New gen cards and 4K present vs future

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polydev

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I've had a chance to test Palit 780Ti 2-way SLI and ASUS 290X DC2 2-way CFX with Dell UP3214Q this morning. I don't know why, but Palit really does run better than 290X... around 5% but visibly better at BF4 4K.

I may as well postpone this whole endaevour:
1st: Intel plans Haswell-E for June (fresh News) instead of Xmass
2nd: Sapphire 8GB may as well be nice catch
3rd: 780Ti Kingpin from EVGA should be available in July if I go with Nvidia
4th: is anyone planing a 780Ti with 6GB VRAM but not Titan and its price - looks improbable...

Maybe a refresh of my IB i5 is a good call in summer and later in fall, when at least new CPU might be available.

Unfortunatelly, I don't think we'll see DisplayPort 1.3 4K screens before end of 2015. or start 2016.
New GPUs are also not going to happen until next year, according to some sources.
 

alcoholbob

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Might as well wait on 4k until the fall or winter. You may still need dual card like SLI GTX 880 for 60fps but it should be much faster than it is now, and maxwell 20nm may finally have a 600mhz pixel clock and suppory hdmi 2.0.
 

TreVader

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Getting a 780 or 780ti x1/2/3/4 is throwing your money away at 3k+ resolutions. You'll have the shader power to run AA at 4k but you won't be able to because of frame buffer issues. Titan Black quad sli looks like a good option, although quad fire Vapor X 290X 8GB would be ideal.


It's pretty apparent at this point that if resolutions are going to get higher than 1600p with any form of MSAA you need 4GB or better yet 6-8GB. Crossfire is greatly improved over what it used to be, and it now offers better scaling than SLI and no micro stutter. Karlitos issues were mostly due to the X58 chipset which has known issues with crossfire. You should be fine with quad vapor X.




At this point if I were you I'd just get Titan Black SLI or 8GB 290X and call it a day. You'll be able to play most titles at 4k with 2xAA or even 4xAA and you'll save money to buy a card that really has legs at 4k (cards that don't exist now). No worries about vram with 6GB or 8GB