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GTX 1070 Upgrade - What to buy?

Author_25

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Looking to upgrade my GTX 1070, used primarily for turned based (Ciliation 6 and Total War series) and real time strategy games(Sins of a Solar Empire), though I play the odd FPS like Battlefield, and so do not want to buy a card that far exceeds my needs

Recently upgraded my monitor to 1440P so would like card that could handle this at good frame rates.

My CPU is a 12600K, in an MSI Z690 Tomahawk, with 32GB DDR4.

I have been looking at the 6750XT and 6800XT and possibly a 3070/3070Ti.

I am not interested in the Nvidia 4000 series not give the pricing and the stunt they pulled with the 4080 12GB, though not adverse to an AMD 7700XT.

Any opinions welcome
 
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I went from a 1070 to a 3080 Ti FE and couldn't be more pleased.

Runs great at 3440x1440.
 
They're all good choices for a 1070 upgrade tbh. But for the games you're playing RTX isn't that important, so my pick (given a freesync capable monitor) would probably be the 6800XT.
 
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Author_25 said:
Looked at the 3080Ti but seemed like overkill for my gaming preferences also have become a bit disillusioned with Nvidia.
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Nvidia give you a lot more than AMD, mainly RTX, DLSS, etc.

I know what you mean about Nvidia, but what company is "good" out there?

They're all after your money, the more the better to appease shareholders.

I used to work for a company that had a chemicals subsidiary that supplied, amongst other things, aerosol cleaners for IT.

One of these aerosols exploded somewhere, injuring the user.

First thing we were told, under pain of getting immediately sacked, was to tell no one, damage limitation enabled.

They didn't give a rat's ass about their customers safety, just to cover their own behinds and reputation.
 
gpuerrilla said:
Or the regular 6800, really good bang per buck.
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Thought about the 6800 but the 6750XT has 40 ray tracing cores
Kelt said:
Nvidia give you a lot more than AMD, mainly RTX, DLSS, etc.

I know what you mean about Nvidia, but what company is "good" out there?

They're all after your money, the more the better to appease shareholders.

I used to work for a company that had a chemicals subsidiary that supplied, amongst other things, aerosol cleaners for IT.

One of these aerosols exploded somewhere, injuring the user.

First thing we were told, under pain of getting immediately sacked, was to tell no one, damage limitation enabled.

They didn't give a rat's ass about their customers safety, just to cover their own behinds and reputation.
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You are correct but after the 4080 12GB it's like Nvidia cannot even be bothered to hide what they are doing.

In regards to the features on RTX cards they are nice but given my preference for strategy games they would never be used but I have not completely ruled out the 3070 but I think a 3080 is overkill.
 
The 6700 non-XT is keenly priced and probably the best value (at £300-£330) and can handle 1440p in a pinch, but would not really allow much room for the future.

The 6800 non-XT is the best priced high-end (AMD) card, though the Sapphire 6700 XT OCUK have at £430 looks competitive.

Not sure if we're going to see these prices, but:
wccftech.com

AMD Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2" GPUs Get Official Price Cuts Prior To Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" Launch

AMD has dropped prices across its entire range of Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2'" lineup right before the launch of Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" GPUs.
wccftech.com wccftech.com

p.s. If ray tracing matters to you, then I'd wait for RDNA3, even the 7600 XT should smash the 6700 in RTX and likely even the 6800.
 
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Author_25 said:
Thought about the 6800 but the 6750XT has 40 ray tracing cores

You are correct but after the 4080 12GB it's like Nvidia cannot even be bothered to hide what they are doing.

In regards to the features on RTX cards they are nice but given my preference for strategy games they would never be used but I have not completely ruled out the 3070 but I think a 3080 is overkill.
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Up to you, but If it were me buying a card now, as it was when I bought mine almost a year ago, there is absolutely no way I would be paying hundreds of pounds for an 8 GB card.

Your money, your choice, but I would strongly recommend getting at least the 3080 with its 10Gb, especially at 1440P, plus it will give you more longevity, GPU wise.

I'd recommend this, TBH.

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Kelt said:
Up to you, but If it were me buying a card now, as it was when I bought mine almost a year ago, there is absolutely no way I would be paying hundreds of pounds for an 8 GB card.

Your money, your choice, but I would strongly recommend getting at least the 3080 with its 10Gb, especially at 1440P, plus it will give you more longevity, GPU wise.

I'd recommend this, TBH.

www.overclockers.co.uk

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I am looking to buy in the next 2-3 months wanted to check the next gen cards first before making a choice.

I agree 10GB VRAM or more is a must for a getting the longest use from a GPU.

I am leaning towards a 6800 but still want to check the AMD 7000 series out, you never know it may do to Nvidia what Ryzen did you Intel.
 
you should be looking at cards that will provide at least a 50% increase in grunt, so that includes gpus like a 1080ti/2070 super (used) or 6600xt (new)
but to be honest, the 12600k can handle any gpu on the market so go with the best price/performance gpu
realistically a doubling of performance should be what i'd be targeting if i was in your position - so this will include cards such as the 3070/3070ti/6800/6800xt/3080 (or 2080ti used - but less recommended due to sporadic ram issues)

have a look at the performance chart here: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1070.c2840
you'd want to go with the gpus with ~200% performance
it's a crude (albeit useful) yardstick
 
We learned nothing from the 10GB enough thread. When the 12GB model is cheaper than it, you just get that as then you have some longevity if you ever use the ONE game (or maybe ten) and some of the modded games out there.
 
I am in the same boat with you, with a 1080 card though. I don't know if this helps you or not, but I looked at what's available right now and I don't see any value to be had so I am not buying anything just yet. I decided to wait until AMD release their cards in Q1 next year I believe. I don't want to pay more than £600 for a new GPU, although I might push to 700 if i get a large jump in performance. No way I am paying 800+ though for 30xx gen cards ( new ones ). If AMD comes up with something better than a 3090 for about £700 then they will get my money.
 
Author_25 said:
Looking to upgrade my GTX 1070, used primarily for turned based (Ciliation 6 and Total War series) and real time strategy games(Sins of a Solar Empire), though I play the odd FPS like Battlefield, and so do not want to buy a card that far exceeds my needs

Recently upgraded my monitor to 1440P so would like card that could handle this at good frame rates.

My CPU is a 12600K, in an MSI Z690 Tomahawk, with 32GB DDR4.

I have been looking at the 6750XT and 6800XT and possibly a 3070/3070Ti.

I am not interested in the Nvidia 4000 series not give the pricing and the stunt they pulled with the 4080 12GB, though not adverse to an AMD 7700XT.

Any opinions welcome
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RDNA3 is due to be released on the 3rd of November. I think it would probably be a good idea to wait until then to see if AMD follows nvidia in pricing and in misleading customers or if AMD take a different approach. It's considered very likely that AMD don't have the same scale of oversupply of 6xxx that nvidia has of 3xxx, which is part of the reason why nvidia will only be releasing a few 4xxx models at wildly inflated prices so they can continue to sell 3xxx cards at very high prices. Maybe AMD will try for gaining market share by releasing a wider range of cards at significantly lower prices. Or maybe not. We'll find out in ~6 weeks.

If you want to upgrade right now, you might also find it useful to consider a Radeon 6800 (non-XT) or a Radeon 6700XT. The 6750XT is just a 6700XT with the memory clocked slightly higher. Which you could do yourself. Or not bother - the performance difference is small and a 6700XT is fine for 1440. Another possibly good choice is the Radeon 6800 (non-XT). It's closer in performance to the 6800XT than it is to the 6700XT (or 6750XT). It all depends on what prices you can pay for each, of course.
 
Kelt said:
Up to you, but If it were me buying a card now, as it was when I bought mine almost a year ago, there is absolutely no way I would be paying hundreds of pounds for an 8 GB card.

Your money, your choice, but I would strongly recommend getting at least the 3080 with its 10Gb, especially at 1440P, plus it will give you more longevity, GPU wise.

I'd recommend this, TBH.

www.overclockers.co.uk

PNY GeForce RTX 3080 Revel Triple Fan LHR 12GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card

Order PNY GeForce RTX 3080 Revel Triple Fan LHR 12GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
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Still no game taxing my GPU at 1440P, install those 4K texture on FC6 and it's the only game that will cripple 8GB.
 
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