Which graphics card is better out of the GTX 1080, GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X?

[Benjamin_34]

I'm going to SLI them and the processor that I'm getting is a eight core Intel I7 5960K.

 

[Mercian]

1080s.

 

[Bakua]

1080 indefinitely, the 1070 is about on par with the Titan X, and the 980Ti is just a little weaker than the Titan X. I would wait for SLI on the 1080 though, don't know how well it'll pair.

 

[MaqDrew]

I think u mean about ur processor is 5960X??????
anyway...... in your case it depends on the two fact
1. what u wanna do with your PC..... I mean why you buying the Graphics card?
2. what you budget?

I you u have not budget problem....... obviously GTX 1080 is better for everyway....... like gaming and other graphical programs including rendering
u should remember one thing here..... SLI not the better solution ...... if you use single GTX1080 .... that is hundred times better than 2x 980ti sli .......
some program totally doesn't support sli including gaming........ and sli doesn't add your power or vram..... u can get slight higher performance by sli
so...... jut stick with a single card........

 

[n0ns3ns3]

You forgot to mention 1 thing. Your monitor resolution and refresh rate.
Below 4K, SLI does not really matter. And for the 4K you need a lot of vram (like 8gigs). Since in SLI, only GPU power is shared and the ram is the same, you should stick to the 1000 series.
Anyway, it sounds like you want to waste your money. Then a pair of GTX 1080 is the best option. Or better wait for pascal 1080ti/titan - that way you can spend more and get bigger e-penis for a year or so.
If I'm wrong, get one GTX1080 or pair of GTX1070.

 

[zornyan]

what the ^ since when do you need 8gb of vram for 4k??

I play on. 4k TV using my 980ti, even HUGE games like gtav or witcher 3 don't use more than about 4gb. and then it's even less than that as what the game is telling you its using is actually much higher than real usage, as when there's free space available it'll use it for the sake of it.

he'll even my 970s used to play 4k games with only 3.5gb of vram, that's also why many never notice the .5 vram issue with them as they don't actually go into that last bit of vram properly.

sli has pros and cons, a simple way to put it is.

more heat (can get toasty if running both at max)

more power consumption therefor a larger psu required.

sli can *sometimes* not be supported, or supported very poorly, doom had a statement when it came out apologising for the lack of sli support and that a patch would fix it.

even some games that support it, may not scale well, meaning you only get a 20-30% performance boost.

on the plus side

sli when it does work can give you a huge fps increase.

when games properly support it they work wonders and really give you all they have.

BUT don't forget a few things.

sli isn't something that's good going forward, nvidia have dropped 2 and 3 way sli support nearly, and crossfire/sli support is being handed over to game devs in dx12 nearly, meaning to get decent support, or any hope of vram stacking, your relying on the game devs to want to pay someone to sit there and code it in, for 1% of their playerbase.

think their really gonna care about that?

 

[sshortguy1]

You forgot to mention 1 thing. Your monitor resolution and refresh rate.
Below 4K, SLI does not really matter. And for the 4K you need a lot of vram (like 8gigs). Since in SLI, only GPU power is shared and the ram is the same, you should stick to the 1000 series.
Anyway, it sounds like you want to waste your money. Then a pair of GTX 1080 is the best option. Or better wait for pascal 1080ti/titan - that way you can spend more and get bigger e-penis for a year or so.
If I'm wrong, get one GTX1080 or pair of GTX1070.

I got a gtx 1080 on a 32 " 4k monitor it's still struggling to run it but I tried sli with 2 gtx 970s not good b/c of the heat issues was more problems than it was worth the gtx 1080 is good for basic gaming nothing extremely maxed out etc

 

[Neur0nauT]

I'm going to SLI them and the processor that I'm getting is a eight core Intel I7 5960K.

Well the 1080 is the latest addition to the Nvidia lineup, and also the most technologically advanced, so do you really need an answer to this question?

 

[zornyan]

You forgot to mention 1 thing. Your monitor resolution and refresh rate.
Below 4K, SLI does not really matter. And for the 4K you need a lot of vram (like 8gigs). Since in SLI, only GPU power is shared and the ram is the same, you should stick to the 1000 series.
Anyway, it sounds like you want to waste your money. Then a pair of GTX 1080 is the best option. Or better wait for pascal 1080ti/titan - that way you can spend more and get bigger e-penis for a year or so.
If I'm wrong, get one GTX1080 or pair of GTX1070.

I got a gtx 1080 on a 32 " 4k monitor it's still struggling to run it but I tried sli with 2 gtx 970s not good b/c of the heat issues was more problems than it was worth the gtx 1080 is good for basic gaming nothing extremely maxed out etc

I'd say 60fps at 4k is perfectly fine.

for reference, my 980ti with no overclock is able to do 50fps witcher 3 (no hair works and low density)

maxed out crysis 3, maxed out dark souls 3, doom at 50 fps maxed out.

so with a stock 1080 being 20% faster, and an OC on top it'll manage 99% of titles maxed out at 60fps. how is that not good???

benchmarks are useless, they use things like AA which is completely pointless at 4k and just kills fps for the sake of it.