GTX 980 Ti vs. GTX 1060 6GB

[Playboi "Jordan Carter" Carti]

Which one should I get? I found a GTX 980 Ti on Ebay for around 150 dollars, and the normal GTX 1060 6GB costs around 260.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

One of the main reasons I upgraded my 980's was the 4GB Vram was an annoying limiting factor in some games, and as dx12 still hasn't managed to combine 2 cards Vram instead of just use the one (an advertised feature of dx12 originally when I decided to make the jump to sli after 1 card couldn't handle what I wanted). If I had 980ti's I'd still be using them, but, I got my 980's when they first launched so that wasn't an option :)

[[☥] - CJ -]

引用自 DefinitelyNotMonk：

One of the main reasons I upgraded my 980's was the 4GB Vram was an annoying limiting factor in some games, and as dx12 still hasn't managed to combine 2 cards Vram instead of just use the one (an advertised feature of dx12 originally when I decided to make the jump to sli after 1 card couldn't handle what I wanted). If I had 980ti's I'd still be using them, but, I got my 980's when they first launched so that wasn't an option :)

I doubt VRAM will ever be "combined" in that way.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

And why should it, we're in a different time now where around 6-8GB is the new minimum; we don't really need to combine VRAM.

Nothing below 6GB VRAM should have been a consideration to a user wanted to do DX12 anyways.

And if anything, single GPUs are also getting better, and no one seems to even want to care to have SLI/CFX be on their list of game features. Even NVIDIA and AMD don't seem to care, they shrug their shoulders and move on to the next driver...

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

It was supposed to be a feature of dx12, it never came to be, which is a shame as it would of considerably extended the life of my 980's, as when sli works they weren't a million miles off a single 1080ti when Vram wasn't the limiting factor.

Mind you, I don't think I'll need that now as 22GB seems overkill lol, as you said, GPU Vram made a huge leap this generation making it not even worth the effort to develop shared Vram on new cards.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Even DX12 in Games isn't even really a thing yet...

It does not do magic over DX11 like it claimed. It has gone no-where-fast is all it has done.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

引用自 Bad_Motha：

Even DX12 in Games isn't even really a thing yet...

It does not do magic over DX11 like it claimed. It has gone no-where-fast is all it has done.

Yeah, although, nearly 4 years on its finally starting to have some benefits lol, got to say it's not been the game changer it was looking to be when they introduced it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If anything, more games should push to use Vulkan, that actually has been a bigger game changer that Devs seem to be overlooking.

[[☥] - CJ -]

引用自 Bad_Motha：

If anything, more games should push to use Vulkan, that actually has been a bigger game changer that Devs seem to be overlooking.

Ashes of the Singularity has a Vulkan option
IT SUCKS

So no, Vulkan is Not the answer.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ashes of the Singularity is just poorly made and poor example, it's been made clear that basically no PC config can run this well.

[InfinityJosh]

Be sure it is not a faulty one, this price is too low.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

引用自 Bad_Motha：

Ashes of the Singularity is just poorly made and poor example, it's been made clear that basically no PC config can run this well.

Hehe I bought it when it was on sale purely to use it as a benchmark and not as an actual game.

[[☥] - CJ -]

引用自 Bad_Motha：

Ashes of the Singularity is just poorly made and poor example, it's been made clear that basically no PC config can run this well.

Actually thats incorrect

It runs perfectly fine on DX11 and DX12, but on Vulkan the performance is worse.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

引用自 Infinity Josh：

Be sure it is not a faulty one, this price is too low.

Not really, you can get the air-cooled ones for around $200 or less, no problem.
Liquid cooled version for around 250-300 range, such as MSI Cooled by Corsair, or EVGA Hydro.

But yes, always ensure that what is listed, is what you're getting.
If says new, then it better be still sealed in the box.
Open Box should be considered "used" because there is no way to tell just how used it is.
It's like saying "Oh yea that jar of pickles had the seal broken, but they appear all all be inside, untouched" the point being, if seal is broken, then it's tainted in some way or used... simple as that.

引用自 ☥ - CJ -：

引用自 Bad_Motha：

Ashes of the Singularity is just poorly made and poor example, it's been made clear that basically no PC config can run this well.

Actually thats incorrect

It runs perfectly fine on DX11 and DX12, but on Vulkan the performance is worse.

It's still just a very poor example, and a lazy dev who doesn't care.

On something like DOOM 2016, Vulkan helped a ton. If the dev cares and actually works on what they promise to deliver, it can be better.

DX12 is still not showing us anything worth while yet. Except from Microsoft's Forza series, which is about all. DX12 is still trash in HITMAN and Rise of Tomb Raider...

[[☥] - CJ -]

It took years for DX11 to catch on, DX12 is no different.

As for DOOM
The game type is probably the major difference, not as many things going on in an FPS like there is with an RTS.

shrug

either way, not thrilled with Vulkan.

[InfinityJosh]

DOOM is a weird optimizated game, if you have a Pentium or a ultimate i7 you can have nearly the same fps, and from low/medium to ultra settings you can't notice a big performance drop (maybe 10%), you only would notice VRAM bottleneck sometimes in some areas causing stuttering if you have a limited VRAM GPU.