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980ti? vs 760 SLI?
Hey guys, so, since witcher 3 came out, and i recently got my new monitor, 1440p is pretty much not being friendly to my SLI setup.
Don't get me wrong, im able to play Witcher 3 at mostly high/ultra settings consistently above 30fps. But, i'd like better.
Was curious if you think the 980ti would be a worthwhile upgrade or more of a sidegrade when it comes out? I know we're roughly speculating, but traditionally the ti's are usually a 10-20% increase over the regular 980, and from the benchmarks i can find 760's sli'd are a little slower than a sinlge 980.
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It kinda all depends on what your criteria are for the use of these card(s)?
Specs-budget-power consumption-noise levels-heat development in the case-
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Go here www.hexus.net , everything you need to know has been tested and bench-marked.
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Yeah, it was definitely a mistake in hindsight. I had hoped SLI had progressed more. But, hindsight is always 20/20.
Here's to hoping a 980ti doesnt end up being $800, cus in that case. Im stickin with what i got.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thank you sir.
Edit: I couldnt seem to find benchmarks for that. I found some for specific cards, like 970's and such, but didnt include anything about 760's. Perhaps there is a section to that site i am not finding?
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let's wait until we find out the specs on the GTX 980 Ti, if it even exists. Salvage parts for such a huge die are presumably coming, but a lot depends on how far cut down the chip is and how they're clocked. The rumors about it strike me as firmly in the realm of random people making things up.
Remember that the GeForce GTX Titan was sold as both a premium gaming card and also an entry-level HPC card. The Titan X isn't that at all, as it skips the usual HPC-specific stuff (most notably, substantial double precision floating point arithmetic performance) that the top GPU chip of a generation typically has. So Nvidia can't launch the same thing with the HPC stuff disabled and keep some point for the Titan X, as there isn't HPC stuff in there to disable.
Again, I do expect to see salvage parts of the GM200 die, and it would be reasonable for Nvidia to call such a card the GTX 980 Ti. But I don't think it's reasonable to expect the GTX 980 Ti to substantially outperform a Titan X as the rumors claim. The Titan X is a gaming card from the start and nothing else, unlike the original Titan.
I believe we will see the 980 ti around 599...699 at most. Hopefully it gets announced in just about a week or so!
Wondering if i should just wait for whatever replaces the 9xx series and get the x80 version of whatever they hell they call it.
Presumably that will have HBM?
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-980-ti-specs-benchmarks/
Leaked specs released today and apparently confirmed for announcement next week and release after.
The thing about hardware that I tend to forget:
Just because Item XYZ is about to release "soon", and it's 20-50-478% faster than the current Item ABC - it's release doesn't make Item ABC any slower or less capable.
So if there is a GPU that is out today that plays Witcher 3 at the FPS and resolution and options that you are looking for (and I don't know if there is or not, I haven't done the research) - if that's available today, waiting around for something faster doesn't net you anything performance-wise. There the fact that you possibly could pay less for it later, but you won't have had the capability until you make the purchase, and if ABC plays it at what you need then any amount faster than that is immaterial (for that particular game anyway).
Which contradicts the rumors that the same site posted a mere two days earlier.
If you want to go that route, you'll be waiting until 2016 if you're lucky and 2017 if you aren't. A new architecture with a new memory standard on a new process node is not a recipe for high yields and a quick time to market. Remember the GTX 480?
My recommendation would be to wait a month or so and see what AMD launches with Fiji and how Nvidia responds to it. I don't expect HBM to be extremely important to gaming in the near future, as for now, you can get enough bandwidth with GDDR5. The larger advantage for AMD in launching an HBM card now is that they can see what goes wrong and how to fix it, and then when they really need HBM to perform well in a year or two, they know how to make it work.