1070ti - Should I have waited for the 2060?

Dilemmas · 28 Dec 2018 at 20:18

I've been hurting for a GPU for a while now since my 970 broke almost a year ago, and today I decided to go for the Zotec 1070ti mini at £350. It'll be here Monday.

Everything looks good, and I'm certain it's a great card, but I'm finding myself filling with anxiety over the 2060. While I was confident the 1070ti would be sufficiently better, I'm worried about the reports of the 2060's superior TimeSpy performance.

I'm assuming the price point for the 2060 will be £350 or lower, so do you think buying the 1070ti now was a mistake? Or do we just not know enough about the 2060 yet to say for sure?

opethdisciple · 28 Dec 2018 at 20:21

When is the 2060 due?

If it was me, yes I would have waited for the 2060 to launch before making any descion.

Dilemmas · 28 Dec 2018 at 20:26

opethdisciple said:
When is the 2060 due?

Sometime January.

I realise it wasn't long to wait, but until now I was confident in the 1070ti outperforming it by a reasonable amount (based on spec leaks). I don't really know how much a TimeSpy benchmark matters in the real-world either.

opethdisciple · 28 Dec 2018 at 20:32

Dilemmas said:
Sometime January.

I realise it wasn't long to wait, but until now I was confident in the 1070ti outperforming it by a reasonable amount (based on spec leaks). I don't really know how much a TimeSpy benchmark matters in the real-world either.

Hang on. Your existing GPU broke?

If thats the case then I guess if you really wanted to game buying the 1070ti is fine.

It's up to you really. At the end of the day it's not like the 1070ti becomes obsolete overnight. It will also play all your games.

Dilemmas · 28 Dec 2018 at 20:41

opethdisciple said:
Hang on. Your existing GPU broke?

Yeah, I've been hobbling through with an old HD 6800 series for well over half a year now.

With the way the GPU market was at the time, I decided to choose the path of suffering rather than have to take such a bad deal on a GPU.

I just hope I didn't jump the gun on this.

Nasher · 28 Dec 2018 at 21:04

TBH the 2060 is already obsolete. Too expensive and worse performance than existing cheaper cards, not enough power to run RTX and only 6gb vram. It's a pointless card. The 1070ti is still better.

chrcoluk · 28 Dec 2018 at 21:42

I feel waiting is always a fools game, you live for the moment, and you buy for what you need now.

Not to mention the 20xx series of cards is a known duff release anyway, so I wouldnt feel bad about the 1070ti purchase, enjoy your new toy

Shashman · 28 Dec 2018 at 21:51

Having also recently purchased a new 1070Ti, and having just seen the news about Navi, a little part of me is cursing myself.... But further down the line I can just flog it and get me a shiny, good not-RTX-overpriced GPU

I love my 1070Ti btw! Ignore all the 'what if' thoughts and different benchmark scores out there. Unless you spend stupid amounts on top of the range cards, there will ALWAYS be better bench scores than yours. At the end of the day, how the card runs the stuff you care about is all that matters, unless you bought a GPU to get good bench scores, in which case you're doing it all wrong

varkanoid · 28 Dec 2018 at 21:58

Plus you havent gone with the RTX 2xxx lottery in the hope of getting one that doesnt play Space Invaders and nothing else.

Distracted · 28 Dec 2018 at 22:06

Waiting when you are 'making do' is horrible.

I don't think you've made a mistake. The 1070ti is a really good card and there's no telling what the 2060 will be like. Enjoy your purchase.

d_brennen · 28 Dec 2018 at 22:08

Vanilla 2600 will surely slot in below the 1070ti in line with the other 20xx cards so far?

bru · 28 Dec 2018 at 22:24

Nasher said:
TBH the 2060 is already obsolete. Too expensive and worse performance than existing cheaper cards, not enough power to run RTX and only 6gb vram. It's a pointless card. The 1070ti is still better.

There is so much wrong with this post it is unbelievable.

2060 already obsolete, really it is the latest core with the latest tech, there is nothing newer.
What cheaper cards perform better, oh wait we have no idea because nobody knows the price or the performance of the 2060 yet.

No enough power to run RTX, well according to some even the 2080ti doesn't have enough power to run RTX, but again haters will always hate. Lets just wait and see shall we.

Only 6GB of ram, well how much do you actually need? Thinks back to Fiji and the 4GB arguments, funny the way the boot is on the other foot. :rolleyes:

1070ti is better, maybe it's too early to tell yet.

Vexr · 28 Dec 2018 at 22:46

From my experience as part of the recent 1070 Ti purchasers club, let me tell you you'll feel better once it's arrived. I waited 9 days from purchasing mine in store to actually receiving it, and when you've got nout in hand the buyers remorse really creeps in.

I went from the GTX 970 to a 1070 Ti, and I'm very pleased with the performance (upto 150% more FPS in some cases). You'll start to care less about where other similar cards are in relation to it when you've got a breath of new life in your games and having fun with it.

As a plus, I doubt the 2060 is going to be all that exciting/great value - none of the other 2xxx series is.

AthlonXP1800 · 28 Dec 2018 at 23:40

Yes you should wait for RTX 2060, it will be launch on 7th Jan and sales go live on 15th Jan.

https://twitter.com/TUM_APISAK/status/1078565020609302529/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1078565020609302529&ref_url=https://disqus.com/embed/comments/?base=default&f=videocardz&t_i=videocardz-79485'&t_u=https%3A%2F%2Fvideocardz.com%2F79485%2Fnvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-pictured-launches-january-7th&t_e=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_d=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_t=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&s_o=default#version=3edaf16de28c96a3be634c2bbecfed19

RTX 2060 AOTS benchmark leaked, faster than GTX 1070 Ti found on benchmark database and probably as fast as GTX 1080 at stock clock.

https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/04570680-6c35-46f4-8588-21b851082663
https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/92f35f83-62e8-4fab-8a3c-717e70d32f30

Nasher · 28 Dec 2018 at 23:45

bru said:
There is so much wrong with this post it is unbelievable.

2060 already obsolete, really it is the latest core with the latest tech, there is nothing newer.
What cheaper cards perform better, oh wait we have no idea because nobody knows the price or the performance of the 2060 yet.

No enough power to run RTX, well according to some even the 2080ti doesn't have enough power to run RTX, but again haters will always hate. Lets just wait and see shall we.

Only 6GB of ram, well how much do you actually need? Thinks back to Fiji and the 4GB arguments, funny the way the boot is on the other foot.

1070ti is better, maybe it's too early to tell yet.

4gb already isn't enough and 6gb won't be enough soon. It will be maybe 15% quicker than the 1060 for a load more money. If it's anywhere near £300 then a Vega56 is a much better option.

Shashman · 29 Dec 2018 at 00:23

AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes you should wait for RTX 2060, it will be launch on 7th Jan and sales go live on 15th Jan.

https://twitter.com/TUM_APISAK/status/1078565020609302529/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1078565020609302529&ref_url=https://disqus.com/embed/comments/?base=default&f=videocardz&t_i=videocardz-79485'&t_u=https%3A%2F%2Fvideocardz.com%2F79485%2Fnvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-pictured-launches-january-7th&t_e=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_d=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_t=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&s_o=default#version=3edaf16de28c96a3be634c2bbecfed19

RTX 2060 AOTS benchmark leaked, faster than GTX 1070 Ti found on benchmark database and probably as fast as GTX 1080 at stock clock.

https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/04570680-6c35-46f4-8588-21b851082663
https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/92f35f83-62e8-4fab-8a3c-717e70d32f30

Mate... There's a 2.1 average FPS difference, and this is just one game. Oh and the resolution is set to " 0 x 0" :rolleyes:

Shaz12 · 29 Dec 2018 at 07:37

Shashman said:
Mate... There's a 2.1 average FPS difference, and this is just one game. Oh and the resolution is set to " 0 x 0"

That is before the drivers mature. Give it a year and the gap will only increase.

Cooper · 29 Dec 2018 at 08:21

Just Enjoy your extra 2GB of VRAM whilst 2060 owners crank their texture settings down to 'high' from your 'Ultra' to stop the frame drops

Kaapstad · 29 Dec 2018 at 09:30

AthlonXP1800 said:
Yes you should wait for RTX 2060, it will be launch on 7th Jan and sales go live on 15th Jan.

https://twitter.com/TUM_APISAK/status/1078565020609302529/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1078565020609302529&ref_url=https://disqus.com/embed/comments/?base=default&f=videocardz&t_i=videocardz-79485'&t_u=https%3A%2F%2Fvideocardz.com%2F79485%2Fnvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-pictured-launches-january-7th&t_e=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_d=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&t_t=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20RTX%202060%20pictured%2C%20launches%20January%207th&s_o=default#version=3edaf16de28c96a3be634c2bbecfed19

RTX 2060 AOTS benchmark leaked, faster than GTX 1070 Ti found on benchmark database and probably as fast as GTX 1080 at stock clock.

https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/04570680-6c35-46f4-8588-21b851082663
https://www.ashesofthesingularity.c...-details/92f35f83-62e8-4fab-8a3c-717e70d32f30

AOTS is a terrible bit of software for testing GPUs as it is full of bugs and there are a number of different versions to confuse things.

willhub · 29 Dec 2018 at 09:35

Shaz12 said:
That is before the drivers mature. Give it a year and the gap will only increase.

A year......... that would write it off.