Basically nvidia are moving everything up a tier for pricing, which sucks. 1070 is 980 price, 1080 is 980ti price. Question is whether they adjust those down next year when the 1080ti comes out, or they'll just price the 1080ti even higher
Really does suck, I mean I've got a bit of money for a new card, but I'm not spending more than £350 for one. So it'll either be a 1070 or the 480X.
Does EVGA do the step up program in the UK? I just sold my 970 and I'm wondering whether I can just use integrated graphics (ie no gaming), or possibly get an interim card.
Dunno but what I did was swung my trusty EVGA 980 SC on Amazon sellers market quick time (because eBay seller fees are now ridiculous) and managed to get a healthy 270 quid for it after fees. I then purchased a £93 GTX 750 Ti that I'm going to return in 3 and a half weeks (I'm going to try avoid paying a restocking fee...) to get my money back.
Then, if any of the new cards are out and are the right price, I'll open the purse strings. If not, I'll get an old, filthy and used 290 to tide me over for another 4 weeks which I'll probably keep to play around with overclocking.
As an aside I've been having fun overclocking the little 750 Ti I bought just today. Running it with a 1285 Mhz boost clock.
Boss★Moogle;204643353 said:
Even if you could possibly get a 980Ti a little cheaper than a 1070. I think that would be a mistake for a few reasons. First off the 1070 has 33% more memory than the 980Ti which could make it a little more future-proof especially if 4K becomes the standard. Second, it's a new architecture and nVidia will mainly focus on Pascal when developing their drivers from now on; it's why nVidia cards don't age well. And lastly and most importantly, the 1070 has a huge overclocking potential and hopefully the custom cards will come with more than a single 8-pin connector to get the most out of these cards, but even with a single 8-pin connector a 25% overclock should be possible.
Where are you getting the information from that the 1070 is a huge overclocker? Compared to Maxwell, Pascal seems to overclock a little less comparatively, no? If you read the reviews and not get bamboozled by that mythical '2ghz core clock' marketing. Iirc you can get an 10-12% core-clock OC on the 1080, which is hardly a 'huge overclocker'.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/30.html