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Is a 1070 a bit overkill for 1080p gaming?

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Hi guys,

So im patiently waiting for the 1070 to come down in price a little bit so it fits in my budgets although i cannot see myself buying a 1440 monitor any time soon so im thinking that a 1070 may be a bit over kill here and i could save some cash. Maybe get a better 1080 monitor at the same time?

What do you guys think? Would be be better off looking at a 980 or something?

Thanks.
 
nothing is overkill really. it just means you can enjoy everything maxxed out. the 1070 gtx will work well at 1080 and for a few years with everything on its supposed to be a 1920x1080 card with everything on. replacing the 970 gtx.

1080 is for 1440 and everything on.
 
I got 980ti running at 1500/8000 and I'm maxing it out in some games easily at 1080p. So yeah you are fine running 1070 with 1080p monitor and that means you will be fine with future games as well. There are also things like dynamic super resolution where you can run game at 4K and downscale it to 1080p which in some games looks great.
So yeah I say go for the 1070.
 
In Rise Of The Tomb Raider my 980 ti is running out of its 6GB of vram when using very high texture setting and the game starts lagging unbearably so I have to lower it to high or medium can't remember now which one it is.
So there you go even in today's titles 6GB of vram can be too low for 1080p.
 
z10m said:
In Rise Of The Tomb Raider my 980 ti is running out of its 6GB of vram when using very high texture setting and the game starts lagging unbearably so I have to lower it to high or medium can't remember now which one it is.
So there you go even in today's titles 6GB of vram can be too low for 1080p.
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You clearly have another problem with your setup if a 980ti is running out of VRAM at 1080P with Rise Of The Tomb Raider and causing some lag .. (Also make sure to update the game as there was many optimizations added in further updates that removed many bugs). I run a 3440 x 1440 ultra wide with that game at near enough max settings and have no issues at all, with one 980ti.


Your problem is probably you are becoming CPU bound. A 980Ti on a low spec CPU and running a low res like 1080P is asking for such problems.

A high end graphics card requires a high end display = greater than 1080P res and a CPU that is not causing bottlenecks. If you don't meet these conditions you are basically wasting time buying a high end GPU.
 
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I'd say that yes, it's a bit overkill.

There are some games that you'll need a 1070 for to *completely* max out at 1080p, but the 1070 is also capable of running just about any game at 1440p/60fps with High-Ultra settings, which would be much preferable.

And yes, you can downsample from 1440p on a 1080p monitor, and it's a nice little boost to IQ, but you'd be much better off actually buying a 1440p monitor in that situation and getting the full benefit.

LeMson said:
I'd be interested if the 1070/80 have the grunt to do DSR or downsample GTAV.
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Sure. Depends on what settings you use, but I run GTA V on my 970 downsampled from 1323p(or something like that). A 1070 would easily get at least 1440p with even better settings.

But again, might as well just get a 1440p monitor in this situation, since it can run just about any game at 1440p/60fps.

EDIT: Ah right, also not overkill at 1080p if you have a 144hz monitor as somebody said above. But for 60hz, yes.
 
Purgatory said:
You clearly have another problem with your setup if a 980ti is running out of VRAM at 1080P with Rise Of The Tomb Raider and causing some lag .. (Also make sure to update the game as there was many optimizations added in further updates that removed many bugs). I run a 3440 x 1440 ultra wide with that game at near enough max settings and have no issues at all, with one 980ti.


Your problem is probably you are becoming CPU bound. A 980Ti on a low spec CPU and running a low res like 1080P is asking for such problems.

A high end graphics card requires a high end display = greater than 1080P res and a CPU that is not causing bottlenecks. If you don't meet these conditions you are basically wasting time buying a high end GPU.
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Really.? I'm running it with [email protected] and 16GB 3000mhz RAM.
The game is in steam with auto update on so it is the latest version.
I'm running it in DX 12 mode though.

What texture setting are you running it on.? Because one step down from the highest setting and the vram usage is going down from maxing out 6GB to about 3GB used so there is a huge difference.
Believe me that I do know what is causing slowdowns when I'm getting any.
 
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Yes you do have another problem, I'm on 5960x @4.5, 32gb 3000mhz ram and 980ti SLI and it doesn't ever lag for me or use all the ram I'm on DX11 never tried DX12 but I will now just to see. From screen shots I've seen DX12 brings nothing more to the game other than poorer performance (I'm at 4k btw all settings maxed inc AA, all ultra or as high as they'll go-consistent 55-65fps.
 
z10m said:
Really.? I'm running it with [email protected] and 16GB 3000mhz RAM.
The game is in steam with auto update on so it is the latest version.
I'm running it in DX 12 mode though.

What texture setting are you running it on.? Because one step down from the highest setting and the vram usage is going down from maxing out 6GB to about 3GB used so there is a huge difference.
Believe me that I do know what is causing slowdowns when I'm getting any.
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Think he was basing it off the 2500k that's in your sig.
 
Jacky60 said:
Yes you do have another problem, I'm on 5960x @4.5, 32gb 3000mhz ram and 980ti SLI and it doesn't ever lag for me or use all the ram
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I doubt that as I have tested it on fresh os.
Also I'm talking about vram not ram.
 
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I think Dg is right on this; the 1070 will enable you to enjoy 1080 comfortably for a while. Every single thing is running dead smooth on max and its ****ing great; I don't imagine that will change a great deal in the next two years
 
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ishoeyi said:
if it's overkill, it means it will reduce your energy bill and your system won't run as hot.

make sense?
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Exactly. Its always good to have some headroom left to spare but some people will tell you that you need 26 x 5K monitors so you can max out your graphics card while playing minecraft which isn't the point.

To me the only overkill I can think of is when running tri/quad sli/xfire setups since you will never be able to fully utilise your hardware.
 
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theMilitant said:
Another way of looking at it is that it will future proof you at that resolution for a few years.
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Future proofing is always a bit fool hardy.

If the guy would like to save some cash as he says, we should not be recommending him a $400+ GPU that is better suited for 1440p/60fps gaming. Come on now guys. So much bad advice in here.

OP, I would highly recommend looking at an 8GB RX 480 here in a couple weeks. It should be well enough for 1080p/60fps gaming and will cost almost half the price of a 1070.
 
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