GTX 1070 or 1080?

[OD_Hindu]

Lets start from the top, I bought an 980 ti for $600 2 days before the reveal of the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070. So I thought since the 1080 will start at $600, and it is almost twice as faster, I would just get a refund and get the 1080. So newegg agreed to give me a refund, but only $510 due to it being opened. Since I would be almost $100 short($600 was already above budget as it is), should I just go for it, and put the extra money in for the 1080, or save money and get the 1070, and use the money I saved on accessories? I currently game on 1080p, and would love to upgrade to 4k in the near future. To wrap it up, should I spend more money and get the 1080, or go for the smaller brother, 1070? 

[Mohenjo]

Hold up, Nvidia only SAID its twice as fast. Just wait for benchmarks.... i doubt it is twice as fast. 

[ChrisCross]

Just now, OD_Hindu said:

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nobody knows about the performance of the 1080 and 1070 right now since nvidia's graphs are always misleadingly showing performance per watt or just cherrypicked.

we can assume that its going to be pretty fast but we need to wait for real world benchmarks.

[Aytex]

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[othertomperson]

My prediction: 5% performance difference for 50% price difference.

[MEC-777]

We don't yet know just how much faster the 1080 and 1070 will be from the 980Ti etc. The slides and info during the presentation were somewhat misleading. The 980Ti is still a great card and will be for some time, especially for 1080p gaming (it's overkill, really). But you did say you wanted to go 4k, but how soon? If it's not anytime this year, then I would say just keep the 980Ti. 

[Mohenjo]

Alright so after a little bit of research i found out that its only twice as fast in VR, not regular gaming 

Look at the comments in this 

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/4i85aj/gtx_1080_is_faster_than_980_sli/ 

[OD_Hindu]

1 minute ago, MEC-777 said:

We don't yet know just how much faster the 1080 and 1070 will be from the 980Ti etc. The slides and info during the presentation were somewhat misleading. The 980Ti is still a great card and will be for some time, especially for 1080p gaming (it's overkill, really). But you did say you wanted to go 4k, but how soon? If it's not anytime this year, then I would say just keep the 980Ti. 

Im thinking of going 4k over the summer

[Castdeath97]

Wait for the benchmarks, if the 1070 turns out to the price per performance king the 970 was get two of them in SLI and you will get the best deal for the price. Of course we don't know yet so wait.

[Mohenjo]

2 minutes ago, othertomperson said:

My prediction: 5% performance difference for 50% price difference.

i would say its 20 percent faster then the 980ti tbh.

[SeanAngelo]

6 minutes ago, OD_Hindu said:

Lets start from the top, I bought an 980 ti for $600 2 days before the reveal of the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070. So I thought since the 1080 will start at $600, and it is almost twice as faster, I would just get a refund and get the 1080. So newegg agreed to give me a refund, but only $510 due to it being opened. Since I would be almost $100 short($600 was already above budget as it is), should I just go for it, and put the extra money in for the 1080, or save money and get the 1070, and use the money I saved on accessories? I currently game on 1080p, and would love to upgrade to 4k in the near future. To wrap it up, should I spend more money and get the 1080, or go for the smaller brother, 1070? 

wait for benchmarks and reviews.

[Castdeath97]

3 minutes ago, Aytex said:

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[handymanshandle]

Before you (or honestly anyone else) go on and start making decisions on a GPU upgrade when that GPU was announced nearly . It'd be best if you waited for the benchmarks of Pascal, and for Polaris and its benchmarks to drop.

 

However, it's reasonable to presume that the GTX 1070 will preform with in the 980 and 980ti territory or potentially getting up into Titan X territory with the 1080 probably performing right around the Titan X.

[ThinkWithPortals]

5 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

 

I... I'm a what?

No, you've made a mistake. I can't be...a-a wizard. I mean, I'm just... ThinkWithPortals. Just ThinkWithPortals.

[OD_Hindu]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

Before you (or honestly anyone else) go on and start making decisions on a GPU upgrade when that GPU was announced nearly . It'd be best if you waited for the benchmarks of Pascal, and for Polaris and its benchmarks to drop.

 

However, it's reasonable to presume that the GTX 1070 will preform with in the 980 and 980ti territory or potentially getting up into Titan X territory with the 1080 probably performing right around the Titan X.

So assuming that, should I save money and get a 1070, or go for a 1080?

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, OD_Hindu said:

So assuming that, should I save money and get a 1070, or go for a 1080?

._. Well, what I was trying to say was that Polaris might have something better than the 1070 or 1080 for less or the same.

[OD_Hindu]

11 minutes ago, wcreek said:

._. Well, what I was trying to say was that Polaris might have something better than the 1070 or 1080 for less or the same.

Isn't Polaris going to be release this fall though? 

[Fulgrim]

25 minutes ago, Aytex said:

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They don't have that class in World Of Warcraft unfortunately.

[handymanshandle]

4 minutes ago, OD_Hindu said:

Isn't Polaris going to be release this fall though? 

I think you're thinking Zen, and that'll be released sometime in Q4 with the APUs launching in H1 2017.

 

Polaris 10 and 11 cards will probably be announced later this month and start being sold in June.

[othertomperson]

58 minutes ago, Mohenjo said:

i would say its 20 percent faster then the 980ti tbh.

If the question had been "1080 or 980 ti" that might even have been relevant.

[Mohenjo]

1 minute ago, othertomperson said:

If the question had been "1080 or 980 ti" that might even have been relevant.

wait what, you wernt taking about the performance of the 980ti vs the 1080? 

[othertomperson]

4 minutes ago, Mohenjo said:

wait what, you wernt taking about the performance of the 980ti vs the 1080? 

Astoundingly in a thread titled "1080 or 1070" I did not bring up the 980 ti for seemingly no reason, no.

[Mohenjo]

1 minute ago, othertomperson said:

Astoundingly in a thread titled "1080 or 1070" I did not bring up the 980 ti for seemingly no reason, no.

Welll the OP was talking about refunding his 980ti for a 1080..... so i dunno i assumed you were talking about the 980ti...

[OD_Hindu]

1 minute ago, Mohenjo said:

Welll the OP was talking about refunding his 980ti for a 1080..... so i dunno i assumed you were talking about the 980ti...

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[othertomperson]

3 minutes ago, Mohenjo said:

Welll the OP was talking about refunding his 980ti for a 1080..... so i dunno i assumed you were talking about the 980ti...

I just... the thread is called "GTX 1070 or 1080?" His question is "should I spend more money and get the 1080, or go for the smaller brother, 1070?" My prediction is that the performance difference will be marginal and... I really don't see where the 980 Ti even fits into anything I have said. 5% performance difference?