When you think again and realize how much higher it will likely be with driver improvements, and that the 1080 probably isn't the top of the line, it seems pretty good. 🙂
We likely have a 1080ti and then the top dog card, both above the 1080.
Depends if we want to lower our standards for performance and price/performance.
670 beat 580 (Titan X) by ~ 20% at 1600P, while 680 beat it by 30% and 7970Ghz beat it by 41%!
Now NV is (1) raising prices on blower cards (2) keeps raising prices on mid-range cards $499 680 -> $549 980 -> $599-699 1080. Also, 1070 is getting the worst neuter of any x70/x75 series card I can remember. It may be impossible to overclock 1070 to 1080 speeds and it's doubtful that 1070 won't be 20% faster than the Titan X unlike 670 vs. 580. Even though the 1070 sounds amazing on paper by beating Titan X, most people bought after-market 980Ti not the Titan X. As far as comparing 1070 directly to 1080, the 1070 looks more like a 1060Ti if it has 1920-2048 CCs and regular GDDR5. Big GIMP for an x70 series card.
That means objectively, NV is delivering less of a performance leap that Kepler did over Fermi, and raising prices at the same time. I don't see how that constitutes "pretty good". What I am seeing instead is a 3rd consecutive generation of milking the mid-range, bifurcating a generation and essentially forcing gamers who are in-line to upgrade to either pay MORE for next gen mid-range performance OR wait another 9-12 months for the real flagship. That means AMD/NV set up new generations now in a way that a gamer can't really win. It seems the best way to upgrade now is to dump old cards ASAP/time resale and pass on the outdated and overpriced old hot potato. The $199 and below segment is also very weak nowadays. AMD and NV are trying desperately to get gamers to make the new mid-range sweet-spot the $300-400 price range, not $200-250 as was the case in the past.
can you post the link again? i had yesterday but i lost it
Ya, because that slide I linked is now forbidden from being viewed for some reason or it was taken down.
Here are some slide decks - you should find it under Growth Opportunity slide:
http://xtreview.com/computer-hardware93.htm
I think at this point someone would have to PAY ME to replace my GPU's. Rocket league is running just fine LOL.
In that case, you could do a hybrid strategy to minimize your losses. Sell 1 980Ti for $480-$500 next week, keep the remaining 980Ti. Use the 980Ti for all the easy games that don't give it trouble. Then since your big game upgrades center around BF, you can either sell the 2nd 980Ti around
October 21, 2016, and pick up 2 after-market 1080s such as EVGA Classified, G1s or MSI Lightnings that may hit 2.25-2.3Ghz air overclocks OR you surely will have plenty of $380 after-market 1070s available by then. Since you 'sold' 980Ti now for $480-500, even if you sell the 2nd 980Ti for $380 around October 2016, if you buy a 2nd 1070 for $380, you have $100 in your pocket ($480/500 less $380 = $100-120). The first strategy gives you time to upgrade to much faster after-market 1080 AIB cards, while the 2nd strategy also has little risk since by then you'll see how much better, if at all, 1070 is over 980Ti in DX12 games. In both cases, you simply lock in the $480-500 from selling the 2nd 980Ti right now. Another potential benefit is you may realize a single fast card is enough for you and won't need to spend $1300-1400 on Big Pascal cards in 2017.
Is it worth the hassle for you? Maybe not but there are options.
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