To buy or not to buy that is the question? RTX 2080 or 2070?

[davetherave2]

So I have the upgrade bug and feel like spending some money, over the past 12 months I have been slowly upgrading my system and I think my system could probably perform better with an improvement to the graphics.

I'm running the following currently:

Gigabyte X99 SLI-CF with I7 5820K with beQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3 air cooler
4 x 4GB Team Group Elite 2400 DDR4 (Quad channel)
OcUK GeForce 1060 GTX 6GB
Acer Predator 27" G-sync monitor 1440p 165Hz IPS.
Coolermaster Real Power M1000W PSU

So the 1060 has served me well for the past 15 months or so and was a big step up from last GPU I had in this system. I feel that it is probably about time that I upgraded this again due to the "recent" monitor upgrade and gaming more at 1440p rather than 1080p

So as much as I would love to go the money is no object route and splash out on the 2080ti. I am pretty sure it's not really worth the extra £300+ price increase compared to the 2080 which is a more "reasonable" purchase. As I'm not interested in overclocking I was looking more at the sub £700 cards.

Or given that I have no real interest or ability to game at 4K would the 2070 be a better proposition based on the price point. In the future I may want to look at going the VR route but I'm not sure if that is something that will just fade away.

Or do I just wait and see what happens over the coming months to see if prices eventually come down with older 10 series stock becoming ever shorter in supply?

(For a purchase of this nature I am look at new rather than used stock)

 

[JediFragger]

I've ran a 1060 at 1440p and found it quite capable tbh. Personally I would probably hang onto it, play at Medium settings to keep the fps at a decent level and wait til a 2070/2080 dropped in the MM second-hand so you save a chunk

 

[davetherave2]

For my older games I find the 1060 more than adequate at high/medium settings but with things like FH4, D2 I feel like I am missing out on some of the "visual" treats that are on offer with settings being toned down to reduce that frame drop.

As I mentioned with something like this I would rather buy first hand rather than second hand even with a significant saving in the second hand market.

 

[Stanners]

For my older games I find the 1060 more than adequate at high/medium settings but with things like FH4, D2 I feel like I am missing out on some of the "visual" treats that are on offer with settings being toned down to reduce that frame drop.

As I mentioned with something like this I would rather buy first hand rather than second hand even with a significant saving in the second hand market.

I would buy the card which is at the price you are comfortable with. Either will be a decent upgrade.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Or do I just wait and see what happens over the coming months to see if prices eventually come down with older 10 series stock becoming ever shorter in supply?

(For a purchase of this nature I am look at new rather than used stock)

Hard to say what will happens to RTX prices over the next few months but now just about all UK retailers no longer have 1080 Ti in stocks as all stocks are now depleted and OCUK is the only UK retailer have some 1080 Ti in stocks. I noticed all UK retailers included OCUK have very few 1080 stocks so it look like the next few weeks will see all 1080 stocks depleted then 1070 Ti will next in line alongside with 1070 and 1060 stocks due to be depleted.

If I were you then I probably will get RTX 2080 now to grab Battlefield V game code before Battlefield V promotion end next week.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Not to buy.

 

[davetherave2]

Not to buy.

care to expand why?

 

[syks]

From a 1060 both would be a MASSIVE jump up, I was wondering do I wait for 3 months, then get the 1070ti/1080 or see if amd bring anything new out by then...….then thought...nah...and bought a 2070 lol

Will be here tomorrow and I will eagerly be awaiting its arrival, I wanted a card that would eat 1440p (as don't mind playing in 1440p at all) but would manage 4k in games with maybe a drop of a few settings

Im sure I will be happy with my choice coming from a gtx 970 lol

I say buy

 

[gpuerrilla]

care to expand why?

I would see what price the 2060 drops in at if its meant to be on par or better than a 1070ti.

 

[davetherave2]

Well I decided to go with the 2080 in the end. In fact this model:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inno...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-073-in.html

which arrived this morning.

For the sake of an extra £10 over the other inno3d version I thought it was worth it in the end.

This should be a card that gives me enough grunt for now and the next couple of years.

I decided that the 2070 didn't really give me enough of an improvement over my current setup to justify the cost of the card and the length of time that I anticipate to have this card for.

The 2060 card felt like it was going to give me minimal improvements (from watching various YT vid's pre-ces announcement) if it is designed to be the "successor" to the 1060 line of cards.