Gtx 980 or Titan

[toxicnos]

Hello, so I was on my local classifieds and saw several GTX 980s for $600 and a titan (not black or x) for $600. Could someone please tell me which one performs better and which one you recommend I should buy.

[Amazingasian]

See if they have a 980ti.  It will perform better than both of those.

[don_svetlio]

980 Ti - if not available, then Titan or Fury - Fury is 560$ and beats the Titan steadily.

[toxicnos]

980 Ti - if not available, then Titan or Fury - Fury is 560$ and beats the Titan steadily.

Ok thanks.

[GSTARR]

Hello, so I was on my local classifieds and saw several GTX 980s for $600 and a titan (not black or x) for $600. Could someone please tell me which one performs better and which one you recommend I should buy.

Titan is better than 980ti and 980 and basically everything else.  Unless you're doing some 4k gaming and want to try and "future-proof" (not possible, but you can prolong upgrading) i would get titans. On 4k benchmarks I've been looking on, the titan and 980ti go from a 4-5fps difference at 1080p, to a 10-20 difference in 4k, with the titan X on top

[don_svetlio]

Titan is better than 980ti and 980 and basically everything else.  Unless you're doing some 4k gaming and want to try and "future-proof" (not possible, but you can prolong upgrading) i would get titans. On 4k benchmarks I've been looking on, the titan and 980ti go from a 4-5fps difference at 1080p, to a 10-20 difference in 4k, with the titan X on top

Titan. not Titan X. Massive difference. Original Titan is as fast as the 780 Ti

[Andrew Storlie]

Sorry but 600 for a 980 seems alotx you can go on Craigslist and get them for about 400-450

[don_svetlio]

Sorry but 600 for a 980 seems alotx you can go on Craigslist and get them for about 400-450

that's the total budget

[Lethal Seraph]

No sense buying a 980. Get a 980Ti if you can stretch the budget abit. And don't go for Titan either.

[GSTARR]

Titan. not Titan X. Massive difference. Original Titan is as fast as the 780 Ti

but you knew what I meant right? Get over it. I can't believe you made a whole reply because i missed an X when we all knew

[Egad]

First off you don't want the original Titan at this point, unless you're looking for the precision GPU computing on a budget.  

 

I see up in Canada GTX 980 is in the low 700s new and a 980Ti is in the 900s, although I see a Zotac one on special for 850.

 

If there is a glut of GTX 980s you might try to talk them down into the low 500s, that would a reasonable deal.  Part of this though is what you're aiming to do with the GPU.  If you want a card that will carry you into the next generation then you might want to save for a Ti.  If you're just looking for something to carry you a bit into the next gen launches, the 980 would do that, but so would some even cheaper cards.  Frankly given a new R9 390X with 8 GB of RAM and some hardware features DX12 can use looks to be about 530 new on NCIX Canada, so to me a used GTX 980 would need to price itself competitively against that.  

[Praesi]

Titan is better than 980ti and 980 and basically everything else.  Unless you're doing some 4k gaming and want to try and "future-proof" (not possible, but you can prolong upgrading) i would get titans. On 4k benchmarks I've been looking on, the titan and 980ti go from a 4-5fps difference at 1080p, to a 10-20 difference in 4k, with the titan X on top

Custom 980Ti´s defeat the Titan/X .

[GloriousPain]

Titan. not Titan X. Massive difference. Original Titan is as fast as the 780 Ti

Titan was between 780/780Ti not quite as fast as 780Ti not quite as slow as 780.

[don_svetlio]

Titan was between 780/780Ti not quite as fast as 780Ti not quite as slow as 780.

780 was a cut-down Titan IIRC

[PeggersXtreme]

Custom 980Ti´s defeat the Titan/X .

I don't actually get why though cause a 980ti is practically a Titan X just slightly less cuda cores and half as much Vram so is that to say the 980ti beats the titan X even when both are clocked the same? or would an overclocked titan X catch up with a 980ti again.

[Praesi]

I don't actually get why though cause a 980ti is practically a Titan X just slightly less cuda cores and half as much Vram so is that to say the 980ti beats the titan X even when both are clocked the same? or would an overclocked titan X catch up with a 980ti again.

Of course, an Overclocked TitanX should catch up. But normal TitanX´s cant reach the speed of custom 980Ti´s. But no Question TitanX is still a super fast Card, but if you dont need 12GB VRAM a 980Ti would be the better choice.

[PeggersXtreme]

Of course, an Overclocked TitanX should catch up. But normal TitanX´s cant reach the speed of custom 980Ti´s. But no Question TitanX is still a super fast Card, but if you dont need 12GB VRAM a 980Ti would be the better choice.

Might end up having to RMA one of my stock clocked Titan X's anyway not having much luck with PC components lately

[Praesi]

Might end up having to RMA one of my stock clocked Titan X's anyway not having much luck with PC components lately

Whats wrong with it?

[i_build_nanosuits]

Hello, so I was on my local classifieds and saw several GTX 980s for $600 and a titan (not black or x) for $600. Could someone please tell me which one performs better and which one you recommend I should buy.

 

Titan. not Titan X. Massive difference. Original Titan is as fast as the 780 Ti

 

Titan was between 780/780Ti not quite as fast as 780Ti not quite as slow as 780.

 

780 was a cut-down Titan IIRC

okay...lots of miss-informartion i'll correct guys.

The original Titan was a cut-down GK110 GPU in that it had 14 out of the possible 15 SMX units enabled totaling 2688 cuda cores.

The GTX780 is even more cut-down in that it has 12/15 SMX enabled totaling 2304 cuda cores

The GTX780ti and Titan BLACK where the fully enabled GK110 cores with 15/15 SMX units enabled totaling 2880 cuda cores (192 cores per SM)

NOW: the GTX980 is a fully fleged GM204 core which is faster than ANY of these GPU's we've talked about in the kepler family, end of the story.

If you check specifications you'll see that the GM204 GPU only has 2048 cuda cores, but they are maxwell cores and therefore are faster, you'd need 3000+ kepler cores to outperform this GPU. The maxwell based GTX908 is also noticeably more energy efficient.

[dragoon20005]

and add a bit more cash and you can get a new

 

 

drum roll please

 

 

AMD Fury Tri-X

 

10% faster than the GTX980

[i_build_nanosuits]

and add a bit more cash and you can get a new

 

 

drum roll please

 

 

AMD Fury Tri-X

 

10% faster than the GTX980

yeah, like...quite a bit more cash actualy for example the asus Strix GTX 980 is 474$ right now and the Asus Fury is 570$

so it's 20.253% more expensive for an 8% faster GPU with lesser features, next to no overclocking headroom, and higher power consumption and heat output? ...not thanks!

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-980-vs-AMD-R9-Fury/2576vs3509

you can overclock the GTX980 A LOT and once properly clocked it will match and outperform the fury depending on the game and you've saved 100$...

[toxicnos]

Thanks for all your replys, I guess I will get a 980ti, I am just saving my money for a laptop then I'll get a new GPU.

[GloriousPain]

780 was a cut-down Titan IIRC

What Nanosuits had said, Titan BLACK was the full power chip, 780Ti, Titan, and 780 were all cut down or handicapped someway 

Titan Black=780Ti>Titan>780 (but 780Ti only had 3GB of ram, so Titans could outperform it in somecases in some games like skyrim modding and Titans are titans but 780/780Ti could have aftermarket versions that could OC above the Titans and get better performance sometimes)

 okay...lots of miss-informartion i'll correct guys.

The original Titan was a cut-down GK110 GPU in that it had 14 out of the possible 15 SMX units enabled totaling 2688 cuda cores.

The GTX780 is even more cut-down in that it has 12/15 SMX enabled totaling 2304 cuda cores

The GTX780ti and Titan BLACK where the fully enabled GK110 cores with 15/15 SMX units enabled totaling 2880 cuda cores (192 cores per SM)

NOW: the GTX980 is a fully fleged GM204 core which is faster than ANY of these GPU's we've talked about in the kepler family, end of the story.

If you check specifications you'll see that the GM204 GPU only has 2048 cuda cores, but they are maxwell cores and therefore are faster, you'd need 3000+ kepler cores to outperform this GPU. The maxwell based GTX908 is also noticeably more energy efficient.

^Couldn't have put it better myself,   just a few other notes I put above, but yeah GTX 980 is OP killing more Titans than Mikasa Ackerman 

[GSTARR]

Custom 980Ti´s defeat the Titan/X .

What does the word "custom" entail?

[Praesi]

What does the word "custom" entail?

non reference cards like the one i have or Gigabyte G1 for Example.