Transitioning from GTX 1080 FE to GTX 1080TI?

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cuts2thebone

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So I've had my GTX 1080 FE for about 2 months now...PC gaming is FREAKING amazing...so amazing I'm dead ready to buy a GTX 1080TI....However...

I read some stuff about people basically asking why would you spend 700 dollars on a 1080 when you can sli 1070 and have a huge performance gains over the 1080 for roughly the same price. One can also wonder is it wise to upgrade to upgrade to GTX 1080 TI since even a Titan Pascal has trouble running some games at a ULTRA 60FPS on some games? Which is my ultimate goal. Would it be wiser for just to spend another 600 dollars for another 1080 than deal with the hassle of sellling a card and then trying to buy a 1080TI?

What does the general GTX 1080 owners do? I'm fairly new to PC building and graphics card and this is the first CES that I seriously cannot wait to see what they release...its like a console release for me!
 
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As always, the answer depends on how you intend to use it. For multiple monitors, resolutions over 1440, VR, rendering, compute, hi-res textures, etc, you are definitely better off with the ti than any SLI solution. Note that what ULTRA means will vary from game to game and will become more demanding over time. There is no single long-term solution to being able to run all future games at 60FPS on highest settings. This isn't even taking graphics/texture mods into account. If you have any interest in modding I'd strongly recommend the best single card with the most/fastest memory you can afford.

Moreover, hitting 60FPS isn't as important as it used to be. There's lots of tech that reduces screen tearing now, and the newer cards...
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As always, the answer depends on how you intend to use it. For multiple monitors, resolutions over 1440, VR, rendering, compute, hi-res textures, etc, you are definitely better off with the ti than any SLI solution. Note that what ULTRA means will vary from game to game and will become more demanding over time. There is no single long-term solution to being able to run all future games at 60FPS on highest settings. This isn't even taking graphics/texture mods into account. If you have any interest in modding I'd strongly recommend the best single card with the most/fastest memory you can afford.

Moreover, hitting 60FPS isn't as important as it used to be. There's lots of tech that reduces screen tearing now, and the newer cards and monitors will be even better in that regard. If you're playing twitch-type MMOs you can probably get as many additional FPS by lowering some of the settings as you can from adding a 2nd card. Pretty soon you're going to need to upgrade again anyways, and with SLI you're stuck selling two cards instead of one.

I also seriously question the "huge performance gains" people claim, as SLI support has tapered a lot over the last couple gens and it depends entirely on how they're being used. I've seen many games, for example, where SLI did absolutely nothing for performance. Literally no FPS change. That's usually because the program is CPU-bound or because not enough vram is available.

Lastly, buying another 1080 now would be a huge mistake - even if SLI is the best solution for you. Why? Because the price is probably going to drop significantly once the reference ti cards come to market.

The real questions are: what's most important to you? Which programs are most important? What are the demands of the programs you want to use? Do you really need to hit 60FPS? Do you absolutely need as many as possible? Or would 50 be okay in some games? What's your monitor situation? Do you plan on VR soon? When do you think you'll be upgrading again?
 
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