Rumor: GTX 1080Ti to be announced on February 28th

[VagabondWraith]

2 hours ago, Brehohn said:

People are seriously going to upgrade their 1080 to a 1080Ti for a marginal difference in performance? Granted, the 980Ti performed almost identically as the Titan X at the time. But, if your 1080 will already play everything at Ultra and probably even 4K 60fps, then why waste your money? Hell, rumors have it that the 1080Ti won't even have GDDR5X when the cheaper 1080 and more expensive Titan XP have it! WTF NVIDIA?

Lots of people game on higher rez monitors. 2560x1440p, 3440x1440p, 3840x2160p 144/165 Hz. 1080 Ti should be a good ~ 25% bump. 1080 can't push 60FPS at 4K unless you're willing to knock (quite a few in new games) settings down.

[Juanitology]

5 hours ago, Brehohn said:

People are seriously going to upgrade their 1080 to a 1080Ti for a marginal difference in performance? Granted, the 980Ti performed almost identically as the Titan X at the time. But, if your 1080 will already play everything at Ultra and probably even 4K 60fps, then why waste your money? Hell, rumors have it that the 1080Ti won't even have GDDR5X when the cheaper 1080 and more expensive Titan XP have it! WTF NVIDIA?

I'm still on a GTX 580, I think the 1080Ti will be a worth upgrade as I transition to 4K

[corosa_v]

5 hours ago, tomotomov92 said:

Just a disclaimer - I'm going to talk a lot of speculations and rumors in this comment.

 

Those rumors are definitely false. Can you believe that NVidia will drop the memory from GDDR5X in 1080 to GDDR5 in 1080Ti?

Also the rumors are showing 10GB of RAM - the thing is that the memory depends on the bus size and the bus on both 1080 and Titan XP allows only 4, 8 (1080) and 6, 12 (titan) (actually I'm not sure if the titan supports 9GB of memory).

 

And about the difference between 1080 and 1080ti - it MAY (please note this!!!) be something like 20% to 30% increased performance with the 1080ti.

1080 is not enough for Ultra with 4k to sustain 60fps.

Currently I'm rocking 1080 G1 Gaming with 80MHz OC (just under 200MHz OC over FE), 6700k@4.5GHz and Predator XB271HU (IPS 16:9 monitor, 1440p, 144hz/165hz OC).

 

I've done the math and 1440p@144hz is a little more demanding than 4k@60fps.

The thing that I'm trying to say is that the 1080 can't sustain 1440p@144fps at all in GTA 5 (which is one of the most standard benchmarks right now) so at that rate it's not possible to sustain 4k@60fps with just one 1080.

 

You can check what a Titan XP in SLI can do with JayZTwoCents video about his computer where he tries them in GTA 5. He was getting a little more than 120fps in 4k.

 

Even if the 1080ti is at about 90% of the performance than the Titan XP and the price a little more than a 1080 right now (about 750-850$) it would be a real upgrade even for everyone that now has a 1080.

 

Also please note that a second hand 1080 will only drop the price from now on and the best time to sell one of those will be in the following situations:

1. A 1080ti comes on the market and it's a real upgrade (can sustain at least 4k@60fps) [you can get the most money for your 1080 in this situation]

2. Vega releases and it can sustain at least 4k@60fps [if the 1080ti can't sustain 4k@60fps this will be the king of the consumer GPUs for a little while]

3. Volta (the successor of Pascal) releases and everyone that can afford the next architecture and the next architecture is actually a lot better than the current one [this will be the least amount of money that you will get for your 1080 in those 3 situations]

 

 

Hope to know a little more after the GDC announcements by both NVidia and AMD but from what I know - we should wait for the third party reviews of all of the products which may take a few weeks after the conference.

Also I hope that ppl don't start selling everything just on the companies' words about their products like they are doing it right now with Ryzen (sorry about this, I'm living in a dream where there are no brand wars and everyone checks the facts about everything several times before posting anything - what a nightmare...).

 

Vega is rumored to have a similar (or a bit better) performance than 1080, and it won't compete against 1080ti. I believe that Vega will focus on consumers looking for a GPU at around $500 price tag. That being said, if Vega offers similar or better performance than 1080 with lower price tag, noting that average 1080 (new card) costs you $600), then that is a point where you need to sell off your second hand 1080. With the release of 1080ti and Vega, I think it will force nvidia to slash the price by at least $50~$100.

 

TL:DR for Vega: I have a strong feeling (and judging from all rumors), it is not suitable for ultra 4k@60fps.

+ 1080ti will surely have a performance that is somewhat similar to Titan Pascal (And you already saw that when nvidia released 980ti with $650 price tag and Titan-ish performance), and it will be strong enough for 4k gaming.

 

For Volta, I think I read about it from somewhere that it is not mainly for gaming purposes? (Rumor) If that is true, then 1080ti will stay as a flagship for gaming rigs for couple of years. And from what we saw during the release of Titan Pascal, I think that the price tag for new Volta architecture won't be cheap, and if it comes out at a price point as like Pascal ($1200), then there is no reason to wait for Volta really. (Whether you are going to sell 1080 or get a new 1080ti - UNLESS nvidia implements new Volta architecture to a whole generation, 11s and plan on releasing various types from low range to high-end cards)

 

Ryzen is still debatable, and from what I saw (again, rumors), their price tags and performance will be strong enough to compete against intel chipsets. BUT I don't think intel will re-evaluate all of their pricing policies but rather will push their styles forward to compete against Ryzen. (Rumors are saying that Ryzen is not efficient enough with DDR4 memories unlike intel). So yeah, keep your intel chipsets with you for awhile because Ryzen in the beginning will require sometime to validate itself.

 

p.s: I am going to get 1080ti if it has a similar performance compared to Titan Pascal and has a price point at around 800~900. (I am using 2 980tis at the moment)