Why? GTX 1070 is looking damn good to me. I thought Nvidia is finally getting it right lol.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this but AMD GPUs tend to have higher frame latency/stutter in many games which Nvidia cards do not. This translates into noticeable microstutters/choppiness whilst gaming. If you'd like I can link you to some comparisons that show the measured frame latency of several cards.
Primarily because AMD are going to have good open drivers. Firstly, AMD will release open Vulkan driver (Nvidia won't, at least they didn't say anything about that, their current Vulkan driver is closed). Secondly, Radeonsi (open OpenGL in Mesa for AMD GCN GPUs) is becoming better than closed AMD OpenGL implementation in performance, and almost caught it up on features (not a lot left until OpenGL 4.5, see here https://mesamatrix.net ).
Plus AMD is pushing open and cross vendor graphics and physics libraries (GPUOpen), while Nvidia still pushes their lock-in which doesn't work properly on competition (Gameworks).
Open reverse engineered Nvidia driver (Nouveau) on the other hand still lacks reclocking so it's not suitable for gaming. And Nvidia doesn't want to provide proper open kernel driver either, and I'm growing tired of their closed blob which I'm using for games now.
So I'd say in the near future AMD cards will become the preferable choice for Linux gamers, because AMD is finally getting it right, while Nvidia stays in the dark ages when it comes to openness.
That not to mention that upcoming Polaris does look very promising even from just hardware perspective. But hardware is always half of the picture. Drivers are the second half.
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I wouldn't measure anything by current games. Very few games yet use Vulkan, and those which do can actually benefit from proper asynchronous compute that AMD have (and Nvidia don't).
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I see. But I think Nvidia isn't sitting around doing nothing either. They are probably working on stuff quietly.
May be, but we can't estimate it, while AMD's efforts are measurable and we can see results in practice already. If Nvidia will open up their drivers - I might reconsider.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4obao1/asus_gtx_1080_strix_major_qc_issues/
Yikes! Better stay away from Asus for the time being..
Yikes! Better stay away from Asus for the time being..
Yeah, ASUS had issues during assembly where the heatsinks and thermal paste weren't being applied properly. This is why the cards were delayed a week (had to go back and fix all the cards). I'm going to attempt to purchase the Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming when it goes up for sale tonight
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I just ordered one 2 minutes ago. One of our local PC stores has 11 of them coming in a few days and I'm currently nb. 4 in the line. My vacation starts after next week and I pray I'll get my hands on it before it..Yeah, ASUS had issues during assembly where the heatsinks and thermal paste weren't being applied properly. This is why the cards were delayed a week (had to go back and fix all the cards). I'm going to attempt to purchase the Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming when it goes up for sale tonight
Good luck! Hope ya get one in time. I'm about to try and get one before they sell out in a matter of minutes at Newegg lol.
Good luck. A big store like newegg is going to attract tons of people who are lusting over those cards. So be quick.
Also, just noticed that the card comes with 4 year warranty.
But it damn better with that price tag:
http://www.jimms.fi/fi/Product/Show...tx-1080-xtreme-gaming-naytonohjain-8gb-gddr5x
If I had patience and the willpower to stop gaming for a few of months I'd wait for fall and the inevitable price drops. But I'm dying to play Blood & Wine so no can do..
Since I don't plan on scrolling through the past 1,500+ posts, how did the P.C. turn out, Siri? Did you end up completing it?
No dice
. All 100 cards in stock sold out in 1 minute and 40 seconds at Newegg lol. It's probably my fault cause I was greedy and took extra time to enter a coupon code and used Paypal login to get an extra 2% cash back... if I skipped the $10 coupon and Paypal login I would have checked out a minute faster and gotten one. It's not a big deal though since I didn't really want the premium package (I have no use for the extras it comes with). Hopefully the non-premium version is released soon and I have better luck with that one.And damn, those are expensive there. Here the premium Xtreme Gaming is $699 and I believe the non-premium version will be $679. I'm also in the same boat as you (wanting to play TW3 on max settings). I still haven't even played the base game more than roughly 10 hours or so because I wanted to wait until both expansions had been released before playing.
I sure did! I'm using it right now to type this message
It's a great gaming PC. It plays everything in ultra, most at 60fps, the Witcher 3 at about 50
I sure did! I'm using it right now to type this message
It's a great gaming PC. It plays everything in ultra, most at 60fps, the Witcher 3 at about 50
Very nice. How much did it end up costing you, all-in-all?
Damn. Better luck next time.No dice
Yup. Usually the price is roughly the US price + VAT (24% here) but now since the supply is so scarce that has bumped up the prices quite a bit.
In comparison, I just checked how much that Xtreme model costs in Germany's Mindfactory and it was 1150€..
I don't remember exactly but it was around £1200, which included assembly by the store I bought it from
Here are the speccs for my new PC.
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 @ 3.2ghz.
RAM: 16GB DD4-2400
BOARD: Asus Z170-E
GPU: GTX 1070
SSD: 850 Pro
OS: Windows 10
DISPLAY: Acer 27" 1440p 60hz
Only waiting on the GTX 1070.
How much you pay for this awesomeness? How many watts is your power source?
The cost for the PC itself was $935 USD (assuming the price of the 1070 doesn't go up). Monitor was $250 USD.
Power supply is a Corsair RM 750.
edit: I split the cost with my brother under the condition that each person gets to keep their respective parts when they move out. I own the display, GPU, SSD and case.
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