Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Morning, y'all.  Any ideas about the performance difference between the GTX 1080 FTW and the soon-to-be-1080Ti?   Any guesses on price for the Ti?   Just curious, because I just ordered the 1080FTW v. 2 yesterday ( I sold my two 980 FTWs on a spur of the moment thing to a friend at work)  and hence I need a new card. But....the 1080 FTW is the card I've wanted for a long while since V.1 came out--and when I heard about all the problems, then I saw that EVGA was releasing a V2 with an improved cooling system for the same price, I picked up V 2 w/ICX instead. I dunno....The rumoured 2 GB more RAM, 160GB/sec bandwidth, and 500+ more CUDA cores on the 1080Ti sounds like a considerable improvement over the 1080 FTW...BUT I'm guessing the performance difference will be equal to the 980Ti vs. the 980 FTW (which was about 10 to 20% overall if even that large) for what was then about 1000 dollars USD at launch in June 2015.  I'm giving an educated guess that the price and performance will be about the same for the 1080Ti.  And really, that margin of 20% max increase isn't all that much...SO, is the extra money that will be spent on the new Ti really worth the wait for its release, compared to buying the FTW2 (or any other ACX 3/iCX card) now?

I mean, up here in Canada....whatever the price is in USD you can add at least a 20% mark-up simply because stuff is going to Canada. (I've seen this happen with electronics especially- and TVs in particular) Canadians always pay more. Even at a rock bottom price of 500 USD, there's conversion of 155 dollars, plus a retail mark-up of at least 20% (because stores need to make a profit, of course), plus tax...and that rock bottom price of 500 US Dollars comes out to a grand total of 888.  Now...if the initial MSRP is higher, i.e. 1000 dollars or more....Of course the net price is going to be higher as is the margin of cost between "now and new".  So...again, is the performance difference really going to justify the cost and the time we've all spent waiting?   And that is not to mention those who already have a current ACX 3.0 model (y'all have to pay an additional 100 USD to 'upgrade' to the new iCX system if you want it) on top of whatever amount you spent for your original purchase.  Any way you look at it, that is a high price to pay. 

The more I think about it, the more I feel that I don't really want or need the 1080Ti... I'm just thinking out-loud here, throwing out random thoughts and questions...trying to get a feel for the general consensus of the market.

And most importantly...now that we know for certain what the Specs are--that Recommended is a 3GB GTX 1060, I think that even my 2 980s could handle Ultra @ 1440p, so the 1080TI would just be an ego-booster and turn out to be a very expensive paper weight until games are produced that could even come close to utilizing that technology.

Thoughts?

I have my doubts that the 1080 Ti is going to be 20% faster than 1080. That is pretty fucking significant; 20% is huge. I also have doubts that 2X 980s cant compete with 1080 Ti. IMO I think its going to be close. I think you should have kept your 980s and possibly waited for 1080 Ti but even then I don't think its worth it. The benchmarks say 2X 980s are faster than a single 1080. Sorry, I think you got robbed.

Intel core i7 6700 3,4 Ghz
16GB Ram
MSI Geforce GTX 1070 X 8G
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
LG Ultrawide Full HD Monitor 29"

Brand new system, and I think for this game it's gonna bang!

Intel core i7 6700 3,4 Ghz
16GB Ram
MSI Geforce GTX 1070 X 8G
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
LG Ultrawide Full HD Monitor 29"

Brand new system, and I think for this game it's gonna bang!

If the game will support SLI it will be more than alright
If not, probably low-medium settings.

That's true, if the game would support DX12 AND SLI then it would be possible that 2x2GB=4GB, but I don't think it will support it..

That's true, if the game would support DX12 AND SLI then it would be possible that 2x2GB=4GB, but I don't think it will support it..

I only have 2 GB VRAM per GPU though, and if I have understood things correctly then SLI does not combine the two VRAMs together to 4 GB. Then I will have a total of 2GB and I feel it might not be enough. Certainly not if SLI isn't supported

I remember having to upgrade megabytes of ram to play phantasmagoria 2

medium with some high settings in there still, i'd bet

The 270 is roughly the same as a 1050ti.  If you have the cash, the 1060 6gb is practically twice as good performance wise

x50 series gpus are a niche market for running power from the motherboard instead of directly from the psu