I have heard that it is rumored that a new series of graphics card lineup from Nvidia may be coming in early 2018.
 
Have you heard those rumors, and should I wait and not buy anything now?!

And you may find it finally around June/July! Lol

So buy now and sell later when the better version of the card is out in june/July or August.

1080Ti rocks and I own one. That being said my personal opinion would be wait if you don't NEED now and see what's up. If you need a card today you won't be unhappy with the Ti.

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arestavo
And remember that the step up program, when the card is purchased from an authorised retailer, is good for 90 days from the date of purchase: https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/

True but what if the card is out of stock on evga.com and you do the step up?
 
Do you have to ship your card back immediately and be without a dedicated video card for months ?

Did you read the link?
 
You don't send the card in until the exchange is ready. Yes, there is a lag due to you shipping the card to EVGA and them verifying the card wasn't intentionally broken, and then the step up being shipped back to you. When I did it with my 1080 to 1080 Ti it took about a week total, not counting the weekend, where I was forced back on my old 980 Ti.

If you wait for something new, you'll never upgrade.

True.. if say wait if it was a month or 2. But im sure there will be a paper launch in the next 3.

Should not wait 6 no the cause 6 months or less after the new card hits a faster to will follow.

I'm going to get a 980 ti now (good used price), then buy a new card at launch.
 
I'll play it safe, and I'm sure I could still sell the 980 ti for at least $200.00 at the launch of the new cards

EVGA Step-Up program is always nice for this reason as others pointed out, just a matter of timing it right. But fact is, as with every single year, nobody really knows the exact date Nvidia or AMD will be releasing their next line of products. But with Titan Volta just being released, it likely won't be "much longer" until we see some more products from Nvidia coming. for now, what can't a 1080 run, if you were running a 700 Series card i'd say upgrade yesterday, but a 1080? about 98% of steam users would kill to have a 1080

Oh man, well I could feel ur pain in that case lol, I can see your tough spot. I can imagine you're itching to spend the $$$$ now, but i am going to tell you what I wish people would tell me......WAIT! Only a few more months and *likely* we should see some more cards on the horizon. Not many games out there a 590 can't technically "run". The longer you wait, the more satisfying the upgrade is going to feel. At least wait until the end of January then pick up a 1080 on sale or something, which should give you a long enough window for Nvidia to put out their next generation of GPUs, so you can use EVGA step-up.

I didn't look, but I think its 3 GB, shared on both GPU's, but im not sure - lol
 
 
Edit:  I just looked, and I was right - lol

OGM3X
Just bought myself this yesterday for Christmas  will be here Thursday ! 

Congrats! Enjoy it like ya stole it!

VegetaCreeper I would buy the 1080 Ti now in today's market for gpu's you'll still get 80 percent of your money back 6 months or even a year from now even a 1070 still sells for almost what it cost at launch used when the new cards come out if you want to upgrade sell then I have a 1080Ti Sc Black and it is a beast so you won't regret buying the Ti now even if you don't upgrade.

I would buy a 1080ti now and skip volta

Honestly, I am quite happy with my 2 1080 Ti's I got back at the end of August with the Step-Up.

Nothing comes close to performance and given were practically at a cut off for performance gains till some REAL CPU's come out, long time ahead for me anyways to worry about upgrading GPU's.

Just need to weigh the costs. For me.. it was an Additional $120 each GPU, but for 35/40% Gains, far worth it. I dont even have a 4K screen yet so lots of power to be had. Who knows when VOLTA will release, or "Ampere".

If you cant wait, jump now.

pozzallo
Would the Titan Xp with 3840 cuda cores be a better buy than gtx 1080 ti elite gaming 12 ghz memory. thanks in advance

 
 




only if you don't like money.

1080 Ti is still superior, XP only has 1GB more memory. Performance is pretty much even, maybe 2-3% more then a 1080 Ti for twice the cost.

1080 Ti has 3584 cuda cores, so your getting more cores, and you pick up just 1GB more for like.... $600 more. Performance of the more cores is negligible.

https://www.gamersnexus.n...80-ti-benchmark/page-3

This thing clearly isn’t best used for gaming. Again, that won’t stop people from buying it because it’s “the best,” and nVidia does still advertise its gaming capabilities a few times on the product page.
The thing is, at $200 per percentage point gained in some of these games, it’s a pretty tough argument. You’re talking differences that are nearly obscured by standard deviation test-to-test, even when accounting for excursions from the mean; in fact, in some cases, the AIB partner model 1080 Ti cards clock high enough that performance is effectively identical to the Titan Xp. This becomes even more true when accounting for manufacturing variance chip-to-chip.
Overclocking does keep the TiXp on top of the charts, but it’s often minimal. Sniper Elite is the only game where the TiXp saw any reasonable lead over the 1080 Ti, but even then, it’s not a good bargain.
If buying this for the extra 1GB VRAM for code execution with neural nets and deep learning, we’d advise looking up reviews for that application. This card may well be a performance king in that department, particularly at the price. For our audience, though, we simply cannot recommend the Titan Xp for gaming use cases. A 1080 Ti makes far more sense