Nvidias new pascal cards, how long will they last?

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I was advised to wait for the nvidia pascal because it will be coming out "soon" but I also want to buy a 390 or 390x. So if I wait for a pascal x70 card how many years will last me with 1080p 60 and decent/high settings? And how long will a 390x last me at 1080p 60 decent/high settings?
 
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With smaller manufacturing technology, the big benefit to amd and nvidia is lower cost of production.
So long as there is not a price war, you can expect the new cards to sell at about the same price/performance ratio as now or a bit better.

If you have a need now for a graphics card, buy what you need now. If you wait for the next best thing, you will wait forever.

Today, a R9-390X will give you very good gaming at 1080P.
Similarly a GTX970 will do the same requiring much less power and cooling.

Keep such a card until you need more. Perhaps for 1440P gaming or a 4k monitor.
Then just sell it and buy what you newly need.

For fast action shooter games, the graphics card is all important.

For strategy games, sims, and mmo types...
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Based on what I've read, I'd expect summer. As to how long a 1080 will last, no way to know. Can't see what's around the corner. All I can say is that it's significantly more than what is necessary for 1080p today.
 
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With smaller manufacturing technology, the big benefit to amd and nvidia is lower cost of production.
So long as there is not a price war, you can expect the new cards to sell at about the same price/performance ratio as now or a bit better.

If you have a need now for a graphics card, buy what you need now. If you wait for the next best thing, you will wait forever.

Today, a R9-390X will give you very good gaming at 1080P.
Similarly a GTX970 will do the same requiring much less power and cooling.

Keep such a card until you need more. Perhaps for 1440P gaming or a 4k monitor.
Then just sell it and buy what you newly need.

For fast action shooter games, the graphics card is all important.

For strategy games, sims, and mmo types, the individual cpu core speeds are all important; they depend on the single master thread for performance.
 
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The Radeon 390 or nVidia 970 would be a great Gpu for 1080p gaming. The Radeon is slightly cheaper and overall better, but the differences aren't much. THe 390x is better, but it's not worth the increase in cost for what performance increase you get. Ultra settings aren't a problem for either of those Gpu's.
 
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Christianjason

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This time Nvidia will be the first not AMD I think.

 
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http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=19094&game=None&title=Pascal%20Could%20Be%20In%20Trouble%20As%20GPU%20Shown%20At%20CES%202016%20Could%20In%20Fact%20Be%20Last-Gen%20Maxwell

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/220818-nvidias-drive-px-2-prototype-allegedly-powered-by-maxwell-not-pascal

Looks like they're going to be slow to release pascal.

Also, lol. Jun-Hsun Huang showing off a card that isn't what he said it was again.

At least this time it's not 100% fake mockup being held together by wood screws. This time it's just a card "equivalent to six titan X's" (HBM card) WHICH OH BY THE WAY has GDDR5 modules all over it.

Nvidia...
 
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Christianjason

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Lets see mate.still I think Nvidia will release the next gen gpus before the summer.
 
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