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comment by cgod

Benchmarks on cards that aren't even out ran against the last generation of Nvidia cards?

People have had the new Nvidia cards for a few weeks to benchmark, and they are blowing last gen of Nvidia cards out of the water.

I'd wait a few months and let people poke at all the new cards for a bit, see what's really what.

Generally better to buy the best single card you can afford now and than SLI/Crossfire later when prices come down when you need an upgrade than to replace both cards later. Not everyone feel that way.

Hope the best for AMD, the better they do the better off we all are. Nvidia and Intel could both do with some more competition.





bioemerl  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The 1080 is pretty new, isn't it?

cgod  ·  3100 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They've been on the market for a month or so.

Reviewers just got the AMD cards last week and are allowed to print benchmarks this week.

It's a good time to buy a new video card but I'd wait a month or so and let the pros figure out what is what.

snoodog  ·  3108 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really think SLI is a waste of money. You don't get enough of a performance bump and you get all sorts of wierd compatibility problems. Not worth it unless you are doing rendering or some other really GPU crazy stuff

cgod  ·  3108 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's how I feel but there is a hardcore slice of the gaming world that feels differently.

It doesn't seem to be a bad upgrade solution if your single card isn't cutting it anymore and a matching card has become dirt cheap because it's a few years old but I've never gone down that path.

user-inactivated  ·  3108 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The majority extreme gaming types have more dollars than sense.

That said, I'm sitting on two Titan Xs, but I use them primarily for crunching, because they're much cheaper than cards marketed for that kind of work. For that reason I like the computer ricers.