Is a single 980 Ti enough to game at 1440p/144Hz? Other Display Recommendations?

[gatsbysghost]

Hi all,

I was wondering whether anyone is running a 980Ti with one of the 1440p/144Hz monitors currently out there (I think it's pretty much just the ROG Swift and the Acer XB270HU at the moment). Is the 980 Ti enough to keep framerates above 60 on Ultra in a lot of games on its own? Or am I going to want to save up for an SLI setup to make the 1440p/144Hz setup truly worthwhile?

I have a solid build (i7 4790k/single 980Ti) and so far I've been using a pretty cheap display, so I've decided to treat myself to something that can actually make use of this beast of a GPU. I mainly run RPGs (Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, etc.). If you have other display recommendations, I'm very interested! I'm doing a lot of comparison shopping right now, and I'd like to keep the spend under $800.

I've also considered the Dell U2715H--the response times aren't really ideal at 8ms, but the colors are apparently quite vivid and I'd get to save some money. Plus I'm not sure how much the response time will actually matter since I really only dabble in shooters occasionally.

Thanks in advance for any input!

 

[Olebrom]

Should be... Don't expect 144 fps though.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti,4164-5.html

 

[jagsta21]

i get anywhere from 66-80 sometimes in gta v maxed on xb270hu amazing monitor only had it about a week. witha single 980 ti. i get 70fps in witcher 3 cpu has trouble in that game though. those are really the only games i have played on it

 

[Enkidu of Abydos]

I was wondering whether anyone is running a 980Ti with one of the 1440p/144Hz monitors currently out there (I think it's pretty much just the ROG Swift and the Acer XB270HU at the moment). Is the 980 Ti enough to keep framerates above 60 on Ultra in a lot of games on its own? Or am I going to want to save up for an SLI setup to make the 1440p/144Hz setup truly worthwhile?

I'm pretty sure you're not going to be able to run all modern games at that resolution and at that speed with just one 980. For comparison, a thorough test I saw recently tried several modern games with 1 980 and with 2 980s at 4K/60Hz (which is comparable to 1440p/144Hz). Several of those (like Crysis 3 especially) took 2 980s just to achieve any decent framerate (above 40-50) at 4K. So basically the conclusion was that you need at least 2 980s to run 4K at decent framerates (which were about half what you want to have) in all games.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

The answer is both yes and no. Older titles and or lowering settings in newer ones will let you take advantage of the higher refresh rate.