I don't know what you're talking about, but a GTX 690 is not more powerful than a GTX 980. It's a 2 generation old card. It performs about the same, or worse than a GTX 980 in newer games.
So same performance for a 3 year old used card and higher power usage is not a steal by any means.
It would be nice if you didn't spread bad information like that in case people who aren't all that tech savvy went with your advice.
Here's a benchmark of a 980 vs a 690. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1184?vs=1351
The increase of 30-40% is not there as you claim.
Damn.
I'd get two 980s, but I want more vRAM. 4GB is insufficient for me, but Titan X's 12GB is too much. I wanted a card with 6-8GB vRAM, that'd hit my sweet spot.
The new chip will be released during the computex, June 2nd to 6th, so only one or two weeks after TW3 release.
I've read here http://www.pcgamer.com/new-witcher-3-details-ciri-cities-real-time-beard-growth/ that for a fluid gameplay on 1080p with everything on maximum +nvidia hairworks we need a GTX 980, well, f**k
Is there anything strange about that..? of course for maxing the game you'll require a top GPU, how would they sell them otherwise?
i find strange that we need the most powerful gpu in the world to get the game on maximum
But it's not the most powerful gpu in the world.
which is the most powerful gpu?
ok, so we need the second most powerful gpu to max the game out, great
ok, so we need the second most powerful gpu to max the game out, great
You may want to read this if you're judging the games performance at max settings and thinking it's automatically unoptimized garbage or something along those lines. The sarcastic tone of your post is telling enough.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=885444
If the game is pushing crazy technology at max settings all the while being an open world, then yea, it is great that something like a 980 can max it at 60fps. Doesn't say anything about optimization or it being bad.