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Forums - PC - Not so fast, AMD! GTX 790 on the way?

Slimebeast on 22 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:

Yeah, I know you're crazy with your budget. Nobody on VGC can match your comp. What was it again, two 690s?

I wish I could justify that kind of money because I certainly love the performance. But I remember back in 2006 when I bought a X1900XT at $600. It felt good but I also felt reckless with my economy.

I'd NEVER buy two 690s. Scaling would completely terrible. I have just one, with a 3970X Proc. Upgrading next month. However, this is someone who exceeded my specs, she's just no longer here.

4 times SLI scales badly? I thought nowadays they had it to scale fairly well in most games.

What are you upgrading to?



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Pemalite on 22 August 2013
Slimebeast said:

4 times SLI scales badly? I thought nowadays they had it to scale fairly well in most games.

What are you upgrading to?


Having 3 cards you can get almost a 3x performance improvement in allot of games, 4 cards you start to see diminishing returns, well that's in the AMD camp and what I experienced with the 7970's anyhow, they have improved over the years, but it's still not perfect.
Let's not mention the laggy driver updates nVidia and AMD provides for those with 3-4 cards either. :P




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Slimebeast on 23 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:

Yeah, I know you're crazy with your budget. Nobody on VGC can match your comp. What was it again, two 690s?

I wish I could justify that kind of money because I certainly love the performance. But I remember back in 2006 when I bought a X1900XT at $600. It felt good but I also felt reckless with my economy.

I'd NEVER buy two 690s. Scaling would completely terrible. I have just one, with a 3970X Proc. Upgrading next month. However, this is someone who exceeded my specs, she's just no longer here.

4 times SLI scales badly? I thought nowadays they had it to scale fairly well in most games.

What are you upgrading to?

Quad SLI 690 is horrific for scaling, but offers supreme graphical advantages.

New system: i7 4960X, Titanx2. Same RAM, 32GB @ 1600MHz.

How much a Titan costs when you are buying it? And how much for that CPU?



Slimebeast on 23 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:

Quad SLI 690 is horrific for scaling, but offers supreme graphical advantages.

New system: i7 4960X, Titanx2. Same RAM, 32GB @ 1600MHz.

How much a Titan costs when you are buying it? And how much for that CPU?

Between those three things alone, it's $3k.

Wow. Damn.

What's the gaming performance and what do you need it for?



SnesTea on 23 August 2013
ghost_of_fazz said:
I'm gonna get a GTX760 in a month, finally ditching AMD.

Good to hear nVidia is launching the 750 for the mainstream market : D

fuck you. You're 4870 was great. Wait for the 9970. Come on Fazz, don't be a bitch.



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disolitude on 23 August 2013

I don't think there was any doubt this was going to happen.

However if they put 6 GB of RAM on it (3 GB per GPU) its a big misfire... A card like that will need more VRAM to be utilized properly. There is no point getting this if you're gaming @1080p and at Nvidia surround/4k resolutions, some games are pushing close to 3 GB already.

In my opinion, the most "futureproof" GPU from Nvidia right now (not counting the Titan which is the king but too expensive) is the gtx 770 4GB version. 2 of those in SLI and you are well under 1000 dollars spent and have plenty of VRAM to run Nvidia surround for years to come.



ultima on 23 August 2013
disolitude said:
I don't think there was any doubt this was going to happen.

However if they put 6 GB of RAM on it (3 GB per GPU) its a big misfire... A card like that will need more VRAM to be utilized properly. There is no point getting this if you're gaming @1080p and at Nvidia surround/4k resolutions, some games are pushing close to 3 GB already.

In my opinion, the most "futureproof" GPU from Nvidia right now (not counting the Titan which is the king but too expensive) is the gtx 770 4GB version. 2 of those in SLI and you are well under 1000 dollars spent and have plenty of VRAM to run Nvidia surround for years to come.

So 6 GB of RAM isn't enough, but 4 GB is okay for years to come?



           

Pemalite on 23 August 2013
disolitude said:
I don't think there was any doubt this was going to happen.

However if they put 6 GB of RAM on it (3 GB per GPU) its a big misfire... A card like that will need more VRAM to be utilized properly. There is no point getting this if you're gaming @1080p and at Nvidia surround/4k resolutions, some games are pushing close to 3 GB already.

In my opinion, the most "futureproof" GPU from Nvidia right now (not counting the Titan which is the king but too expensive) is the gtx 770 4GB version. 2 of those in SLI and you are well under 1000 dollars spent and have plenty of VRAM to run Nvidia surround for years to come.


Nah. Need more than 6Gb of video memory. I'll happily walk away with 8-12Gb per card at my resolution.
I have already hit the 3Gb of video memory limit in most games, thus the GPU has to request and write the data from/to System Ram once the GDDR5 is filled, which by comparison is slow (Even though it's Quad Channel.)
Thus, performance tanks, generally I already have to sacrifice texture resolution to sit under the 3Gb barrier, just nothing available yet that's *really* worth me sinking down a couple grand.




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radiantshadow92 on 23 August 2013

AMD forever



disolitude on 23 August 2013
ultima said:
disolitude said:
I don't think there was any doubt this was going to happen.

However if they put 6 GB of RAM on it (3 GB per GPU) its a big misfire... A card like that will need more VRAM to be utilized properly. There is no point getting this if you're gaming @1080p and at Nvidia surround/4k resolutions, some games are pushing close to 3 GB already.

In my opinion, the most "futureproof" GPU from Nvidia right now (not counting the Titan which is the king but too expensive) is the gtx 770 4GB version. 2 of those in SLI and you are well under 1000 dollars spent and have plenty of VRAM to run Nvidia surround for years to come.

So 6 GB of RAM isn't enough, but 4 GB is okay for years to come?

Yep thats what Im saying...because dual GPU cards share the RAM. Meaning that a GTX 790 with 6GB of RAM would have 3 GB of RAM per GPU. 3GB per GPU is not enough for a card that is much more powerful than GTX 770 which has 4 GB.