Nvidia 1070 / 1080 8K cards....anyone upgrading?

[Digby]

Is anyone going to be splashing out when they are released shortly? If so, can you post here with some real-world opinions?

There seems to be an increase in 970 / 980 and 980ti's coming up for sale, so I would imagine there will be many early adopters (not that most need, want or can run 8K yet)

Due to the 'not so high' res of VR and the general state of the graphics, my old sli 970's are still chugging along perfectly well on that front and can still make GTA V and Project cars look amazing in 4K, so I am undecided whether to bother..

[Monty Python]

I'm waiting for Polaris/Vega to appear, then I'll decide.

[Vitorio]

More interested in the lower end cards which will eventually happen, but pascal looks really promissing

Right now i have a GTX650 which does just fine for my humble gaming needs, but id love for 950/960 power to drop down to the €100 mark

[Rick_1138]

I have an AMD R7950 (i think) and it had 3GB DDR 5 Ram for £340 4 years ago, so its done well, but looking at a Nvidia 980Ti after christmas, with a IPS Nvidia rated monitor for 1440p gaming.

not fussed with 4k tbh

[DIW35]

I built my PC with a view to installing a Pascal GPU when they became available, though I won't be an early adopter, as I prefer them to get the drivers right first. The 970 currently in my machine will be going in a new build for my OH.

[130R]

I will probably change my 2 x 780 for a single 1080 but I might hold out for the Ti version unless I need to upgrade for VR before then.

[kingston12]

I am going to see how my 970 deals with Project Cars on Oculus Rift when I get it.

If it struggles as I think it will, but I enjoy the VR then I'll probably go for a 1080.

[TommoAE86]

I might look at 980ti's in the new year as my machine could handle it, however right now my PC with it's 970 is still producing PS4 quality visuals without a sweat. This is mostly because I play old(er) games but I haven't seen any new stuff around that's taken my fancy.

[mp3manager]

I currently have a reference GTX980 and will buy a 1080Ti, (with an internal HDMI port for my Occulus Rift), when they become available.

[boombastictiger]

Back in 2011 I splashed out on a XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition, still holding up well in the games I am now playing but can feel the burn at higher res/settings. I think its time to upgrade my whole system and looking at the new Nvidia it is appealing, 3 times more powerful than their previous Titan card, I mean that's serious power!!! I wonder how much in the UK it will cost....

[P-Jay]

Any idea of costs yet?

My 750Ti is less than a year old and I would really need up upgrade the whole system to run anything better.

[Monty Python]

boombastictiger said:

Back in 2011 I splashed out on a XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition, still holding up well in the games I am now playing but can feel the burn at higher res/settings. I think its time to upgrade my whole system and looking at the new Nvidia it is appealing, 3 times more powerful than their previous Titan card, I mean that's serious power!!! I wonder how much in the UK it will cost....

The 1080 is supposed to be around £500 and allegedly twice as powerful at the Titan X (when performing certain VR workloads)

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nvidia-geforce-...

[boombastictiger]

anonymous said:

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The res is usually max'd but its the detail I have to tone down, like aa for example, but these days im playing more strategy games than anything which are not as demanding. I hear what you are saying about upgrading as soon it cant handle settings, but at the time money was not permitting..

[boombastictiger]

Monty Python said:

The 1080 is supposed to be around £500 and allegedly twice as powerful at the Titan X (when performing certain VR workloads)

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nvidia-geforce-...

My mistake, i read it wrong on the source I read, its 3x the efficiency. http://megagames.com/news/nvidia-launches-its-most...

Still though, twice as powerful is serious, especially when compared to what I have now! All be it £500 in the UK is not bad, I would have thought it would be closer to £1,000...im not complaining though..:-D

[Alias218]

I have an OC'd GTX760 with 4Gb vram so it handles 1080p just fine (which all I want at the moment) and benches near to a GTX950. I can't see the justification just yet to weigh out on a new card that will yield minimal performance gains seeing how I can play most games on High/Ultra if I tone down AA.

Maybe if a GTX980ti comes down after the launch of these new cards.

[chris watton]

No. The money I have wasted in the past for the biggest and best for my PC's is embarrassing.

[Daston]

Going to wait to see if I need one, my 780GTX is happy to run anything in full settings in 1080p. My wife has just got a 4k TV though so I am interested to see what Total War will look like on that . Plan is to wait for the Ti and buy the GTX as it drops in price.

[Guvernator]

While the new technology sounds brilliant I have a 908ti which has taken everything I can throw at, latest games on ultra everything with full AA and it's still delivering well over 60fps at 1440p so I have no pressing urge to upgrade at the moment.

I'll also probably not be jumping on the VR wagon just yet as I don't think the gen one OR or Vive are quite up to scratch. When they release the gen 2 stuff in a year, I'll probably upgrade then if the 980ti proves to not be up to scratch.

What I am looking for is a new powerful laptop but I'm going to wait till they release the mobile versions of the new cards as the power\thermal efficiency gains should make a noticeable difference in the laptop sphere so my first foray into 1080 ownership will be on a laptop.

[Mattygooner]

Not yet, I have sli overclocked 980 Ti's and nothing has slowed them down, if anything I will wait for the Ti or Titan version and the second gen of VR.

[Rob893]

Currently running a 970 but have been thinking about getting a bit more power out of my PC.

It all depends on the benchmarks really. I will be buying a 1070, or buying another 970 to SLI, which ever works out more cost effective for performance.