The GTX 980 TI SC ran well on my new Dell U3415W ultrawide 3440 x 1440 and the GTX 1080 makes it scream. I now have the GTX980TI SC on my BenQ BL3200PT which is 2560 x 1440 and it is also very fast.
I still don't understand why everyone keeps pushing the OP to get the GTX1080. I am shocked it's coming from you too considering you actually have a 980Ti -- a card that cost $650+ just 12 months ago and can now be had for $370 easy. Do you think somehow GTX1080 won't suffer the same fate over the next 12-18 months? Volta is 2018. This happens every generation as high-end levels of performance migrate to mid-range and then low-end.
In just 4 years, look at the performance delta between a GTX680/770 and a 1080 =
3-5X!
Almost no PC gamer should ever buy a $600-700 USD AMD/NV gaming videocard unless he/she instead to upgrade within the next 12-18 months because it's a giant money pit. The 2nd from the top x70 series (or AMD's 2nd from the top) usually delivers 80-90% of the performance for a fraction of the cost. Does the OP meet the cretiera of a $600-700 x80 series buyer that upgrades every 12-18 months? No.
First, his primary concern is upgrading for
Doom. In Doom under Vulkan, RX 480 under Vulkan achives 83 FPS at 1440p and 112 fps at 1080p.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoanTrMenI
That means for that game, no need to spend any more than $200-240.
Second, anyone who has purchased a GTX770 and kept it for that long automatically doesn't fall into the group of buyers who upgrades to the latest and greatest every generation. That means for this type of buyer, a GTX1080 is the worst way to spend $ to keep his/her PC up to date.
$699 780Ti -> 10 months later $329 970
$649 980Ti -> 12 months later $399 GTX1070 (and GTX980Ti goes for
$370)
The 770 came out
3 years ago. In that time we went from a $699 GTX780Ti to having a faster card in the $250 RX 480/1060.
It absolutely doesn't make any sense to buy $600-700 graphics card to hang onto for 3-4 years to play games like Doom that run perfectly on a $200 graphics card.
I don't think I could stomach multiple gpu with that kind of scaling in new games at 4k where the cpu should matter least.
It's not about thinking or emotions. It's about cold hard logic and stats.
A reference $700 1080 FE is
only 12% faster than an after-market $400 1070. Max overclocked, 1080 beats 1070 by only 20-22% or so. If you look at the benchmarks at 3440x1440/4K, a single 1080 isn't fast enough. So what's the point of paying extra for the 1080 over the 1070 for those gaming monitors? None. Might as well go 1070 and lower settings a bit OR go 1070/1080 SLI right off the bat.
I get it that there is a faithful following of NV's flagship cards on this and other forums and a lot of these gamers hate SLI/CF and that's fine. But looking at the rate at which the
OP upgrades, buying flagship NV cards is clearly not aligned with his upgrading strategy. If he actually wants to spend $600-700 to "future proof" for 4-5 years, might as well spend $800 and go 1070 SLI. However, he is better off buying a GTX1070 (or for Doom even a 480/1060) and then getting a new $300-400 GPU in 2.5-3 years from now. I guarantee it that GTX1080 will never outlast a 1070 in next gen games. Both cards same VRAM, both lack proper DX12 Async Compute, both perform very close to each other but one costs an arm and a leg more (that can be put aside towards a next gen GPU that will be 50-70% faster than the 1070). OP still has a 770. If he was the type of gamer who buys $600-700 GPUs regularly, he would have had GTX680 -> GTX780/780Ti -> GTX980Ti/1080. Instead he got a 770 which likely means he isn't the target market for a 1080.
There has never been a time in GPU history in the last 2 decades where buying a $500-1000 flagship GPU for gaming and holding onto it for 4-5 years was wroth it -
never. This strategy has never worked, ever.
GTX480 never outlasted the 470
GTX580 never outlasted the 570
GTX680 never outlasted the 670
GTX980 never outlasted the 970
By the time next gen hardware comes out, $500-1000 GPU level of performance is available in a card 1/2 the price. By the time next generation games come out, the types of buyers who buy $600+ GPUs will have upgraded to the next generation high-end card and Volta is only 2 years away (and if they didn't, they don't know how to upgrade their PC wisely and buy based on emotions not logic). It's exactly why NV bifirucated the generation into 2 halves now because they realized they can get their high-end buyers to upgrade twice in the same generation (780Ti -> 980Ti and soon 1080 -> 1080Ti).