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I got a 290x when it came out, sold it 3 months later and got a 270x, and that's been fine for me ever since. I game, but not a lot... however I do run 2560x1600 for gaming. I also have 2, 4K flanking monitors. If possible I'd love to run all 3 from 1 video card, (or, ideally ability to run 3x 4K monitors).

When is the next generation cards do out? I hate to buy then have something new out in 2 months...

I haven't kept up lately with video cards at all... so please enlighten me :)

I've been using AMD the last few years, but I'm not "sold" on 1 brand. ;)
 
Gonna be at least the beginning of next year but likely later for anything that can push 4K x3 with a single GPU and I doubt a single may do it even with next year.
 
Ok, and just to be clear i'm talking about 3x 4K not gaming on 3, gaming on 1, but just driving 3 in desktop duty.
 
In that case next gen looks to be able to do that. HBM2 will definitely be a boon. But it will be pricey, probably.
 
The two key words are "Tesla" from nvidia and "Arctic Islands" from amd. Both will be utilizing HBM2(As JustReason mentioned) and a much needed die-shrink. You should definitely wait for these two since we are expecting a pretty major jump in performance/wattage.
 
Pascal is the next generation for Nvidia. Tesla is one of the three Nvidia branches: GeForce (gaming), Quadro (workstation), Tesla (compute, for render farms and supercomputers).

Pascal is not coming out before mid-2016. All AMD will say about Arctic Islands is "2016". They are both waiting for 16nm process and HBM2. Neither Nvidia nor AMD can afford to allow their competitor to offer cards twice as fast as their own for longer than a couple of weeks, so I anticipate that they will both release at about the same time late in 2016. How late depends on how soon they can get the new process and the new HBM2 under control and in sufficient quantities for mass production.

But give up on next-gen cards the first half of 2016, that is not happening. Expect both Nvidia and AMD to fill the time by releasing their dual-GPU flagships sometime in the next 2 or 3 months.
 
Depends on the 2560x1600 monitor. If it is a 24" CRT, you will need a card with a good DAC and two DPs. The 980 and 980 Ti are nice. If that is a 30" LCD, you just need a card with at least two DisplayPorts and one extra port (DVI or DP). The Furies or a 980 / 980 Ti would work. Also, you should keep the 16:10 monitor! Never settle for 16:9.
 
rabidz7 said:
Depends on the 2560x1600 monitor. If it is a 24" CRT, you will need a card with a good DAC and two DPs. The 980 and 980 Ti are nice. If that is a 30" LCD, you just need a card with at least two DisplayPorts and one extra port (DVI or DP). The Furies or a 980 / 980 Ti would work. Also, you should keep the 16:10 monitor! Never settle for 16:9.
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HP ZR30w = 30" / 2560x1600 :D

So, are you saying a 980 / TI will do all 3 of my screens?
 
ToddW2 said:
HP ZR30w = 30" / 2560x1600 :D

So, are you saying a 980 / TI will do all 3 of my screens?
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if you will be playing in single monitor at 2560x1600 the 980TI will do great.. and yes, it can drive no problem the 3 screens for everyday usage. gaming on the 3? not likely not also for 3x 4K screens. we are far (really far) of being able to fully enjoy single 4K gaming today it require SLI/Xfire configurations of the highest end cards right now.. 2560x1440/1600 are the sweet spot right now and it will be that way for a long time..
 
Araxie said:
if you will be playing in single monitor at 2560x1600 the 980TI will do great.. and yes, it can drive no problem the 3 screens for everyday usage. gaming on the 3? not likely not also for 3x 4K screens. we are far (really far) of being able to fully enjoy single 4K gaming today it require SLI/Xfire configurations of the highest end cards right now.. 2560x1440/1600 are the sweet spot right now and it will be that way for a long time..
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Yep, single @ 2560x1600.

I just wanted to be certain it could drive the 2560x1600 + the 2x 4K on desktop before looking for a deal :D
 
ToddW2 said:
Yep, single @ 2560x1600.

I just wanted to be certain it could drive the 2560x1600 + the 2x 4K on desktop before looking for a deal :D
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you will be fine then, look for good deals, past week you could find a Zotac 980TI for 536$ unbeatable price.. its hovering constantly around ~600$.
 
FWIW:
I got an EVGA GTX980 TI the one on sale recently ~$580 iirc, runs all 3 monitors great in Windows7, and I can run BF4 on (100%) 2560x1600 highest settings around 100FPS... can't wait to get my new NVME, and Game SSD installed to get the rest of my games installed. I rarely game so I never have any installed/downloaded.
 
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