Upgrading NVidia 970 with 1080p monitor to 1070 with 1440p monitor for gaming. FAIL?

SibCon · Nov 2, 2016

Hi,

I've been using my ASUS 970 with a 1080p monitor in i7 4790k system for a while. I was able to either max out graphic settings in many games, or be very close to maxing them out, including Witcher 3, Just cause 3, Titanfall. That was awesome!

After reading many praises about new awesome NVidia 1070, I bought ASUS 1070 Gaming, hoping to upgrade to 1440p with this monster, thinking that the monitor upgrade would be well compensated by the beefier card. Boy, was I wrong!!!

Now, in order to have a decent playable experience, without major lags or screen tearing, graphic settings and some visual effects have to be degraded to "low". Shadows, depth, distance, water reflections are now minimized or gone.

Am I doing something wrong?
Is 1440p too much for NVidia 1070 to handle?
Is there a bottleneck in my system?

Thank you in advance for your feedback and suggestions!

UPDATE for system specs:

CPU: Inter i7 4790k
MB: ASUS Sabertooth Z97 MARK2
RAM: GSkill Sniper 24Gb (2 x 8Gb + 2 x 4Gb)
SSD: Intel 730 240Gb
HDD: WD Black 1Tb
Power: Antec EA-750W Platinum
Old Monitor: Samsung 24" 1080p
New Monitor: ASUS PB258Q 25" 1440p

ryguybuddy · Nov 2, 2016

That seems very strange. Did you make sure to uninstall the 970 drives and install the new 1070 drivers? What is the GPU / CPU usage (shouldn't be a bottleneck at all)? And how does it perform at 1080p?

rgd1101 · Nov 2, 2016

Full system spec?

hdmark · Nov 2, 2016

something is wrong. the 1070 should be giving you much better performance

SibCon · Nov 2, 2016

Updated OP to add system specs

SibCon · Nov 2, 2016

ryguybuddy :

Yes, I uninstalled 970 drivers before installing new 1070 drivers. I haven't checked it with the old 1080p though. Good suggestion! Will check today after work.

rgd1101 :

Added full system specs to the OP.

hdmark :

That's what I was hoping for. Sounds like I'm not crazy then expecting much better performance.

guanyu210379 · Nov 2, 2016

1080p = 1920x1080 = 2073600 pixels
1440p = 2560x1440 = 3686400 pixels
1440p has about 78% more pixels and roughly need about 78% more performance to get the same fps on the same game with the same graphic settings.

GTX1070 is about 60-70% faster than a single GTX970.

Theoretically, you should see roughly very similar fps between 1080p on gtx970 and 1440p on gtx1070. (no exact science)
If this is not the case, something is wrong with your driver or your card.

SibCon · Nov 2, 2016

guanyu210379 :

After the "upgrade" it feels like the system was downgraded...
First thing I will do is uninstall and reinstall the drivers for 1070.
What can I do to troubleshoot and check if there is anything wrong with the card?

guanyu210379 · Nov 2, 2016

use e.g. afterburner to see the temps, voltage, fan speed and GPU workload or any other infos during games.
Post it here so that we can look at it.

Smartrior · Nov 2, 2016

some people have an issues with the last Nvidia drivers, recommend you to set up an older ones, and 1440p must be OK for 1070

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