GTX 980Ti or GTX titan X?

[giga-ganon]

Hello, one question! My goal is quite simple, i plan to buy a new PC (i will change every pieces), but i still hesitate for the GPU.... I want something that last long without the need to change it soon! my current build lasted 4 years and i can still run some recent games at 60 fps 1080p ultra like alien isolation, and some others!

What i want is the same, playing at 1080p, ultra setting at 60 fps for at least 3 years (yeah hard to know in advance sure, i can still change later, but the longer the better)!


The price isn't an issue, but since the 980ti and titan X are almost the same, except fort the 6gb vs 12 gb, what's the best? (SLI isn't great in comparison to one single card, more stable and less problem right)

anyway, thanks for your future answers (and sorry for my english)

[WereCatf]

Just staring at the amount of RAM available is wrong, to be quite frank. Titan X is aimed more at GPGPU-stuff whereas GTX 980Ti is aimed squarely at gaming, so they have different configurations when it comes to shaders. Alas, 980Ti ain't out yet, so any comparison is moot. I recommend to just wait until it's out and then check benchmarks for yourself.

[Erebus]

Wait for benchmarks, but honestly as fast as technology moves unless you need it for a specific use spending that much on a single component is a bad idea.

Similar to the original Titan it will likely soon be outclassed in the gaming realm by a product much cheaper.

[kdodds]

I think the OP is building specs right now as newer games are still performing fine. My current laptop is 3yo. My machine before also was 3 before I retired it and so far back to the Pentium/486/386 era when upgrading your vid card was mostly a yearly thing. What I shoot for is the higher mid-range. Top of the line and newest may be great. But, from experience, they also may not. And, the performance from a a step or two down and the supposed biggest and best isn't usually enough, in lifetime or dollars, to warrant the extra expenditure if you're already planning on another rig in 3-5 years. I don't think the graphic advancements in gaming will be all that card killer in the next few years anyway. So, personally, I'd save a couple of dollars (and heat headaches).

[Dυєlρωη]

Messaggio originale di giga-ganon:

Hello, one question! My goal is quite simple, i plan to buy a new PC (i will change every pieces), but i still hesitate for the GPU.... I want something that last long without the need to change it soon! my current build lasted 4 years and i can still run some recent games at 60 fps 1080p ultra like alien isolation, and some others!

What i want is the same, playing at 1080p, ultra setting at 60 fps for at least 3 years (yeah hard to know in advance sure, i can still change later, but the longer the better)!


The price isn't an issue, but since the 980ti and titan X are almost the same, except fort the 6gb vs 12 gb, what's the best? (SLI isn't great in comparison to one single card, more stable and less problem right)

anyway, thanks for your future answers (and sorry for my english)

Get a GTX970. I can run GTA 5 on Ultra on a AMD FX 9350 look at my pictures in my profile under gta to prove it. its a great game and you don't need to overkill the spending limit.

these cards ur talking about overkill 1080p gaming. u want to get into 4k gaming instead if your spending that kind of money.

Hold on my Mclaren F1 is idling in the driveway I'll be back to add to this convo later.

[LastOneAlive]

On Furmark GPU Benchmark, the number 1 guy is a 2 way sli 970 beating out the "number two" 4 way sli 980. lol.

[WereCatf]

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/05/nvidia-gtx-980-ti-review-all-the-power-of-the-titan-x-for-650/2/ -- The GTX 980 Ti is losing around 2% in performance compared to Titan X while not costing anywhere near the same price. If the 2% or so really matters to you then I suppose they do, but.. well, there's a saying about fools and their money.

[sTranger]

980Ti

[The End]

After reading the link WereCatf posted and a little google, I would go for a 980TI if I were OP.

[giga-ganon]

Yup 980ti seams to be the answer, same performance for way less! As i said, i want something that last, so even if à 970 can run todays game, it.May not.be the case in one or.two years! Thanks for.the answers

[Erebus]

Messaggio originale di giga-ganon:

Yup 980ti seams to be the answer, same performance for way less! As i said, i want something that last, so even if à 970 can run todays game, it.May not.be the case in one or.two years! Thanks for.the answers

The only way that would happen is A. the current console generation ended or B. developers completely change their priorities.

[Azza ☠]

Are you running at 1080p 120/144Hz refresh rate? If not, those cards are total overkill and the additional frame output will just be discarded...

Move up to 1440p resolution (if 60Hz or opt for G-SYNC at 120/144Hz), then sit on the GTX 980 or 980 Ti at very high/ultra settings.

The 980 Ti and Titan X are designed for 4K UltraHD monitors... 980 Ti however would be nicer on a 1440p at 120/144Hz + G-SYNC with pretty much everything maxed out! 4K UltraHD is overpriced and rather slow at the moment, ignore that for now, unless you got serious money to spend and a possible SLI of two cards.

[giga-ganon]

Messaggio originale di Azza ☠:

Are you rIling at 1080p 120/144Hz refresh rate? If not, those cards are total overkill and the additional frame output will just be discarded...

Move up to 1440p resolution (if 60Hz or opt for G-SYNC at 120/144Hz), then sit on the GTX 980 or 980 Ti at very high/ultra settings.

The 980 Ti and Titan X are designed for 4K UltraHD monitors... 980 Ti however would be nicer on a 1440p at 120/144Hz + G-SYNC with pretty much everything maxed out! 4K UltraHD is overpriced and rather slow at the moment, ignore that for now, unless you got serious money to spend and a possible SLI of two cards.

À 980 barely run witchet 3 at 60fps ultra in 1080p, and add hairwork and it's less in some area, so why à 980ti is overkill? I assume in two years, there will be game that will not run at 60fps in 1080... Am i wrong to think that? I can still change my.monitor later but.1080 is ok for me

[Azza ☠]

Messaggio originale di giga-ganon:

Messaggio originale di Azza ☠:

Are you rIling at 1080p 120/144Hz refresh rate? If not, those cards are total overkill and the additional frame output will just be discarded...

Move up to 1440p resolution (if 60Hz or opt for G-SYNC at 120/144Hz), then sit on the GTX 980 or 980 Ti at very high/ultra settings.

The 980 Ti and Titan X are designed for 4K UltraHD monitors... 980 Ti however would be nicer on a 1440p at 120/144Hz + G-SYNC with pretty much everything maxed out! 4K UltraHD is overpriced and rather slow at the moment, ignore that for now, unless you got serious money to spend and a possible SLI of two cards.

À 980 barely run witchet 3 at 60fps ultra in 1080p, and add hairwork and it's less in some area, so why à 980ti is overkill? I assume in two years, there will be game that will not run at 60fps in 1080... Am i wrong to think that? I can still change my.monitor later but.1080 is ok for me

Why do people keep on saying that? Don't they know how to setup optimal game settings? Or is their CPU+Motherboard seriously bottlenecking the graphics?

I have a ASUS GTX 980 STRIX running The Witcher 3 @ 1600p (2560x1600) with very high / ultra settings. Only Nvidia Hairwork is turned off. It's smooth as, lag-free, and looks amazing. Well polished game, zero issues.

When Win 10 is released with DirectX 12, later games will be developed for that. This is a huge freebee performance boost for those graphics cards. 1080p (with GTX 970) and 1440p (with GTX 980) are already maxed out, you can sit on them for years to come. Nvidia designed them like that to be future proofed. Newer graphic cards will be developed for 4K UltraHD and upwards, where as you would want to wait for the Nvidia Pascal cards to arrive in 2016/2017, as the ones released out (Titan X and GTX 980 Ti) are merely small stepping stones (Pascal cards will be 10 times the CUDA processing of a Titan - Allowing 80GB/s bandwidth via NVLink, 32GB video memory, and up to 8-way SLI with zero performance lost of each card)!

[vadim]

Messaggio originale di WereCatf:

Just staring at the amount of RAM available is wrong, to be quite frank. Titan X is aimed more at GPGPU-stuff whereas GTX 980Ti is aimed squarely at gaming, so they have different configurations when it comes to shaders.

That isn't true. Unlike GK110-based Titans, Titan-X isn't intended to be used for GPGPU.
Reason is simple - all real GPGPU computations needs high 64-bits floating point performance
(bitcoin mining is NOT real). And all Maxwell-based GPUs have very low double-precision performance.

[giga-ganon]

Messaggio originale di Azza ☠:

Messaggio originale di giga-ganon:

À 980 barely run witchet 3 at 60fps ultra in 1080p, and add hairwork and it's less in some area, so why à 980ti is overkill? I assume in two years, there will be game that will not run at 60fps in 1080... Am i wrong to think that? I can still change my.monitor later but.1080 is ok for me

Why do people keep on saying that? Don't they know how to setup optimal game settings? Or is their CPU+Motherboard seriously bottlenecking the graphics?

I have a ASUS GTX 980 STRIX running The Witcher 3 @ 1600p (2560x1600) with very high / ultra settings. Only Nvidia Hairwork is turned off. It's smooth as, lag-free, and looks amazing. Well polished game, zero issues.

When Win 10 is released with DirectX 12, later games will be developed for that. This is a huge freebee performance boost for those graphics cards. 1080p (with GTX 970) and 1440p (with GTX 980) are already maxed out, you can sit on them for years to come. Nvidia designed them like that to be future proofed. Newer graphic cards will be developed for 4K UltraHD and upwards, where as you would want to wait for the Nvidia Pascal cards to arrive in 2016/2017, as the ones released out (Titan X and GTX 980 Ti) are merely small stepping stones (Pascal cards will be 10 times the CUDA processing of a Titan - Allowing 80GB/s bandwidth via NVLink, 32GB video memory, and up to 8-way SLI with zero performance lost of each card)!

Sorry, i'm not an expert, that's why i'm asking! But i want to run my games maxed, with hairwork For some years for exemple... With minium 60fps, higher.the better, but i don't want.to.play under 60fps! Wouldn't it be safer with à.980ti? i .don't want to spent to much timr tweaking everything to get good performance.. I just want to max them out! Maybe i'm à fool or lazy, but that's what i want! Anyway, thanks again for.the answer, i'll use them well!