Used 980Ti vs GTX 1070?

[GrizzlyBear]

Need a GPU until 1080Ti launches. Do you recommend getting a used 980TI with roughly 400€ or 1070 with roughly 500€?

 

Thanks in advance!

[TheGamingBarrel]

980 Ti > 1080, so by extension 980 Ti > 1070.

[Pepi28]

I would go for the 980ti, since you will be swapping it out soon anyways and it saves you 100 bucks. 

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, TheGamingBarrel said:

980 Ti > 1080, so by extension 980 Ti > 1070.

NO!

What benchmarks out there tell you that the 980Ti is anywhere close to better than the 1080?

it is comparable with the 1070, and they are about the same performance level, so OP should get the 980Ti because it's cheaper, but the 1070 is on the same level as, if not better than the 980Ti

[TheGamingBarrel]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

NO!

What benchmarks out there tell you that the 980Ti is anywhere close to better than the 1080?

it is comparable with the 1070, and they are about the same performance level, so OP should get the 980Ti because it's cheaper, but the 1070 is on the same level as, if not better than the 980Ti

You ever overclocked? Both overclocked which makes al the sense to do, 980 Ti is almost always faster or within 3% while remaining cheaper.

[RadiatingLight]

6 minutes ago, TheGamingBarrel said:

You ever overclocked, both overclocked which makes al the sense to do, 980 Ti is almost always faster or within 3% while remaining cheaper.

Both the 980Ti and 1070 are capable of overclocking.

On Linus's review of the 1070, you can see it beat the Titan X and 980Ti

(Remember that LTT overclocks the card they benchmark)

[Rodniz]

The GTX 980Ti gets about 1/2 % less fps in most game then the 1070. I would go for it since it's 100 bucks cheaper.

[Enderman]

the 1070 is better

but you should wait a bit and buy a non-founders one

that will be cheaper than 500

 

you also get a new GPU instead of a used one, a warranty, and all the new GTX1000 features

[RadiatingLight]

11 minutes ago, GrizzlyBear said:

Need a GPU until 1080Ti launches. Do you recommend getting a used 980TI with roughly 400€ or 1070 with roughly 500€?

 

Thanks in advance!

Looking at the benchmarks I just posted, the 1070 beats out the 980Ti by only a few frames, so unless you are wiling to pay extra for those 4-5 FPS, don't get the 1070

[RadiatingLight]

2 minutes ago, Rodniz said:

The GTX 980Ti gets about 1/2 % less fps in most game then the 1070. I would go for it since it's 100 bucks cheaper.

I don't think so...

OP said that he is getting the 1070 for more expensive, and benchmarks show that the 980Ti and 1070 are very close, even if the 1070 does win.

(benchmarks included)

[Telebubbies]

14 minutes ago, GrizzlyBear said:

Need a GPU until 1080Ti launches. Do you recommend getting a used 980TI with roughly 400€ or 1070 with roughly 500€?

 

Thanks in advance!

1070 whips the 980 ti's a$$ by far. 

But while your waiting, get the 980 ti.. 

[elago]

If its a temporary card you'd be fine with a 980 or 970 even if you are running 4K, unless you swim in money, that is

[TheGamingBarrel]

1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

Both the 980Ti and 1070 are capable of overclocking.

On Linus's review of the 1070, you can see it beat the Titan X and 980Ti

(Remember that LTT overclocks the card they benchmark)

They dont exactly overclock much. They also do not give any information as to which card they were using for the tests (Not just LMG At fault here.) Want me to go get FS, where you can compare GPU Score directly as an entire number?

[GrizzlyBear]

Found this:

 

Some heavily OC'd 980Ti and 1070 (and bunch of other cards) put against each other.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qVLapLW2es

[GrizzlyBear]

Decided to go with the 1070 after watching some reviews and benchmarks.

 

It costs more but the drivers are only going to get better and frankly, I fear that Nvidia will focus their driver support/optimization on Pascal cards from now on (like what happened to Kepler cards after Maxwell was released.)

 

Also, better efficiency, more VRAM (for 3440x1440) and it's brand new and shiny.

 

[Kryptyx]

Eh, they are a lot closer than what a lot of these reviews are showing. 980TI can OC better putting it much closer. I think right now the 980TI makes the most sense cost/performance wise.

[xAcid9]

2 hours ago, RadiatingLight said:

Both the 980Ti and 1070 are capable of overclocking.

On Linus's review of the 1070, you can see it beat the Titan X and 980Ti

(Remember that LTT overclocks the card they benchmark)

Linus use reference card, reference cooler on 980 Ti/Titan-X can't even handle stock boost frequency without throttling out of the box and reference cooler on 1070 didn't, even with some overclock. 

 

They used to provide GPU overclock table on each review couple of years ago but they got lazy i guess, that's why i stopped watching their GPU reviews.


If OP could get a good aftermarket 980 Ti for cheaper price that'll be better.