Is the 980 Ti worth it, or should I wait for the GTX 1080?

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what do you want to do?

I'm happy.

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APRIL 4-7, 2016
SILICON VALLEY

Just wait, only 2 more months to go until Pascal reveal

>>52665437
Will it really be that much better though? Who's to say whatever they reveal won't be way more expensive than the 980Ti price to performance?

>>52665427
>2gb of VRAM
>buying a monster card and not at LEAST having a 2k+ monitor
damn

>wait until 2Q for Pascal
>wait until 2017 for Pascal

Don't buy into this infinite waiting meme op

>>52665479
I guess I'll just bite the bullet and get the 980. evga has that stepup program to pay the difference and get the better card within 90 days anyway.

>>52665524
>card releases in 91.6 days

get the Ti if anything, not the regular 980

>>52665542
alternately get a cheaper gpu as sell it when the 1080ti releases

>>52665561
or this, 950 or 750ti are PS4 quality cards

>>52665570
>PS4
I'm trying to do some 2k gaming here pal.

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>>52665416
>Is the 980 Ti worth it
Not a consumer review site, faggot

>>52665437
Ok, so say they reveal it at that time, what's the chance of a hard launch?
>"It's available in stores today!"
Even is Pascal is launched, it'll be way before HBM2 is ready, which means these will be GDDR5X cards, possibly refreshes of Maxwell.
Nvidia would never cripple Titan sales by releasing the Ti within three months of the Titan release, and they'll never release Titan at launch since they 1) need a good stock of full uncut chips and 2) HBM2 isn't ready anyway.
What we will get are equivalents of the GTX980/970/960 with GDDR5X most likely. The actual 980 Ti replacement is an easy 6-8 months out if you space things out logically.

>>52665650
Asking about a product's worth i,e its price to performance ratio or whether to wait for another product is a technical question, I'm not asking for a review of the product you sack of shit. Report me.

>>52665614
fine, buy a 390 for 300$ cheaper? it can handle 1440p decently enough. and you can absolutely sell it for 200$ when pascal drops

>>52665693
Fuck off motherfucker, I'm not that anon but I agree with him as well. We are not your tech support or research center.

We get these kind of threads daily and it's so goddam annoying.

>>52665788
>technology AND related topics
Go cry more.

No ones gonna help you. You go cry to your mommy when you try to buy expensive parts that end up being a little over 3k. Not my fault you're dumber than a rock.


Everyone sage this fucking thread.

>>52665806
Every poorfag ever. I like how you conceal your bitterness and rationalisation for being poor by attacking those who can afford things you can't.

>every poorfag ever
My pc is worth $2500

I like how you conceal your bitterness and rationalization For being dumber than a rock.


(you misspelled rationalization as well dumbass)

>>52665474
>1080p/144hz

Are you retarded?

>>52665864
>1500 can gwt you a 980ti and 6600k

anything past that is a meme

nice meme pc m8

>>52665872
Are you implying 1080p/144hz is a 2k monitor?

Ok you really need to fuck off OP

>>52665889
I'm implying he is pushing 1080p@144hz.
Which is exactly 1.35x more than 1440p@60hz in terms of processing.

Meaning he is probably an fps whore and uses that 980ti as such. Noving to 1440p@144hz and maintaining that would meaning turning down some settings to achieve that 144fps which he probably has no intention of doing.

Yes the 980ti is worth it. It's a top tier card that can surpass a titan if overclocked. Buy a good variant, get a 1440p monitor and enjoy not upgrading for a few years at least.

>>52665864
Maybe I'm not American you amerifat cunt. We spell things with an s instead of a z in many parts of the world.

If your rig is so pricey, then what are its specs?

>>52665416
https://youtu.be/O7fA_JC_R5s

>>52665416
Have you seen what happened to the 780ti?

That will happen to the 980ti too

>>52665416
next year 980 Ti will be on par with mid-range to low-end pascal, good luck

>>52666093
What happened?

>>52665806
lmao i always laugh when insecure neets project

>>52666117
do you people not have any money

>>52666129
960 beats 780ti, entry level gpu beats last years flagship

So it makes sense to always buy the midrange hardware because Moore's law

>>52666129
nothing, i have 2 and they work flawlessly

>>52666158
So are you saying I should just buy a 970 or something now, then spend the same money I saved not buying the 980 Ti to buy a next gen card?

>>52666180
Buy a used something for cheap because the next node is months away

>>52666129
nvidia either completely, stope caring about them or deliberately hurt their performance with new drivers

>>52666191
Well, I'm building a PC from scratch and would rather buy new parts.

>>52666245
Fuck off

>>52666245
What w fucking idiot, nothing wrong with a used gpu.

>>52666253
Good post

>>52666271
Never said there was anything wrong, just that I don't really want to buy a used card. Main concern is warranty and RMA if a failure happens.

>>52665456
yes

next-gen cards are going to be able to push 4K finally thanks to HBM

>>52666138
it's called common sense you oil magnate

>>52666560
Guess I'm buying a 970 now and next gen when it comes.

>>52666827
3.5/4 retardation

>>52667079
Nice argument, really showed me who's the dumbass with those fly insults

>>52665416
>buying high end 28nm with Polaris/Pascal just around the corner
Buy the cuck card or the 390.
Better yet, buy the 380 to hold you off and then buy the high end new generation cards.

>>52667134
>Pascal just around the corner
Not him.

Pascal isn't really "just around the corner" in the context of high end cards. They might start putting out low end cards next quarter or so but the high end equivalent almost certainly won't be out until quite a while later.

>>52667166
They're probably going with the Titan first. Buying a Titan is always retarded, but it will spell the the generation's performance on its side. Going with a 1070 or 1080 after the Titan is out might be great. The Ti will probably be next year and Volta is scheduled for that year.
>tfw always waiting

>>52667209
Oh, yeah, I guess you could get a Titan. But that would be horribly overpaying (over a more typical use Ti) unless you have a specific application that actually makes it worth it for some reason.

>>52665687

gddr5x's design hasn't even been standardized and won't be until we launch, gp100 and gp104 are both hbm2. consumer chips will be 4/8gb, 16gb on the flagship

>The actual 980 Ti replacement is an easy 6-8 months out if you space things out logically.

the '1080ti' is planned 3 months after the flagship, as it's always been, you idiot

>>52665524
WHAT?! I COULD HAVE GOTTEN THE 980TI IF I JUST PAYED THE DIFFERENCE WITHIN 90? IM SO PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW

>>52667720
>slowpoke.png
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9883/gddr5x-standard-jedec-new-gpu-memory-14-gbps

>the '1080ti' is planned 3 months after the flagship, as it's always been, you idiot
Did you read only the last sentence?
>Nvidia would never cripple Titan sales by releasing the Ti within three months of the Titan release
I said 6-8 months in reference to from right now.

>>52666158
>960 beats 780ti
lel what

>>52668839
>>52666158
Even a 970 doesn't beat a 780ti.

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>>52668839
>>52668885

>>52670129
>beta
There could be other unusual factors in this too, like VRAM. In that case they could definitely trade blows even if the 780 Ti tends to perform better most of the time. A framerate of 24 is pretty awful regardless.

>>52668400
Assuming you bought your 980 within 90 days of the 980TI's launch, then yes.

Realistically though, the step up program is usually a bad deal. You pay the difference between LIST price, which is typically more than the difference is at a retailer.

>>52670129
jesus fuck, you need a supercomputer just to get playable frame rates in this piece of garbage, gg Bethesda

>>52670129
FYI the titan which is a 780 Ti with more vram comes severly underclocked and has firmware that throttles the card severly before 80°C. On stable overclock of 1200mhz at 1.212v, a titan is only 5% less performance than a 980 at 1400mhz.

>>52670437
>Bethesda
>a well optimized game
pick one and only one. That POS engine is held together with more duct tape than an episode of the red green show at this point

>>52670437
I had massive framerate problems on a 970 and 4690k, turns out all I had to do was disable godrays, and run it in fullscreen (as opposed to windowed fullscreen) and I am now running a steady 70fps.

I should be running 144 since the game doesn't look particularly nice, but >Bethesda

>>52665416

only wait if you are using a 4k screen, otherwise the 980ti should be good for years with 1080p and 1440p.

>>52672948
I feel like a 970 performs really well at 1440p too. Most benchmarks I've seen have the 970 only 3-5ish fps behind the Ti at 1440p.

>>52665650
>/g/ is NOT for shitposting anime children who sometimes have a taskbar underneath the.

When's Polaris? I sure ain't waiting for them woodscrews but i think it's finally time to upgrade.

Will the 1000 series GPUs likely need a new motherboard?

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>>52673512
You don't mean that senpai, uguu~

Would it be smart to buy a 970 and then buy the next gen card with the money saved not buying a 980 Ti now? I'm going to be doing most of my gaming in 2k and benchmarks show that 970s are fine anyway.

>>52674111
Don't think a 970 can handle 2k maxed out with the gimped vram

>>52674016
Do you really have to post pictures of that same anime girl everywhere on /g/? Wasn't getting banned for your makispam enough to understand that it's getting pretty tiresome.

Yes, we can see that maki is your waify and that you live her VERY much, but we're sort of getting tired of you posting pictures of her in pretty much every thread here on /g/.

Guys i wish to have a 2 monitor setup - 2 x 1920x 1200 but wish to play games like BF3, BF4, STALKER only on one. AND use it for Maya and such.

Is the 960 GTX good enough for the job ?? Or should I wait for the 10-0 series ??

>>52674327
>being this ass blasted over anime on a anime image board

>>52674285
I'd rather get a card now that performs 30 - 60fps in 2k (which is what most benchmarks show) in most demanding games, then spend another like 300 USD next year and get a card as good as the 980 Ti or better instead of getting the Ti now and it being trash next year like the 780 Ti is now.

>>52674357
No, wait for Polaris

Wait 2 months and see, you'll get lower prices because no one will buy GTX 980 Ti after Pascal demoed at GTC 2016

>>52674508
But should i then buy a new 104 series card OR should i buy a 970 / 980 on the cheap ??

>>52674529
WHAT IF the new cards are fucking expensive ?? 980 is not cheap.

>>52673476

I have a 970, no OC though it is a FTW. It does really well in Metro redux@1440p, legit the only games I've played on it so far though.

>>52674599
What frame rates do you get ?? Post full specs boss.

>>52674614

FPS is 110-140, with everything maxed except AA, which is at .5.

Full specs, i5 6600k stock, EVGA 970 FTW stock, 8gigs RAM, korean 1440p monitor still at 60hz, though it will do 96 easy (hoping for 120 when my new dvi cable comes in).

>>52674865
Thanks man, seems like i will be purchase the 970 soon then !

>>52674547
390 and 390x were no more than $500 at launch. I think polaris will be worth the weight.

>>52674909

A lot of people here make "lol 3.5GBS!!!" jokes but there's a reason it became a meme card to begin with. It's extremely well positioned on the price-performance scale and not stupidly expensive.

>>52665416
>Is the 980 Ti worth it, or should I wait for the GTX 1080?
Look in the fucking archive, we have these shit every single day, illiterate consumerwhore

>>52665946
>in terms of data width, I'm pushing more data with my fancy 1080p 144hz monitor. That doesn't mean it looks better dipshit, the frames are better sure, but you'll never have the clarity of a 1440p monitor.

>>52675019
It isn't a good card get a 390. The 390 shits all over the 970 in the 2k range.

>>52674865
You shouldn't have gone with the meme card, metro has the nvidia physx logo, and nvidia shill works too, no other game, near that sort if quality, is gonna run that we'll on a 970. You either have shit turned down, or you are lieing

>>52665788
Do not open these threads then. Problem solved. This board has so much shitty content to complain about, still people dont generally do that.

Gtfo.

>>52665416
Here, fucking cunt. >>>/v/325610668
Made a thread for you, now fuck back to where you came from

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>>52667079
I see what you did there

>>52675724
It's funny how mad you retarded faggots get at an actual technology thread but you're OK with meme wallpaper/battlestation threads. Go post your Sakura wallpaper and your minimal GNU free like beer desktop environment and delude yourself into thinking that this board is good.

>>52665416
If you're going to get the 980 ti go with the Zotac Amp Extreme, best 980 ti out there and will outperform a reference titan no problem

>>52670129
is this a joke? I have almost the EXACT same specs as that rig and I get 100+ fps all the time.

If fact I had to lock my framerate at 72 to make the game playable

5930k 4.5 OC
32 gb 2666 DDR4
Zotac Amp Extreme 980 Ti

>>52665416
I bought that and 144p 144hz monitor.

It's great.

>>52665416
What is a good cheap little graphics card to get?

>>52665474
speccy reports the 980 ti wrong. its a 6gb card