Is upgrading frrom pascal to volta worth it for 1080p gaming?

fordongreeman · Dec 19, 2017

If I'm gaming at 1920x1080, should I even bother upgrading from a GTX 1080 to the Volta equivalent when they are eventually released sometime this year?

I assume there won't be any noticeable improvement in performance if I'm still playing games at 1080p?

60fps is still 60fps if you're using a Pascal or a Volta?

JalYt_Justin · Dec 19, 2017

There will be no performance gains at all. You're probably not even using half of your 1080 at 1080p/60Hz. The upgrade to Volta will not help you at all.

Bob125484 · Dec 19, 2017

fordongreeman :

No, not worth it and you won't see any difference on your monitor. Your GTX1080 should already get you to 144hz. If your monitor is 1080p 60hz, your next monitor ypu should consider is 144hz 2K.

hannibal · Dec 19, 2017

For DX11, no... For DX12, maybe... But 1080p, no not any reason at all.

Titan V is about as fast as Titan Xp in dx11. It is faster in dx12, if that has any indication what gamer Volta will give us.

fordongreeman · Dec 19, 2017

hannibal :

I thought that the Titan V was twice as fast than the Titan XP.

JalYt_Justin · Dec 19, 2017

fordongreeman :

Not even close. It's more like 20-30% faster than a Titan XP because it has roughly 20-30% more CUDA cores. Tensor cores aren't used in gaming so they make no difference.

fordongreeman · Dec 19, 2017

I thought that Volta was going to be a gigantic leap in performance over Pascal.

JalYt_Justin · Dec 19, 2017

fordongreeman :

20-30% is a very big difference and is definitely a huge performance leap over Pascal. Ultimately Volta has a better PCB (at least Titan V does) and has significantly more CUDA cores that, with the improved PCB, can overclock just as high as current Pascal cards.

That is a massive difference. 50% increase would be absurd. Pascal was roughly a 20-30% increase over Maxwell, which is huge.

fordongreeman · Dec 19, 2017

Someone on another forum told me that Volta would give roughly 100% (two times) the performance over Pascal.

The old Radeon HD 6xxx series was approximately twice as fast as the HD 4xxx series.

JalYt_Justin · Dec 21, 2017

fordongreeman :

The difference in architectures generally only relates to the GPU itself (the amount of CUDA cores and how efficient it is) and usually only a slightly improved PCB to handle the new architecture.

Volta is no different. AMD GPUs function in the same manner BUT AMD GPUs are generally the weaker of the two, and AMD has not had a very good track record with GPUs until recently. That's why you can see huge differences in generations in AMD GPUs, but Nvidia is pretty well developed and it's getting harder to get faster.

CUDA cores are the most important part. Volta has 20-30% more CUDA cores, so you can correlate that to a 20-30% increase in performance. The benchmarks done by Gamer's Nexus and other reviewers are consistent with that number as well.

sizzling · Dec 21, 2017

Even if AMD or Nvidia had a GPU ready that is twice the performance of current GPU's where is the business sense in releasing it when you can get 2,3 or even 4 generations of GPU to market with equivalent performance gain over more years. Sell 2,3 or 4 times as many gpu's in the same performance jump.

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