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Is a 1070 a bit overkill for 1080p gaming?

steveoz said:
Going back to the OP.

I walked past a CEX shop in town the other weekend, they had a HD6870 in the window with 1GB DDR5.

I decided to buy it and see out of interest what a £25 6 year old GPU gets you.

I plugged it together with only 4gb ddr2 800, and a spare xeon x5460 I had. Put it into one of my 1080 screens and loaded up overwatch to have a game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasjwmOyNso

It ran at high 50's during quiet times and 40+ during busy times. Perfectly smooth enough to play.

And I know people that have said their I5 and 960 can't run it on ultra without judder lol. Note the recording was only done at 30 FPS :)

And here it was on a 1680x1050, still looked nice and never dropped below 59FPS :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409P7Yb2RUw
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Overwatch is a Blizzard game. Blizzard release games that run on 10 year old toasters, it's part of their immense success throughout the years.

Their game engines scale extremely well, something that cannot be said for the majority of game developers out there, even AAA ones.
 
Dave2150 said:
Overwatch is a Blizzard game. Blizzard release games that run on 10 year old toasters, it's part of their immense success throughout the years.

Their game engines scale extremely well, something that cannot be said for the majority of game developers out there, even AAA ones.
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Apart from starcraft 2 ;)

Yup it's not the most demanding game, but, I've lost count of threads and conversations online and in RL where people wanted to know if there machine would run Overwatch on Ultra, and a lot of people complained in the Beta that significantly more powerful hardware would not run it. All total BS.

That machine might not run the Division on Ultra, but can still push some pixels on a lot of stuff :)
 
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depends on the person using the computer, some people just play all day on average or outdated computer and they dont worry too much how it looks and can tolerate some frame lag, others want to get good performance in flashy looking games, they know when a game is running well, but are perhaps not that into the pc building side of it,
then theres some people that can manage to find ways to push the hardware beyond its limits consistently
 
steveoz said:
Apart from starcraft 2 ;)

Yup it's not the most demanding game, but, I've lost count of threads and conversations online and in RL where people wanted to know if there machine would run Overwatch on Ultra, and a lot of people complained in the Beta that significantly more powerful hardware would not run it. All total BS.

That machine might not run the Division on Ultra, but can still push some pixels on a lot of stuff :)
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Starcraft 2 runs on 10 year old systems also. All Blizzard games do - they cater to very old hardware, all part of their immense success.
 
Hehe i will buy a 1080 for 1080 too although for double the fps the op demands. But what a horrible resolution for more than one card with the benchmarks i saw 4K or go home very wery soon.
 
Semi hijack here but I have a 1920 by 1200 monitor would I be better off with a 1070 or a 1080? (will be upgrading from a 670 which is starting to get unstable i think). Alternatively would a 980 / 980ti be enough?
 
Dave2150 said:
Starcraft 2 runs on 10 year old systems also. All Blizzard games do - they cater to very old hardware, all part of their immense success.
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No way, not in big game hunters with no unit limit, even approaching 200 on a normal game my bros 3.9ghz xeon lags out.
 
DinAlt said:
Semi hijack here but I have a 1920 by 1200 monitor would I be better off with a 1070 or a 1080? (will be upgrading from a 670 which is starting to get unstable i think). Alternatively would a 980 / 980ti be enough?
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A 980 would definitely be enough so long as you aren't concerned with getting max settings in everything. Hell, even a 970 would mostly cut it.

I'd look at the upcoming RX480, which should be around 980 level but will be a good bit cheaper and have more room for improvement.
 
Seanspeed said:
A 980 would definitely be enough so long as you aren't concerned with getting max settings in everything. Hell, even a 970 would mostly cut it.

I'd look at the upcoming RX480, which should be around 980 level but will be a good bit cheaper and have more room for improvement.
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Based on how he's on a gtx670 and wanting to upgrade I'd presume he want's something to last a good few years with decent performance and while a 480 may be an okay upgrade from a 670 it is in no way the better option.

If he can afford it I'd say 1080, if not a 1070's fine, He certainly doesn't need to be considering Maxwell.

Or Polaris really. If he can wait for Vega to appear and then GP102 sure, more options is great.
 
Nothing is overkill if you have a high refresh rate monitor, especially if you are into FPS shooters.... I couldnt move away from playing games in the 100-165hz range, 60fps feels to sluggish once you've tried it!
 
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