New Hardware!!! GTX 1080

I made it nearly 2 years with my 390x and that card was a champ that's for sure.

I've been wanting to get another AMD video card because I am a fanboy of theirs and they're also the only cards I've owned for well over a decade.

With their current offerings I was a little less inclined to pick one up.

The performance is ok on their cheaper cards and adequate on their more expensive cards but their power consumption is just astronomical! I've been so over having my computer area go up in temperature and noise so I finally made the jump to... Nvidia.

I resisted for so long and now that I'm here on team green I have to say I can't believe how much better they are. From drivers, to performance, to power usage, and all of the little details in between.

I will absolutely still recommend AMD in the future but I'll definitely be putting Nvidia in the mix too.

Now on to the important stuff. Benchmarks!!!

I currently use a 1440p monitor but all of my testing was done at work on a 1080p display.

As for programs I used Unigine Heaven and 3Dmark.

Heaven.

390x 

Score: 1728

FPS: 68.6

Temperature: 80 Celsius

GTX 1080

Score: 3541

FPS: 140

Temperature: 65

3Dmark.

Firestrike.

390x

Graphics Score: 12541

Temperature: 80 Celsius

GTX 1080

Graphics Score: 21570

Temperature: 66 Celsius

So as you can see these scores are either double or close to double the performance.

And I couldn't be happier!!!

If you want to see my last hardware upgrade from a 270x to the 390x hit the link below.

http://www.sakegaming.com/2016/01/new-gpu-about-time.html

Gran Turismo Sport Beta (Demo)

Gran Turismo Sport comes out October 17th and they are currently doing a beta to hype people up.

Now I have to tell you I was not used to this kind of beta. It has bugs, like a real beta should.

Most developers release a "beta" that is more or less the complete game and that is to get people excited about purchasing the game. They are usually pretty much perfect and the Gran Turismo beta through me off being an actual beta.

I only just downloaded this (45GB) and played for about 30 minutes so I really don't have a solid opinion of it yet. I mostly just wanted to share a few screenshots of how absolutely insane this game looks!!! The first two are ones I took and the last three are from me being afk and the game started a "movie".