980Ti worth it?

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Mummelmann said:

I'm not going for 4k gaming yet, I think it's too early, if I pay 2000-3000$ for a new rig, I want better than decent performance.

But yes, DX12 should be interesting and it reportedly benefits AMD cards more, I really want to see some proper benchmarks and know more about drivers, heat and noise and wattage under load. Hard to make an informed decision when there's no proper comparison to be made yet.

Seems like AMD is playing the waiting game, let's just hope they deliver.

Stop worrying about drivers!

Yes, it's true that Nvidia has an advantage on that front, but only at launch. After that, AMD drivers are as stable and problem free as Nvidia drivers are. Only if you use SLI/Xfire the problems will last longer, but since you don't want to go that way it is irrelevant.

Heat and noise will only be a problem with the 3XX cards and if you go with a reference cooler (if there's one). With the top end card, the rumored to be called Fury, that won't be a problem at all since it will be watercooled. And before you start worrying about leaks and all that, the 295X2 is also watercooled and there has been no problems with that. And that's a more complex card as it has two GPUs to cool while "Fury" will have a simpler design with only 1 GPU and what looks to be a full waterblock.

Power consumption could be a problem, yes, but the 980Ti and TitanX are 250W cards. They aren't frugal either.