were newer games run much worse on prior generation cards then I wouldn't be happy abput shelling out 500 plus on Nvidia's hardware.

If nVidia carry on with this then it's gonna be a bitch to sell cards second-hand

VincentHanna · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:18

40% increase in speeds on an overclocked 980 Ti vs Stock.

Never seen that.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:19

Yep, thats what I am saying every game is above 60fps maxed out at 1440 with a 980ti, some people don't realise how good they are once overclocked.

Simon Belmont · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:20

VincentHanna said:
40% increase in speeds on an overclocked 980 Ti vs Stock.

Never seen that.

Me neither. That's why I don't bother answering.