Upgrading from a potato, GTX 1060 or 1070 for 1080p gaming?

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TerminalPro

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Title says most of it, I currently own a very outdated card, an Asus HD 7750. I have finally decided to upgrade to something more... "This generation".

In short:
-I own a 1080p 60hz monitor and it's fine for me.
-I don't plan on upgrading to a 1440p monitor any day soon however someday I may.
-The 1070 is $260 more than the 1060, which for me at the moment makes quite a large difference.
-I feel as though if I get the 1070 and never end up getting a 1440p monitor I would have wasted $260 as I could have achieved the same performance on 1080p with a 1060.

In an ideal world I would buy a 1060 now and another a year or two later and SLI them, but unfortunately that is not an option.

What would you guys do in this situation? Go with the 1060 and not be able to run games as well if I do choose to upgrade to a 1440p monitor, or spend the extra $260 just incase?

Extra Note: Prices are in NZD (New Zealand Dollar). Since $260 for me is most likely different for you I have posted some additional info below to hopefully help you justify the price difference in your own currency.

Price difference between GTX 1060 and 1070:
260 New Zealand
247 Australia
187 US
242 Canada
143 British Pounds
166 Euros

Thanks everyone in advance! :)


 
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madmatt30

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The price difference is fairly relative to the performance difference mate so its entirely down to you.

Should you stick to the lower end of your budget the rx480 is slightly better at 1440p than the 1060 though.

Out of interest what's the rest of your system comprise of??
 
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The 1060 doesn't support SLI so that option is out. What is the rest of your specs because this would greatly impact the recommendation, if your PC is going to hold back the 1070 greatly you'd be better off going for the 1060 now and using the money saved on improving the rest of your system. If you have a decent build other than the GPU I would say go for the 1070 now, even if you're not using the extra power you'll have it ready for when you get a better monitor.
 
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Currently GTX 1060 (6GB) can handle everything if not on 60FPS at least very close to it on max details. If you want to increase usefull max lifetime with full details, GTX 1070 will give you decent headroom for 1080p@60. With GTX 1060 lower framerate or need to put down details a bit will come sooner. Hard to tell how much sooner, as whole DirectX12/Vulcan era is at diapers at best so predictions are problematic.
 
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Sorry about that, I completely forgot to include the rest of the PC specs. Anyway here they are:

AMD FX6300 Overlocked to 4.0Ghz
Gigabyte GA78LMT-UB3
16GB DDR3 Memory
Cooler Master V650 PSU

The thing is, I am also planning on upgrading my CPU/Mobo/Ram at some point too (Switch to Intel). I have just decided to go with a GPU upgrade first and the rest later down the line. So Bottlenecking would be an issue for a while, but that would get sorted out once I upgrade my CPU side of things.


Planned upgrade for CPU is an Intel i7 6700K. My most played game is Arma 3 which is very CPU intensive, so I could want a good CPU to accomodate that, but that's off topic, the topic here is the 1060 or 1060 :)





 
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