Worth Buying 1080 Ti?

[akzon]

Hello,

I currently own a 970, but I am thinking on buying a 1080ti. My concern is that I don't want to spend X amount of money on it to then have to replace it with the next generation graphics cards aka Volta because they can run 4K at 144hz. I know the 1080ti runs 4k at 50-60fps in some games. So the question is do you guys think the next generation will be able to achieve 4k at 144hz or it will take two more generations to achieve that? I just don't want the investment I make today go to waste next year.. I would love for my investment to last at least 2 years.

 

[Slumy__57]

I would say that depends on how important those extra fps are to you. The 1080ti is an awesome card, and I would think you'll be happy with it's performance. Whether or not it'll "go to waste" in two years is up to you. You could make a card like that last 10 years if you wanted, it just depends on how often you are willing to upgrade to have cutting edge tech. That won't change with the next generation of cards though, you'll probably be faced with the same decision at that point.

I would say just go for it. The 1080ti is a fantastic card, and I don't see anything beating it out in the near future. And if it does, the ti cards hold their value well, so you could sell it and get the 2080ti (or whatever it ends up being) in a year when that comes out, and you'd still get good money for your old card.

 

[amdrx480]

If you want a 4k 144hz buy Titan X other than that you have to wait.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The next card will not run 4k games at 144hz. But the 1080ti is the best card on the market today, and will have resale value whenever volta comes out. I would say to buy the card, and when the next one comes out and sell it putting that money on the purchase of the next gen card.

 

[elbert]

That is never ending. Games will require more in a few years. I would only suggest 4k to those playing some low end games. IE WoW and a few more. I would suggest a 1440p 144hz for the next few years on a single card. Volta is set for early next year and could come early. Unless Vega is a big win I look for Volta to only be A TITAN high price card. At the price the 1080ti sould have about a year as a top card.

 

[10tacle]

Like others have said, buying a GPU is the biggest single fastest decline in money of all PC components. No matter what you buy, even a top of the line Ti, it will be outdated in two or three years. Compare that to say a five year old Ivy Bridge CPU which is still good for today's games no matter the resolution. Even at 2K (1440p), a 1080Ti will not run games at 144FPS. Look at Sniper Elite 4 example with a 1080Ti (our modern Crysis GPU killer): 115FPS at 2K and 68FPS at 4K.

It used to be that we could buy one high end GPU and then when upgrading monitors to a higher resolution, go buy a second GPU for SLI or Crossfire. However, more and more games these days are having poor multi-GPU scaling. I have bought my last SLI configuration with GTX 970s when I upgraded from 1080p to 1440p. Regarding AMD's Volta, I will take the hype with a grain of salt. AMD has failed at the top end to provide a better GPU. The Fury X for example according to many was supposed to just beat down the 980Ti. When reviews and benchmarks came out, reality set in. It would not keep up with the reference 980Ti in eight out of ten games in a Guru3D review and had little overclocking headroom (seems to be a habit with AMD products). Overclocked 980Ti's just destroyed it.

 

[elbert]

Like others have said, buying a GPU is the biggest single fastest decline in money of all PC components. No matter what you buy, even a top of the line Ti, it will be outdated in two or three years. Compare that to say a five year old Ivy Bridge CPU which is still good for today's games no matter the resolution. Even at 2K (1440p), a 1080Ti will not run games at 144FPS. Look at Sniper Elite 4 example with a 1080Ti (our modern Crysis GPU killer): 115FPS at 2K and 68FPS at 4K.

It used to be that we could buy one high end GPU and then when upgrading monitors to a higher resolution, go buy a second GPU for SLI or Crossfire. However, more and more games these days are having poor multi-GPU scaling. I have bought my last SLI configuration with GTX 970s when I upgraded from 1080p to 1440p. Regarding AMD's Volta, I will take the hype with a grain of salt. AMD has failed at the top end to provide a better GPU. The Fury X for example according to many was supposed to just beat down the 980Ti. When reviews and benchmarks came out, reality set in. It would not keep up with the 980Ti in eight out of ten games in a Guru3D review.

Volta is Nvidia. The Vega is AMD's GPU coming next month or 2. To easy to mix these up. Wonder why the would do this.

 

[10tacle]

Volta is Nvidia. The Vega is AMD's GPU coming next month or 2.

^^That's what I meant of course but thanks for that correction.