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So, I currently own a Titan X and a 780 Ti.
What would you suggest me to survive until 2017 Bigchip releases?
Bonus info: I'm playing at 4K on a Gsync screen
Sell the Titan X and save the money for a 1080Ti? Or is a 980 Ti SLI worth it?
considering the 1080 regular little chip will be 980 ti performance +5-10%, 980 ti sli should provide you with the same performance as a big chip "1080 ti."
the 680 was roughly 30-40% (40% on only a few) faster than the 580.) (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1348?vs=1350)
we are comparing successors here. I.E. the 680 was the 580 successor
remember the 1080 is the successor to the 980. NOT the 980 ti. that's the 1080 ti's job
1080 being roughly 30 - 40% faster than the 980 (which would put it equal to or 10% greater than the 980 ti.
the "x70" has traditionally been 10 - 20% lower than the "x80" counterpart. this goes all the way back to the 6xxx series. I.E. the 6800gt was about 15% slower than the 6800ultra. just like the 970 is roughly 20% slower than the 980 (but the 980 has 30% increased price for that extra 20%! which has made the 980 a ****ty value)
if we take the 1080 being a full 40% faster than the 980
take the max 20% reduction for the 1070
that would put the 1070 around 20% faster than the 980 and 10% slower than the 980 ti
that's practically the 670 over the 580.
>>53651659
i think a lot of people forget about the last die shrink is that there wasn't a "ti" card in the mix. the 580 was the fastest single gpu solution on the market for nvidia. it was nvidia's single solution flagship, top dog. yes they had the 590 but it was NOT a single gpu card. it was a dual gpu card on a single pcb.
the 600 series? same exact thing. 680 was the top dog for a single gpu solution. not only that but both the 570, 580, 670, and 680 were the "big chips." they were the full fermi and keplar gpu's of their series.
starting with the 700 series this changed. the 780 was not nvidia's top dog. a new tier was added. the 780 ti followed by the titan was. maxwell 2 continued this trend but took it one step further with the 970 and 980 (gm204) not being full maxwell 2 chips. gm200 is the full maxwell 2 "big chip" and were exclusive for the 980 ti and titan x. the 970 being a cut down gm204 chip and the 980 ti being a cut down gm200 chip.
we went from "570 and 580" to "970, 980, 980 ti, and titan."
the "1080" is aimed at taking over the 980 spot. NOT the 980 ti spot. that's the "1080 ti" job.
you cannot compare the 1080 to the 980 ti since both cards are on different tier's.
another thing to note is what nvidia said: "pascal built on 16nm finfet process will offer 2x the performance per watt compared to maxwell 2." the 980 ti is 250 watts. half of 250 is 125. so that means, with no gimping, a full big pascal chip, at 125 watts, should offer the same performance as a 980 ti. the full pascal chip at 250 watts? that should offer the performance of two 980 ti's in sli. that's incredible.
>>53651686
seeing as the "1070" and "1080" are not the full pascal chips, that's being reserved apparently for the ti and titan, similar to maxwell 2's setup, the 1080 having performance near a 980 ti is perfectly reasonable. that puts it at roughly 30% increase minimum over the 980 since the 980 ti on average is 30% faster than a 980 with a similar tdp as a 980. also toss in the faster clocked gddr5 and increased memory capacity it will probably be even more faster. near beefy 980 ti overclock levels (extra ~7 - ~10%). rougly a 30 - 40% increase over the previous 980 that occupied its tier level. that's a big increase.
>>53651712
I don't want any GDDR chip, only a HBM2 one with more than 4000 shaders.
>>53651913
then the pascal titan will be your choice.
the "1080 ti" should contain hbm2 since it will be a cut down pascal titan.
two "1080 ti's" in sli should give 60+ fps in all 4k games.
two 980 ti's in sli though should last you till volta since they offer the performance of what a single 1080 ti should offer but without hbm / hbm 2.
>>53652075
No Titans for me, bought one last time and next time I'm going for a Kingpin or Lightning. You know the Titans have VRM issues?
The game I want to play isn't released yet. I tried to run Skyrim with ENB and mods on the Titan X but have been disappointed. 30 stable FPS on 8 GB VRAM usage... Remembers me of the time when I played the same on 1080p on the laptop I had before.
>>53652508
yeah it sucks nvidia doesn't allow third party modifications of the titans pcb's. they can't add more vrms, upgrade the quality, or anything. they have to stay nvidia reference.
if you want to upgrade now, being on 4k, 980 ti sli minimum is what i would grab. if you can wait, two 1080 ti's in sli.
>>53651586
Sell both now, get on with your life, socialize, etc.
When the chips come out, determine, then, if they're worth the price.
>>53652632
>Me
>Socialize
Hahaha, but right, I don't plan to do much in gaming this year. More internet based moneymaking projects.
I'd like the idea of a 980 TI sli, but I wouln't use it except for one round BF4 a year. Most of my games are pre-2010.
>Pic related
>What I want to play
>>53651586
I would assume a 980 ti SLI is going to outperform everything single GPU in the 1000 series, even the Titan of that lineup.
980 ti ain't nothing to fuck with.
