980 20th Anniversary or Titan X for 1440p?

[trawetSluaP]

Looking to get a new GPU for my PC as I've just upgraded to a 1440p monitor.

Not sure whether to go for the ASUS 980 20th Anniversary or go all out and get a Titan X.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: I only have 8GB of RAM at the moment if this makes a difference, but I've read the required ram for the Titan X is 8GB Minimum, 16GB Recommended.

 

[TPC]

You do have a 980 right now, right?
So why upgrade? It should be fast enough for 1440P
If you really need more fps get another 980 Matrix and make a Sli config.

 

[Feronix]

You do have a 980 right now, right?
So why upgrade? It should be fast enough for 1440P
If you really need more fps get another 980 Matrix and make a Sli config.

^^^^^^

 

[jaspervandervalk]

My single 980 runs everything perfectly in 1440p I don't really see the need to go all out but then again we are all enthusiasts here right? XD

Jasper

 

[realneil]

Add the second 980 for SLI, ~unless~ you want that bad-ass Titan-X real bad!

 

[AlienALX]

If you can afford the Titan then go with that.

Edit. I will actually explain that before I get jumped on.

Last year I had a real result financially and ended up with a big windfall. It left me with around £3500 to build a PC.

Up until then I had a FX 8320 and a 7990, I was more than happy with both. However, having Titan money and indeed buying two for £1300 taught me one thing. It basically allowed me to skip a good few cards after, and, tbh? even with the new Titan X I won't be replacing my Blacks any time soon given that the X performs worse than SLI Titan Black.

So I got to sit back and skip the 970 and 980 and the Titan X. Had I bought, for example, a 3gb card like the 780 or 780ti for up to £500 each I would now be looking at replacing them, given the 3gb is starting to creak and is downright insufficient for 4k.

A guy I know quite well bought two Titans at launch. Here he is two years later replacing them. Two years is a long time in GPU upgrade time. A very, very long time.

So the Titan X will last you for ages, providing you're not at 4k yet. Is it too expensive? well yeah, you bet your ass it is but it's the only GPU brand you can rely on to last you now.

The only thing that would put me off buying a Titan X right now is the looming 390x. However, from what I do know about the 390x? it has a liquid cooler which whilst utterly awesome is not a practical design. No doubt like most Radeons it will contain a lot of raw power but I'm still not sold on the drivers AMD release.

My next logical upgrade is a pair of Titan X, something no longer within my reach.

However, because I bought Titan Blacks I'm not sweating. In fact, I'm not even phased. It will take the next Titan to get me wanting to replace mine and by then I feel I would have had my moneys worth out of them.

You should have waited. Now you've gone 980 to Titan X, which is kinda silly.

In a perfect world I would advise people to avoid all the mid ranged shit that you end up buying and replacing quickly and use your brain matter and save for the high end stuff. It always lasts far longer.

 

[trawetSluaP]

Thanks for the input thus far guys.

I agree with you Vault-Tec, in that I should have waited.

I've had a look at the Titan X's and the logical choice would seem to be the EVGA SC version. Can't help but wonder why ASUS reference speed card is more expensive than EVGA's SC though...

 

[Excalabur50]

I disagree with Vault-Tec just buy another 980 a pair of 980's will out perform a single TitanX when you look at the graphs here http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx_titan_x_4k_gsync_review/1 you can see that generally the only thing to beat it is Sli cards
I myself am running sli 980's at 1440p at 144hz and it eats it, I easily get 160 frames in bf4 and great frames in just about anything else I play for that matter and my cards aren't even overclocked so I could easily get a lot more out of them dont throw your money away just get another 980

 

[trawetSluaP]

I disagree with Vault-Tec just buy another 980 a pair of 980's will out perform a single TitanX when you look at the graphs here http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx_titan_x_4k_gsync_review/1 you can see that generally the only thing to beat it is Sli cards
I myself am running sli 980's at 1440p at 144hz and it eats it, I easily get 160 frames in bf4 and great frames in just about anything else I play for that matter and my cards aren't even overclocked so I could easily get a lot more out of them dont throw your money away just get another 980

Is the 4GB of VRAM going to last a while with the 980?

 

[Excalabur50]

Of course it's going to last the only time you will run into a bit of issue is if you are going 4K which is highly overrated at this point in time, and by the time there is enough 4K content around the TitanX will probably be outdone massively by something else anyway so why bother , now if you are changing to a 4K monitor now then maybe it's worth the upgrade otherwise just get another 980 and Sli them

 

[trawetSluaP]

Of course it's going to last the only time you will run into a bit of issue is if you are going 4K which is highly overrated at this point in time, and by the time there is enough 4K content around the TitanX will probably be outdone massively by something else anyway so why bother , now if you are changing to a 4K monitor now then maybe it's worth the upgrade otherwise just get another 980 and Sli them

I have just bought myself a 1440p monitor.

I have a 980 Matrix Platinum now but would be a bit concerned about temperatures in an SLI set up.

 

[Excalabur50]

If your case is properly set up and a 450d is a good case and if you space your cards properly then you wont have any issues