Upgrade to GTX 1080 from GTX 980 worth it?

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viniciusrodsilva

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Hello!

I have a Nvidia EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0, and I'm thinking about upgrading to a GTX 1080. Does it worth the upgrade? I'm playing at 1080p, maybe 144p in the future. Yes, I want to play any game at max settings in 1080p at the moment, the 980 already suffers a bit to handle it on some recent games.

I saw a lot of questions like this, but comparing 980 Ti, not 980, so I'm very confused.

Should I sell my 980 and buy 1080 or wait the next generation? 1100, 1200 or whatever.

Thank you and sorry if it's a duplicated question, but I haven't found it.

 
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in the end all you can do is what you feel is best for you .. I cant pull that trigger for you . just be sure the 10 series covers all your needs a few find they don't and have to go and support it instead if it supporting them [why I choose a 900 series over a 10 series ] a 10 series does not support all my needs a lot of $$ for a card that cant do 1/2 as much for me ?? i'll pass
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Thank you for replying!

1080ti will be a lot more expensive, I can't afford it. But what about 1080 for the next years? I mean 3 or 4. I don't want to replace it too soon.
Since I have a 900 series, it would be better to invest in the current 1000 series or wait until the next?

Thanks again!
 
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But then next year, you'll have the same dilemma with the 1180/2080 pascal refresh or whatever. There's something better every year. You'll be hopping from one x80 to the next one, and so on at that rate... but I guess there's nothing wrong with that, so long as you manage to sell off the previous card?
 
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''I saw a lot of questions like this, but comparing 980 Ti, not 980, so I'm very confused''

ya, that may not be worth it now a lot may hang on your system and CPU used as well like for my 4670 the 980ti and a 1080 is minimal gain an not worth the expense of a new 1080

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1614/1085/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-4670&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

http://imgur.com/BLA7QfW


same with a 980 Number of GPUs = 1 [not sli scores]

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1614/983/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-4670&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

kinda on the fringe of worth it or not ??

I use non k or non overclocked cpus to eliminate cpu overclocking affecting the cards results just shows more at what the cards are doing on there own

so is that worth a new 600$ card ?? to me no not really


heres a 1080ti with a 4670k oced to 4,398 MHz ??

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11986152

or a i5 6600k cranked up to 4,700 MHz ?

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/2006/1127/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel Core i5-6600K&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

the one close to stock turbo boost 3,815 MHz [ 16 485 score ? I got 14244 with ''less''?? ]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11973862

see you gain some but not like I got to go spend 700 bucks worth to me over my non k 4670 and 980ti I got now ???
 
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Yes, it's a dilemma, I really liked the 1080, hope it can handle well the future games in 4 or 5 years in full hd (4k is not my priority). I'm gonna buy it after the 1080ti launches, maybe it gets a bit cheaper.
 
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in the end all you can do is what you feel is best for you .. I cant pull that trigger for you . just be sure the 10 series covers all your needs a few find they don't and have to go and support it instead if it supporting them [why I choose a 900 series over a 10 series ] a 10 series does not support all my needs a lot of $$ for a card that cant do 1/2 as much for me ?? i'll pass
 
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