Gtx 980 ti vs Gtx 1080 ti

[crazy pc builds]

Hi i want to upgrade my gpu ... worth to wait for the gtx 1080 ti pascal or buy an gtx 980 ti ...
Also my cpu is an i5 4460 and i will think to upgrade in the feature . how much bottleneck will i get with this cpu ?

 

[RockyPlays]

At this point, I think it would be better to wait.

 

[babernet_1]

1080 is coming out in May. Decide what to do then. It will not be a 1080ti though. It will probably draw a lot less power than a 980ti but may not be a lot faster.

 

[Gingerbread]

Well depends on what your current GPU is. The CPU won't be much of a bottleneck, if it will be at all. Still a good cpu, capable of running games for the next 2 years. Everything depends on your current budget, but personally I would wait several months for the new releases, AMDs Zen will come in the next 9-12 months, so will pascal as you said. The 4460 can hold for 24 months more at least, which will allow you to see a new generation from intel and amd and then make your pick. As for gpu, again depends on budget, what you wish to play and what your current gpu is.

 

[babernet_1]

The Zen is due out October. It will have eight cores plus hyperthreading, each core about as fast as a Broadwell core, which is a few percent slower than a Skywell core. Should be a real killer with DX12.

 

[RCFProd]

The Zen is due out October. It will have eight cores plus hyperthreading, each core about as fast as a Broadwell core, which is a few percent slower than a Skywell core. Should be a real killer with DX12.

Where you read about the hyper-threading part?

 

[Gingerbread]

Hyperthreading is all but speculations at this point, agreed. As long as their cores are on par with the intel cores, I see no reason why they would want hyper threading as the 8core would destroy a 4core with 8 threads in this case.

 

[sizzling]

If Nvidia follow the last 2 generations of cards they will release a 1080 and price that as the flagship, then about a year later they will release the 1080Ti. So for a 1080Ti I'd expect at least a year wait

 

[RCFProd]

Hyperthreading is all but speculations at this point, agreed. As long as their cores are on par with the intel cores, I see no reason why they would want hyper threading as the 8core would destroy a 4core with 8 threads in this case.

Deep inside I'll be actually suprised if AMD does hyper-threading. AMD lives by the norms (so far) that hyper-threading is bad for real-time rendering.They prefer sticking to physical cores.

 

[shortez]

I really doubt that Pascal will make everything great and super fast. I mean take a look at skylake processors with it's 14nm technology. They aren't fast and revolutionary and I am pretty sure same is going to happen with videocards too, well, at least with 1000 series.

I'd recommend waiting for Pascal and buying 980ti at cheaper price.

 

[RCFProd]

I really doubt that Pascal will make everything great and super fast. I mean take a look at skylake processors with it's 14nm technology. They aren't fast and revolutionary and I am pretty sure same is going to happen with videocards too, well, at least with 1000 series.

I'd recommend waiting for Pascal and buying 980ti at cheaper price.

Based alone on the 14nm you can't predict it to not be much better, can you? I'm sure computing and everything will be different for DX12, along with high memory bandwith (which the GTX 1080 most likely not will be yet, GDDR5X instead most likely). I'm sure there is more going on than just a 14nm chip.

 

[Gingerbread]

Well yeah pretty sure it will be faster as well, but I expect the GTX 980Ti to be on par with the 1070 (pretty much same way as it is now), don't expect huge jumps like 1060 beating the gtx 980ti.

 

[babernet_1]

Here's the article

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-cpu-8-core-summit-ridge-launching-october/

Note it has "multithreading" not hyperthreading. Maybe better?

 

[Epicness937]

i would wait and decide then and the new card may be not called a gtx 1080 because think about this would you want a beast card for 4K name the 1080? i mean a 4K card named the 1080 really?

 

[xXBananasXx]

Don't bother waiting for the 1080ti. It's better to buy now because you can always resale it later and upgrade if you really wanted to. It's always going to be if you wait for a little bit longer and get the newest and coolest thing, but at what point do you stop? I'd get it, as it's fast and the time spent waiting is time you would spend gaming.

 

[xXBananasXx]

I forgot to mention, if for some reason you have CPU issues just keep your mobo and get an i5 4690k or i7 4790k. Don't believe the Zen hype... Hype never lives up to potential. Also not to mention the fact that 90% of these people are stupid because Hyperthreading is an Intel processor feature that is unique to Intel and I believe patented.

 

[RCFProd]

I forgot to mention, if for some reason you have CPU issues just keep your mobo and get an i5 4690k or i7 4790k. Don't believe the Zen hype... Hype never lives up to potential. Also not to mention the fact that 90% of these people are stupid because Hyperthreading is an Intel processor feature that is unique to Intel and I believe patented.

Well, yeah maybe about hyper-threading. But barely anyone said that hyper-threading would even make Zen good. I'm sure AMD could implement their way of hyper-threading if they wanted to though, but as I already said, AMD prefers only physical cores. I'd be suprised if their CPU's would contain some sort of multithreading, but it would be interesting how they'd do it. Anyways, irrelevant to the multithreading, Zen already looks promising without it. Don't slag it off.

 

[babernet_1]

I forgot to mention, if for some reason you have CPU issues just keep your mobo and get an i5 4690k or i7 4790k. Don't believe the Zen hype... Hype never lives up to potential. Also not to mention the fact that 90% of these people are stupid because Hyperthreading is an Intel processor feature that is unique to Intel and I believe patented.

Well, yeah maybe about hyper-threading. But barely anyone said that hyper-threading would even make Zen good. I'm sure AMD could implement their way of hyper-threading if they wanted to though, but as I already said, AMD prefers only physical cores. I'd be suprised if their CPU's would contain some sort of multithreading, but it would be interesting how they'd do it. Anyways, irrelevant to the multithreading, Zen already looks promising without it. Don't slag it off.

Um, my earlier post showed Zen has multithreading per the link.

 

[RCFProd]

Ok, I thought the link showed a rumor rather than it being confirmed, but seeing the link again it shows It's confirmed.

 

[babernet_1]

Ok, I thought the link showed a rumor rather than it being confirmed, but seeing the link again it shows It's confirmed.

I've always been an Intel/Nvidia fan. But I am very excited seeing the Zen and the new AMD graphics cards with their asynchronous computing function that will bury Nvidia with DX12 very exciting indeed.

 

[RCFProd]

It sounds like they will be much better with DX12, but Nvidia always seems to find a way. Let's see how it goes.

 

[Millsy98]

Hi i want to upgrade my gpu ... worth to wait for the gtx 1080 ti pascal or buy an gtx 980 ti ...
Also my cpu is an i5 4460 and i will think to upgrade in the feature . how much bottleneck will i get with this cpu ?

if it's still in the air wait WAIT NOW! You might do fine with the 1080, it's faster than a titan X and about $550 comes out more b day may 27th

 

[Math Geek]

1070 and 1080 confirmed. all the latest info will be updated to the mega thread www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3047729/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1000-series-megathread-faq-resources.html as it comes out

pricing and dates for 1070 and 1080 out tonight plus performance numbers. 1080 better than 980 sli !!!!!

 

[Pazuzu_Hanbi]

Its great and we all are happy to see new GPU's from Nvidia, but as for GTX 1080, 1070 I wish to have such beast, but for now I stick with my GTX 980 Ti G1 and wait for GTX 1080 Ti version

 

[blacksburg nick]

1080 is coming out in May. Decide what to do then. It will not be a 1080ti though. It will probably draw a lot less power than a 980ti but may not be a lot faster.

According to the Nvidia press conference on May 6th, the GTX 1080 is faster than two 980s in SLI. Whether that's faster than a 980ti in all applications, who knows. I'd wait for the reviews to come out 2 weeks from now. Tom's will likely review it and directly compare it to the 980ti.

Furthermore, you need to consider your monitor resolution. I'm likely going to grab a 1080 as an upgrade from 670 SLI because I game at 1440p. That will likely be a hilarious upgrade.