What card?

[Noobpwner]

I'm looking at getting ether a Asus GTX 980 matrix platinum or a Asus GTX 780ti. Will both give the same results in most games? If so I will probably get a 780ti to save some money.

 

[Animalpak]

Hello

980 is better because the powerdraw is very low compared to 780 Ti but with the Matrix edition i think power consumption is not important.

980 is faster compared to the 780 Ti.

Get the 980 and you will be future proof too. Such DSR and many others Technologies.

 

[Noobpwner]

I have a 1300W psu so power draw dosent matter. Right now I am in high school and wouldn't mind saving a lil bit of money so would the 780ti last 3-4 years at 1080p until I am in college and can afford an upgrade?

 

[Jetster]

At 1080 it doesn't matter. So ether one and I have news for you. Your not going to be upgrading in college unles you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth

What does matter and you completely left out is the rest of you platform ?

 

[Noobpwner]

I'm away from my house so can't update it. And I am Guna be going to college on a rotc scholarship so I will have no expenses and get paid 250-450 every month

 

[64K]

I have a 1300W psu so power draw dosent matter. Right now I am in high school and wouldn't mind saving a lil bit of money so would the 780ti last 3-4 years at 1080p until I am in college and can afford an upgrade?

Right now a GTX 780 Ti or a GTX 970 is more than enough at 1080p. I don't know what will be required 3-4 years from now. One option is to buy either of those two cards now and put aside the difference between those two and a GTX 980 and don't touch that money for anything and then 2 years from now sell your card and take the previously saved money and buy a mid range card then. At that time it will be quite a bit more powerful and should take you through the rest of college comfortably.

 

[Iceni]

If money is an issue go for the GTX 970, It's a damn sight cheaper than the 980 and the performance gap at 1080p isn't that large, but the price difference is.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,review-33038.html

That is an overclocked 970 in the test, but the overclock is easy to reach with any 970.


The price difference is the big kicker tho. A single 970 can be had here for £250-280. A single 980 £400-£500. So you can get 2 970's in a very similar budget. Not only that but at 1080p the 970 can play every game out there on ultra as a single card at 60+ fps. The 980 is only getting 10-15 more fps in most games on those settings. And those FPS are over 60 fps so you will not see the advantage unless your running with more resolution.

 

[R-T-B]

Actually, if PSU wattage is not a concern, the R9 290X might be worth a look. It's pretty cheap right now, no?

I usually prefer NVIDIA just examining the markets here.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

if money is not an issue, get the 980. If you can get the 780 ti for 15% or less money than the 980, get the ti. The 980 is only about 5% more powerful than the 780 ti, less if you get an OC'ed 780 ti like my EVGA 780ti SC. My 780 ti has no issues with any games I play at 1600p and I currently have the 15th highest score with 1768 points in the Unigine Heaven benchmark thread.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

I'd go with a 970, it's plenty for 1080p, and my guess is when Pascal comes out, you'll want to sell what you have and get one of those.

It will be hard to say how the feature sets of each will compare though. The Maxwell cards will be able to utilize virtual unified memory via CUDA 6 when it releases, but Pascal will have actual architecture designed around uni mem (NVLink).

It's become clear though that with the games releasing now, we're at the point where more than raw rendering power is needed. Pascal aims to tackle the memory bottleneck for the first time via hardware changes.

 

[Noobpwner]

Ok, I'm thinking I'll go with the 970 because I wana stick with green team. And 900 series are based on maxwell right?

 

[64K]

And 900 series are based on maxwell right?

Yes. My recommendation is too look at either a MSI GTX 970 Gaming card or an Asus STRIX GTX 970 card. I have the MSI Gaming card and it works very good at 1440p so I know it will run all over games at 1080p.

 

[Noobpwner]

Ok. I'm mildly partial to asus but I may just get what's in stock when I go to order it. If I happen to go with a 780ti is it worth it to get one that's highly overclockable such as matrix platinum or evga classified?

 

[64K]

I like the ACX cooler on the EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC. I haven't owned one but @BarbaricSoul seems to have done very well at OC with his. They all OC to different amounts. It's luck.

 

[Noobpwner]

Thanks. Last time I bought a gpu I got one with 4gb of ram but was 100$ expecting it to play games but didn't understand any other specs such as ram type, how many gpu processors and stuff like that. Just didn't wana make the same mistake again

 

[rruff]

Right now I am in high school and wouldn't mind saving a lil bit of money so would the 780ti last 3-4 years at 1080p until I am in college and can afford an upgrade?

What do you have now?

3-4 years is too long to hold onto a card IMO. If you spend >$400 it will perform great when you get it, but 4 years later it will be old and slow. If you are on a budget, you can get good performance with something like a R9 280 which have dipped below $150 recently. Do that every year or so and sell the old one on ebay, and it will cost you maybe $50-75/yr out of pocket. The prices sellers are getting for used cards on ebay seem to be really good.

 

[Noobpwner]

Right now I have no gpu and am running games off my 4790k

 

[rruff]

Nice CPU! For someone in high school you have expensive tastes...

Even a cheap card will be night and day compared to what you are using.

 

[Noobpwner]

I love how quickly my cpu handles everything. I would rather save money and buy something that will last many years than skim on money and have it last a year or two so I got top of the line everything so far for my computer.

 

[Noobpwner]

Thanks for the help, just ordered a gtx 970 strix. Mods this thread can be closed.

 

[Frag_Maniac]

Most want to talk ASUS, MSI, or EVGA. Why do so many people gloss over the Gigabyte cards?

They're actually the best choice. Best cooling, best customer service, only ASUS beats it on noise level, and it's among the best of the OCers too.

And that's without even mentioning the quality of construction. Full metal fan shroud, full backplate. Who else is doing this? No one, that's who.