Would like to have some advice about graphic cards.

[Xdrive]

Hi!, i got with 2x EVGA TITAN BLACK SC, which i bought 2014-07-23
And now i regret that i bought them alot, because 980 came out right after for half the price.
I paid 2341$ for the cards (Swedish Kr converted into dollar)
and my brother bought 2x EVGA 980 SC 2 months later for 1381$

Now I am thinking about what to do, should i try to sell my TITANS and Buy 980s and get 2GB Vram less but faster cards? It seems like people here in Sweden are prepared to pay about 555$ for an used TITAN BLACK Card, which means that i should be able to get
1110$ for them. But i have the thought also that if i wait to sell the cards TITAN II will get closer and my cards will be worth even less?

also my TITANS are SC so they should be going at 1072 Mhz with the overclock but because of temperature my cards (82C) (179.60F) goes at the default 967 MHz. I have even tried putting the fans at 100% still it goes down in clock. Oh and i have the reference cooler.

I am gaming at 4K resolution (crazy i know) and we have compared performance of his 980s and my TITANS. and his cards seems to be a lot better at that resolution, i have compared results of 3Dmark which i will post here, but we have also tried games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and he had like 15fps more than me, that's quite a difference 45fps vs 55fps. But not only looking at fps, many games goes smoother in 4k on his cards than mine, not exactly sure why.

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/3740616/fs/3739066
Only difference here are the graphic cards and motherboard.
We have the same CPU and memory, also 3dmark shows wrong speed on the memory's.

Thanks for any reply's.

 

[lehtv]

If you really feel that the cards are underperforming or otherwise lacking, and that it's worth spending $300 on the upgrade to 980 SLI, then upgrade by all means. You have the privileged position of comparing the performance of your cards to 980 SLI first hand, so you're definitely going to be the better judge of whether it's worth it to you.

 

[RussianSensation]

Sell them ASAP before they drop more. Instead of making the same mistake again and buying overpriced midrange Maxwell 980 cards, get 970SLI for $700 (MSI Gaming). Literally just 11-12% less performance than 980 SLI but $400+ left over for your next upgrade, say Pascal in 2016. If you buy 980s, you'll just repeat the exact same mistake just with mid-range cards.

If you can't always afford to buy the best cards and you actually care about resale value, but 2nd best NV or AMD cards and just set the money aside for the next upgrade.

980 SLI vs. 970 SLI - 12% more performance for 60-70% more -- bad buy, just like your Titans.
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_SLI/20.html

 

[wilds]

Have you considered a modded BIOS to raise your temperature limit? Save your BIOS before flashing a new one! Do you have good airflow in your case? I added an additional fan in my case which blows right on the VRMs on my GPU, allowing me to adjust my fan profile to an even quieter setting.

I'd wait to see what GM200 or 390(x) has to offer. But 290x CFX or GTX 980 SLI will be kinda a side grade imo.

 

[Mondozei]

Russian talks sense, as usual.

I understand that you feeld disappointed by your purchase, but honestly, no video card is ever worth over 550-600 dollars. You can get 980s for that price.

And even more so, two 970s in SLI is far more worth it. Finally, it's hard to avoid sounding patronizing, but let this be a lesson for you. It's for your own best. You just threw away gobs of cash for nothing, and the best way to right that mistake is to learn from it.

Good luck.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah that's the nature of computer hardware. Value drops and faster parts come out quickly.

 

[Xdrive]

Yes, i made a mistake buying that expensive cards, and will try to learn from it but will i not have trouble with 4gb vram in 4k in the near future then? the Xbox one / ps4 games that are getting released for pc seems to eat a lot of it.

 

[tential]

Yes, i made a mistake buying that expensive cards, and will try to learn from it but will i not have trouble with 4gb vram in 4k in the near future then? the Xbox one / ps4 games that are getting released for pc seems to eat a lot of it.

You could have purchased the GTX 970 SLI, and then upgraded to next years GTX 1070 SLI (or whatever they called it) all for less than the Titan Black....

So do you think purchasing a card with the name Titan on it for over $1000 per card just to have lots of VRAM, but a slower overall card is worth it?

As for VRAM usage itself:

There are benchmarks like this for almost every game and even when games look like you're hitting VRAM maximums, you still get better framerates with the faster SLI card or similar ones vs the Titan card.
Why guess? You can look at benchmarks and find out if getting 6GB of VRAM is worth it! Just going "Oh, it has more VRAM so I need it!" is a poor decision to make. That's the reason people do tests.

You could have even looked at the original Titan's vs the GTX 780Ti to have realized that Nvidia doesn't release a Titan to be the "best performer ever" it releases it for those who want to game, and do whatever else a GTX Titan can do, on the side.

Don't want to sound patronizing again as another person already said this type of stuff but there is a ton of research out there that would have answered your questions.

The GTX 780Ti vs the Titan Black had the Titan Black neck and neck with the GTX 780 Ti.
Whole review is here:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-black-review,1.html

I'd read that review just to get an idea of the info that's available out there.

Also, the RAM is shared for the PS4 between OS/VRAM. It's also only 6 GB Ram available for games.
If you have even 4 Gigs of RAM available on your PC, and 4 gigs of VRAM available on your videocard, you have more ram available to you than the PS4 does. Not all of the PS4's ram is used for graphics. Most likely, only 2-3 gigs is used. If you're gaming at 4K though what the PS4 is doing is utterly irrelevant.