Upgrade from 780 SLI to 980Ti SLI

[moonbogg]

OP keep in mind that Nvidia usually releases the mid range first and pretends like its the high end chip. So, mid range pascal should come first and will have a high end price, so the performance might not be a massive step up over the 980ti. What I'm saying is you may very well be content with two 980ti's until NVidia decides to release the actual Pascal chips that we want, which could be mid 2017.
Otherwise, you may wait 6 months or more for the mid range pascal to drop and only get 20-30% more performance over the 980ti's and then a year later the pascal chips that you actually wanted will come out and you'll be compelled to buy those and sell your existing pascal chips.
That's what Nvidia wants. They want enthusiasts and gamers to buy twice each generation instead of once like we all used to.

 

[tential]

Cause its wasting 1500 EUROs on things, which will be obsolete maybe half year from now (if his intention is to get Pascal then). Maybe he has money to burn, but its still waste of them.

And its not like he is on some low-end GPU right now. He has 780 SLI ffs. Those used to be top of the chain not so long ago.

You completely ignored the resale portion of my post.... So there isn't much I can reply to until you look at that.

But op is deciding to wait. So no big deal.

 

[Mondozei]

That's why I said anyone who wants to folk out over $1500 (close to $2000 for water cooled setups) for 2x 980Ti now is nuts when next-gen mid-range will make these current stuff so obsolete.

Everything is a matter of budget. For many, forking out $1000+ on dual GPUs is nuts no matter when. It isn't for most of us on this forum.

If you have a large budget, spending that money this year and then next isn't an issue if you truly care about no-compromises performance.

Also, even if the 980 Ti is almost half a year old now, Pascal is unlikely to hit until 2H 2016 if you want the high-end one(with HBM2), so there's still around a year left or so, give or take a few months. It'd be different if the initial rumors of a Q1 2016 launch were true, which isn't the case. The GDDR5/X was for mid-range and below. HBM2 is still coming to high-end, including for the GP104 according to the sources we both read, not just "full fat" pascal as you imply with the "big chips" comment.

 

[ddogg]

OP keep in mind that Nvidia usually releases the mid range first and pretends like its the high end chip. So, mid range pascal should come first and will have a high end price, so the performance might not be a massive step up over the 980ti. What I'm saying is you may very well be content with two 980ti's until NVidia decides to release the actual Pascal chips that we want, which could be mid 2017.
Otherwise, you may wait 6 months or more for the mid range pascal to drop and only get 20-30% more performance over the 980ti's and then a year later the pascal chips that you actually wanted will come out and you'll be compelled to buy those and sell your existing pascal chips.
That's what Nvidia wants. They want enthusiasts and gamers to buy twice each generation instead of once like we all used to.

Very valid point. But I think getting midrange/mid-high end pascal "might" be a better investment than 980s at this point.

 

[thesmokingman]

Everything is a matter of budget. For many, forking out $1000+ on dual GPUs is nuts no matter when. It isn't for most of us on this forum.

If you have a large budget, spending that money this year and then next isn't an issue if you truly care about no-compromises performance.

Also, even if the 980 Ti is almost half a year old now, Pascal is unlikely to hit until 2H 2016 if you want the high-end one(with HBM2), so there's still around a year left or so, give or take a few months. It'd be different if the initial rumors of a Q1 2016 launch were true, which isn't the case. The GDDR5/X was for mid-range and below. HBM2 is still coming to high-end, including for the GP104 according to the sources we both read, not just "full fat" pascal as you imply with the "big chips" comment.

If money wasn't a concern for someone, I doubt they'd ask instead they'd just buy it.

 

[Timmah!]

You completely ignored the resale portion of my post.... So there isn't much I can reply to until you look at that.

But op is deciding to wait. So no big deal.

I am sorry, i am not native speaker and i bit misunderstood this part.

 

[3DVagabond]

If you are going to buy nVidia do it early in the life cycle. Once the new stuff comes out you will suffer with lack of optimizations. I'd wait for Pascal.