Upgrade to 980 now or wait for next GPU release?

MagikMurlok · Jan 22, 2015

I currently have a 780. And am looking to upgrade my gpu setup, whether that means SLI or single card I don't mind. Probably thinking of going into a SLI setup. Anyway, should I be looking to upgrade from 780 to 980 SLI, or wait for Nividia's next release, whenever will that be?

Eximo · Jan 22, 2015

Guess it depends on your performance goals. If you can track down another 780 that would be cheaper.

GTX780 is pretty powerful on its own. What screen resolution and games are you trying to run? What is your FPS goal?

beshonk · Jan 22, 2015

At this point, and with a gtx 780, i'd wait for whatever 20nm variants come out. They should be out by mid year, something akin to a 980 ti or something I'm hoping for.

ToastyBunz · Jan 22, 2015

If you can spare a few extra Pesos go for the 980, its always better to have one good card over 2 alright ones. (Some games don't work well with SLI)

BearTech · Jan 22, 2015

Good day!

2x gigabyte 970 G1 gaming is better then two 980s. If you oc the 970s you get the same performance and it is cheaper then two 980s.

Edit: I know that all games dosent support sli but you will still get 60fps in 1080p in the most games with a singel 970, plus more and more games is supporting sli.

Good luck!
More questions? Dont be afraid to ask them ;D

MagikMurlok · Jan 22, 2015

Well, I am gaming on 27" 1080p monitor. and I run alot of heavy stuff at multiple times, and am looking to keep everything on maxed out ultra at 60fps stable. as I have been doing for a few years.

Does anyone know any expected timeframe for nvidia's next release?

junkeymonkey · Jan 22, 2015

980 is a nice card but if you can wait and see what ''new '' 980 cards come out and see what the new AMD cards will be like ??? the decide on what to do then ??

junkeymonkey · Jan 22, 2015

the should be then cant seem to post or fix the typo ?? sorry

MagikMurlok · Jan 22, 2015

I want to wait, but how long would I be waiting. Money burns a hole in the pocket lol

junkeymonkey · Jan 22, 2015

lol... me too . seeing you got a 780 now it seems like you could hold out well.. if I had that I would not be doing nothing but looking and no big hurry

''AMD R9 380X in February & R9 390X & 370X Announced The announcement from AMD ''

that's what now out there on it ??? for what its worth ???

BearTech · Jan 23, 2015

IF you wait, your going to wait a long time, nvidia has just released there 900 seris. It will take time for them to release any new card. I think it is the same for AMD.

Eximo · Jan 23, 2015

Not necessarily. The big question up in the air is what process the 300 series and a possible successor to the 780, 780Ti, and Titan will run on.

If they are sticking with 28nm, not much reason to upgrade. If AMDs cards are released at 20nm that means TSMC is ready to manufacture. Nvidia could follow suit quite quickly with a re-release of the 750, 750Ti, 960, 970, and 980 on the 20nm process, or release cards with a 384bit bus and 6GB of memory along side their professional class cards as they did with the Tesla and Titan.

junkeymonkey · Jan 23, 2015

he just going to buy -- he choose best answer -- I don't have near the card he has and I can wait and see and with all the revisions with the 900 cards coming out to try to resolve the issues with them like all the coil whine and all there just getting better

like I showed this guy with this how the newer released evga cards had a change in some parts on the board

was looking at a review of this evga card [gtx960 ] and see the inductors that been claimed to cause the whine in cards has been changed compaired to the ones in the 970/980 ??

looks like its got a white part that may insulate the part and help prevent the coil whine or a attempt to revolve it ??? and will it be changed on the ''newer'' 970/980 cards from evga ??

new kind
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_960_SSC_ACX...

old kind
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GTX_970_SC_ACX_...

may be all wrong on this but it did catch my eye

good thing can come to those who wait --- good luck

magiklok · Feb 7, 2015

Na I didn't buy, at least not yet. Been building my new pc with 780 still. I just want to know how long to wait lol, but there no way to tell it seems

kdmarcotti · Feb 9, 2015

Does anyone have the dates of past releases? Perhaps there is a pattern that will help us figure out the release of nvidia's next gpu. I just got in the PC component game recently, so my knowledge is limited to the past year or so. Does anyone else know maybe the past 3 or 4 gpu release dates? From what I can find its like every 6 months to a year. Is this correct?

JUICEhunter · Feb 9, 2015

If your system is ready to go and you're @ 1080p/2k a 2nd 780 will give you a huge gain in FPS. A G-sync monitor is also a worthy upgrade.

JakeAlmighty · Feb 9, 2015

magiklok :

It just depends what you're doing.

If you're just gaming on a 1080p monitor then even a single 970 is going to run just about everything fine on whatever settings you want.

SLI/CrossfireX setups of modern top end cards will only even benefit you if you're needing to push 60fps+ on a 4k monitor, or 144fps on a 1440p one for super smoothness.

re:timelines - the 980ti/titan2 won't be coming out for a good while. After the AMD 300 series initial launches in the next few months. It's planned to still be on 28nm process.

the 300 series is supposed to begin coming out in march/april - the first big card launch is the 380X. (apparently on 20nm process, with 4gb HBM memory) big daddy 390X to follow (with factory water cooling like the 295x2) still in Q2, and then the dual gpu card 395x2 in q4 of 2015. (apparently at the same $1500 price point per card) The lower cards will probably not be using HBM, they will be redesigns on the previous architecture.

Nvidia isn't moving to HBM memory until Pascal hits in 2016. (they were developing HCM as a competitor but it fell behind, so they are going to AMD/Hynix joint project HBM next year) So the remaining Nvidia releases this year will all be using GDDR5.

So again - it all depends what your usage is going to be. Decide on your monitor setup and goals are, and then tailor your GPU configuration to it. (personally - I'm waiting for dual 395x2 cards for quad CrossfireX. Your goals may differ.)

magiklok · Feb 12, 2015

Well I am not going to go with AMD again, I have had FAR too much trouble with them. and so what your saying is nvidia's next release wont be for several months at least and even then it's not going to be that much better?

magiklok · Feb 12, 2015

And the way i've been thinking of it is this: ignore cost limitations for the moment purely to think and plan. I am probably going to upgrade monitor, i only like playing on a single monitor cos i hate gaps, however I may get a 1440p monitor not sure. I also play massively modded games and heavy textures. I maxed out my 3GB card vram wise. So far been looking at Titan black, 980, and TitanZ, Never looked at Titans before though, so the differences confuse me.

trio1989 · Feb 27, 2015

do what im doing and just sit back and wait for the 980ti or something along those lines.. i am currently running gtx 770 4bg Superclocked SLI.. until the 980ti or something comes out theres really no point in upgrading

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