980ti to a 1080

[directorguy7]

So I am curious what various people would think of this. Assuming money is not an issue, what would you do. Keep your 980ti or go to the 1080. Or wait until march'ish for the 1080ti but THAT may be alittle too much money.

More details. I have a gigabyte xtreme gaming gtx 980ti. It is their flagship 980ti. Am thinking of going to their xtreme gaming gtx 1080 premium pack, which includes VR drive bay for my Vive. It sounds like the 1080 is rather groundbreaking in the performance it gives you and its VR performance is really nice. I only do 1440 resolution, but demand every setting at highest with 4 or if possible 8x msaa/AA. I know in the era of PRE 1080s this would probably not be all that worth it. But with VR and 1080s new architecture is it truly a jump over the 980ti? The numbers seem to say so.

[CaptainMerc]

I think it depends on the monitor that is being used .

[AssertingDominance]

i'd still really not choose either one since i'm really just doing documents or writing essays so i'd rather choose a graphic card that can run the games i need at usually medium to high so i'd say it all depends on what your needs are and what you use it for

[Chompman]

Currently the 1070 is slightly ahead of the 980ti that has a decent oc in most games and that would be the gpu for 144hz 1080p or medium to slightly high settings at 1440p so if you are playing very demanding games for that resolution you may want a 1080 as it's the current card to go for 1440p 144hz unless you still have a 60hz version it.

I would wait until you notice you are not getting the fps you want or possibly lowering your settings just a bit and get rid of horrible drains on your gpu like hairworks or something similar for other games until fps becomes a issue.

We do not know if they do plan on releasing a 1080ti and by then it would probably be around the time of vega release so expect price drops on nvidia's end and unless you are locked in with a g-sync monitor see if vega would be worth it instead especially as you pay less for the freesync tax.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Depends on the hz for your monitor.

1070 and 980ti about almost the same in performance, just that 1070 has lower watts, smaller memory interface width & bandwidth.
150w vs 250w
256-bit vs 384-bit
256 vs 336.5

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-980-ti/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1070

[shiel]

I upgraded from a 980ti to a 1080 and for me it was a good upgrade. I'm using a 1440p/165hz monitor so the performance increase was noticable for me.

[Arvaos]

The release of the GTX 1080Ti will push the price of the 1080 down and there will be some good deals, plus you will be able to see how noticeable the performance gain is between the two cards.

It is better to wait instead of selling a pre-owned 1080 because you realize the 1080Ti offers better performance for 1440p@144hz and VR.

[buttonmush]

I went GTX980 > Titan X > GTX1080 > Titan X(P)
Titan X and therefore 980ti weren't a huge improvement over the 980.
The GTX1080 was a very noticeable improvement over the Titan X .
The Titan X pascal is mental powerful so if you can hang on to Volta you are going to get killer mainstream card performance.
I still don't think think a pascal gp102 based 1080ti is going to be the big announcement in Jan and instead we will get the first glimpse of Volta moved to a 16nm process for release in the second half of 2017.

[P3ZL0]

If I had 980Ti, i wouldnt even consider the upgrade to the GTX 1080. Regarless if money is no issue i would still want an upgrade worth my money. I went from a 970 to the 1080 and saw a massive jump. I just dont see the GTX 10 seriers top tier cards making the 980Ti that insignificant. I too would wait till Votla.

[Revelene]

I personally swapped out a 980 Ti for a 1080 in my main PC.

It was certainly a boost but not a huge boost. It just brought the machine up to my performance standards for the latest games, and then some.

Some are saying wait for the 1080 Ti, but the problem is that it is not announced and there is no official information on it. If going by speculation, and how they've previously handled these variants of chips... I wouldn't expect a release until June or July of next year.

See... Waiting for the next best thing is an endless cycle. When the 1080 Ti comes out, you'll have a whole bunch of people saying to wait for the next line of GPUs. I know a buddy that is running an old 570... He has been saying he's waiting for such and such gpu for years. Will he ever upgrade? Probably not.

[just.kamk /idle]

Money not an issue? > Pascal Titan X + custom water cooling.
Anything else is childs play.

But seriously, going 980 Ti to 1080 is a decent upgrade, but personally i wouldn't consider it worthy price / performance wise.

[shiel]

PezLo88 の投稿を引用：

If I had 980Ti, i wouldnt even consider the upgrade to the GTX 1080. Regarless if money is no issue i would still want an upgrade worth my money. I went from a 970 to the 1080 and saw a massive jump. I just dont see the GTX 10 seriers top tier cards making the 980Ti that insignificant. I too would wait till Votla.

If you can sell the 980ti for a decent price it's worth it. I got $500 Canadian for mine so the 1080 only cost me $385 Cdn.

[Revelene]

EliteGamer の投稿を引用：

A smart person would wait a couple months for the EVGA or Asus 1080 Ti cards to arrive. Those cards will be better than the reference Titan Pascal.

Also a 1080 is only 256 bit. A 1080 Ti most likely will be 384 bit like the 980 Ti, a proper upgrade.

The bit rate is not comparable from GDDR5 to GDDR5X. It was plenty of a memory upgrade from the 980 Ti, and it shows. The only real thing to go forward from here in video memory is HBM. Considering that the Titan X has GDDR5X, it is extremely doubtful to see any HBM until another VGA line.

[directorguy7]

EliteGamer の投稿を引用：

A smart person would wait a couple months for the EVGA or Asus 1080 Ti cards to arrive. Those cards will be better than the reference Titan Pascal.

Also a 1080 is only 256 bit. A 1080 Ti most likely will be 384 bit like the 980 Ti, a proper upgrade.

This was also one of the reasons I am not sure. Yeah lower "room" but whatever is going through it is moving faster with the 1080, so not sure.

[rotNdude]

If you're satisfied with how the 980ti runs now, I wouldn't.

[buttonmush]

EliteGamer の投稿を引用：

directorguy7 の投稿を引用：

This was also one of the reasons I am not sure. Yeah lower "room" but whatever is going through it is moving faster with the 1080, so not sure.

At this point in time you shouldn't be looking at the 1080 seeing as the 1080 Ti will be released very soon and will be better than the 1080. If you buy a 1080 now, you will only regret it.

Right now there's bollox all saying a GTX1080ti is going to happen. It only occurred on the last 2 generations of chip and in both cases it was the same chip as lesser ones but fully enabled plus NVidia was being challenged by AMD.

This time AMD have nothing to challenge the GTX1080 and a GTX1080ti would have to use the GP102. Currently you have 2 ways to get a GP102, Titan X (prosumer) £1100 or Quadro (professional) £3000+

Why would NVidia sell a chip for say £700-800 they can charge thousands for unless they have to?

I have no doubt a spec for a GTX1080ti exists so it could be released, but only if AMD knock the 1080 off the top spot before Volta is ready.

We'll see in Jan next year by which time us Titan owners will have already had 6 months use from our cards so although say £300 odd more than a ti would likely cost, our cards lifespan will have been far longer than an end of cycle card.