Midrange Pascal?

[Rainbrew]

From my understanding Pascal is scheduled for spring this year. Some people speculate that the first cards to be released with the new chipset are the high end models. I'm looking for a midrange option like a 1060 or something. What's the probability of then releasing that rather early? I'd like to be able to play overwatch when it comes out and nfs but if Pascal is even close to nvidias claims I'm unsure whether buying a 380 is worth it now. Thanks in advance!

[Oshino Shinobu]

We don't know, you'll have to wait and see. Can't really say more than that. 

[Guest HyppoCube]

1060 isnt a mindrange really anymore... not if we compare what chips nvidia used to sell as midrange.

 

they will probably  launch x70 and x80 "wannabe high end" but actually midrange. id say go for x70.

[don_svetlio]

Nvidia are claiming 10X GPGPU power, not 10x gaming performance. In games it won't be 10x faster.

Pascal is releasing Fall this year with the "1080" and "1070" and "1060" probably around November. (based on Maxwell releases)

GP104 was already spotted shipping

[Rainbrew]

Would the 380 be a bad choice with new architectures coming relatively soon?

[Guest HyppoCube]

Would the 380 be a bad choice with new architectures coming relatively soon?

what do you have now?

 

Its not bad choice, but if you can wait and will use new gpu for some time, like a year+, then its smart to wait.

 

Then again you might wait a while if anything gets delayed or something. 

[Rainbrew]

what do you have now?

Its not bad choice, but if you can wait and will use new gpu for some time, like a year+, then its smart to wait.

Then again you might wait a while if anything gets delayed or something.

Currently running a palit gtx 560ti which is so loud it makes my ears bleed and can't run furmark for more than 5 seconds due to heating up to 95* after which I'm scared and I turn it off so an upgrade would be nice although I don't want it to instantly become irrelevant due to Pascal.

[jjohnthedon1]

Currently running a palit gtx 560ti which is so loud it makes my ears bleed and can't run furmark for more than 5 seconds due to heating up to 95* after which I'm scared and I turn it off so an upgrade would be nice although I don't want it to instantly become irrelevant due to Pascal.

dont run furmark

[Rainbrew]

dont run furmark

Regardless of that, it heats up to 89 degrees in Warframe, which isn't an excessively demanding title with fans running at 100%.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Currently running a palit gtx 560ti which is so loud it makes my ears bleed and can't run furmark for more than 5 seconds due to heating up to 95* after which I'm scared and I turn it off so an upgrade would be nice although I don't want it to instantly become irrelevant due to Pascal.

 

The 380 would be an enormous upgrade over a 560 Ti. Pascal probably isn't coming until August or September, Polaris may be a little earlier. I'd personally get the 380 right now in your shoes as long as you have an i5 or better, or a 960 if you don't (AMD DX11 driver overhead overwhelms i3s for example, but isn't a problem on i5s or i7s except in Fallout 4). If the new line of gpus is as good as hyped (and I think they will be a really nice boost) you can probably still sell your 380/960 pretty quickly then for $100 or so on ebay in the absolute worst case.

[Rainbrew]

The 380 would be an enormous upgrade over a 560 Ti. Pascal probably isn't coming until August or September, Polaris may be a little earlier. I'd personally get the 380 right now in your shoes as long as you have an i5 or better, or a 960 if you don't (AMD DX11 driver overhead overwhelms i3s for example, but isn't a problem on i5s or i7s except in Fallout 4). If the new line of gpus is as good as hyped (and I think they will be a really nice boost) you can probably still sell your 380/960 pretty quickly then for $100 or so on ebay in the absolute worst case.

That does sound very reasonable, thanks for the advice! Although final question, I can get a gigabyte g1 windforce 2x 380x for just a little bit more than a sapphire r9 380, should I step up with the card or is gigabyte satan of rma, warranty and cooling?

[SteveGrabowski0]

That does sound very reasonable, thanks for the advice! Although final question, I can get a gigabyte g1 windforce 2x 380x for just a little bit more than a sapphire r9 380, should I step up with the card or is gigabyte satan of rma, warranty and cooling?

 

You'd have to do some research into Gigabyte on the R9 300 series. They have a horrible reputation for AMD cards here because their coolers were really bad on the R9 200 series, but I don't know how their 300 series cards are. On the other hand Sapphire's coolers are very good on both the 300 and 200 series.

[Guest HyppoCube]

yeah, just for your hearing its smart to upgrade  

 

have fun with your new card. and old card will sell anyway AND you will get rid of it. triple win.