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Will a 980 be worth buying early this summer?

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We all know how fast GPU tech is moving. The 980 was released late summer 2014 and now the Titan X was recently released. I've seen countless videos praising the 980 for its price for performance and I am wondering if buying one early this summer would be worth the $550+. Right now, I only have a 1080p monitor and have an r9 270x 4GB. I want a new beefy card that will allow me to destroy absolutely any game at 1080p and play at 1440 if I ever decide to move up. I'll take any feedback, luv u sweetums bye.

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980? price per performance? Dafuq did I just read... you are better off with a 970 for 1080-1440p

 

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I have a single asus gtx 970 strix, and this will destroy any game @ 1080p on ultra settings that I have played

 

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We all know how fast GPU tech is moving. The 980 was released late summer 2014 and now the Titan X was recently released. I've seen countless videos praising the 980 for its price for performance and I am wondering if buying one early this summer would be worth the $550+. Right now, I only have a 1080p monitor and have an r9 270x 4GB. I want a new beefy card that will allow me to destroy absolutely any game at 1080p and play at 1440 if I ever decide to move up. I'll take any feedback, luv u sweetums bye.

AMD's flag ship will be out at that point. So we don't know now.

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I have am MSI 970 as well and it does pretty well playing games at 1080p. I haven't even had overclocked it since it still does pretty well. Graphics on games doesn't really demanding nowadays because of how limited the power of the current consoles so a 970 alone (especially 2 of them in sli) will do pretty well in the future.

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AM I the only person on this forum that prefers a better single card solution rather than two mid tier cards in sli?

people usually assume "more is better". and that's true, to a certain point.
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AM I the only person on this forum that prefers a better single card solution rather than two mid tier cards in sli?

i was going to buy my friends two 660s but I got a single R9 290 instead, in the future im going to get a second 290

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980? price per performance? Dafuq did I just read... you are better off with a 970 for 1080-1440p

 

as my signature states

 

Don't buy a GTX 980, it's overpriced! Buy 2 GTX 970s or 2 R9 290s intstead (the R9 290s would even be cheaper)

The GTX 980 isn't overpriced, two 980's > triple 970's so.

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AM I the only person on this forum that prefers a better single card solution rather than two mid tier cards in sli? 

Why do you consider a 970 "mid-tier"? And If DX12 delivers as advertised, 970SLI will smash a single 980 to the ground

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The GTX 980 isn't overpriced, two 980's > triple 970's so.

It is overpriced for what it is... it is not worth the 550 dollars

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Why do you consider a 970 "mid-tier"? And If DX12 delivers as advertised, 970SLI will smash a single 980 to the ground

960,"970",980 

It's a mid tier card its in the middle of consumer grade 900 series cards 

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AM I the only person on this forum that prefers a better single card solution rather than two mid tier cards in sli? 

Yeah that is usually the case. E.g. 1 R9 280X over 2 R9 270s, but GTX970 and 980 are so close with a fairly hefty price gap that the 980 just doesn't look that appealing.

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That's your opinion.

Not only mine, 90% of ppl here will say that :)

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I do believe that says 970 OC not just the 970 so please bring me proper info like a 980 oc vs 970 oc or just a 980 vs 970 no bs

 

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I say wait for amd's 300 series, maybe something will be better for the same price

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AM I the only person on this forum that prefers a better single card solution rather than two mid tier cards in sli? 

No, i agree. I still think people are going to regret going 970 SLI down the road, it was the same around the time 780 ti last year

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I do believe that says 970 OC not just the 970 so please bring me proper info like a 980 oc vs 970 oc or just a 980 vs 970 no bs

 

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Its a 100% fair comparison because the 980 is up to 250 dollars more expensive.

For the added price of the card its simply not worth it.

You can oc a MUCH cheaper card to achieve the same results and people say the 980 its worth its salt.

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Its a 100% fair comparison because the 980 is up to 250 dollars more expensive.

For the added price of the card its simply not worth it.

You can oc a MUCH cheaper card to achieve the same results and people say the 980 its worth its salt.

Let me laugh.

All im saying its not a fair comparison

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No, i agree. I still think people are going to regret going 970 SLI down the road, it was the same around the time 780 ti last year

Regret? If DX12 delivers as promised, then a 980 can go hide under a rock :P

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Regret? If DX12 delivers as promised, then a 980 can go hide under a rock :P

The main benefit of DX12 will be the removal of CPU bottlenecks, it's not going to magically make your graphics cards perform a billion times better

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The main benefit of DX12 will be the removal of CPU bottlenecks, it's not going to magically make your graphics cards perform a billion times better

I was thinking more along the lines of the VRAM stacking, but yeah, we shall see :)

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The 970 is mid tier.

LOL

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The most disturbing part of this post is how good the 780 ti still performs. For the money a used one blows away the competition price/performance. Not NEW... but used.

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