Stayed up late for Nvidias unveiling #angry

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce' started by IhatebeingAcop, Mar 4, 2015.

  1. IhatebeingAcop

    IhatebeingAcop Master Guru

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    I stayed up late for that nonsense. As someone else stated, why would we buy this to have a graphics scaled down on a TV? Sure, playing the witcher 3 in my living room would be a nice change from my office where my PC is located BUT, for 200$ I'd rather pop for more audio gear or sell my GPU and upgrade. Speaking of upgrading. I was hoping to hear some great stuff about GPU's that are coming. Since Nvidia showed me their buttcheeks on a chucky cheese window like a pedophile (primarily bc of their marketing statement aboug "revolutionizing gaming") I am now wondering which direction I should go. I have wanted to sell my 4gb 770 since the 900 series came out. I was holding out for the GDC to make a more informed decision. Since that yielded no results, should I continue waiting or go ahead and grab a 980? I am also considering new audio gear so maybe I can spend my money there and wait this GPU war game out a bit longer to see what's next. Thoughts?

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    Adam
     
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    I've been wanting to upgrade my 670's since last year to an 8gb setup, been patiently waiting for the 980ti but now from all the rumors on the net it looks like it won't show up till 2016, there's no way i'm waiting that long so I think I may jump on a Gsync monitor for now, just really annoying when I've got the money to burn, the 980's a great card but judging by benchmarks it's not that much of a leap over my 670 SLI setup, only real benefit is the 4gb texture memory and the low power usage but I really thought the 8gb cards would have surfaced by now, it's really disappointing.
     
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    980ti aint happening. 980 is a full gm204. Can't make a 900 series 980 any better than it is now.
     
  4. IhatebeingAcop

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    should I SLI my 770 instead and just wait for the 8gb card next year?
     

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    My SLI setup works pretty well fps wise for most games out there and the fact that you have a 4gb card I think upgrading to SLI would be a good move crysis 3 at 1440p on 770 sli is 62 fps, in comparison a single 980 gets 49fps and thats without an overclock and another thing to consider is dx12 pooling texture memory, once that happens you'll have 8gb of usable texture memory with an sli setup so yeah if I was you it would definitley be something to consider.
     
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    I went from a pair of 3GB 580s to a pair of 2GB 680s.
    From there I went to a SINGLE 780 Ti. The performance increase between a single 780 Ti and my old pair of 680s was just incredible.

    So, you jumping from a pair of 670s to a pair of 980s or similar will be a LOT more than you imagine.
     
  8. stereoman

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    I agree two 980's will be more than double the performance of my 670 sli but I just don't have the money to buy 2 980's and considering it will be a while till we see any cards besides the titan x with a larger texture memory config I just don't see the point in that kind of upgrade, a single 980 is more or less identical in performance to my sli setup I mean check out these benchmarks I found on another forum, altho I have a suspicion the cpu maybe holding the 980 back the price performance ratio just doesn't do it for me.

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    2700K @ 4.7ghz
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    Metro Last Light

    DirX 11
    2560x1440
    Quality: Very High
    Texture Filtering: 4x
    Motion Blur: Low
    SSAA: On
    Tesselation: Normal
    Advanced PhysX: Off

    GTX670 SLI @ 1200mhz core: 35fps
    GTX980 (single card) @ 1400mhz: 36fps
    GTX980 SLI @ 1400mhz: 60fps


    ...


    Metro 2033

    DirX 11
    2560x1440
    Quality: Very high
    Antialiasing: MSAA 4x
    Texture Filtering: AF 4x
    Advanced PhysX: Off
    DOF: On

    GTX670 SLI @ 1200mhz core: 37fps
    GTX980 (single card) @ 1400mhz: 36fps
    GTX980 SLI @ 1400mhz: 68fps


    ...


    3dMark Firestrike EXTREME

    GTX670 SLI @ 1200mhz core: 5607
    GTX980 (single card) @ 1400mhz: 6043
    GTX980 SLI @ 1400mhz: 8911


    ...


    Heaven Benchmark 2.0

    DirX 11
    2560x1440
    Shaders: High
    Tessellation: Normal
    Anisotropy: 4x
    Anti-aliasing: 2x
    Fullscreen: Yes

    GTX670 SLI @ 1200mhz core: 111fps
    GTX980 (single card) @ 1400mhz: 97fps
    GTX980 SLI @ 1400mhz: 177fps

    ...


    Valley Benchmark

    2560x1440
    DirX 11
    Quality: Ultra
    Anti-aliasing: 4x
    Fullscreen: Yes

    GTX670 SLI @ 1200mhz core: 65fps
    GTX980 (single card) @ 1400mhz: 53fps
    GTX980 SLI @ 1400mhz: 96fps
     
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