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I'd wait for AMD's Vega. They are rumored to exceed ~1080's performance at a lower price. They'd also work better in conjunction with Ryzen boards.

With widespread FreeSync availability (and better monitors), buying a Nvidia card is almost shooting oneself on their foot.

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buying a Nvidia card is almost shooting oneself on their foot.

If all you want it for is gaming. If you also want to play around with machine learning or other GPGPU applications, then getting anything other than Nvidia is a bad idea, since that is what everyone uses and supports at the moment.

So like .01% of users.

Of all users, perhaps. For the users whom are likely to read these comments, I imagine that percentage to be quite a bit higher.

It's not just machine learning, 3D rendering is moving over to GPU as well and there is next to no support for anything other than CUDA in that space today.

Not everything starts and ends with gaming in the high end computer space.

Octane is the only real example of this I can think of. Nearly every other tool I use is openCL.

You might get HBM with the Vega card too. The 1080Ti is GDDR5X.

A 1080Ti with 352 pins at 11Gbps has almost the same BW (484GBps) than a Vega with 2048 pins running at 2Gbps (512GBps).

I don't trust AMD cards with linux or qemu/kvm passthrough, though. They have a history of poor attendance, let's just say that.

and for the gpgpu crowd it'll likely have non gimped fp32 and fp16

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