With Titan X launching now you will be able to find some 980's for about $450-500. AMD will be releasing the new 390X in a little bit too, so if you want to upgrade for cheap stay on the lookout for those crazy deals over these next couple months. I just picked up a 2nd 980 for $430. In case anyone didnt know and was curious about future compatibility, a GTX 980 can run games decently well at around 60FPS(ish) on a 4K display through DisplayPort. So it will have a few years of life to it.
What is the word on new CPUs at the moment? I was thinking about replacing my OC'd FX6300 around 2015Q3 - 2016Q1. Are we expect new intel chips anytime soon for the desktop platform?
Intel is supposed to be releasing desktop Skylake processors around the end of this year. Skylake is only looking to be about 5% more performance though than current desktop processors. A bit of power savings though and big increases in iGPU performance. But none of us here ever use the iGPU so it doesnt matter. AMD has nothing releasing till sometime 2016. The Excavator core will only be for mobile and low power this year. The two new architectures are due next year and we dont have much info on them other than AMD finally put a good team of engineers back together including the guy who designed the very best architectures AMD had ever made.
IF your willing to purchase DDR4 ram, then yes, there will be new stuff late this year i believe. I personally am going to hold onto DDR3 as long as i can
I am hoping to see the 980's drop in price as soon as the 390's are released. I may pick 2 of them up to replace my current GTX 570's for this current system. I also plan on building a completely new rig once Broadwell E is released, hopefully the new line of GPU's from NVidia will stay on the same performance gains as they have been for the last few years.
At least till DDR4 starts offering the promised speeds of 3.5-4GHz Personally, Id much rather see a shift to Hynix's HBM memory for full system memory. Latency of different actions is very similar to DDR3 from what I can see and yet the bandwidth is just massively more. Where DDR4-3200 gets 25.6GB/s of bandwidth we would have two channels of HMB getting 300GB/s. If you expanded that out to a whole stick of chips we would have 8 channels providing up to 16GB of total memory and giving 1.2TB/s of bandwidth. While using less power and taking less space than current DDR3/4 implementations. Expanding to 2 slots could give a max of 32GB of RAM and up to 2.4TB/s of bandwidth. A year or two from now we could be looking at up to 64GB of total RAM for the system. Graphics cards will be getting into the 20GB+ of vram sizes over these next couple years too. AMD plans on scaling up their HBM on next gen stuff (after 390X) and Nvidia talked about their 3D memory implementation with their next gen Pascal architecture and how it will have 24GB or so onboard.
HBM = $$$ Though-silicon vias and 3d packaging are big bucks stuffs. It would be weird to see it first on semi-commodity stuff in the consumer market like system-memory. More likely to pop up on graphics memory, IMO.
Enigma what do u think about the Titan X ? Is it worth it ? Or a source of tears when the 980 TI will be released ? I'm thinking about upgrading my 780 GHZ edition (Gigabyte) as it's far from 98 FPS in 1440p gamin. The thing is that i dunno what should i get with my current config : I got an i5 3570k My PSU is 650W What should i do ? Look for the Titan and cry ? Wait for the 980 TI (hope i'll have enough power) ? Look at the R3 hoping that they will have decent drivers ?
Titan X is nice, but it is $250 overpriced IMO. If we see a "980Ti" then it should be the exact same thing but with 6GB of memory which is all you need right now. But even in 1440p gaming the benchmarks were showing it only averaging 80 or so FPS in most games turned up high. Dual 980's were faster and averaging 95 fps in most things, and they cost the same as a Titan X when you find the 980's used. Which there will be a lot of 980s for sale right about now as people get their new Titan.
The thing I found interesting is the performance of the Titan X when OC'ed in a couple of instances it was hitting dam near the same performance as 980 in SLI, however with less power and less noise. (SOURCE)Pure raw performance the 980's in SLI would obviously win especially if they were OC'ed also, but then it comes down to power consumption and noise. Cost would be about the same for the SLI 980's vs a single Titan X. After reading more on the Titan X I can say I am considering it. I know that AMD is about to release their 390's but I have never been a fan of ATI nor their driver issues.
I had a single 290 and CF 290's ... Worst experience with graphics since the last time I ran ATI ... I am going to grab a Titan X as it will work great with my asus 27" ROG and my soon to be acer 27" 1440p gsync IPS
In any case with my 640W Corsair PSU can i even run an OC'ed Titan X (or 980 TI) ? I guess Titan / 980 are less demanding than the 780 (which currently runs) ?
yes you can, a single one. Or dual 980's in a mild OC config. Maxwell is pretty power efficient, though at extreme overclocks it does get power hungry.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4399192 ... quick run stock everything CPU/GPU stock and vs my 780 ti in same set up http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/4399192/fs/2295460
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FZH4hM ... so for shits and gigs I put this up ... Mind you my second samsung monitor is not listed at all WTF DID YOU DO TO ME ENIGMA !!!
Haha. Sorry (no Im not ) "Better than 98% of all results" Damn, Im jealous. WHen I look at how much my computer cost, I always find myself saying in my head in that Sterling Archer voice: "Just how deep in the red am I… out of my mind?! Oh no. How? How did I spend that much money?!"
Erock, With both Crowfall and Camelot Unchained coming out with Physics, do you think running one of your old GPU's as a dedicated PhysiX will make a definitive difference? Could you pull some benches running that?
I dont think Erock has any old GPUs. They all "break" when a new one is released But if someone needs some tests or if Erock wants to test himself, I have a couple 980's and a few 670's around.