Wait for 1080Ti la. Why all 980Ti users so eager to upgrade to 1080? I'm keeping my 980ti mang.

If previous releases were to go by, we should hear something by near-end Q4 2016. Titan X came out 7 months after the 980, then the 980Ti came out just less than 2 months later. Can expect the same timeframe I guess?

Latest WHQL driver is the last driver I'm updating
Ain't gonna spend countless hours trying to figure out how our Maxwell cards would be gimped (or not?).

There won't be a 1060 until next year. I believe what Nvidia will do is (if they don't their AIB partners will) drop the price of the 970 to the midrange market, continue selling it for the rest of the year along side the Pascal cards.

Well I don't work for Nvidia, it's just a logical speculation from me as a long time Nvidia customer (dating back to the infamous FX days).

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 9 2016, 04:26 PM

RM5 = 1USD still want to buy high-end GPUs? Use iGPUs by then lo. Thank the gomen.

Pascal news aside for a while, new driver is up (Doom game ready driver).

Any Maxwell owner want to be scapegoat?

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 13 2016, 06:43 PM

They test the OC results on BF3, an ancient game by today's standards. What for? Readers of TPU has complained time and time and time again to use another game, but nooooo... BF3.


That said, BIOS modding for permanent OCing is going to be a pain in the ass looking at how Boost 3.0 works.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 17 2016, 10:20 PM

Well let's be realistic here.
The 1080 is aimed at 780 and 780Ti owners, those are the main target audience. To some extent, the 1080 is also targeting 970/980 owners too.

980Ti and Titan X owners, come on la guys.. you all know GP100 is inevitable. How many made the mistake of buying a 980 when they had a 780Ti just to find out the 980Ti isn't that far away? Admit it please.

Full specs of GTX1070 is out.

Good news; no 7.5GB vram bullshit like the 970 did with 3.5gb vram.
Bad news; it'll be more expensive than the 970 was on launch, in bolehland at least.

These days I've been meddling with Ultrawide gaming. 3440x1440 is just too immersive to give up, 4k can rot for now. Add to the fact that gsync works at this res, it's just pure gaming bliss.

Depends on the game in my experience.
There are still games which don't have proper DPI scaling above 1080p. So downsampling from 4k will make text way too small or the UI too puny.


Not really. 1080p at 36" with a viewing distance of 2-3 feet is simply not feasible to me. It's blurry, it's too easy to see the pixel gate on screen.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 20 2016, 06:04 PM

Frametimes matters most bro.

An i7 has quite noticeably more consistent frametimes over i5 counterparts as proven on DF videos.

I've also personally went from an OC'd i5 4670k (4.6ghz) to a i7 4790k at stock.
GPU remains the same (980Ti), definitely saw and felt less juddering and better framepacing overall eventhough I was pushing over 80fps at 1440p regardless of either CPU on Witcher 3.

Even moba games which aren't taxing at all benefit a little. I play doto 2 at 120fps, but when there's like a 10 person team fight out, the framepacing can actually spike and drop here and there. Doesn't impact the experience much, but there has been a few times where I mis-timed a skill initiation simply because of a missed frame. So there's that.

980 was never a good deal either.
It was since the 680 where the initial flagship was worth it. 780 doesn't count since it was just a Kepler rebrand.

If the 1070 can OC like a beast just like the 970 could, then yeah... same case with Maxwell again. Get a 1070, OC the bejezus out of it, get near 1080 performance.

For this year's and last year's games maybe. Then next year, we're back to square 1 again. Chasing 4k60.

Yeah... it's called the 950.

If following Nvidia's release roadmap as before, probably next year release.

Wow... what's with all the toy looking coolers from the third party AIBs?

Now all that's left to wonder is how well the 1070 will actually OC. These reviews don't know jack about pushing the limits.

Good luck to 980Ti sellers though. Higher than 1070 price, no one will buy. Lower than 1070 price, you lose nearly 50% of the price on the 980Ti depending on model.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 30 2016, 04:16 PM

SLI for Maxwell has been utter shit.

I know first hand, went from dual 970 to a single 980Ti.


Guru3D didn't show the frame time after OCing. All they did show was avg.fps which means nothing.

That's FCAT for stock performance bro.

When OCing with GPU boost, performance don't just increase linearly. Frametime is never linear.