Hardware & Technical The new GTX GPUs, a well received and welcome mockery of who spent loads of money?

[Time Streamer]

I've bought a new amd 390X a few months ago. I've paid its full price of 500€. This week the new GTX gpus were announced with extreme performances. 10x more and all of that stuff. Now I'm not rich, and I had to gather some savings to buy this, in hope to be prepared to the future with my high-end card, a stature that I believe I fully deserve since I've bought the thing. The new gpus are amazing. I welcome the horsepower, especially for these new VR ages. You know where this is going right? I'm feeling a little ripped off. I'm sorry. Can't help it. Because these new GPUs price go around 375€ !!!!!!!! Sure AMD Polaris isn't out yet but I bet they will follow their nemesis footsteps.

It's all on game developers hands now. If minimum requirements sky rocket, then I will have an 500€ card that was acclaimed "high end" that nobody wants to buy unless almost given. I fear that my "high end quality" gaming experience are threatened, and I bet me and another half of the world don't swim in pools full of cash. Any reasonable, mature and serious advice you guys can lend me? Should I ditch the card somehow faster I can, despite the money loss? Or should I just stick with it since I'm not immediatly interested in VR and a 390X 8GB should handle just fine? (There is the hope of DX12 with general performance gains. Maybe that can help).

Thanks in advance CMDRS

 

[kalniel]

It's OK. Your graphics card won't suddenly get slower just because some others got released and it's now jealous. If you thought the performance was worth 500€ then it's still worth it (though I'd have gone for a Nano at that price personally).

 

[CMDR Corlas]

New cards coming out doesn't make your existing card any worse. If you were happy with your purchase at the time, your purchase is still just as good, there is just a new higher-end coming out eventually. This is simply always the case with computer upgrades. You spend a lot and buy top of the line... and you're outdated in a few months.

Nothing you can do about it really, other than realize that your hardware didn't change at all, just your perception. Your equipment is still just a good as it was.

 

[Bazorlag]

I´m little bit confused. Did you buy: AMD 390X or Nvidia GTX 970/980/980ti?

You also bought a new card in a VERY BAD TIME. New manufacturing processes are just entering bulk production for graphics chips. From the last process upgrade it has been 4 years! Jump from 28nm to 16/14nm FinFET is very large in terms of die size and power efficiency.

 

[DaveB]

It's a sad fact that pretty much all computer hardware falls off the cutting edge of the tech about 2 hours after you unbox it.

I'd stick with the card you've got, it's very capable and by the time it starts struggling with "current" games then there will be even better cards available than the newly released ones now and probably around the same price point. You'll have got some return on the cash you've already spent and will end up with even better hardware if you only swap it out when you need to.

 

[Dozer.k.a.o.]

what it is a GTX 390X?

you are talking about a Radeon 390X?

Don't expect a lot of improvement in the new Generation of nvidias, let's say the cheapest one, 1070 will have slightly better performance than a 980, i don't expect more, Nvidia plays with numbers and specs but always depends on how games are built and if they take advantage of new features.

Also i don't know when you bought your card, but at some point is not worthy to change hardware if is well known that a new generation was coming, is good to follow news at internet.

but this is how technnology works anyways, you spend a lot of mony in hardware that becomes obsolete in short time.. the proud of having at high end computer doesn't last long, but i think you will enjoy your 390x for some good time.

 

[[DOOK] Droogie]

Why pay full price for a card knowing that it's successor is right around the corner? Pascal didn't exactly sneak up on us. Maxwell dragged on for 2 years.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

I've had the 390X since October (MSI 8GB). It's a great card. Actually there's only one thing wrong with it - the heat it produces under high load. I've seen stats from 980ti owners and my 390X is only a few FPS shy in some areas on Ultra settings.

You've said you're not going down the VR route so I'd say as long as you stick to 1080p or 1440p the 390X will be fine for a while yet (especially as DX12+async shaders usage increases).

It's worth bearing in mind that the Polaris cards probably won't be at 390X level - they are low and mid-range cards. For 390X/Fury replacement we may have to wait for Vega 10.

EDIT: my suggestion would be to wait and see what AMD announce on May 26th and also wait for reviews of both Polaris and the new Pascal cards and wait to see what the prices are like. Wait 3 months for the market to settle and perhaps there will be news of Big Pascal and Vega by then. Depending on prices, decide how much you will lose by upgrading and if it is worth it or not. This is what I will be doing.

500EUR works out to about 393GBP - are they more expensive in continental Europe? They cost around 325-375GBP in the UK.

EDIT2: you must be talking about a 980, right?

 

[Vorxian]

I'd stick with the card you've got, it's very capable and by the time it starts struggling with "current" games then there will be even better cards available than the newly released ones now and probably around the same price point. You'll have got some return on the cash you've already spent and will end up with even better hardware if you only swap it out when you need to.

Yep best advice.

I have a GTX970, I love it. It plays ED at 100 billion million trillion million cheeze ham and bacon sandwich billion hundred fifty two-hundred FPS.

Just stick where you are.. you'll be ok, very ok for at least the near to medium term.

 

[Monk]

In recent history, the buyer's remorse wasn't so bad since improvements were more along the lines of...look at all this additional memory!!!

Pascal represents a leap, not quite an order of magnitude, but almost. Long overdue architecture upgrade in addition to improvements in memory meant that this version increase was going to be a big one.

With such a big jump, it is going to take some time for developers to push pascal to the limit. There is still plenty of life left for 9XXs to be maxing out graphics.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Do not regret. Even if Pascal was announced since several months. So goes the world of computers

 

[kaivalagi]

I had a similar issue, I wanted to build a new PC (gaming laptop before) and needed to get it done before the financial year end, knowing the 1000 series cards were coming I still had to go ahead with something so I went for a 970 OC (as a stop gap), Nvidia's timing sucked for me That said I am more than happy with my fps/graphics quality for the games I am playing right now and likely will be for a further year yet. Once the 1080Ti series has been out for a couple of months and the second generation of VR is turning up I'll do an upgrade again, and at that point all the 1070/1080 purchasers will be wanting the setup I am going for anyway....horses for courses....if it does what you want for the money you are willing to spend it's all good!

 

[CaptainKremmen]

This is why I was so hacked off when my older graphics card developed a hardware fault late last year. If it could have held out for another six months or so, I wouldn't have found myself in a position of buying a replacement card at a really inopportune time. I knew as I was handing over the $$$ that it was possibly the worst "value for money" GFX card purchase I'd ever make, lol.

 

[Mephane]

I don't expect system requirements to suddenly jump upwards. Much of the 1080 extra performance is aimed directly at VR (have to render 2 images simultaneously at a steady, unbroken 90+FPS) and 4k (= ~4x the amount of pixels to render). If one doesn't use VR, a 4K screen or 4K-equivalent DSR, one should be fine.

That said, my plan is to get myself a 1080 sometime next year, and make a switch to running (hopefully) everything at 2x DSR. It's kind of funny to think about, to beat the ongoing general decline of AA quality (which is still somewhat of a mystery to me) with this brute force approach.

 

[Insomnia]

I don't expect system requirements to suddenly jump upwards. Much of the 1080 extra performance is aimed directly at VR (have to render 2 images simultaneously at a steady, unbroken 90+FPS) and 4k (= ~4x the amount of pixels to render). If one doesn't use VR, a 4K screen or 4K-equivalent DSR, one should be fine.

That said, my plan is to get myself a 1080 sometime next year, and make a switch to running (hopefully) everything at 2x DSR. It's kind of funny to think about, to beat the ongoing general decline of AA quality (which is still somewhat of a mystery to me) with this brute force approach.

Nvidias new VR tech is aimed for VR of course but the cards themselves aren't aimed exclusively for VR... But yeah their numbers were directly from VR perf. But at the same time VR is the new Deal on the market so they have to adapt.

And with the use of deferred rendering (which games are using more and more of) comes the absence of great AA.

Op.
It all depends on what you want to use your pc for. Games at 1080p will have no issues with your GPU.

 

[Surfinjo]

Nvidias new VR tech is aimed for VR of course but the cards themselves aren't aimed exclusively for VR... But yeah their numbers were directly from VR perf. But at the same time VR is the new Deal on the market so they have to adapt.

And with the use of deferred rendering (which games are using more and more of) comes the absence of great AA.

Op.
It all depends on what you want to use your pc for. Games at 1080p will have no issues with your GPU.

This is it though.

VR is the future. Flat screens are about as interesting as listening to music on an old Dancette