Where should I go from the 970?

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

I got a 4GB 970, and was wondering (during Christmas), what GPU should I upgrade to?

I read some things about the Titan Black, 690, and 980, but not sure which one will be good.

I am also looking to only game on one 1080p monitor.

I also have an i7 6700 (no k) and wondering if the upgraded GPU will have any issues with it.

Thank you.

Sohaib · Sep 19, 2016

What is your budget? If you can afford it then GTX 1070 will be your sweet spot, it will play 95% of the games at max settings and will still maintain solid 60 FPS on a 1080p resolution.

And no, your CPU will work fine with it.

mcconkeymike · Sep 19, 2016

If you really feel the need to upgrade, I would go 1060, 980ti, or 1070. I know for a fact that the 980ti and anything more powerful than it are overkill for 1080p. Honestly I don't think I would spend the money unless you were planning on upgrading to 1440p or 4k and if you do that, you'll want either a 980ti, 1070 or 1080.

Dunlop0078 · Sep 19, 2016

Titan black? 690? 980? Why in the world would you want one of those. The 980 would barely be an upgrade and you are just asking for issues going with a used duel gpu card like a 690 or titan black. I agree with maybe a 1070 or 1080 if you have the budget, don't waste your time and money with used duel gpu monstrosity's like the 690 or titan black.

jayjay291077 · Sep 19, 2016

It depends what you want to spend, as you only want to game at 1080p the card is ok, ( I have the same card , just bought f1 2016 and can pretty much max everything out same with Warhammer Total War and Deus ex)

but why shell out money when you don't have a 4k monitor ? yes you will get some nice FPS with a titan black, but it's a fair wedge of cash

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

Is 600w enough as well?

Wolfshadw · Sep 19, 2016

Your next upgrade should be to the GTX1270 when it comes out a few years from now. Any upgrade before then would be a waste of money, in my opinion.

-Wolf sends

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

But is 600w good enough for the 1070?

Dunlop0078 · Sep 19, 2016

BinaryGreen :

600watts is more than enough. But if its a low quality cheap psu I would not recommend you hook it up to a 400 dollar 1070.

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

Dunlop0078 :

All i know is that it's a 80 plus bronze 600w psu. This was a prebuilt PC but all the voltages seem to be fine with the 970 and everything in between.

ikaz · Sep 19, 2016

The real question is why do you even want to upgrade from the 970 ? Are you having performance issues with the 970@1080p ? As other suggested your best bet would be to upgrade to a 1070 however not sure you will see much improvement at 1080p.

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

Would it run GTA5 at max at 1440p? I don't know, you're right. There aren't much games that really exceed the 970's power, except for a few.

ikaz · Sep 19, 2016

well here's a review of GTA V and 1070@1440p

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-review,20.html

BinaryGreen · Sep 19, 2016

Well, who knows. Maybe i'll get a second monitor that's 1440p, leave the other one for desktop / other windows

Decends · Sep 19, 2016

ikaz :

That isn't GTA at truly maxed settings. Truly maxed GTA V is when the advanced settings are also on.

Sohaib · Sep 20, 2016

This is true for most games, the benchmarks on various sites which usually say Max settings aren't actually max settings, i.e. they are leaving some settings off which have huge impact on performance. Like TXAA, hairworks physics etc and if you turn on those settings your frames does take a big hit.
True those settings doesn't provide much eye candy for the amount of impact they have on FPS but in my books if i say MAX settings then i REALLY mean max settings.

You can find many benchmarks on various sites where you will find gtx 1070 achieving over 100 fps in many games at 1080p resolution at supposedly 'max' settings and if you get the card yourself and do turn on everything to absolute max you will find a huge fps difference which might make you think if somethings wrong with your card but its not.

I recently upgraded from GTX 970 SLI to single GTX 1080 and i am happy for now. My biggest reason for upgrade was 8gb vram and poor or no SLI scaling in many games. The games where there was little to no SLI scaling my FPS has doubled (Rise of the tomb Raider, JC3, Arkham Knight) but the games which did have scaling my fps has still improved an average of 10%.

So everyone has his own reasons for upgrade, if OP want's an upgrade then i still think 1070 is still the best bet for him if he doesn't intend to go above 1080p.

ikaz · Sep 21, 2016

Well also most website also don't have Audio running since they just benching Video performance but they also list the setting they use so you have a baseline to expect.

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