Nvidia 980 TI vs GTX Titan X

[Aaron Chavez]

Hello all, So now that ive decided to go with the 6700k with 16gb of ram for my 4k gaming rig,
Now I am stuck between these 2.. or 3 if you are counting the 2nd 980Ti.

Could 1 Titan X pull 4k gaming on great settings.. not max settings.

I ask because i could save around 200 bucks if i just bought that instead of 2 980 Ti's.

Thank you.

 

[NA Feraligatr]

You'd honestly only need one 980ti to do what you want, so why not just save even more and just get one of those.
At this point, the 980ti and titan give roughly the same performance, with the 980ti costing considerably less.

 

[Aaron Chavez]

You'd honestly only need one 980ti to do what you want, so why not just save even more and just get one of those.
At this point, the 980ti and titan give roughly the same performance, with the 980ti costing considerably less.

Ok, so 1 980 Ti can get my great graphic settings with good fps at 4k?

 

[NA Feraligatr]

Yeah, I can do it with my 970, at pretty decent settings so a 980ti should do the trick.

 

[geofelt]

The titanX is comparable to a GTX980ti.
At new retail prices, the titanX is not worth it.

I would try a single GTX980ti on your 4k monitor first. You will likely do well enough unless you demand the absolute best for fast action shooters.

If that is not enough, see if you can't wait for pascal so you can stick with a single gpu solution.

 

[Onefurrybanana]

The only problem is that in most scenarios the 980ti is fine but in some the vram isn't enough. While playing gta V with a few mods i have used around 8 Gbs. While this is a rare occurrence to use more than that but it may or may not be worth the extra. Depends on you. personally im running 2 titan x's in sli

 

[geofelt]

VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in effectiveness between amd and nvidia cards.
And differences between games.
Here is an older performance test comparing 2gb with 4gb vram.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/
Spoiler... not a significant difference.
And... no game maker wants to limit their market by
requiring huge amounts of vram. The vram you see will be appropriate to the particular card.

 

[Moldoror]

I have a 980Ti G1 Gaming and when i try to play Fallout 4 with ultra settings my fps drops to 30, if you want a ultra settings on 4k you need a SLI 980Ti. For that you need a 850W PSU or more

 

[loki1944]

You're going to have to compromise on more demanding games @4K on some settings with demanding games even with a single Titan X or 980Ti.

 

[Aaron Chavez]

I think ill start my build like listed below. I have a 970 atm, and if the 980Ti does not pan out to what i want, I will just hold on to the 970 until the pascal comes out.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/M7Gqcf

 

[geofelt]

On your build, I have a few thoughts:

1. 14nm skylake runs cool. A simple tower type air cooler like a noctua NH-U15s will do the job.
2. Make that ram kit a 2 stick kit of 2 x 8gb. Skylake is dual channel only.
3. If you are planning on sli as a possibility, I would suggest 850w.

 

[Aaron Chavez]

On your build, I have a few thoughts:

1. 14nm skylake runs cool. A simple tower type air cooler like a noctua NH-U15s will do the job.
2. Make that ram kit a 2 stick kit of 2 x 8gb. Skylake is dual channel only.
3. If you are planning on sli as a possibility, I would suggest 850w.

Hey thanks for the tip my friend!