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Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Aug 21, 2018 10:15:28 GMT
So I had this plan, buy the top of the line card from Nvidia, the 980Ti at the time. Then ignore the next generation (1080Ti) and wait for the replacement.
Well, Nvidia has announced the 2080Ti, so the plan should be I buy one. Well right up to the point where I see the price!
OMFG! it's eleven hundred pounds! Over a fecking grand for a graphics card! The 980Ti cost enough three years ago at £530 at this rate I'll be looking at a lower level card. Not even the 1080 but the 2070!
I'll wait for the benchmarks and reviews to make a decision, it's not even like AMD has anything close to the performance of these new cards.
Feck!
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Post by [-44-] Hogan on Aug 21, 2018 11:33:31 GMT
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Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Aug 22, 2018 21:12:23 GMT
Someone has explained what is going on and it sort of makes sense. They are getting rid of Titan and that slot in the range is the XX80Ti
Titan = 2080Ti £1100 1080Ti = 2080 £ 750 1080 = 2070 £ 560
When you look at it this way then it makes it a little easier to accept. If I'm to keep to my original plan I should be replacing my 980Ti with a 2080, still a lot of money. More than I can justify right now but the benchmarks will tell the whole story.
Given I'm going to be ditching Windows and moving to Linux it might be a better idea to wait until the next generation of AMD cards. AMD works better with Linux than Nvidia as the drivers are built directly into the kernel. With Nvidia, you have to install a driver much like with Windows. It's a separate bit of software and is proprietary, AMD opensource their work and it's baked right into the kernel of the OS giving an advantage. AMD cards tend to perform better than Nvidia on Linux, better than they do on Windows.
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Post by [-44-] Hue Jorgan on Aug 26, 2018 17:49:34 GMT
I have the Nvidia GTX Titan X its a poky card for sure you could get one of these, better be quick tho there are only 10 left in stock NVIDIA Quadrolink
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Post by [-44-] smoggzilla on Aug 26, 2018 18:14:31 GMT
has technology peaked? graphics don't appear any better than they did 5 years ago. also with just about everything being available on console and their GPU are nowhere near as good as ours, is there even any point?
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Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Aug 26, 2018 19:05:28 GMT
Most people have 1920x1080 monitors and you can run a game on a potato for that screen rez. Only if you go over that to 1440 or 4K do you need a powerful card.
CPU's are more powerful than they were but, to be honest, they became powerful enough for 90% of people around ten years ago.
Do I need 8 cores and 16 threads? No, not really. In day to day stuff and light gaming, the sandy bridge quad core in my laptop is more than enough.
An XBox with a keyboard and mouse would probably do for most of our gaming needs.
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Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Jan 26, 2019 20:50:26 GMT
I admit it I was at a low ebb when I made that poist. I have since cheard myself up by spending far more than I can afford on a new graphics card.
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