Is the GTX 980 dead?

[SovietBroski]

With the release of the the latest generation of Nvidia cards, has the GTX900 series been outmoded? If I was interested in overclocking and benchmarking would I be a fool to buy two GTX980 Poseidon cards from asus instead of a GTX1070, 1080, or the up-and-coming 1080ti?

[Himommies]

Performance wise yes.

If your buying new.Don't do it unless its a good sale

If used then go for it

[DocSwag]

If they're cheap (like under $200) then sure, otherwise not worth it.

[k2711000]

look, the gtx 980 is essentialy a gtx 1060, thing is you can't SLI a 1060. As @Himommies said if you find 2 used gtx 980s' used go for it!

 

 

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

If they're cheap (like under $200) then sure, otherwise not worth it.

under 150$ to highest 160$ actually, you can pick up a rx480 8gb for 170$. 

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, k2711000 said:

look, the gtx 980 is essentialy a gtx 1060, thing is you can't SLI a 1060. As @Himommies said if you find 2 used gtx 980s' used go for it!

 

 

 

 

not worth it, only 4gb vram, rx480 would be much better crossfire. a single 1060 is more powerful than a 980 especially with better driver support. 

[k2711000]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

not worth it, only 4gb vram, rx480 would be much better crossfire. a single 1060 is more powerful than a 980 especially with better driver support. 

If he is going to play at 1080p 4gb is ok I guess (I am running a 980 right now and it's more than adequate for 1080p gaming), I agree that an rx 480 would be much better but he wants to buy a 980 that's why I said what I said. I don't know about that "a single 1060 is more powerful than a 980 especially with better driver support", how much better could it possibly get?

[Creed1]

Most 900 series Nvidia GPUs are dead unless you can get them for a dirt cheap price. 

[DocSwag]

5 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

under 150$ to highest 160$ actually, you can pick up a rx480 8gb for 170$. 

Which rx 480 is this?

[The Sloth]

Just now, DocSwag said:

Which rx 480 is this?

look for sales, cheapest 4gb rx480 i saw was 143 usd after rebate. 

[DocSwag]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

look for sales, cheapest 4gb rx480 i saw was 143 usd after rebate. 

Damn... That's quite a deal...

 

What cost $450 just a year ago is now 1/3 or the price...

[sgloux3470]

980 SLI with overclocking is about as good as 1080Ti/TitanX.

 

The only big limitation is vRAM, which can be worked around with tweaked graphical settings. 

 

That said I wouldn't say it is a good buy at the moment.  If you already had a 980, picking up a second for SLI wouldn't be a bad upgrade considering you can get 980's relatively cheap and overclocking in SLI is a huge boost. (10% on both cards is like 15% on a single card. 20% on both is 30% on a single card.)  As such you can get very high end performance for quite a bit cheaper than a single GPU equivalent.

 

RX480 CF might be the better pick for a modern build in that performance window however.

 

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

Dual gpu is a waste unless you're trying to push 4k with two 1080 Ti, and even then, one 1080 Ti is pretty damn good for 4k if you're willing to drop to high settings in some games.

[3 Lions]

54 minutes ago, SovietBroski said:

With the release of the the latest generation of Nvidia cards, has the GTX900 series been outmoded? If I was interested in overclocking and benchmarking would I be a fool to buy two GTX980 Poseidon cards from asus instead of a GTX1070, 1080, or the up-and-coming 1080ti?

The 980 died quite a while ago. When the 980Ti launched it blew the 980 away by quite a margin (32% faster from what Userbenchmark says).with the 1080 though it's only 26% slower than the 1080Ti which to be honest isn't bad, not as bad as the 980 did against the 980Ti. 

[SovietBroski]

3 hours ago, k2711000 said:

If he is going to play at 1080p 4gb is ok I guess (I am running a 980 right now and it's more than adequate for 1080p gaming), I agree that an rx 480 would be much better but he wants to buy a 980 that's why I said what I said. I don't know about that "a single 1060 is more powerful than a 980 especially with better driver support", how much better could it possibly get?

I guess I should have mentioned that I want to game above 1080p on a single monitor or at 1080p across 3 monitors. given this user case do you think running 2 gtx980's in sli would do the trick or am i barking up the wrong tree?

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

3 hours ago, SovietBroski said:

With the release of the the latest generation of Nvidia cards, has the GTX900 series been outmoded? If I was interested in overclocking and benchmarking would I be a fool to buy two GTX980 Poseidon cards from asus instead of a GTX1070, 1080, or the up-and-coming 1080ti?

Yes. The card is by no means outdated but if you can get a 1070 you should. My overclocked 480 (1400 on the core, 2000 on the vram) beats out the 980 by a small but noticeable amount. 

[k2711000]

17 hours ago, SovietBroski said:

I guess I should have mentioned that I want to game above 1080p on a single monitor or at 1080p across 3 monitors. given this user case do you think running 2 gtx980's in sli would do the trick or am i barking up the wrong tree?

then nope go for a new generation card.

[Foxxer]

Not dead, but phased out. 

 

If you could get dirt cheap 980's go for it, if not go with 1080's.