Buy GTX 1070 Ti now or wait for 2060?

Cougar7

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I'm planning to upgrade my computer pretty soon, including the GPU. I currently have a GTX 760 (XFX 650 W PSU). Right now, newegg has a deal that ends Sunday (seen here: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti DirectX 12 GTX 1070 Ti DUKE 8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card)

It's about $355 after taxes, which is really good from what I can tell.

My alternative option is to wait until the 2060 comes out and getting that instead. I was originally planning on getting a 1060, but figured that it would be better to go a step up so it lasts longer. My concerns are that a) the 2060 will be crazy expensive and/or b) the 2060 will be a disappointment, and c) if in either of those scenarios I decide to not do the 2060, the 1070 Ti will be unavailable or back up to $400+ prices.

I know we don't know for sure what price, performance, or release date of the 2060 will be yet, but based on your experience, how likely is it that I will regret passing up this 1070 Ti deal (e.g. 2060 ends up being more expensive than the 1070Ti, or around the same price but significantly less powerful, and this price for 1070Ti won't be available when/f that happens)?

Thanks.
 
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I think you'll be better off with 1070 ti for several reasons, (1) It's a massive upgrade over your 760, (2) Price is good, (3) No sign of a release date anytime soon for the 2060, (4) I'd be surprised if it performs better then the 1070 ti.

WildCard999

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I think you'll be better off with 1070 ti for several reasons, (1) It's a massive upgrade over your 760, (2) Price is good, (3) No sign of a release date anytime soon for the 2060, (4) I'd be surprised if it performs better then the 1070 ti.
 
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iamacow

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I think the 2060 won't be out for another 6 months. NVIDIA has a massive stock of Pascal GPUs and they just refreshed the 1060 with GDDR5X memory. Meaning its here to stay for at least another year. The GTX 1070 Ti is a very nice video card. It can play all your games on max settings at 1440P. 4K isn't a little out of the realm, but so is the 2060. Plus its like $350, best deal of all the video cards right now.

Edit: 760 to 1070 Ti will be insane. You looking at 10-20x the performance.
 

Cougar7

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Thanks guys, I ended up buying it. Of course, I know one of the best ways to not regret my purchase is to remain as ignorant as possible on graphics cards prices after buying one. :)
 
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I'm in the same boat except I have a GTX 560. I was looking at a video card + monitor upgrade for 4k but then I watched Linus' recent video on '4k gamimg is dumb'. That changed my mind. I didn't pull the trigger on the B&H $349 1070 TI and now that deal is gone. Looks like I'm now going for the 1070 TI with a 1440p 144hz monitor. Thank you for showing me this new deal and today is my birthday!