OFFICIAL GTX 980TI Discussion Thread

Okedokey

Okedokey

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So its out. Essentially a Titan for less $??

Im considering two (2) of them, simply to give me 6GB VRAM. Rumour has it that DX12 will allow VRAM stacking e.g. 2 cards @ 6 GB VRAM = 12 GB VRAM. Worthwhile as horsepower is not low on this bad boy.

Wait for 390 or pull trigger?
 
Just pre-ordered 2 to replace my current 980's. My 980s are good but not quite good enough as id like on some games 4k. The 980 ti certianly fits that. I can sell my 980s and it wont be quite as much to upgrade.

They are pretty cheap considering at £575 whereas the titan X is around £800-900 and the performance is very similar (almost identicle within 5%) from what ive seen and heard from owners. Especially at 4k.

up to you to wait for the new AMD cards but the 980ti certainly is an awesome card, and fits for me. Have to wait for the true performance tests from the new 390x i guess.

http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-fury-fiji-xt-gpu-slower-gtx-980-ti/
 
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I have been waiting to get a new card and this will likely be it. Just waiting a bit to see what gigabyte and others do.

Now to decide between 1440 or 4k for a monitor.
 
I think the 390x is to be a Hawaii rebrand of the 290x but the "Fury" with HBM is what I'm waiting to see benches on.

Pull trigger if you want something shiny now though, waiting sucks ;)

I don't think VRAM stacking would be that viable since you'd still need all/most of the same resources for the 3d scene to draw half the frame as you would fully, plus you'd be really bandwidth limited having to pull data over PCIE at a max of ~16 GB/sec between cards (assuming 16x/16x SLi) instead of the 300+GB/s you have directly on the card's VRAM.
 
Yeah look, i buy them because i like to have the latest and greatest, to be honest, i play COD, so its not anything i 'needed'. The main reason i upgraded was because I can still get a really good price for the 980s and the Ti has a larger vram buffer which I think will future proof them moving forward. Even 780Ti in SLI has no gaming issues at anything below 4K.
 
Okedokey said:
Yeah look, i buy them because i like to have the latest and greatest, to be honest, i play COD, so its not anything i 'needed'. The main reason i upgraded was because I can still get a really good price for the 980s and the Ti has a larger vram buffer which I think will future proof them moving forward. Even 780Ti in SLI has no gaming issues at anything below 4K.
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Come on man, be realistic. Future proof? You know you aren't keeping the Ti's for long as you always get the latest hardware. :rolleyes:
 
Well no, not really, I probably wont keep upgrading as like CPUs the benefit is not there. the only reason i went from the 580 Tri SLI to the 780ti SLI was the heat reduction and performance increase, then the 980s for the VRAM (3 - 4GB). Same with these. However 980Ti SLI with 6GB VRAM wont be bottled any time soon. Im also going to get the Oculus Rift soon i think.
 
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