Is it worth it to upgrade from a Radeon R9 390X to a GTX 1080 Ti?

[GamerTheGr8]

2 minutes ago, rcald2000 said:

memory: That motherboard supports dual channel, but not quad.  Therefore I'd suggest opting for (16 GB x 2) instead of (8 GB x 4).  That would give you the option to upgrade RAM in the future.

 

power supply: TP-1500M has four +12V rails.  I'd prefer a PSU that had all power available on a single rail.  Another source says that it has two +12V rails.  Since it's a $300 PSU, I'd probably instead opt for a 850 or 1,000 watt unit with platinum or titanium efficiency.  For example, until just recently I had two 980 Ti's reference cards in SLI powered by a EVGA P2 850 and my kill-a-watt meter would measure 515 watts consumed at the duplex (wall socket).  Another things that bothers me is that the 24 pin cable appears to be non-modular from the picture on their website.  The specs page shows the word "peak" wattage twice, which is a red flag in my mind.  I cannot find mention of the warranty length.

 

HDD: I'd opt for HGST, instead of Seagate.  Hitachi (HGST) has the highest HDD reliability on the market.

 

SSD: It would be a great addition.  Either a Samsung 850 EVO or 960 EVO.  Whichever one, you might as well opt for the M.2 form factor.

 

Question: What are your full specs before the upgrade?

 

I know some of it's outdated, haven't touched some of it since about 2012:

 

CPU: Intel i7 3770 3.4GHz

GPU: Radeon R9 390X

Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2400

MoBo: ASUS Sabretooth Z77

Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W 80 Plus Gold (I know it's a bit overkill, deal with it)

Storage: Seagate 2TB Internal Hard Disk

Monitor: BENQ XL eSports Ultimate

[rcald2000]

Your i7-3770K is approximately equivalent to an i5-7500

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-3770K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7500/1317vs3648

 

Based on this latest information that you've just posted, I've changed my opinion.

Personally, I would keep most things in your build except the graphics card

 

* buy GTX 1080 Ti

* sell R9 390X

* buy Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB (2.5" form factor).  Proceeds from the R9 390X would pay for this SSD.

 

The BENQ XL eSports Ultimate is a 144 Hz display that is either 1080p or 1440p.  If 1080p then I would upgrade display to the model below:

 

Acer Predator XB271HU

$799^.99

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824106004

 

This display is 1440p / IPS / g-sync / 165 Hz.  I personally own one.

I wouldn't consider Ryzen for more frames.  I would only consider it for the quality of those frames, as it's reported that Ryzen has much better "frame pacing" in games than Intel processors do.  If you're planning on continuing to game on 1080p resolution, then I wouldn't upgrade a thing, except for the SSD.

 

[VagabondWraith]

15 minutes ago, GamerTheGr8 said:

I know some of it's outdated, haven't touched some of it since about 2012:

 

CPU: Intel i7 3770 3.4GHz

GPU: Radeon R9 390X

Memory: 16GB (2 x 8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2400

MoBo: ASUS Sabretooth Z77

Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W 80 Plus Gold (I know it's a bit overkill, deal with it)

Storage: Seagate 2TB Internal Hard Disk

Monitor: BENQ XL eSports Ultimate

That's a 1080p monitor. That CPU will heavily bottleneck the GPU. I'd suggest moving to 1440p/144Hz to get the most out of it.

[GamerTheGr8]

1 minute ago, VagabondWraith said:

That's a 1080p monitor. That CPU will heavily bottleneck the GPU. I'd suggest moving to 1440p/144Hz to get the most out of it.

Actually it is 1440p.  Not entirely sure the exact model cause the box is away in a deep closet and it's kind of hard to see, but I just checked in the monitor's menu under the information tab.

[DocSwag]

9 hours ago, TonyKramer said:

The P100 is multiple Tesla Cards (I believe it's 9 cards) running together. The reason for multiple CUDA cores making a network faster is because of the parallization of a DNN (deep neural network). As stated above, FP16 calculations make a poorly optimized network run much faster, but those types of calculations do pretty much nothing for a proper Neural Network (with the exception of networks that need precision, of course.)

The P100 is only one card, it's the DGX1 that I think uses two 2698 v4s as well as 9 P100s. Also, read my later comment about FP16.

9 hours ago, DoctorZeus said:

p100s claim to fame is fp64. if deep learning means fp16 to you then the p100 is not that. not that it cant but the Titan is deep learning because it doesnt require you to invest as much to get that fp16. 

 

The first titan x pascal was available months ahead of the 1080 ti so saying originally it doesnt make sense to use it doesnt make sense. 

It also has higher memory bandwidth which can be quite useful in some scenarios, as well as more memory (it's 16gb ram rather than 12gb on the Titan ).

 

It also seems that the Titan cards aren't capable of FP16 at double the rate of FP32 though, which makes them unsuited for those calculations, however they do have quadruple the rate in INT8. Nvidia seems to have marketed them towards people needing FP32 or INT8 for compute in general. The P100 is capable of FP16 at double the rate so naturally for FP16 you have to turn to the teslas. However, the 1080 ti also has quadruple the INT8 rate which makes the titans a bit less of an attractive option IMO, unless vram is key. INT8 can still be used for deep learning though.

[MancorJ]

Hey maybe instead of buying a gtx 1080 you could buy a gtx 1070 for $100 cheaper!  If you're planning on playing heavy games like Rise Of The Tomb Raider on 1080p on a 80hz monitor then that would be great!  The game average fps is about 85 frames (See Here).  If you just have a normal monitor this would be great!  You would save a $100 and you could buy a Samsung SSD with a gtx 1070.  This would Greatly increase speeds. As seen here.  Just a Thought.

On 4/15/2017 at 8:11 PM, GamerTheGr8 said:

Well here's the specs I'm going to have after the upgrade:

CPU: Ryzen 7 1800x

GPU: (tbd)

Memory: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Flare X Series DDR4 3200

MoBo: ASUS Prime X370-Pro

Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W 80 Plus Gold (I know it's a bit overkill, deal with it)

Storage:  Seagate 2TB Internal Hard Disk

 

Not sure if this is a full list tbh, just now getting back into the system building scene and I feel like I'm missing something.  Please notify me if I am.

 

[i_build_nanosuits]

On 2017-04-15 at 10:48 PM, GamerTheGr8 said:

As the title suggests, I currently own an R9 390X and I'm wondering if it's worth it to upgrade to a GTX 1080 Ti.  Also, does anyone know if the GTX 1080 Ti is currently the best high-end graphics card?  If not, then what it?  I'm doing a big upgrade soon and I wanna get the best of the best.  Thanks!

i upgraded from an overclocked GTX 980ti which compltely obliterate the R9 390X in every games and whatever you can think of, to a GTX 1080 and this card is 20% faster than the GTX 980ti...and even that overclocked GTX 1080 is roughly 25 to 30% slower than a GTX 1080ti

 

EDIT: in fact, how does twice as fast and then some sounds?

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-R9-390X-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti/3497vs3918