TitaN X announced

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JRPGfan said:
Your right, and 390x and 380x will be 28nm as well... which sucks.
However they will have new memory technology (rumors say).

Memory bandwidth does effect performance (even if it doesnt effect "processing power"), it can drastically effect performance esp at higher resolutions (something memory size, ei 12gigs of ram, wont do (unless bottlenecked by it, which even with 4gb now you arnt going to be for like 99% of all games out)).

the 12 gb of ram is just PR non sense, people see a big ram nr and go "ooooh it must be fast" because it has alot of ram. Which makes no sense, is all im saying.

And yes I could see the 390x being alot cheaper and out performing the new Titan card.
Which to me would make it a bad investment, because its likely to drop in price pretty fast.

As long as these new cards are not able to properly play 4k there is no bottlenecking in the memory department. Neither Titan or 390X will be able to play current games on 4k60 so at least for me it's not worth it to increase the resolution just yet. Which means I will not run into any bottlenecks, not even with Titan's 384Bit interface.

I'm eagerly awaiting benches. While it's quite possible that the 390X may be able to beat the Titan I'm thinking the Titan might edge it out by 5-10%. And if that's the case there is no other option than to take the Titan. Pascal won't be here anytime soon anyway, and why not take the most mature chip of its generation. Usually that's always a good pick as opposed to the very first generation of a new process. Gonna be even more fun to switch to the more matured version of next gen's technology :)

Or to sum it up, there really is no bad time to buy hardware. You buy it when you need it. If you wait for better technology you will wait forever. I waited now for 3 years to finally get rid of my 680.