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Turkish on 18 May 2016
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vivster said:
Turkish said:

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.

Titans always release in Spring, I expect the new one to come out around March, that's 9 months from now, it is also expect that HBM2 is gonna be ready in Q1 2017. A few months after the new Titan I expect the 1080Ti when HBM2 becomes more readily available, kinda like how it went with big Maxwell.

Fact is you're not gonna see a new $599-699 level card from Nvidia until at least next year. The 1080 has a 30% performance increase compared to Titan X at 1440p as well, that's a lot, you're not gonna see a 50% boost over that with the 1080Ti. Hell, when was the last time you saw a 50% boost? The flagship Maxwell is also "only" 30% faster than the flagship Kepler.

If you have a 980ti, you should wait. But for those of us with a 970 or lower, it's a perfect upgrade that should last us until Volta.

Lafiel said:
Turkish said:

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.

it's only doing 20-30fps more in games/in settings you already get 90-100fps in with a 980 TI and there those extra fps are pretty much useless

however when a 980 Ti is doing 30-40fps and you really want extra performance a 1080 will only get you 6-12fps more - that's how percentages work

Err that's only at 4K and the 1080 is bottlenecked by the memory. Disappointing for the tiny minority who game at 4K though. I think it's still 2 years too early to expect decent 4K60.