GTX 970, 980, 980ti, Titan X owners opinion on new 1080 and 1070

[spaceface102]

As nvidia has claimed that there new gtx 1080 will be equivalent in computing power to two gtx 980's in sli I wonder how the market is going to go. Are people who currently have a 980 sell their's and buy a 1080 or will they not see it fit to buy a new graphics card.

[imreloadin]

3 minutes ago, spaceface102 said:

As nvidia has claimed that there new gtx 1080 will be equivalent in computing power to two gtx 980's in sli I wonder how the market is going to go. Are people who currently have a 980 sell their's and buy a 1080 or will they not see it fit to buy a new graphics card.

I'm pretty sure most people are going to wait until independent reviews have come out before doing anything.

 

I typically err on the side of caution when taking the word of someone who is trying to get you to buy their product lol.

[SeanAngelo]

6 minutes ago, spaceface102 said:

As nvidia has claimed that there new gtx 1080 will be equivalent in computing power to two gtx 980's in sli I wonder how the market is going to go. Are people who currently have a 980 sell their's and buy a 1080 or will they not see it fit to buy a new graphics card.

we'd have to wait for the reviews and benchmarks to come out

[Commander Llama]

The SLI claim sounds like a load of marketing shit. Equivalent under exacting conditions (VR) maybe, if not out and out lies.

 

Wait for real gaming benchmarks. As for what will happen... it's not like the 900 series is bad or anything.

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3 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

I'm pretty sure most people are going to wait until independent reviews have come out before doing anything.

 

I typically err on the side of caution when taking the word of someone who is trying to get you to buy their product lol.

That said, I'd bet those who are the type to run 980tis or 980ti SLI will almost certainly all be upgrading, and selling their existing cards off at a fantastic price

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Gonna get a 1070 if performance is great, I am happy with my 970 though

[Flowey]

12 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

I'm pretty sure most people are going to wait until independent reviews have come out before doing anything.

 

I typically err on the side of caution when taking the word of someone who is trying to get you to buy their product lol.

just like e3 game démos, don't trust them

[FilipSebik]

Racist. No GTX 960 owners?

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, FilipSebik said:

Racist. No GTX 960 owners?

Double racist. no AMD owners?

[pedro69]

If the benchmarks hold true and are confirmed by independent sources I am probably going to get a 1070 later this year. I might even go for the 1080 if I can sell my 970 and my 760 at a good price.

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2 minutes ago, Flowey said:

Double racist. no AMD owners?

No need - they're used to being behind so moving "the best" further ahead doesn't change anything

 

/jk it was too good an opportunity to pass up  

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

No need - they're used to being behind so moving "the best" further ahead doesn't change anything

 

/jk it was too good an opportunity to pass up  

Ouch. Well if your talking about CPU of course, otherwise I beg to differ reagrding GPU

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2 minutes ago, pedro69 said:

If the benchmarks hold true and are confirmed by independent sources I am probably going to get a 1070 later this year. I might even go for the 1080 if I can sell my 970 and my 760 at a good price.

I doubt any 900 series or older cards are going to sell for a good price now that Pascal's performance has been announced.  Yes, I know we still need 3rd parties to verify it, but I've already seen people saying they have seen massive price drops on used 980 ti's just since the announcement.

[pedro69]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I doubt any 900 series or older cards are going to sell for a good price now that Pascal's performance has been announced.  Yes, I know we still need 3rd parties to verify it, but I've already seen people saying they have seen massive price drops on used 980 ti's just since the announcement.

This is definitely true for the US market, but here down south it is a bit different. High end PC parts are much more expensive to begin with (my 970 G1 costs new about $400 USD) and used GTX 760's still go for $150 USD or more. I usually buy my GPU's in the US directly and have friends bring me them the next time they come down.

[WhiteSkyMage]

59 minutes ago, spaceface102 said:

As nvidia has claimed that there new gtx 1080 will be equivalent in computing power to two gtx 980's in sli I wonder how the market is going to go. Are people who currently have a 980 sell their's and buy a 1080 or will they not see it fit to buy a new graphics card.

Without reading any other opinion, I will tell you mine - I have a GTX 980 as you can see, and yes GTX1080 is faster than 2 of those in SLI, but I have decided to let Star Citizen (when it launches next year) to dictate which GPU and monitor I will be upgrading to. That means that if an AMD Vega card wins with just 5 FPS over the Big Pascal (GTX1080Ti), I will pick it, even if 99% of the NEW games (including BF1) play better on NVidia cards.

 

For anybody else that has a 980 or 970 or older card, this upgrade is well worth it I think, and it will give you a good boost in performance. I do however recommend not to hurry (yet) for getting it and see what Polaris looks like and then take the shot, but I decided - my next upgrade will only be for that 1 game, I do not care if AMD bankrupts a day before I buy their Vega card, if it wins on this one single benchmark.

[spaceface102]

Nice input all of you it's great to hear the opinion of others. Personally I do agree that they might be skewing the charts and saying that 1080 is equal to 980's in sli seems a little far fetched to me. But if they do manage to do it, well I am already sending my prayers to Amd. If your stuff is not on par to pascal we better start saying good bye. Hopefully amd can come back strong.

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9 hours ago, pedro69 said:

This is definitely true for the US market, but here down south it is a bit different. High end PC parts are much more expensive to begin with (my 970 G1 costs new about $400 USD) and used GTX 760's still go for $150 USD or more. I usually buy my GPU's in the US directly and have friends bring me them the next time they come down.

Stuff's expensive here too, mainly because the dollar is weak right now but that shouldn't matter since it's all relative.  If product A sells for X and performs twice as good as B, B's going to have to sell for a lot less than X I think