Upgrade or not.

[Nosfy]

Fellow folks.

Seeing as I am unable to resist shinny new hardware I considering getting a 1080.

Thing is I currently have 980ti's in SLI. Would that be a bad move? Obviously would be looking to sell the two cards.

 

Is the whole SLI thing still a problem?

 

Thanks.

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Nosfy said:

Fellow folks.

Seeing as I am unable to resist shinny new hardware I considering getting a 1080.

Thing is I currently have 980ti's in SLI. Would that be a bad move? Obviously would be looking to sell the two cards.

 

Is the whole SLI thing still a problem?

 

Thanks.

I mean, even when SLI doesn´t work, it´s still a fucking 980ti. Not really worth it IMO.

[Nosfy]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I mean, even when SLI doesn´t work, it´s still a fucking 980ti. Not really worth it IMO.

I game at 3440x1440 if that makes a different to anyone's opinion.

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, Nosfy said:

I game at 3440x1440 if that makes a different to anyone's opinion.

Personally, I don´t think the costs justify the upgrade when you already have 2 980tis. Then again, it´s your money.

[Clonzoo]

Give the 980ti to charity aka me and go for it! A great upgrade really.

 

On a more serious note though, no, save your pennies m8. Buy a house, or a car, or a 2nd car. Go on a nice vacation that you have always wanted to go on. Perhaps take a cruise like Harmony of the seas for a trip around the world. Point I am trying to make, there are so many more useful things you can spend your money on. A 1080 is a minor upgrade for you and if you look at dollars spent vs fps increase, you'd probably throw up for the rest of the month for even considering it.

[positivePXL]

Only way this works is if you go 1080 SLI off the bat, otherwise, 2x980ti's vs. 1x1080, 980ti's still win. 

 

I would either:

1) Get the 2x1080's now

2) Wait for the GP102 cards, a.k.a. the 1080ti and the new Titan.

[typographie]

It's only an upgrade for games with no SLI support. Maybe I'm missing something here, but two 980 Ti's in SLI are faster than one GTX 1080.

[Nosfy]

2 minutes ago, typographie said:

It's only an upgrade for games with no SLI support. Maybe I'm missing something here, but two 980 Ti's in SLI are faster than one GTX 1080.

Any benchmarks on that out there?

[Dzzope]

I'd possibly consider a single 1080 or 1080ti when they are released.. would remove any sli scaling issue and give you good minimum frames at your res.

 

But it would depend on how much you can get for the 980ti's and how many games you feel don't scale well with sli.

[Dzzope]

24 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

Only way this works is if you go 1080 SLI off the bat, otherwise, 2x980ti's vs. 1x1080, 980ti's still win. 

 

I would either:

1) Get the 2x1080's now

2) Wait for the GP102 cards, a.k.a. the 1080ti and the new Titan.

edit ///corrected gp102

 

And even though a 1080 doesn't beat 2x980ti's, it's single card that is very capible of driving that res.

 

2 conditions to sell, you can fund a better platform from sale of your current, or, notice significant improvement in smoothness, quality or otherwise.

[typographie]

2 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Any benchmarks on that out there?

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-GTX-1080-8GB-Founders-Edition-Review-GP104-Brings-Pascal-Gamers

 

One GTX 1080 is around 25–30% faster than one GTX 980 Ti or Titan X, which puts it around the performance of two GTX 980's (non-Ti) in SLI in the best of circumstances.

[positivePXL]

5 minutes ago, Dzzope said:

GP100..

 

And even though a 1080 doesn't beat 2x980ti's, it's single card that is very capible of driving that res.

 

2 conditions to sell, you can fund a better platform from sale of your current, or, notice significant improvement in smoothness, quality or otherwise.

No sir, the GP100 chips (upscaled P100 chips) won't be available. The current chips are the GP104's, and the only leak we have available says that the new Titan and the 1080ti will use a GP102 chip.

[positivePXL]

14 minutes ago, Dzzope said:

GP100..