Good time to buy 980ti?

[Kosaro]

I've been playing with my vive on my 970, but the visual fidelity is bearable at best.

The 980ti has about the same performance as the 1070, except half the price (~$225 dollars on ebay)

Was wondering how significant the boost would be and whether it would be worth the plunge.

 

[HeavyGroovez]

I've been playing with my vive on my 970, but the visual fidelity is bearable at best.

The 980ti has about the same performance as the 1070, except half the price (~$225 dollars on ebay)

Was wondering how significant the boost would be and whether it would be worth the plunge.

I upgraded from a 970 to a 1080 last year and it was a BIG difference.

The jump from 970 to 980Ti is almost as big and i would say well worth it.

The most important gain is the ability to run supersampling which makes everything so much sharper and clearer.

For that price its an honest bargain.

 

[SlackR]

Not sure what functions the 10 series have that the 9 series don't (if any) but one of my rigs has a 980ti in it and I can play in VR flawlessly. It is a great card and a nice step up from a 970.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

It's absolutely great value these days.

I'm not sure vr performance is flawless in elite, but honestly quite close.
For instance it has a decent amount of ram, and elite uses A LOT of ram in vr,
But there are optimization in vr for the Pascal, that this can't use.
But elite doesn't really utilise any of them, and won't for a rather long time either, at least not the next few years.

And nything not vr related it has chewed up anything I throw at it.

For instance I often play the new doom, at 3440×1440, just hit the ULTRA button and I never diplayed below 60fps, well actually 80+.

I paid full price for mine nearly a year and a half ago, due to RL and 900£ is serious money I'm not upgrading it yet.

Also in vr I was being cpu throttled a bit with this on an i5, having just upgraded to an i7.