GTX 970 or 980 or 980TI? (Excluding TITAN and QUADRO)

[Morne]

Hi all

Currently I have a 4GB GTX 670, but I'm speccing a new PC...

Whats the current "standard" for best performance price ratio for viewport as well as some RT? (Excluding TITAN and QUADRO, too expensive)

Am I looking at the GTX 970 or 980 or 980Ti? Anything else? (not AMD)
How much RAM will these have? 4GB? do you get higher?

[glorybound]

I have the 970, which I got with the advise of this forum. It is a 4GB card and it does alright.

Hi all

Currently I have a 4GB GTX 670, but I'm speccing a new PC...

Whats the current "standard" for best performance price ratio for viewport as well as some RT? (Excluding TITAN and QUADRO, too expensive)

Am I looking at the GTX 970 or 980 or 980Ti? Anything else? (not AMD)
How much RAM will these have? 4GB? do you get higher?

[Morne]

I have the 970, which I got with the advise of this forum. It is a 4GB card and it does alright.

If you could do it all over again, would you get the same card? Which brand did you get? MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire?

Also, did you decide which PC you're getting. I'm in the market for a new one also and leaning towards the i7 6700, although not ruling out the 5820 (not sure if you still get those) hmmm is it now the 5820 or the 5280 - I forget

[glorybound]

I am not sure which one I got, I didn't know there was a difference. Would I do it all over again? I went from a $2000 card to a $300 card, and the $300 card performs better, so yes. However, I am not using it for Rt, because for most of my scenes, there isn't enough ram in it.

I haven't gotten a new machine, yet. Every time I sit waiting for a render to finish I think, there is no way I can't get a faster machine, but I end up getting through things and I decide against it. Every time I spec a machine, 1/2 the people think it would be the bomb, and the other 1/2 says it's a mistake, so I get cold feet. If we were talking a grand, not a big deal, but we are talking 4-5 grand. Currently, I have to save money for taxes, so it will not be for at least 3-4 months before I can even think about something new.

If you get something new, I would love to hear how it goes.

[glorybound]

That CostCo (big box store) PC had 16GB of RAM, a 4GB video card, and it had the i7 6700. It was $699, which is tempting to just test. My bottleneck is CPU. Currently, I have a 2.8GHZ Xeon, which can't be overclocked. I was reading that the i7-6700 can be overclocked to 4.5GHZ. I know that there are a lot of things that make a machine fast, but to the laymen, it looks faster than what I have. I paid $1,300 for my current rig and it has worked good for a year. When I purchased it a year ago, it was already a year old, so I would expect I could get 2X the machine for 1/2 the price, 2 years later. If that is correct, the $699 computer should be faster than what I have now.

[Morne]

The 6700K can be overclocked, not the 6700

[glorybound]

Gotcha, good to know. Isn't the 4700 faster? I was reading that it is the fastest process we have.

The 6700K can be overclocked, not the 6700

[glorybound]

The confusing thing, to me, is the speed. It seems that the higher the Ghz speed doesn't mean that it is faster. It's like each car having its own speedometer numbers, which would be crazy. 100mph would mean different things to different cars.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

[particlerealities]

FYI - I looked up the specs on that XPS 8900, and assuming it's a Dell, the Dell website lists the power supply at 460 Watts. If you're looking to upgrade the GPU, the NVidia GTX 980 Ti specs out at 250 Watts, and recommends a 600 Watt or greater power supply. The Dell site says it can handle up to 225 Watts for the GPU.

[Morne]

The higher speed is for SINGLE threaded stuff only. Slower cores, but more of them, will be faster.
It's like a lamborgini pulling a caravan. Even though the car is fast, give it some load and it stands still. Do same thing with an 18 wheeler. The truck is slow, but it will pull the heck out of the caravan

[glorybound]

Makes sense, kind of.

The higher speed is for SINGLE threaded stuff only. Slower cores, but more of them, will be faster.
It's like a lamborgini pulling a caravan. Even though the car is fast, give it some load and it stands still. Do same thing with an 18 wheeler. The truck is slow, but it will pull the heck out of the caravan

[hubmer3]

hy,

i will also upgrade my rig this year. the new chip's are on their road.
i wait till summer and go for a 6900k or better if i can afford it a 6950x.

[Morne]

There's always something new coming out in few months. If you wait everytime, you'll never upgrade

[hubmer3]

i'm waiting since 2 months now....but there no cunsumer chip that would be worth an upgrade to my current i7 2600k @ 4.4 for me...
i need horsepower but i won't go with a xeon....

[Libertyman86]

i'm waiting since 2 months now....but there no cunsumer chip that would be worth an upgrade to my current i7 2600k @ 4.4 for me...
i need horsepower but i won't go with a xeon....

there is a lot of things to consider when buying: price, speed, core/thread count, power consumption, heat, integrates vs. dedicated graphics....

What is it that you are looking for? Is there a product that you expect to be announced?