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Next Gen nVidia Graphics Cards Delayed? August presentation on next gen arch. seemingly CANCELLED
- Thread starter Horse Armour
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I'm fine with this. I'll live with my 1080 Ti for longer. It's been a great GPU, running 2560x1440p on a 144/165Hz monitor.
This is of course wrong. There are a few games that are terribly optimized for AMD but in general 1070/Ti ~ Vega 65 < 1080 ~ Vega 64.
Also, you save about $150-300 on a FreeSync monitor versus GSYNC, comparing similar specs. The AMD cards are a good option if you can live with the extra heat and power draw.
This is of course wrong. There are a few games that are terribly optimized for AMD but in general 1070/Ti ~ Vega 65 < 1080 ~ Vega 64.
Also, you save about $150-300 on a FreeSync monitor versus GSYNC, comparing similar specs. The AMD cards are a good option if you can live with the extra heat and power draw.
Thinking back I would have had to outlay for a new PSU too. And that PC (I got it built by a company stupidly) was pretty loud. It would have been so noisy with two GPUs going full speed. I'm sure as well that I would have had to remove my wireless card or TV card too in order to make it fit. My approach to that PC was so badly skewed by chasing SLI I put no thought into anything else.
I certainly know how it feels when highly anticipating potential new GPUs -- I waited a year for Vega and was let down.
But you either need something now or you don't -- I'm getting a 1070 Ti rather than waiting for something more valuable for the price/performance/power consumption from AMD's side or Nvidia.
I've been reading that demand for current gen GPUs have dried up and Nvidia has a massive amount of high end cards (300k) that their distributors have returned for lack of demand. This news makes me think they want to sell through their inventory first. I'd expect some price drops in the future.
Agreed. It's not like games are built specifically for a gpu anyway so there is a lot of untapped potential in gpus
This is true, I suppose it's just this unreasonable condition I have with many others that having to put settings down makes me somehow feel I get a worse experience yet I don't have the money to buy a new GPU every year or two. Still my 1070 feels like a great purchase coming from a 7970, it was fine for so long that I got spoiled, especially since I only paid 240€ for the 7970.
If you want to get rid of it, I'll gladly take it out of your hands, want me to PM you my address? :P
You heard of them for the first time few months ago because of their gaming wild shot report, but S|A has long history of legit good insider info from manufacturing/OEM space. Charlie can swing widely, but over 10+ years I know of them, they often got very reliable info.
Yeah, I'd like a meaningful upgrade, especially for VR.
That's primarily true for OpenGL and DX11-based emulators though. (Although recently I've seen some rather concerning CPU usage comparisons for the RPCS3 Vulkan backend with NV and AMD).
Well if it nets me your 1080 for free I'll ask my uncle who works at nVidia about that :P
I have considered picking up a Vega 64 because I have a freesync monitor, but I already have 2 1070s. I also think the average oc headroom on a 1070 would pretty much put you in Vega 64 territory, and the 64 isn't going to OC much, if at all. My hybrid and EVGA SC both clock at over 2000mhz and 8600 memory. Looking at benches a single ocd 1070 does about as well as a 64. So Amd is basically trying to sell a $600 gpu when the Nvidia equivalent is $200 less and is much older. Oh and it's more power hungry than 2 1070s lol.
It's just kind of weird that such a huge beast of a chip from amd performs so poorly (it's their drivers). On paper it should be much closer to the ti.
There's maybe a handful of games where the 64 is within 10 percent of a ti, but that's only at 4k. I would expect if you give AMD another couple of years with their drivers though (lol), quite a lot of games will be close to the ti.
If you really can't wait just buy a used 980ti for now
Yeah the 1080 Ti is a capable enough 4k GPU but we definitely need something more to be comfortable at that resolution.
That's what I'm waiting for to make the jump to a 4k monitor (+HDR if not too expensive..)
That's what I'm waiting for to make the jump to a 4k monitor (+HDR if not too expensive..)
People worry about buying video cards way too much.
Are you in the market for a video card? Is the card that you're looking at good for what you'll use it for? Do you have the money?
If you answered yes to all three question - just get the card and play your games.
I feel bad as I've been sitting on a....7-8 year old desktop build now but I cannot justify throwing $850-$1000 down on a 1080Ti then adding in the costs of a new Mobo/CPU/Memory/HDs etc.
Maybe I will take out a loan. My Geforce 770 is old and dying.
Maybe I will take out a loan. My Geforce 770 is old and dying.
300k from one OEM!?!? Good lawd. And people thought AMD was being dumb by not churning out GPUs. And yet GPU prices are still above their launch prices... go figure. Surprised their stock hasn't dropped in half or something.
AMD still sucks running Directx 11? Strange... AMD never been so good runing OpenGL and I understand, but Directx 11 its another level. We need more Vulkan api emulators.
My RX 580 is good for now, but I'm anxious to upgrade to hold me over for next-gen. My 290 did me well until it died (bought it at the start of the gen and it died a few months back), so I'd like to try something similar this time around. At least I know what my next CPU upgrade will be!
Not upgrading from my 980ti until the 1180ti hits. Its still a beast that runs a vast majority of games maxed out at 60+fps at 1080p. If i'm going to upgrade i want a card that can give me the same performance at 4K maxed out and none of the 10-series cards can.
I guess the bitcoin crash depresses demand and now they have cards they didn't sell. Wonder if that's true and if that's why they are silent on a new generation.
Still sitting on my 290X (2500K combo), The increase in performance is definitely there, but I just wanted to make it over the next hump before pulling the trigger. I initially (5/6 years ago) was planning/waiting for Volta ...
Now I'm just waiting.
HAHAHA! I guess they thought bitcoin was going to be the next big thing, huh? A whole new economic sector, with them at the helm!
Looks like greed made them make a mistake.
Seems like a weird thing to hope for?
Like the kind of post that would get a warning for console warring if it were directed at one of the big 3.
Oh well, defending a company's profits over the consumer is the normal thing to do in a gaming board, I guess.
I said about a year ago I'll upgrade my whole PC as soon as the 1180 TI comes out. Oh damn.
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