Buy a 1080 and wait till Volta or go full pascal

[AngryGoldfish]

I'm not paying that price even if I'm earning 50k a year. There is a point where enough is enough.

Yeah, but it's new and shiny...

In all seriousness, considering I'll never come close to earning that much money I think I'm just spewing nonsense from my pipe dream.

 

[Dicehunter]

Well from what I saw of the Founder's edition they could barely hold 1800mhz, if that. Then they started throttling, just like the Titan XP (or became obnoxiously loud).

Obviously for them to be worth the money they need to boost to 2000 at least, which is why people have been using water/AIOs on them.

I read a review of a Ichill or something this morning. Apparently the cooler allows it to boost up to 2000mhz which isn't bad I suppose, so maybe the Strix cooler can tame it?

On the reference cooler my 1080 Ti holds 2000MHz on the core with 70% fan, Yes it's not exactly whisper quiet but it's not exactly earth shatteringly loud.

 

[JisusKraist]

I was really surprised to see the review pop up to be honest considering how stock wasn't promised until April. Even with its huge performance I wouldn't pay that. Well, I certainly can't. If I were on £50k a year then I might consider it, but I'd rather buy a FE card and water cool that sumbitch to be all sexy and quiet.

Well, buying the 1080ti would represent a 60/70% of my monthly earnings, I'm from Argentina I work as software developer, but as I still live with my parentw until late this year I can enjoy it while it last and throw all my money at random stuff haha.

I like the FE, I currently have a 780ti FE which OC's to 1170mhz. It's loud but when you put your headphones to play, you can't hear it.

Regarding about buying a 1080ti and sit with it for a few years. I didn't changed my 780ti because I didn't need it. I was playing Battlefield 1 almost everything on ultra 1080p sitting in 60fps. Now that I switched to a greater resolution and refresh rate I need to change my GPU.

I'm gonna hold it a while and wait a month and see how the prices seat.

The performance gain from oc is like 15%, so and AIB card would be good to squish that performance. FE can't OC that far without having liftoff of the case.

Vega is out of the conversation because my monitor has G-Sync, which is smooth as . Probably if I switch cards, I would cap the FPS to 143 to keep that G-Sync

 

[JisusKraist]

On the reference cooler my 1080 Ti holds 2000MHz on the core with 70% fan, Yes it's not exactly whisper quiet but it's not exactly earth shatteringly loud.

What is your ambient temperature ?

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Well, buying the 1080ti would represent a 60/70% of my monthly earnings, I'm from Argentina I work as software developer, but as I still live with my parentw until late this year I can enjoy it while it last and throw all my money at random stuff haha.

I like the FE, I currently have a 780ti FE which OC's to 1170mhz. It's loud but when you put your headphones to play, you can't hear it.

Regarding about buying a 1080ti and sit with it for a few years. I didn't changed my 780ti because I didn't need it. I was playing Battlefield 1 almost everything on ultra 1080p sitting in 60fps. Now that I switched to a greater resolution and refresh rate I need to change my GPU.

I'm gonna hold it a while and wait a month and see how the prices seat.

The performance gain from oc is like 15%, so and AIB card would be good to squish that performance. FE can't OC that far without having liftoff of the case.

Vega is out of the conversation because my monitor has G-Sync, which is smooth as . Probably if I switch cards, I would cap the FPS to 143 to keep that G-Sync

Yeah, there's no harm in waiting. Stock is very hard to come by at the moment anyway.

 

[Dicehunter]

What is your ambient temperature ?

Aint got a clue, It's warm in my house though.

 

[JisusKraist]

Aint got a clue, It's warm in my house though.

I don't meant exactly your inside case temp, just the weather at your place, summer, winter? Forecast temp. Do you have AC where you have your rig ? Just to get a sense of it.

 

[Dicehunter]

I don't meant exactly your inside case temp, just the weather at your place, summer, winter? Forecast temp. Do you have AC where you have your rig ? Just to get a sense of it.

Well as I said before it's warm in my house, Outside it's 12'c but in my place it's hovering around 20'c, No AC, Only radiators for heating and if it gets warm I crack a window.

 

[Warchild]

Yeah, but it's new and shiny...

In all seriousness, considering I'll never come close to earning that much money I think I'm just spewing nonsense from my pipe dream.

I thought that once. Until I moved to Norway. And now I actually do earn that amount
So don't be negative towards yourself. You never know what may happen

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I thought that once. Until I moved to Norway. And now I actually do earn that amount
So don't be negative towards yourself. You never know what may happen

Well, that's a lovely thing to say. ^_^

 

[othertomperson]

I'm currently running a 780ti. For a long time it served me well because I was running the games at 1080p with a 60hz monitor. So most of the game on ultra or high, no problem.

Recently I bought a s2716dg (beautiful monitor) which is 1440p 144hz, so the 780ti served me well, but it's time for that champ to rest.

So my question is, should I wait for AIB cards and go with a 1080ti (i have the budget) or should I go with a 1080 now that the price drops and wait for Volta which is "next gen" in terms of memory and -hoping- more Vulkan/DX12 intended.

Thanks for your inputs, any insights on performance numbers will be appreciated!

What CPU are you using to consistently give in excess of 144hz in every game? This will determine how much you care about the difference between the 1080 and 1080 ti.