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nvidia is keeping the green team on their toes pascal is releasing this year according to nvidia and people have been asking me greg should I wait until Pascal is released before I purchase a new GPU or should I go ahead and purchase something like a 970 or 980 currently so basically you're asking me if it's worth waiting for a possibly better graphics card and I think I have the answer to your question stay tuned we're gonna talk all about Pascal what do we know about Pascal first artists it's taking quite the toll on Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong received quite a lot of flack for showcasing the drive px to board on stage which is supposed to feature two Tegra chips and two Pascal GPUs however the board he held in his hand was fitted with makeshift Maxwell based chips likely from the GTX 980 look familiar so what does this mean Nvidia might be a bit behind but they swear by a 2016 release date and computer enthusiasts couldn't be more anxious for starters Pascal will utilize a 16 enemy 2 platform comparable to Polaris's 14 nanometer and will feature support for DirectX 12 in terms of performance the company claims performance increases as high as 10 times that of the Titan X yeah that's no joke of course the debut lineup will likely underperform however according to the CUDA compute performance of Pascal it's probably possible probably another exciting feature of Pascal is the technology's ability to allow up to eight way sli through NV link now it would be absolutely ludicrous to pair eight graphics cards in SLI or crossfire for one the law of diminishing returns would practically render the last few cards in the line useless second you'd probably need more than one power supply to keep these graphics cards adequately powered under full load and third no current consumer CPU has enough PCIe lanes to handle that many cards and wait a second do they even sell standard motherboards with room for eight graphics cards say hello to macro ATX everyone but I must digress Envy link is very very fast anywhere from five to twelve times faster than pcie 3.0 according to WCC F tech comm pesco will also be the first architecture to utilize a unique form of stacked memory now without this getting too complicated just know that the bandwidth speed we'll approach one terabyte a second which is approximately three times the bandwidth of the Titan X this won't translate to a sharp increase in FPS but as an example lag as a result of utilizing extremely dense texture packs would practically be non-existent not that that was ever a problem for the Titan mind you additionally due to its reduced size and 3d composure stackable memory allows for up to 32 gigabytes of video memory on a single PCB yet again another ludicrous number but don't be surprised of Nvidia allows all 32 into a single high-end card just to gloat of it essentially what AMD did with their three 90s each GPU will be chained to this second generation HBM via a 1024 bit memory bus as well which should improve response times and again promote the use of some fairly epic textures and shaders for the sake of comparison however NVIDIA GTX 980 utilized a 256-bit memory bus and AMD's r9 fury X sported a 4096 bit bus just goes to show you it's not about the size it's how you use it nonetheless Pascal signifies a substantial jump from Maxwell and should pose quite the threat to AMD's up-and-coming lineup dubbed polaris click the card up top if you're interested in checking out how AMD plans to answer nvidia within the coming year so here's my advice to those of you who are expecting to purchase a new graphics card at some point during this year if you already have a pretty decent system and you're playing games that the resolution you wish I would wait wait until Pascal these articles make passive look very promising possibly even better than Polaris oh that's gonna start some very heated arguments in the comment sections below I am waiting for all of those I don't take sides because I'm trying to be as objective as possible Pascal looks pretty dang good according to what I've seen but who knows could be hype could not is Nvidia gonna gonna kind of mislead us again like they did with the GTX 970 who even more debatable topics this is gonna get spicy but now there's another scenario and that scenario is the case in which you have nothing currently you have no PC at all no parts predisposed laying around and you're gonna be building from scratch in that case I do recommend you going head and purchasing just a card that's already available a GTX 960 is a great card on a budget I have a head-to-head comparison between that and the GTX 970 you can click on the card above me and watch a pretty unique perspective between the two in terms of what you'll be able to squeeze out of both cards if you're diehard and you want to just ball out in 4k purchase the 980 980 TI I don't recommend the Titan of the Titan X just because the FPS per dollar ratio is pretty whacked out at that point so as high as that would go is probably the 980 TI you're gonna be pretty disappointed if in your first computer you purchase a Titan X for $1000 and then you find out that your buddy who purchased the TI for $600 is getting about the same frame rates as you are so make sure you do your research but a happy building everyone I cannot wait for Pascal to be in this studio and I cannot wait for player 3 in the studio because I will definitely be doing multiple multiple head-to-head comparisons between the multiple cards in each lineup but besides that if you're feeling especially opinionated and there's nothing wrong with that go ahead and leave a comment in the comment section below if you feel like this video deserve the thumbs up then click on the thumbs up button but if you think we did a terrible job here give the video a thumbs down apart from that be sure to subscribe if you haven't already we'll be posting some cool videos in regards to the pentium g 4400 can we overclock it 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