Are you buying a GTX 1070/1080?

[tential]

What's the motivation behind a $350 Fury/Fury X? Even if 1070 barely beats a Titan X, it should have 20-30% overclocking headroom. I don't think Fury/X would even be good value at $300. Back during 290/290X era, AMD was able to drop prices, those cards had 15-20% OC headroom and same VRAM. This round, 1070 has double the VRAM, half the power usage, even more advanced features/IO, and way bigger overclocking headroom than Fury cards do.

AMD might as well discontinue the Fury line entirely and just price the smaller Polaris 10 8GB chip at $249-299.

They still need to sell current Fury chips, and if Polaris 10 is at MAXIMUM $250, this allows Fury X/Nano to occupy the $300-350 bracket, and offload those chips before the 1070, which IMO they SHOULD be doing now. They should have been fireselling those Fury X/Nano chips before the 1070/1080 announcement to maybe get some people on some "Good deals" of the Nano/Fury X chips that couldn't wait for a 1070/P10.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I didn't mean it that way but Ramen makes the task apparently easier for lots of folks on this forum & many others, people swear by the mystical properties of soupy noodles.

Yup. (As I say that, I eat ramen semi-often, more than twice a week, generally. It helps me afford... my 19 SSDs this month. Whoops.)

 

[crashtech]

Might try to wait for Vega, but that seems pretty far away.

 

[R0H1T]

Yup. (As I say that, I eat ramen semi-often, more than twice a week, generally. It helps me afford... my 19 SSDs this month. Whoops.)

Well, let's face it you have an OCD for anything having silicon inside

 

[Lepton87]

My budget strategy is similar only I am watching for $350 Fury card leftovers. It worked for me when 970/980 was released and I got a new Asus 780 card for around $300.-.

Did it really? Kepler is crap and that is coming from someone who had two original Titans, now I burned my 980Ti and I'm back to the Titan, but just one. Games with modern graphics are unplayable on my monitor only games with dated graphics work and that is on water-cooled, overvolted and overclocked card to the maximum.
ps. for similar cash you could have an actually decent card that is R290.

i'm not sure that's a good deal, though its probably the right price if the 980ti is faster than the 1070 (especially during the early adopter's tax founder's edition pricing period). the $225 970 at microcenter seems like a legit deal, though. there's still 960s out there you'd be paying that much for (especially at retail rather than newegg). and it'll probably be the end of summer before any 1060 comes along (and i wouldn't be shocked at a higher price).

I'm afraid the same thing that happened to kepler will happen to maxwell. So 980Ti might totally falter in new games.

 

[tential]

My budget strategy is similar only I am watching for $350 Fury card leftovers. It worked for me when 970/980 was released and I got a new Asus 780 card for around $300.-.

You got a card significantly slower than the 970 for cheaper than it and you are happy?

 

[Fire&Blood]

I wanted to jump aboard the 4K train but I am not ok with the price of 1080 or the "early adopter fee" for the 1070. 1080 is a ripoff, regardless if it's FE or not. Non FE 1070 will hold it's value better over time but I didn't want to wait out the time it will take to eventually go down to the price announced.

Instead I decided to stay at 1440p at least for the remainder of the year. I just bought a used 980TI for $400 in AT's FS/T.

I still want to make the 4K jump but won't consider it until 1080TI is out.

 

[Railgun]

New Titan. Or two.

 

[DidelisDiskas]

Eh you really need to use the blob drivers from either AMD or NV to get anything performing even half decently on linux. Granted the NV open source driver is in a much worse state, but unless it's very lightweight gaming you're not going to want either.

Not true, i finished Pillars of Eternity and Wasteland 2 on open source drivers just fine. I just now tried to compare video-ati+mesa, amdgpu+mesa, and the proprietary driver. On most games the fps is pretty similar, however the open source driver is more prone to stuttering, so while a game like Borderlands 2 runs pretty close fps wise, it seems to stutter more on the open source driver. However for strategic and rpg games open source one is fine and is getting better pretty fast.

Also, note that i am playing on Manjaro linux, i have not tried the new Ubuntu distros yet, so some problems on the open source driver might stem from the fact that i'm not playing on an officially supported distro.

P.S my card is r7 360

 

[spat55]

No because I'm waiting to see what Polaris brings, even if it means waiting another year, at least I get to save!

 

[railven]

Interesting that the percentage of buyers is increasing. Was 24% a few days ago, now its over 30%.

 

[Kenmitch]

Interesting that the percentage of buyers is increasing. Was 24% a few days ago, now its over 30%.

With time it'll probably increase. Once reviews are posted I'd imagine many will vote.

Might point my son towards the 1070 depending on the benchmark scores/specs. Pretty sure he wouldn't pony up for a 1080.

 

[Lepton87]

I'm in the uncomfortable situation because if I want to enjoy new games on my new monitor I really need a new card because the titan just isn't up to snuff. I had the 980Ti which would tide me over until the availability of the big-die FINN-FET GPUs just fine but now the decision is much harder. I'm going to wait for benchmarks and over-clocking results particularly of beefed-up aftermarket cards under water as I don't want to switch to air-cooling. Probably 3 months of waiting on custom cards with power delivery sections good enough for heavily over-volted and overclocked card unless the chip doesn't scale well with additional voltage and lower temperature in which case I might settle for less then the best over-clocking models such as MSI Lightning or ASUS ROG. Unfortunately we always have to wait quite a bit for those models.

 

[crashtech]

I wonder who is waiting for the inevitable 1080ti to come along and crush everything as usual.

 

[Cloudfire777]

I wonder who is waiting for the inevitable 1080ti to come along and crush everything as usual.

It will crush previous price records as well with the GTX 1080 reference being sold at $699.

The midrange cards have earlier sold for $500, now its $700.
Since midrange is $700 now, prepare for $800-900 for the 1080Ti. If not $999.

Good luck with that...

 

[Lepton87]

It will crush previous price records as well with the GTX 1080 reference being sold at $699.

The midrange cards have earlier sold for $500, now its $700.
Since midrange is $700 now, prepare for $800-900 for the 1080Ti. If not $999.

Good luck with that...

Yeah, this is nuts... I just hope Vega is more reasonable. I also think that NV might hit 1000$ for a non-titan card and 2$ for the Titan, they already hit 1500$ with the previous Titan which was outperformed by custom 980Ti cards for half the price and to be true even stock-clocked 980Ti was for all intents and purposes just as fast.

 

[HeXen]

I'm getting a 1080, my 970 just isn't cutting it lately, especially with modded games and I want to have a good VR experience when my Rift comes next year.

When is the 1080's supposed to release for sale? I saw the drivers came out.

 

[DooKey]

Yeah, this is nuts... I just hope Vega is more reasonable. I also think that NV might hit 1000$ for a non-titan card and 2$ for the Titan, they already hit 1500$ with the previous Titan which was outperformed by custom 980Ti cards for half the price and to be true even stock-clocked 980Ti was for all intents and purposes just as fast.

In the US the Titan X was $1050 IIRC. So 980Ti wasn't half the cost. In Poland your mileage may vary from EPA specs.

 

[MagickMan]

I'm loving the fire sale on used 980TIs, just bought a 3rd card for $380.

 

[imaheadcase]

Is the reviews of these coming the day they go on sale or a few days before? They go on sale on the 27th right?

 

[Sonikku13]

I guess I'm waiting for Vega 10 or Vega 11, whatever the flagship is. I'm currently sitting on a Radeon R9 Nano, and the games I plan to play are Battlefield 1, Civilization VI, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, and... well, that's about it. Hopefully the Nano can hold on til 2017.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Is the reviews of these coming the day they go on sale or a few days before? They go on sale on the 27th right?

Reviews the 17th, sale the 27th for GTX1080.

Sale June 10th for GTX1070.

 

[Head1985]

But when are 1070 reviews?

 

[Cloudfire777]

Yeah, this is nuts... I just hope Vega is more reasonable. I also think that NV might hit 1000$ for a non-titan card and 2$ for the Titan, they already hit 1500$ with the previous Titan which was outperformed by custom 980Ti cards for half the price and to be true even stock-clocked 980Ti was for all intents and purposes just as fast.

Wouldnt surprise me that Nvidia will move Titan and 1080Ti in two different directions this time.

GP100 for Titan P. Price, who knows but high.
GP102 for GTX 1080Ti. Price, $800+

 

[railven]

Wouldnt surprise me that Nvidia will move Titan and 1080Ti in two different directions this time.

GP100 for Titan P. Price, who knows but high.
GP102 for GTX 1080Ti. Price, $800+

If I had to guess, depending on Vega's performance, it could use be the flag ship for GTX 11xx series. Akin to how GK110 didn't show up as a "consumer" card until GTX 780 completely missing all of GTX 600 series.