Is the GTX 970 good for 1080p gaming ?
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OP - just to clarify after acilikola's point - neither of us are wrong here I don't think, just two different viewpoints on the problem of what to go with. In the end you'll need to weigh up what you want to do with your graphics card, what your budget is and whether you plan to change things again in the near future...
I don't think you'll be disappointed per se with either AMD or nVidia - both are great cards. That's why (if you search) a lot of people including myself have been struggling with the best option.
In the end I seem to have more money and sense in this particular situation and went with a flagship model (the 980Ti) but the 970 or r9 390 are in no way bad cards. There's a reason so many people are getting them
I don't think you'll be disappointed per se with either AMD or nVidia - both are great cards. That's why (if you search) a lot of people including myself have been struggling with the best option.
In the end I seem to have more money and sense in this particular situation and went with a flagship model (the 980Ti) but the 970 or r9 390 are in no way bad cards. There's a reason so many people are getting them
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Depending on what performance boost DX12 brings, I'd say you will be good for most games. I don't know about maxed though... In every game generation there will always be games like Crysis or Metro 2033 that bring even enthusiast PCs to their knees.
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yes its good for 1080p, will give you high setting on the latest games.
later on dont get a 970, rather sell the one you have and get a higher stronger graphics card because SLI doesnt always mean better graphics, especially if you go for a 1440p
later on dont get a 970, rather sell the one you have and get a higher stronger graphics card because SLI doesnt always mean better graphics, especially if you go for a 1440p
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If you are talking about constant 60fps or average 60fps, I think that even now the 970 can't do that on all games. You should look into benchmarks of course, because different editions (2GB vs 4GB, stock vs OC) of the card will give different results. Bear in mind though, that benchmarks are usually done with very fast systems (flagship CPU, SSD, fast RAM) so you will see the relative performance of cards without other bottlenecks. So the same card might give different fps on your system.
There are a few games that are special cases, like GTA V where VRAM matters due to the huge open areas of the game. 4GB VRAM is usually overkill but in the case of GTA it matters.
I think the industry's target for now, regarding single GPU systems is 1080p gaming. Higher resolutions begin to stress cards and drop performance. As for SLI, you won't really know how well it wil run in 1440p until you try. Some games scale better than others, some not at all.
I stick to my first reply. If you're going for maxed 1080p, the 970 should be good for most games. If you want to future-proof your rig even more, you have to go for a flagship card.
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The R9 390X would be better but I thought long and hard about that and eventually went with a GTX 980Ti so that I didn't have to think about the problem too much.
If it wasn't that - I'd have gone with the GTX 970. The R9 390 line seem good but there's something I'm not quite comfortable about when it comes to AMD's current line-up.
I like that nVidias cards seem to run cooler and be a newer architecture. I guess that's personal preference - I don't consider myself a fan boy (in fact I'm running an AMD card on my old machine right now).
I'd personally go with the GTX 970 and sell it / upgrade further down the line when the view of what's 'good' is more clear.
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To be honest, if you consider future proofing as well, I'd say the exact different of Fineus --> go for R9 390. Especially from either Sapphire Nitro or Powercolor PCS+ or MSI Gaming brands. There are several reasons for my suggestion:
1) If in the future, you want to get into higher resolution gaming (>1080p), the extra vram on Radeon will become extremely handy.
2) If you checked the benchmark records, there is not that much of a difference, especially when 60fps is enough for any non-esports gaming people.
3) If in several years you find your gpu lacking, you can just get a new one of the same card (to be used in SLI and CrossFire), but with CrossFire, you can actually combine any two radeon cards not strictly the same ones with diminishing returns of course.
Nvidia has much regular updates and the GeForce Experience tool is much better than Radeon Gaming Evolved crapware, but these are not groundbreaking in my opinion.
If you had much more budget, I'd also say go for a GTX 980Ti or Radeon R9 295X2 as well, but I personally am against buying the flagships altogether and spend the cash for other hardware instead.
1) If in the future, you want to get into higher resolution gaming (>1080p), the extra vram on Radeon will become extremely handy.
2) If you checked the benchmark records, there is not that much of a difference, especially when 60fps is enough for any non-esports gaming people.
3) If in several years you find your gpu lacking, you can just get a new one of the same card (to be used in SLI and CrossFire), but with CrossFire, you can actually combine any two radeon cards not strictly the same ones with diminishing returns of course.
Nvidia has much regular updates and the GeForce Experience tool is much better than Radeon Gaming Evolved crapware, but these are not groundbreaking in my opinion.
If you had much more budget, I'd also say go for a GTX 980Ti or Radeon R9 295X2 as well, but I personally am against buying the flagships altogether and spend the cash for other hardware instead.
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OP - just to clarify after acilikola's point - neither of us are wrong here I don't think, just two different viewpoints on the problem of what to go with. In the end you'll need to weigh up what you want to do with your graphics card, what your budget is and whether you plan to change things again in the near future...
I don't think you'll be disappointed per se with either AMD or nVidia - both are great cards. That's why (if you search) a lot of people including myself have been struggling with the best option.
In the end I seem to have more money and sense in this particular situation and went with a flagship model (the 980Ti) but the 970 or r9 390 are in no way bad cards. There's a reason so many people are getting them
I don't think you'll be disappointed per se with either AMD or nVidia - both are great cards. That's why (if you search) a lot of people including myself have been struggling with the best option.
In the end I seem to have more money and sense in this particular situation and went with a flagship model (the 980Ti) but the 970 or r9 390 are in no way bad cards. There's a reason so many people are getting them
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