Digital Foundry tests the GTX 1080

[vivster]

Turkish said:

vivster said:

It kinda stayed true though. The 1080 is not a big enough improvement over the 980ti to upgrade. Volta will not release before 2018 and Big Volta may as well be not available before the end of 2018 or even 2019.

Upgrading now to a 1080 would be silly when there is a 1080ti on the Horizon which is significantly more powerful and the only thing able to tide us over to Big Volta.

Have you even seen the reviews? The 1080 is a big enough upgrade over the titan x, let alone the 980ti. On average you're getting 20-30fps more.

The 1080ti is not on the horizon, where did you get that idea from? The next titan is likely spring 2017 and for the 1080ti you'll gonna have to wait until summer 2017.  By that time you'll start hearing rumours of Volta and people are gonna wait on that in 2018. But then it appears it was "little Volta" even though it's an impressive upgrade but people will still downplay it and do the waiting game for Big Volta, and the next gpu gen after it... neverending cycle.

Where did you get Spring from? I expect it sooner than that.

First of all the wait for the Big Pascal is a lot shorter than the wait from Big Pascal to Big Volta. I also expect a bigger performance increase from 1080 to Big Pascal than from 980ti to 1080, which is barely 20% on average at 1440p. When Big Pascal hits the market we won't know shit about Volta. So the perfect time to buy it.

But all that doesn't really matter since 1080 is just too small of an increase to make it worthwhile, especially because I plan to go SLI. Going SLI with sub High End is stupid. Big Pascal is the only sensible way to go unless you either got money to burn or need a new GPU right now.

The neverending cycle stops when I buy Pascal and then wait if Big Volta is good enough to upgrade.