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1070 v 1080
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Yes sir it would it certain senarios , any battlefield game being a prime example , although mileage may vary on other tittles , generally anything with a large multi core overhead will keep a 1070 under-utilised but generally I think you’ll be more than happy .
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What's the reason for wanting to upgrade? Are you struggling for some reason? What games? What monitor?
Yeah - at 1080p the 1060 is very good card. I wouldn't recommend upgrading to another pascal, if you have a 1060 it's a clear case of waiting for the next gen.
You'd be better of going with one of the Red Friday bundle deals and get a major performance boost to your CPU and bagging a FREE SSD whilst at it. 
Then see what deals there are on VGA come around Black Friday as like others have said you own Pascal card so might as well wait and with a CPU boost at 1080P the 1060 will gain a good few FPS anyway.
Then see what deals there are on VGA come around Black Friday as like others have said you own Pascal card so might as well wait and with a CPU boost at 1080P the 1060 will gain a good few FPS anyway.
Just got the upgrade itch and like a good deal when I see one seeing how the prices have been of late.
I have the 1060 mini 6gb Zotac, and my monitor is the aoc g2790px (free sync I know) but often switch to game on my tv with is 55” at 4K on the games I can.
Games I play are wildlands, pcars 2, middle earth, division,f1 2017,rise of the tomb raider and just started the Witcher 3. Looking forward to f1 2018, hitman 2 and shadow of the tomb raider!
I wouldn’t mind waiting for next gen but how long does one wait?
Been keeping an eye out the last few months but still nothing
I have the 1060 mini 6gb Zotac, and my monitor is the aoc g2790px (free sync I know) but often switch to game on my tv with is 55” at 4K on the games I can.
Games I play are wildlands, pcars 2, middle earth, division,f1 2017,rise of the tomb raider and just started the Witcher 3. Looking forward to f1 2018, hitman 2 and shadow of the tomb raider!
I wouldn’t mind waiting for next gen but how long does one wait?
Been keeping an eye out the last few months but still nothing
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I wouldn't bother tbh. Neither 1070 or 1080 are going to impress at 4K, and your 1060 is perfect for 1080p. The only weirdness is having an Nvidia GPU and a FreeSync monitor. I wouldn't buy a new GPU just to fix that, but when you do next spent money on either a GPU or Monitor, do it so you actually have working variable-refresh-rate. I think you'll also be looking at a CPU upgrade at that time too. It starts to get expensive to significantly improve your experience.
Well if your gaming at 4k a VEGA 64 at £499 can certainly game at 4k, infact a VEGA 64 at 4k generally sits between 1080 and 1080Ti performance as its something the VEGA 64 is very good at is high-res gaming due to the HBM2.
But I know AMD still has a lot of VEGA, so they may drop price further, but saying that it is an unknown and in last couple of weeks we also witness mining demand increasing, no doubt because Bitcoin increases by $2000 value in last 30 days.
This was bought more for asthetics before realising it was free sync, but I don’t seem to have any problems with NVIDIA/freesync combo. Think I’m going to stick to intel to be honest so m not doing a complete overhaul.
What would be the next step for cpu? In terms of my i5 7500? I see it out performs some i7’s
My mobo is only compatible with 6th gen it says
I have hooked it up to my telly a few times it out performs my desktop....also gets 3 times as hot
Not really.
I actually somewhat object to the word "bottleneck". A bottleneck implies that there is a part of your system that will inhibit further improvement if you buy a new GPU, and this certainly is not the case. Either improving the CPU or the GPU will result in gains. I prefer the word imbalanced in that it is obvious that if your CPU is completely useless that you may suffer problems in games due to that alone, problems buying a new GPU will not resolve. The 7500 is a good CPU, and you will definitely see an improvement with both the 1070 or a 1080. Personally I think that adding a 1070 or 1080 to your system are both perfectly valid improvements and well worth the money. Having said that, I wouldn't go any further without upgrading the CPU.
I have one PC that has a 1070 in it and it runs 4K just fine. Sure, some games you have to step the quality down a bit, but as long as you are not too demanding then it's fine. It runs most games on a 4K TV at a rock solid 60fps. It does leave something to be desired but there is always the 1080.
The next gen, well, it's not long now, but realistically I think it will be Christmas before there are cards in numbers in the shops. And don't forget that 1080's are going cheap ( if you can call that cheap ) because everyone is waiting for the 1180's. When the 1180's appear they are going to be similar prices to a 1080ti.
I actually somewhat object to the word "bottleneck". A bottleneck implies that there is a part of your system that will inhibit further improvement if you buy a new GPU, and this certainly is not the case. Either improving the CPU or the GPU will result in gains. I prefer the word imbalanced in that it is obvious that if your CPU is completely useless that you may suffer problems in games due to that alone, problems buying a new GPU will not resolve. The 7500 is a good CPU, and you will definitely see an improvement with both the 1070 or a 1080. Personally I think that adding a 1070 or 1080 to your system are both perfectly valid improvements and well worth the money. Having said that, I wouldn't go any further without upgrading the CPU.
I have one PC that has a 1070 in it and it runs 4K just fine. Sure, some games you have to step the quality down a bit, but as long as you are not too demanding then it's fine. It runs most games on a 4K TV at a rock solid 60fps. It does leave something to be desired but there is always the 1080.
The next gen, well, it's not long now, but realistically I think it will be Christmas before there are cards in numbers in the shops. And don't forget that 1080's are going cheap ( if you can call that cheap ) because everyone is waiting for the 1180's. When the 1180's appear they are going to be similar prices to a 1080ti.
What kind of games do you play 4K
My plan is to either get a 1070/1080, upgrade my cpu in the future (recommendations welcome) and then just ignore the next gen gpu’s I think if a 1070/1080 can play absolutely anything you throw at it and at 60fps 4K how much more is a 1180 going to do to the eye! I see on OcUK there are a few 1080’s sub £500 which I consider cheap for what they provide but then also see the 1070ti’s around the same price is there much performance differance between the ti and the low end 1080’s?
You definitely got it wrong if you think a gtx 1070 is going to play anything you throw at it at 4k 60fps.
You can play at 4k on a 1070/1080 but you are going to be dropping below 60fps and going to be turning settings down.
Take wildlands for example the game you first mentioned at 4k you looking around 25fps with setting tunred up.
If ya playing at 4k I would just wait for next gen.
I don’t know if it will or not I’m just going by what was said above, that’s why I asked @willhub what games it is he plays as we have the same laptop.
but wildlands is one of the games I play most. I don’t/wouldn’t game 4K a lot only when I’m hooked up to the tv