Revealed: Nvidia's Next Flagship Graphics Card, the GTX 980Ti

@deviltaz35@fvckgabenewell: the new ultra wide screens that are out are going to make 2 or 3 screen gameing set ups obsolete

@BabeNewelll: whats that even mean you fat money sucking leach

@rasterror: 2016 2x performance per watt vs Maxwell.

@zeca04@jinzo9988: I have a 980GTX thank you very much. Stop talking out of your ass. $470 is already roughly $120-$170 more expensive than anything you can get from the current gen. I hope that includes the price of an operating system as well... which if it doesn't, congrats, you've added another healthy chunk of money to that overall total (around $100 more give or take). Even if you don't factor in the cost of an OS, it's not comparable. Any way you slice it you're spending significantly more money on a PC.

Furthermore, that's never the argument that people who cry over console hardware take. They always talk about current tech doing 4K and all that other nonsense, and having a system that actually produces that resolution at a playable frame rate with the other settings not being turned down all the way is going to cost you a very pretty penny.

Let's also mention upgrading. Consoles don't have to be upgraded unless you're going from one generation to the other. If you're building a system and trying to compete with a console in price, you're making a sacrifice somewhere that's going to come back and bite you in the rear end in 2 to 3 years, and even if that part(s) is inexpensive to upgrade, you're eventually going to run into the motherboard socket type being discontinued and you'll be forced to upgrade both the motherboard and the CPU in one shot. Not only are PCs more expensive but they're also more expensive over time. Look at the last generation... I mean technically the Xbox 360 is still supported. It's been around for almost 10 years. Please tell me you could've built a PC in 2005 that competed with the Xbox 360 in specs and price and still have it continue to play games that are coming out today (and not indie titles, I'm talking about games like Shadow of Mordor, Titanfall and Far Cry 4).

@zair: You are right but I need that extra VRAM since I'm going for higher resolution. Support for a single card set up is a lot better than SLI too.

@Ant_17@DarkLight748: What a stupid comment....

@Ant_17@DarkLight748: Yeah, because you can only use this card to game on pc. If you dare to use a cheaper card, the world will explode.

That's what I also do. PCgamer is the right answer.

@StHapns247@Renunciation: Yeah, I was being a bit melodramatic.

As much as people hate Alienware, I was considering picking up one of their more recent laptops (like the 15 or 17) with the graphics amplifier (eventually), and that's where the 980 Ti would potentially come in.

Haven't quite made up my mind yet, though. ...Mostly because it's Alienware and we're all supposed to hate it and make comments about "lol i maek pc for half price of dat hahaha".

It's been rough looking for the right laptop, though. I want to do digital art with a touchscreen and stylus instead of the old Bamboo tablet I've been using; it's been pretty nice, but drawing on one surface while looking at another to see the image just isn't ideal in any circumstance.

So my laptop has to have a touchscreen. And I'd like to use it for gaming, too -- without it becoming almost completely obsolete in 4-5 years, like the one I am currently using and seeking to replace.

I had no idea that gaming laptops were so anti-touchscreen until lately. :s

(Not into Apple stuff either, so that's a no-go.)

Eurogamer.net already has an article comparing them.

@zair@Tiwill44: It will be slightly behind a Titan X at standard clocks but there will be options for factory overclocked models , possibly even overclocked memory . It will be interesting. It will nearly 50% better than a standard 980. The aftermarket coolers from Asus/Gigabyte/EVGA etc will make things very interesting.

This could end up being a bargain card for the top end.

I already have Batman and the season pass organised though so that's a bummer that is the game they give away.

@zeca04@Tiwill44: sure it will with the refresh whenever that happens.