Upgraded to a GTX 1080 Ti from a GTX 1080 and wow.

[WhiteNoise]

Ever since moving into the 4k world it has been a love hate relationship. 4K looks...fantastic. Games playing in 4k look...fantastic. Most games that I play can be played in 4K with ultra settings without a hitch. Some games cannot. BF1 is a prime example. 6600k @ 4.5Ghz, 32GB DDR4 3000, and a GTX 1080 cannot play BF1 with ultra settings at 4k. Its a mess. So I have been playing in windowed mode 1920x1080 (which isn't bad when my screen is 55" but the game just doesn't look good in 1080p on a 4k screen.)

In my pursuit to play BF1 and a few others in Ultra and in 4k I was tempted to build a new rig. At the last second I decided to save money and just buy a 1080Ti and let me say...money well spent. BF1 now plays with Ultra settings at 4k online without any issues.

In fact I am shocked at how much more powerful the Ti is over the standard 1080 FE I had. If I would have known the difference would be so great I would have bought the Ti much sooner. Now I do not feel the need to upgrade my CPU.

Anyways I wanted to share. carry on people!

 

[dcf-joe]

I was just looking at reviews this morning, seems like on average a Ti has a 26% increase in fps over a regular 1080.

 

[the54thvoid]

I was just looking at reviews this morning, seems like on average a Ti has a 26% increase in fps over a regular 1080.

About right but at 4K that means delivering fps from 48 on a 1080 to 60 on a 1080ti. It makes a huge difference.

 

[therealmeep]

Personally, yeah, I've played at 4k with a 1080 on a friends rig, and after i went from a 980 to a 1080ti and got myself a 4k panel, wow the difference is amazing.

About right but at 4K that means delivering fps from 48 on a 1080 to 60 on a 1080ti. It makes a huge difference.

That is especially true, considering how below refresh frames look on a non gsync panel.

 

[Tomgang]

Yeah i feel where you came from. al throw i dit not go from a GTX 1080 to TI, but from GTX 970 SLI to GTX 1080 TI. It has been a blast. GTX 1080 TI is a powerful card. Well it better be to that price it cost and that it is one of world fastes gaming GPU´s right now.

What i enjoy with GTX 1080 TI over GTX 970 sli is more power for way less power consumption.
Overflow of Vram (it is really nice not to have to look at Vram usage every time i cahnge settings in agame, but i just can cramp up eye candy as i like with out have to worry about running out of vram and game crash) and that it can handle som light 4K. In some games you have to lower eye candy a bit for plyable frames at 4k.
No sli scalling problems means full power in every game and that GTX 1080 TI for at 250 TDP card runs cool with even a small air cooler and ilde it only consumes 10 watt (at ilde GTX 970 consumes 18 watt a peace).
That EVGA card i have has cooler that is 27 CM long means one of the smallest GTX 1080 TI out there with only 2 fans and 2 slot desing. Most GTX 1080 TI are 2,5 slot desing and are 29 CM+.
So even throw this card has a small cooler for a GTX 1080 TI card it idle at 32-36 C with fan off and at max load stock about 69-72 C and with max overclock about 75 C and that is when overclock translated to a max TDP of 300 watt when power target is set to 120 %. That is great in my oppinion for such a powerful card. I am not dissapointed at all.

But if you want to try a game that totally kills even a GTX 1080 TI. Run Crysis 3 af max settings also MSAA at X8 and in 4K. frames can drop to under 30 FPS then some places in the game.

But else GTX 1080 TI has been pure joyment so far and even runs very well in my old X58 system. With the info and spec so far i have on AMD RX VEGA i am glad that i dit not wait and just got a GTX 1080 TI.

Just for fun is here a some of benchmark with my pc and GTX 970 SLI vs. GTX 1080 Ti. All results are with max stable overclock om GPU/VRAM.

GTX 970 SLI

GTX 1080 TI.

 

[5DVX0130]

Glad you're happy. Hope you got a good price for the 1080, and you didn't have to pay to much for the upgrade.

I was just looking at reviews this morning, seems like on average a Ti has a 26% increase in fps over a regular 1080.

Depending on the game, a custom 1080Ti at 4k is in some cases almost 60% faster, than a a stock 1080 »Fudge edition«.
It truly is a beast, and the only real option for 4k atm.

 

[Vayra86]

Yeah i feel where you came from. al throw i dit not go from a GTX 1080 to TI, but from GTX 970 SLI to GTX 1080 TI. It has been a blast. GTX 1080 TI is a powerful card. Well it better be to that price it cost and that it is one of world fastes gaming GPU´s right now.

What i enjoy with GTX 1080 TI over GTX 970 sli is more power for way less power consumption.
Overflow of Vram (it is really nice not to have to look at Vram usage every time i cahnge settings in agame, but i just can cramp up eye candy as i like with out have to worry about running out of vram and game crash) and that it can handle som light 4K. In some games you have to lower eye candy a bit for plyable frames at 4k.
No sli scalling problems means full power in every game and that GTX 1080 TI for at 250 TDP card runs cool with even a small air cooler and ilde it only consumes 10 watt (at ilde GTX 970 consumes 18 watt a peace).
That EVGA card i have has cooler that is 27 CM long means one of the smallest GTX 1080 TI out there with only 2 fans and 2 slot desing. Most GTX 1080 TI are 2,5 slot desing and are 29 CM+.
So even throw this card has a small cooler for a GTX 1080 TI card it idle at 32-36 C with fan off and at max load stock about 69-72 C and with max overclock about 75 C and that is when overclock translated to a max TDP of 300 watt when power target is set to 120 %. That is great in my oppinion for such a powerful card. I am not dissapointed at all.

But if you want to try a game that totally kills even a GTX 1080 TI. Run Crysis 3 af max settings also MSAA at X8 and in 4K. frames can drop to under 30 FPS then some places in the game.

But else GTX 1080 TI has been pure joyment so far and even runs very well in my old X58 system. With the info and spec so far i have on AMD RX VEGA i am glad that i dit not wait and just got a GTX 1080 TI.

Just for fun is here a some of benchmark with my pc and GTX 970 SLI vs. GTX 1080 Ti. All results are with max stable overclock om GPU/VRAM.

GTX 970 SLI

GTX 1080 TI.

21k Firestrike isn't that a bit low for a 1080ti? That kind of looks like a massive cpu bottleneck on that powerhouse. Or is this @ stock?

 

[Tomgang]

21k Firestrike isn't that a bit low for a 1080ti? That kind of looks like a massive cpu bottleneck on that powerhouse. Or is this @ stock?

Its cpu taking score down a bit compared to more modern cpu's. X58 is not new any more, but the cpu does a good job in feding the gpu in games.

The plan is for now some light 4k and the then i get a new system some time in the in furture i will get a second card used for sli.

 

[Vayra86]

Its cpu taking score down a bit compared to more modern cpu's. X58 is not new any more, but the cpu does a good job in feding the gpu in games.

The plan is for now some light 4k and the then i get a new system some time in the in furture i will get a second card used for sli.

Yeah FS Physics has made me tear my hair out, 4 cores hurting whatever card I pair with them

About SLI... strongly do not recommend, and I also think by then there are going to be some very interesting single card options available. I mean you can see everywhere that multi GPU is getting phased out. Every trend goes against it, from the recent AMD announcement, Nvidia removing it from midrange, to things like high refresh / low latency / Esports / competitive gaming. It is really going to slowly leave the marketplace.

 

[dcf-joe]

I guess I should have clarified. I was comparing 1080 to 1080 Ti at 1440P, because this is what I will be gaming at. I was also looking, because I think I am going to purchase an EVGA FTW3 1080 Ti here in the very near future to replace my regular 980. Some say it might be overkill for 1440P, but ever since I started using a 165 Hz monitor, I will take the higher frames over gaming at 4K.

 

[phanbuey]

I guess I should have clarified. I was comparing 1080 to 1080 Ti at 1440P, because this is what I will be gaming at. I was also looking, because I think I am going to purchase an EVGA FTW3 1080 Ti here in the very near future to replace my regular 980. Some say it might be overkill for 1440P, but ever since I started using a 165 Hz monitor, I will take the higher frames over gaming at 4K.

I just did this upgrade - completely worth it.

 

[Toothless]

I went from two 780s to my 1080Ti. Couldn't do real well on 5760x1080 on the SLI but the new card takes it like a champ. A few games I can't max out still though.

 

[Vayra86]

I guess I should have clarified. I was comparing 1080 to 1080 Ti at 1440P, because this is what I will be gaming at. I was also looking, because I think I am going to purchase an EVGA FTW3 1080 Ti here in the very near future to replace my regular 980. Some say it might be overkill for 1440P, but ever since I started using a 165 Hz monitor, I will take the higher frames over gaming at 4K.

That is in no way overkill.. I would say 1440p is a sweet spot resolution for the 1080ti. 4K is raising the bar to its cap, which means in half a year you'll be dialing knobs to get 60fps.

 

[therealmeep]

That is in no way overkill.. I would say 1440p is a sweet spot resolution for the 1080ti. 4K is raising the bar to its cap, which means in half a year you'll be dialing knobs to get 60fps.

Yeah what you said, right now o cannot max r6 and maintain 60fps @4k. Also, it is worth noting that 1440p 144hz requires more pixels per second than 4k 60hz.

 

[silkstone]

I was saving to get a 4K screen, I might have to reconsider and just go for a 2K one.

I'd look at upgrading, but the 1080ti is $1k over here

 

[therealmeep]

I was saving to get a 4K screen, I might have to reconsider and just go for a 2K one.

I'd look at upgrading, but the 1080ti is $1k over here

Damn man that sucks, I picked mine up for 770$ and it is awesome. The one thing I would say is if electricity is cheap per kw to mine with it mine makes about 3-4$ a day running for nicehash (electricity is 0.15$ a kW here) and hopefully recoup at least some of your investment.

 

[WhiteNoise]

Glad you're happy. Hope you got a good price for the 1080, and you didn't have to pay to much for the upgrade.


Depending on the game, a custom 1080Ti at 4k is in some cases almost 60% faster, than a a stock 1080 »Fudge edition«.
It truly is a beast, and the only real option for 4k atm.

Not selling my GTX 1080. I should considering the prices they go for used but I have to maintain 3 gaming rigs here at home and my daughter is running my old GTX 980 so I plan to pop the 1080 in her rig and the wife is running a R9 280x so I will swap the GTX 980 in that. If I do anything I will sell the 280x.

I guess I should have clarified. I was comparing 1080 to 1080 Ti at 1440P, because this is what I will be gaming at. I was also looking, because I think I am going to purchase an EVGA FTW3 1080 Ti here in the very near future to replace my regular 980. Some say it might be overkill for 1440P, but ever since I started using a 165 Hz monitor, I will take the higher frames over gaming at 4K.

That is the card I bought. with the iCX cooler. Bloody fantastic out of the box.

That is in no way overkill.. I would say 1440p is a sweet spot resolution for the 1080ti. 4K is raising the bar to its cap, which means in half a year you'll be dialing knobs to get 60fps.

Yeah running 4k means exactly that. As new games push the envelope I will have to start tweaking the settings. But I do have a record of buying a new video card each year nvidia releases. I rarely go more than two years on a card.

 

[silapakorn]

I hesitate to go 4K since I'm afraid that tasks other than gaming will suck on it. I switched from 1080p to 1440p two years ago and discovered that besides games are more demanding on my current GPU, watching full HD movies or reading scanned documents at higher resolution feels lacking for some reasons. These media have fixed resolutions which are too small for 1440p screen and stretching them won't help as sharpness will be reduced too.

I'm planning to replace my GTX980 with something more powerful soon, but as for screen resolution I think I will stick with 1440p for now.

 

[Vayra86]

I hesitate to go 4K since I'm afraid that tasks other than gaming will suck on it. I switched from 1080p to 1440p two years ago and discovered that besides games are more demanding on my current GPU, watching full HD movies or reading scanned documents at higher resolution feels lacking for some reasons. These media have fixed resolutions which are too small for 1440p screen and stretching them won't help as sharpness will be reduced too.

I'm planning to replace my GTX980 with something more powerful soon, but as for screen resolution I think I will stick with 1440p for now.

Main reason I will never go to 4K either. I don't see the advantages in PPI on this typical view distance, especially not over a 1440p at 27 inch, which is quite a sweet spot tbh. Also, with TXAA @ 1080p and with AA being progressively less costly over time, jaggies are becoming less of an issue even playing on my current 1080p.

And that doesn't even touch on high refresh rate, which really is king for gaming, definitely trumps high resolution. Because this will still remain a definite choice for many years to come still, you just can't have both without sacrificing IQ.

 

[Toothless]

Main reason I will never go to 4K either. I don't see the advantages in PPI on this typical view distance, especially not over a 1440p at 27 inch, which is quite a sweet spot tbh. Also, with TXAA @ 1080p and with AA being progressively less costly over time, jaggies are becoming less of an issue even playing on my current 1080p.

And that doesn't even touch on high refresh rate, which really is king for gaming, definitely trumps high resolution. Because this will still remain a definite choice for many years to come still, you just can't have both without sacrificing IQ.

I just like playing pretty games at an unreasonable resolution.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

I wanted to upgrade to 1080Ti at some point (I've even ordered an Aorus 1080Ti but cancelled the order) when I wanted to go into mining...but I've realised there is no point now as all of my games are working very well on the 1080 so I will wait for Volta. I will definitely buy a new card in 6 months or so

EDIT: Congrats for the card!!!

 

[ratirt]

I got a 4k screen but for my current rig setup sometimes it's just slide show. Anyway i'm going to replace my card soon. Either way it is worth it. Any game at 4k is breathtaking. As soon as I get a new Video card it will be just flawless. worth every penny

 

[RejZoR]

"4K and breathtaking" It seems like people never used FSAA or something...

 

[ratirt]

"4K and breathtaking" It seems like people never used FSAA or something...

yeah breathtaking. haven't you ever tried 4k? for me it looks great. FSAA you can apply for 4k as well. Although it doesn't give much.

 

[phanbuey]

When you keep moving your face closer to the screen the detail keeps increasing... its pretty awesome.

Although I do personally prefer the 144hz+ fluidity over the detail. Soon tho we will have both.