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mitchellmacdonald4350

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Hi guys, I am in need of some tech assistance. I currently have a Zotac GTX 780 AMP! Edition gpu.

I am looking to upgrade to be able to play Doom 2016 and other games. I have looked around quite a bit and I personally don't want to dish out to much cash at the moment. Would someone be able to give me a couple of ideas of an upgrade at about $300? Everything I seem to have found seems like it is worse and I do not feel like forking out $500+

Thank you very much for your time and help!
 
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970 most definitely does not = 1060 6GB.... The 980 tends to score closer to the 1060 6GB than the 970. Whereas the 970 and 780 score very similarly in most tests as Martell (and most tech sites) pointed out. If you disagree, simply search a comparison between the two. I personally wouldn't see a 1060 to be a HUGE upgrade over a 780 considering the budget. If OP could get a 1070/Vega 56 that would be a much more comfortable upgrade imo. The 1060 and 780 are usually only give or take 15-20% apart in performance. But on that, Doom shouldn't be hard to run on a GTX 780... Highly optimised game, something else may be a bottleneck if performance isn't enough.
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What resolution are you running? My card is equivalent to a GTX 970, which is equivalent to the 780, so I am wondering because I run Doom 2016 on all high settings smoothly at 1080p.
 
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That's because benchmarks are not a perfect science and those cards do perform similar, especially when averaged over many benchmarks. Yes, the 780 ti is faster than the 780, but when averaged out, now, the 780 is about equal to the 970 and the 780 ti is not as far ahead as it once was and lands between the 970 and 1060. The difference today between those cards is ~10% on average.

The 1060 is an upgrade, but not a huge one. It's not like the difference between a 1070 and 970 or 980ti and 1080.
 
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970 most definitely does not = 1060 6GB.... The 980 tends to score closer to the 1060 6GB than the 970. Whereas the 970 and 780 score very similarly in most tests as Martell (and most tech sites) pointed out. If you disagree, simply search a comparison between the two. I personally wouldn't see a 1060 to be a HUGE upgrade over a 780 considering the budget. If OP could get a 1070/Vega 56 that would be a much more comfortable upgrade imo. The 1060 and 780 are usually only give or take 15-20% apart in performance. But on that, Doom shouldn't be hard to run on a GTX 780... Highly optimised game, something else may be a bottleneck if performance isn't enough.
 
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All in all, if you wanna get a significant upgrade a 1070 at $380 is better, however a 1060 is an upgrade. It is all relevant to what you want to spend. A 780 is getting between 40-60 FPS in Doom where a 1060 is getting 60-80FPS. Is the difference worth it? Thats fpr yhe OP to decide.
 
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