Same price (new): custom design 1070 vs 980ti

[x3sphere]

I don't know about faster. A 980ti overclocked is within 10% or less of a 1080.

Dunno about that: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016...strix_gaming_video_card_review/5#.V3G08rjyv-g

[H] compared AIB 1080 to AIB 980 Ti, 1080 is around 30% faster in some games. The 980 Ti hit 1430 MHz in-game, which is a pretty reasonable OC.

 

[Silverforce11]

Well there are two parts to it:

1. Not having proper game ready drivers for Maxwell cards

2. Putting features into Gameworks games that gimp Maxwell cards

Kepler had both things going against it, while I think Maxwell with only have 1.

For the 980 ti number 1 doesn't matter, but something like the 970 (which requires game specific memory optimizations to avoid the 3.5 GB problem being a problem) its a huge deal.

Maxwell will be affected by both.

Pascal can handle compute better while graphics is rendering, it's context switch is faster. Lots of interleaved compute during graphics rendering will severely tank Maxwell performance.

Expect more compute based GameWorks features, less Tessellation based ones.

Also as we've seen with Mirror's Edge, NV will get devs to add "Hyper" mode in games, where they max out 8GB of vram usage for next to no visual gains, just because.

At the same price, the 1070 is a far more "future-proof" buy than 980ti.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Glad i was not the only one wondering which card was the better buy. Still on the fence a bit because top end 980ti's like Gigabyte xtreme version might run better than same price bottom end 1070's.

 

[cytg111]

the 980ti would have to be at least 50% faster for me to consider it over current gen. Buying new old stuff is great for cars i guess, not so much for tech.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Sorry, but I dont get not at least trying to moderately overclock a gpu. It is so easy, just moving a few sliders on a downloaded program like MSI afterburner or whatever the best overclocking tool is for the particular card you buy. I would not necessarily try for max OC, like adding voltage and such, but for a mild overclock, it is just free performance. If it crashes with overclocking, just back off to stock.

Some of us prefer 100.0% stable to 99.9% stable. And some of us are lazy

I've read many threads over the years from people having odd game behavior, and yep they've overclocked their CPU and GPU. If I want more speed (and something is available) I'll just buy a higher model number that runs faster at stock.

Edit: bad cytg111! necromancy is the debbils work!

 

[cytg111]

Sorry. Something is amiss cause this topic was at the top when I replied to it. And not the only "forum oups" i've seen recently.

 

[kawi6rr]

Easy 1070, Nvidia will drop driver support for the 980ti very soon.

Threadcrapping and flamebaiting is not allowed.
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[Gikaseixas]

Easy 1070

Agree with this. On top of that 6 vs 8 gb of memory seals the deal


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[guskline]

GTX 1070, no doubt.

 

[MagickMan]

Easy 1070, Nvidia will drop driver support for the 980ti very soon.

No. They haven't even dropped the 600 series yet.