Should we wait for Pascal?

[Encoded7]

Hello again enigmatic members of the forums! A quick conundrum, so with a rough estimate of the release date of the Pascal GPU being late 2016 I have to question. Is it worth the wait? I have a lot of patience as I am in the process of saving for a pretty high end PC.

[Guest Kloaked]

That's up to you.

 

Only way we'll find out if "it's worth the wait" is when we see real-world benchmarks, and by then the cards will already be available so that defeats the purpose of your question.

[Levent]

if you can wait yes.

[Prastupok]

Hello again enigmatic members of the forums! A quick conundrum, so with a rough estimate of the release date of the Pascal GPU being late 2016 I have to question. Is it worth the wait? I have a lot of patience as I am in the process of saving for a pretty high end PC.

 

I don't see the point of waiting. There will always be something newer and better, no matter how long you wait.

 

I vote no.

[GrimNeo]

I don't see the point of waiting. There will always be something newer and better, no matter how long you wait.

 

I vote no.

Well sounds like op will be waiting forever then lol. I agree with this. Always something new around the corner.

[Maslofski]

Buy it now, ive it comes out end of 2016 youll still have a year and a half of time you can play with that high end pc

[Delusional Phil]

Time will tell ...

[SauronsV]

The day after pascal comes out everyone will be talking about volta, I will just get a GPU this year and then upgrade in 2018 or later

[dougdangger]

Wait for incentives like free games or something.

That way when the newer card comes along, it won't sting as bad.

[robinspi]

I say yes, but it wont be paschal. It will be the amd r9 400 series. Paschal was scheduled to be a 14/16 nm GPU, with HBM2, but AMD has the exact same tune, and they have priority to the HBM2 supply, so paschal with HBM2 will probably be limited to the Titan series.

[rjfaber91]

I say yes, but it wont be paschal. It will be the amd r9 400 series. Paschal was scheduled to be a 14/16 nm GPU, with HBM2, but AMD has the exact same tune, and they have priority to the HBM2 supply, so paschal with HNM2 will probably be limited to the Titan series.

 

No H. Pascal was French, not a German or a Dutchman.

 

 

Hello again enigmatic members of the forums! A quick conundrum, so with a rough estimate of the release date of the Pascal GPU being late 2016 I have to question. Is it worth the wait? I have a lot of patience as I am in the process of saving for a pretty high end PC.

 

Well, if you are going to be waiting for Zen, you might as well wait a few extra months to get a brand new GPU microarchitecture, but in every other case I'd say it doesn't make much sense to wait.