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JEMC said:

The problem of the 980, from my point of view, is that it's not a real upgrade from Nvidia's GTX 7X0 series.

If we look at the past of Nvidia cards, they name their chips into 3 classes: high, mid and low. Using the Keppler cards to make my point, there are the GeForce Keppler GK110, which are the high end chips with a 384-bit bus for the memory (that's why it comes in odd numbers like 3 or 6GB), then there are the GK104 chips, which are the mid class with a 256-bit bus memory (and have pair number of VRAM like 2 or 4GB), and then the GK106 for the lower ones. The GTX680 2GB was a GK104 card, a mid class card, but it performed so well (and the 28nm process was still getting ironed) that Nvidia had no problems using it as their flagship cards for a full year, when the Titan and the GTX 780 3GB arrived with their GK110 chips in them.

And then the time came to launch the new Maxwell cards on a new and smaller node process... that unfortunately never arrived. But they had to launch new cards so they took their Maxwell cards and fitted them into the existing 28nm, and the result was the GM204 chip used in the GTX980 4GB card.

And that's the problem, the GM204/GTX 980 is a real upgrade from the chip it replaces, the GK104/GTX 680, but offers very little performance gain over the GTX 7X0 series because they were not designed to replace them. And the Titan X with its GM200 chip is the max Nvidia can push Maxwell on 28nm.

Maybe the 980Ti will be what you want, TitanX or better performance with 6GB at a lower price.

Ideally a 980ti would be nice but are you suggesting I go with a 780ti instead?, I mean how long will that support me performance/settings wise (not very technical in the realm of GPU's btw).

I'm basically trying to build a new spec near the end of this month/start of June in order to play most if not all my games I'm grabbing this year on max (minus settings like the ones nvidia throws in since I don't see gains on any of them) with a standard 1080 monitor (currently stuck on 1366x768 and it's driving me nuts now).