GTX 780 or wait for the GTX 970/980?

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

Is it worth waiting for the GTX 970/980?
I'm building a gaming computer and was planning to get a GTX 780 (budget for a GTX 780 ti). I saw that the 970/980 details are to be released September 19th and was wondering if it's worth waiting till October to get one.

I am currently using a laptop that is kinda breaking down on me that is having to be run off an external hard drive (the internal one kinda failed on me). This means that I kinda want a computer soon so is it worth waiting?

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

Budget?

Gam3r01 · Aug 30, 2014

I would at least wait until September to see what they might offer, then decide if you want to wait until release.

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

£1800 max, already getting I7 4790k, asus maximum vii ranger, 16gb ram, 3tb hdd, 128gb gaming SSD, h100i water cooler, h440 case, wireless card, windows 8 and 750w modular psu

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

If its between £500-£600 then just wait till september when prices will go down and get the GTX 780 as the new ones going to be very expensive. But if your budget is high then just wait for the september and get one of the new ones or get titan

Gam3r01 · Aug 30, 2014

There is no reason to get a Titan for gaming.
Either way its beneficial to wait at the moment.

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

If Titans price goes down it will be very well usefull to get as its future proof for long time which means you dont need to get another GPU anytime soon and you save money. So if the price of titan goes its price going to be just like GTX 780 now without the discount. Its so more worth than getting GTX 780

Gam3r01 · Aug 30, 2014

The titan wont go down in price because its not a gaming card, its aimed at the professional market for workstation applications, the release of the 900 series gaming cards has no affect on the professional market.

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

Even if the Titan went down in price, the GTX 780 ti is still better than the Titan black

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

Im pretty sure the Nvidia's graph is not lying how black is better than 780ti
http://international.download.nvidia.com/webassets/en_US/shared/images/products/shared/lineup.png

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/05/08/gtx-titan-black-the-ultimate-gaming-gpu/. You have to take into consideration that the graph is by nvidia themselves, they aren't going to admit their more expensive card is worse than a cheaper one. And when I mean better I mean higher FPS, Titan black still has more VRAM.

Gam3r01 · Aug 30, 2014

3D mark scores are hardly performance charts. Why would a company score their flagship card lower than their flagship gaming card?
The Titian black is simply a 780Ti slapped with 3 extra GB of memory and a bit more floating point performance.

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

So basically what you saying is Titan black more powerfull. 3D mark scores do matter as its tests the capability of graphics card to the max to see how much it can handle and how smoothly it can handle it and as you can see the Titan black can handle more and more smoothly than 780ti

Gam3r01 · Aug 30, 2014

Synthetic benchmarks are not equivalent to real world performance.
Floating point performance is also not performance, it helps in some applications such as video work, and heavy rendering, again NOT gaming.

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

The Titan black is only better at higher resolutions as it has more VRAM. Anything else and the 780 ti performs better.

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

Well in the end its your choice on what you want but either way i would recommend to wait for the new ones or just wait for 780ti discount

Guest · Aug 30, 2014

This is interesting because I'm planning the exact same thing.
Got my eye on the ASUS OC version of the 780 with intention to (hopefully) clock it past the original Titan levels.

Everything that I'm reading about the next series so far is somewhat disappointing. I'm at a moot point because the last thing I need to happen is for a new series to come out, with negligible performance gains, +200£ compared to the current line up and thus, suddenly, the current line up disappears.

Best outcome, the price comes down on the 700 series and I snap one up real quick.
Better outcome would be the 800/900 series coming out at a decent or equivalent price (Because Nvidia are totally known for that...).

Personally, I'm waiting until the mid-September announcement at least, I want to see the specs of these new cards before I take the plunge.
Rumoured specs aren't all that amazing though.

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

Never trust rumoured specs, none of them are from nvidia them selves, most of them are speculation on the spec and might not even be close to the actual spec.

Guest · Aug 30, 2014

Moses148 :

True that, hence the waiting. But, even on Maxwell there isn't much further they can push 28nm.

Rumoured specs are all I have to go on until mid-September, and they're really not all that appetizing.

simonax12 · Aug 30, 2014

Yes thats what i thought i cant really think what could be some much different about Maxwell my guess its not big of a difference maybe stability and some performance improvements.

Moses148 · Aug 30, 2014

Also an attempt to reduce power use and heat. Whether they achieved it or not is another story

Fullmetalalkami · Sep 5, 2014

The 970 is gonna be £299 and the 980 is gonna be £399. Believe me or not that is from an extremely reliable source, each card will average out to 10% better performance with much lower tdp than its predecessors

simonax12 · Sep 6, 2014

The prices and power is only rumors and there is no guarantee that its true most likely false. If you so sure about the source can you please send us a link to check it out?

Fullmetalalkami · Sep 6, 2014

I have no link for you to check out- if there was a link on pricing do you not think it would be out by now? I just have a direct statement from a mate at nvidia with those prices. Believe me or not its utterly irrelevant to me i was just stating what i know and i highly highly suggest no one buying a 770 or 780 until after the 19th

Fullmetalalkami · Sep 6, 2014

Or maybe its bullshit who knows?? Maybe its just a wild guess?

Im just trying to help out OP by telling him patience will pay off... Guess we will have to wait after the 19th to find out if what i say is true

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