Upgrade 2x R9 290s or Wait for Vega?

[swiftor]

Folks! Need some help.

I play at 5760x1080 on 2 R9-290s trix-oc and a i7-3770k. I like eye-candy to a fault.
Haven't had it for a while because I wanted to wait for an upgrade that would count.
Then, Mass Effect Andromeda happened.

Skipped Fury because it didn't deliver on the promise.
Skipped a 980ti because Pascal and Vega were coming.
Didn't get a 1080 because, Vega (and because the 1080ti was dropping around the same time).
Stopped playing Watch Dogs 2 since I couldn't get 60fps maxed out. Wanted to do right thing and wait for Vega.

I have been team red since the 4770. Bought into the ecosystem by getting a DLP projector for 3D movies with Tridef 3D. (Not sure I'm ready to pass up on this).

But at this point, I can't play the games I want to play when I want to play them, so what's the point?

Should I just pull the trigger on a 1080ti and call it a day? Or keep waiting for Vega (and obligatory launch availability issues).


Thank you all in advance of the contribution.

P.S. I've been itching to switch to team green because waiting has made me salty.

 

[swiftor]

Anyone?

 

[surya13]

I don't personally like the GTX 1080Ti, though it is a good card. It has 11 GB of GDDR5. Why? Because Nvidia does not want it to look as good as the Pascal Titan X. So they just cut down 1 GB of VRAM.

But why do they do this? Remember when the 980Ti was released? Nvidia just put it before the launch AMD Fury X and spoilt it. You may expect a similar thing to happen now.

I guess that Vega to be better than the GTX 1080 by at least 20%. It puts it pretty close to the 1080Ti.

Better wait for a few days till the Vega is released. Buy the 1080Ti or Vega whichever is better.

(On a personal side note, I would like the Vega to beat the Titan XP (the full GP100; not the Pascal Titan X))

 

[Ridah]

I don't know why people would want to play the train wreck that Andromeda looks like or anything Ubisoft related, but it would make the most sense to just wait a not very long time and see what Vega is all about. I think an adult should have the patience to wait, what a few weeks at most?, Until the RX 500 and Vega are "out". I heard it was supposed to be middle of this month, worst that could happen is Nvidia drops prices a bit to keep consumers interested. In that case you might save enough to buy a Ryzen instead of that old thing you have.

 

[swiftor]

I don't personally like the GTX 1080Ti, though it is a good card. It has 11 GB of GDDR5. Why? Because Nvidia does not want it to look as good as the Pascal Titan X. So they just cut down 1 GB of VRAM.

But why do they do this? Remember when the 980Ti was released? Nvidia just put it before the launch AMD Fury X and spoilt it. You may expect a similar thing to happen now.

I guess that Vega to be better than the GTX 1080 by at least 20%. It puts it pretty close to the 1080Ti.

Better wait for a few days till the Vega is released. Buy the 1080Ti or Vega whichever is better.

(On a personal side note, I would like the Vega to beat the Titan XP (the full GP100; not the Pascal Titan X))

Thanks for the input. Waited, still no Vega. That's the thing with Vega.
We don't know when it will be released. Even once get a release date, there will still be the potential of availability and stock issues. Lastly, we don't know how it will perform.

There is nothing inherently wrong with waiting but when you have to stop playing the games you want to play just because you're waiting for something that may or may not deliver, what's the point?

And there's the fact that once Vega drops and retailers' stocks stabilize and we the opportunity to buy the cards, Volta will be right around the corner. Which means possibly more waiting.
Waiting has to stop eventually. Otherwise, I'll be waiting forever.

 

[swiftor]

I don't know why people would want to play the train wreck that Andromeda looks like or anything Ubisoft related, but it would make the most sense to just wait a not very long time and see what Vega is all about. I think an adult should have the patience to wait, what a few weeks at most?, Until the RX 500 and Vega are "out". I heard it was supposed to be middle of this month, worst that could happen is Nvidia drops prices a bit to keep consumers interested. In that case you might save enough to buy a Ryzen instead of that old thing you have.

Thanks for the input.
People play the games they want to play. Why do people want what they want? That's irrelevant to this conversation.

We have the RX 500s but still no Vega. This "not for very long" is getting really long in the tooth.

You're right, adults should be able to wait, but waiting is hardly the issue.
The issue is waiting endlessly, waiting without anything tangible and lastly, not being able to the play the games one wants to play. Which by the way, is the very reason we want and buy gaming GPUs.
Like I said, I skipped Fury. So I have been waiting.

As for my CPU, at 5760x1080 it's all GPU bottleneck. That trusty i7-3770K is gonna be fine for a little while.
Bides, new cpu means new mobo, ram etc.