Titan X Pascal or GTX 1080

[SparkTheFloof | TTV]

Ok I am thinking of upgrading me GPU so I can run most games at 144FPS locked Max with no problems at 1080P.

But at the moment people are saying the Titan X get bottlenecked at 1080P
I have been looking at 4K but they dont have any 144hz Monitors yet :(


I Play FPS, MOBAs, Starcraft and GW2

My system is
CPU: I7 6700K Skylake 4.2Ghz 4 Core 4 Threads (Turbo mode)
Water Cooler: Corsair H100I GTX with 2x Asaka Pirahna 120m PWM
RAM: 16GB Vengeance Pro 3200Mhz DDR4
GPU: GTX 980Ti EVGA Classified Overclock 1.2Ghz 6GBs GDDR5 7096Mhz
OS: Windows 10 Home 64Bit
Motherboard: ROG Asus Maximus Ranger Z170
PSU: Corsair RM 850x
Monitor: 24 Inch HD LCD 1980/1080 144hz with Nividia G-Sync - 3D Visions

[banzaigtv]

buttonmush původně napsal:

banzaigtv původně napsal:

Anyone heard anything about a GP100-based GPU with stacked HBM2 memory? I think that's what the new Titan X should have been with the GTX 1080 Ti being the GP102-based GPU.

Not gonna happen. "if" you get a card from AMD that actually matches or bests the 1080 then maybe they'll use the full GP102 as per the Quadro P6000 as the yeilds should be better by then.
However if AMD don't, then there's no reason for Nvidia to do anything at all.
You could get NO "ti" version if the market competition isn't there.
Most likely is like last time around that a slightly under the Titan X version with 8GB ram will surface in 2017 to peek interest again.
Be warned though, with no competition there's no need for them to drop the 1080 price and sell a "ti" at it's $620 price. More likely they'll want $800 for it.

But when AMD launches an R9 490X or new Fury card based on the Vega architecture, it might give NVIDIA a reason to launch a GTX 1080 Ti. But maybe not since the RX 480 performs like a gimped GTX 970. AMD could surprise us with a dual GPU and their Zen CPUs could throw a monkey wrench at the hardware market, so who knows?

[CursedPanther]

banzaigtv původně napsal:

AMD could surprise us with a dual GPU and their Zen CPUs could throw a monkey wrench at the hardware market, so who knows?

It might very well be the case if AMD couldn't figure out a way to match the performance of the 1070/1080 with a single Vega chip. However dual GPU on a single card always have a major drawback, that is it never achieves the same performance achieved by 2 top of the line single GPU cards of the same generation despite of featuring the same chip and potential is wasted at a result. That is probably why NVIDIA no longer pursue such design since the 690.

Even if Vega manages to pull off a miracle and surprises everyone, NVIDIA isn't about to be caught with its pants down either. Rumors has already surfaced indicating that NVIDIA has sped up its Volta schedule and maybe ready as early as Q2 2017.

As to counter Zen expecting Q1 2017, Intel isn't sitting idle too all this time. Kaby Lake is entering mass production in Q4 2016 and may ready for sale in Jan/Feb. The 7th gen Core will be the last 14nm processor before Intel makes the next leap to 10nm(Cannonlake), so you can expect the most refined version in terms of power consumption and performance of this era.

It'd be nice if the red team finally deliver what they promise, but that doesn't mean the green and blue teams aren't gonna keep pounding them deadly hard on both sides.

[banzaigtv]

So with 10nm CPUs on the horizon, could we be looking at non-HT hexa-core i5s becoming mainstream and i7s defaulting to at least 12 threads?

About the GPUs, if Volta is being released in early 2017, then what will happen to the GTX 1080 Ti? I'm fairly positive that NVIDIA will release a GTX 1050 into the world later this year, but people looking for a true successor to the GTX 980 Ti may be out of luck.

[Azza ☠]

banzaigtv původně napsal:

Anyone heard anything about a GP100-based GPU with stacked HBM2 memory? I think that's what the new Titan X should have been with the GTX 1080 Ti being the GP102-based GPU.

HBM2 memory was planned to be on next gen AMD cards. It however never happened. They are actually still using GDDR5 memory and have become mainstream cards now.

Nvidia went another path: GDDR5 > GDDR5X. This is double bandwidth memory of the GDDR5 in their new Pascal series. Blazing fast, but still not quite HBM2 performance levels. Rather a stepping stone to GDDR6 memory in the future instead.

HBM2 is expensive, fast and you will find in Nvidia very high-end (not for the public) sciencific research cards. They couldn't justify the current price tag to performance level for the public at the moment. It's in the Nvidia Tesla P100 (great for advance calcuation and artificial intelligence, but not so much gaming).

[CursedPanther]

banzaigtv původně napsal:

About the GPUs, if Volta is being released in early 2017, then what will happen to the GTX 1080 Ti? I'm fairly positive that NVIDIA will release a GTX 1050 into the world later this year, but people looking for a true successor to the GTX 980 Ti may be out of luck.

There are 2 quarters of a year left at the minimum, plenty of time if you ask me. We already know that Pascal is a gap filler between Maxwell and Volta, but that doesn't mean it's bad upgrade when you have the cash for it.