Worth updating from a 989 Ti to a 1080?

redmantab

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Tried editing title as it should read 980 ti instead of 989. Arghhh. How do I fix that?


Been enjoying vr ed for quite some time. Besides a few glitches of judder yesterday that may be Nvidia patch related, it really has ran ed perfect I'm ultra for months now with my cv1. That being said, I can't supersample top much without Judder.

Anyone think it's worth going from a 98o ti to a 1080? Money not an issue... Just don't want to be ridiculous if not necessary. Guessing could sell my used ti for a few hundred and then the upgrade would be even cheaper.

Worth it for performance?
 
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DOCa Cola

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It is not a huge upgrade for 980Ti users. If you had a 980 non-Ti i'd say it is worth the upgrade.
I'd wait for the 1080Ti or something comparable.
 

UniMag

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I quite recently purchased a new build and decided to go with 980ti SLI (rather than a 1070/1080) as I'd rather save the money and wait for the 1080ti or next gen Titan.

I'm happy with the performance and get very little, if any judder with most settings on high and 1.5 in the debug tool (or SS).
 

TorTorden_VR

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My thinking is they still have a lot of room to improve software side of things.
At least with the Vive and ED.

And there is only and only VR that would make me consider upgrading to 1080, but I honestly can't afford to, at least not after I double dipped and have a CV1 on the way...
(Didn't really expect to do that but it happened.)

My thinking is to hang on with my 980ti for at least next gen, then build a proper gaming rig again, and relegate this to lighter duties as the HT-gaming rig.

I would at the very least wait until the insane founders edition prices drop and they will very soon.
 

ghcannon

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UniMag said:
I quite recently purchased a new build and decided to go with 980ti SLI (rather than a 1070/1080) as I'd rather save the money and wait for the 1080ti or next gen Titan.

I'm happy with the performance and get very little, if any judder with most settings on high and 1.5 in the debug tool (or SS).
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Afaik, your second card doesn't work in Elite VR
 

Stygian

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Globusdiablo said:
If money isn't an issue, I'd say yes. Those 2 extra gigs of ram come in handy as they fill up fast when super sampling, and SS is key for the VR experience.
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Yeah, but as that's the case, why not just wait for the next equivalent Titan that is speculated to have 32GB+, never gonna have SS limits then XD
 

Spam

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980ti user here also.

Personally I'm going to wait for next gen 10XX series.
VR looks pretty good and plays very nicely.
There seems to be diminishing returns on higher SS to me. If you are pushing 1.5 then stick with it. The 1080 will let you go a bit higher but % increase isn't worth it IMO. You are still limited by the HMD native resolution and the higher GPUs just let you polish a turd a bit better.
 

Deimos-GOW

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I haven't looked in to it much but I've seen a few people on here complaining about 1080 performance in Elite Dangerous. The 1080 architecture is supposed to be more efficient and you'll notice that it has fewer cuda cores so on paper it actually looks worse than a 980Ti, in practice it's much faster but I'm wondering if there isn't some issue with Elite Dangerous that is limiting it's potential.
 

TorTorden_VR

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The 1080 like with the 9xx series need to be optimised for in the software.
When the 9x series people where also saying the same, they hardly performed any better than than the forebears and there was no reason to upgrade. But by end of the year things has changed and we where seeing the new gen being utilised far better.

I personally see no reason to jump on the 10xx yet if ever. I might as well just wait for 20xx or whatever.
 
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