Will 4K gaming be viable with 'Pascal'?

[M A J O R]

I'm looking into 1440p / 4K gaming as a next upgrade for my setup. I was just wondering if it's going to be possible with the next line of GPUs (assuming I purchase the 980ti / titanx equivalent)? 

 

I have a 1080p monitor at the moment paired with a GTX970 and everything runs fine at Ultra settings 60+fps. How much extra power is really needed for that sort of performance at 4K?

 

Thanks for any information  

 

 

[Moondrelor]

Let's just say this has been asked a lot.

 

Yes, it should be viable, and playable. A single card from 30-60 FPS in demanding games.

 

But no guarantees. We haven't seen specs, I'm just basing my judgement off the performance increase off each platform jump.

[Unhelpful]

I'm looking into 1440p / 4K gaming as a next upgrade for my setup. I was just wondering if it's going to be possible with the next line of GPUs (assuming I purchase the 980ti / titanx equivalent)? 

Well the GPUs aren't out yet... So... We don't know.

 

Maybe.

[Bazilias]

I'm looking into 1440p / 4K gaming as a next upgrade for my setup. I was just wondering if it's going to be possible with the next line of GPUs (assuming I purchase the 980ti / titanx equivalent)? 

 

I have a 1080p monitor at the moment paired with a GTX970 and everything runs fine at Ultra settings 60+fps. How much extra power is really needed for that sort of performance at 4K?

 

Thanks for any information

If you plan on playing 4K at ultra settings you will need 3/4 way SLI with the GTX 980ti. I don't know how the Pascal will perform yet but I assume you will need at least 2-way SLI cofiguration aswell.

[Starelementpoke]

Like 99% sure that pascal's improvements are mainly in computational improvements.

[theereal]

From generation to generation of video cards, there arent alot of Improvements In performance, alot of the pascal cards will be on par with the 900 series or even the 700 or maybe even some powerful cards from the 600 series. Maybe they'll later In the lifetime of pascal drop something like a 1080Ti that can do 4K, but probably just at 30FPS In the most demanding titles considering as hardware gets stronger, games also gets more demanding. Its IMPOSSIBLE for anyone here to say though.

[M A J O R]

Thanks for the quick response. So I guess 1440p would be a more realistic upgrade.

[xgn]

Its viable with multiplie titans or firepros so i don't see why not but will probably cost a tonn.

[KemoKa]

Honestly, I don't know why people are asking this. We don't have the chips on the market, so how would we know? All we can do is guess. I would hope so, if they want to maintain their market.

 

From what we've been told, Pascal's main improvements are in compute performance, not necessarily in gaming. That's certainly on the table, too, but it's not the main focus.

But their claim of 10x the compute performance... I smell cleverly misleading wording somewhere. I'm thinking it means an improvement of 10x in double-precision floating-point performance... which isn't saying much in comparison to Maxwell...

[jjohnthedon1]

If you plan on playing 4K at ultra settings you will need 3/4 way SLI with the GTX 980ti. I don't know how the Pascal will perform yet but I assume you will need at least 2-way SLI cofiguration aswell.

everything I played at 4K ultra was over 60 fps with 2 980tis

Witcher 3

Shadows of mordor

Battlefront

Gta v

Far cry 4

[DrtyDiesel]

I'm really hoping nvidia and AMD both have mind blowing performance with their new top of the line cards this year.

I don't know much about pascal, but I know AMDs new offerings will ship with displayport 1.3. If we can ever get into the realm of 120Hz 4K panels, I'd be dropping some serious money on upgrading to that.

[Bazilias]

everything I played at 4K ultra was over 60 fps with 2 980tis

Witcher 3

Shadows of mordor

Battlefront

Gta v

Far cry 4

What processor. Because I have an i7 5960X with 2 GTX 980ti's and get around 60 FPS at ultra settings.

[SteveGrabowski0]

From generation to generation of video cards, there arent alot of Improvements In performance, alot of the pascal cards will be on par with the 900 series or even the 700 or maybe even some powerful cards from the 600 series. Maybe they'll later In the lifetime of pascal drop something like a 1080Ti that can do 4K, but probably just at 30FPS In the most demanding titles considering as hardware gets stronger, games also gets more demanding. Its IMPOSSIBLE for anyone here to say though.

 

The last node shrink Nvidia did was in the 600 series at 28 nm, which stomped the hell out of the 500 series at 40 nm. The $230 GTX 660 was competitive with the $500 GTX 580.

[WynLore]

I guess when Pascal's Titan (or the Pascal USD$1K card if they aren't calling it a Titan) comes out (which means a 1080 Ti or whatever they call it will be a slightly weaker will come out), 4K gaming on a single card (everything cranked in the settings) will be possible. But who knows?

[VagabondWraith]

Nobody knows how it will perform. It's best to temper our expectations in light of not meeting those unrealistic expectations.

[Najuno]

What processor. Because I have an i7 5960X with 2 GTX 980ti's and get around 60 FPS at ultra settings.

I´ve got the same CPU as you have paired with a Titan X 2way SLI and I get also around 60FPS @ Ultra settings in those games. The average FPS rate is not going to be much higher than 60 FPS.

And a 3 - or 4way SLI... thanks but no thanks. I´ve had a 3way and the scaling is except for synthetic benchmarks just terrible. Doesn´t really matter if one goes with nVidia or AMD but more than 2 cards don´t make too much sense.

[mathijs727]

We dont know and we can't know.

Only time will tell...

[jjohnthedon1]

What processor. Because I have an i7 5960X with 2 GTX 980ti's and get around 60 FPS at ultra settings.

4790k at 4.7ghz

[Glenwing]

Just to clarify, all we know is that they improved compute performance a lot, we don't know anything about gaming performance. Don't say "they only focused on compute and aren't improving gaming". It could be 30% faster for gaming, could be 500% faster for gaming. We have no idea since they haven't talked about it at all.

[Praesi]

No. 4k as Gaming Resolution is not interesting enough for NVidia or AMD atm. Maybe the Highest Enthusiast Card. But my guess is that you still need SLI/XF.

Maybe in 4-5 Years.

[DrtyDiesel]

No. 4k as Gaming Resolution is not interesting enough for NVidia or AMD atm. Maybe the Highest Enthusiast Card. But my guess is that you still need SLI/XF.

Maybe in 4-5 Years.

I think it'll be before 4-5 years. Even if this year or next year we can get 120hz 4k panels I'd drop whatever I need to in order to have that setup.

[Praesi]

I think it'll be before 4-5 years. Even if this year or next year we can get 120hz 4k panels I'd drop whatever I need to in order to have that setup.

0,7% of all Steam Users have a 4K Display. No Company will focus on that the next Years.

[DrtyDiesel]

0,7% of all Steam Users have a 4K Display. No Company will focus on that the next Years.

That doesn't mean the tech won't ever pop up in the next year or so.

AMD is already shipping their Polaris GPUs with displayport 1.3, which will allow for 4k 120hz. I'm sure someone out there will make a panel capable of it.

[Bazilias]

4790k at 4.7ghz

I got mine at 4.5GHz and can't get higher than 75 in games.

[eLucid]

From generation to generation of video cards, there arent alot of Improvements In performance, alot of the pascal cards will be on par with the 900 series or even the 700 or maybe even some powerful cards from the 600 series. Maybe they'll later In the lifetime of pascal drop something like a 1080Ti that can do 4K, but probably just at 30FPS In the most demanding titles considering as hardware gets stronger, games also gets more demanding. Its IMPOSSIBLE for anyone here to say though.

 

Umm, what?

 

The last time there was a node shrink nvidia's gtx 580 (their flagship at the time) was decimated by the much cheaper 660ti. Pascal will be significant in terms of raw performance in comparison to maxwell.

 

Don't be surprised if you see a gtx 1060/1060ti beating a 980.

Edited January 13, 2016 by eLucid