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Quick fix upgrade for 1440p.

AStaley

AStaley

AStaley

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I currently game on a 24" Acer XB240H and want to move to 1440P, so I am thinking of getting a
ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q. I don't think my current 980Ti will power this so would a quick fix be to upgrade to a RTX 2060?

Later in the year I will be rebuilding my entire rig to whatever is the fastest CPU, Ryzen/9990K/Sunny Cove and I'll upgrade the GFX card to a 7nm nVidia when they are available.
 
Drive the res to 1440p first using VSR, then see how you get on?

I'd rather the Vega too. It's just a much better deal.
 
Not sure it worth the upgrade depending which games you play as the 2060 doesn't seem to be a huge boost at 1440p.
If you are itching to get a new placeholder card maybe wait and see what the GTX1660 Ti is like or also consider a Vega 56 as they are cheaper than 2060s and have more free games.
 
Game wise I’m going to be mostly playing Division 2 and perhaps Anthem along with some older games such as Wolfenstein. In certain games the 2060 shows almost double the performance of the 980Ti at 1440P.

The only reason I’m not looking at the Vega cards is because my current monitor and the new monitors are GSync.
 
AStaley said:
Game wise I’m going to be mostly playing Division 2 and perhaps Anthem along with some older games such as Wolfenstein. In certain games the 2060 shows almost double the performance of the 980Ti at 1440P.

The only reason I’m not looking at the Vega cards is because my current monitor and the new monitors are GSync.
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Nvidia now officially support freesync so you may want to reconsider your monitor as well. You may already know this but thought i'd say as it stops you from being locked into one manufacturer. I'm in that position as I own a g-sync monitor and if i was buying now I'd get a freesync one.

As for the card nothing really above your 980Ti seems like a sensible buy to me. I'd stick with it and just turn a few settings down. I cant find an example of the 2070 being double the fps of a 980Ti never mind a 2060
 
Yeah I know that nVidia now support certain Fresync monitors, not sure if there are any limitations. Feels like I'm just the wrong side of the upgrade curve.
 
AStaley said:
Game wise I’m going to be mostly playing Division 2 and perhaps Anthem along with some older games such as Wolfenstein. In certain games the 2060 shows almost double the performance of the 980Ti at 1440P.
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The 2080 is close to double the 980ti. Close, but not quite. The 2060 probably won’t be much of an improvement.
 
Only in certain games like BFv. I suppose I could always get the monitor and see how my 980Ti handles, if I have to I can always slum it and tone some of the GFX settings down.
 
I am running an X34 (which has Gsync) at 3440x1440 with a 980Ti and have just bought an EVGA 2080.
For BFV I am getting around 60-70 FPS with all of the settings turned down low or off.
It is for this reason that I have got the 2080.
Have a go with your 980Ti to see what you think but you will probably want to get the 2080 for real improvements.
It is only in the past few months that OI have begun to notice that the latest releases are not playing very fast on my current card.
 
gailjon said:
I am running an X34 (which has Gsync) at 3440x1440 with a 980Ti and have just bought an EVGA 2080.
For BFV I am getting around 60-70 FPS with all of the settings turned down low or off.
It is for this reason that I have got the 2080.
Have a go with your 980Ti to see what you think but you will probably want to get the 2080 for real improvements.
It is only in the past few months that OI have begun to notice that the latest releases are not playing very fast on my current card.
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Is that with rtx on - my 1080 ti gets 90 fps avg max everything in dx11 and future frame rendering on.
 
AStaley said:
Game wise I’m going to be mostly playing Division 2 and perhaps Anthem along with some older games such as Wolfenstein. In certain games the 2060 shows almost double the performance of the 980Ti at 1440P.

The only reason I’m not looking at the Vega cards is because my current monitor and the new monitors are GSync.
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I played the TD2 beta with my GTX1070 and 1440p and it was OK - couldn't quite turn everything up but it was a pretty steady 60-70 fps with a mixture of high and ultra settings in combination with G-Sync it was perfectly playable and the engine seems to run quite responsively so felt better than ~60 fps in some games. Although some people were complaining about laggy performance, etc.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
The 2080 is close to double the 980ti. Close, but not quite. The 2060 probably won’t be much of an improvement.
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The 1070 is slightly quicker than a 980 Ti in many cases, and then the 2060 is quicker than the 1070 Ti in many cases, mostly knocking on the door of a 1080, so I think the 2060 would give a little boost :-) It'll also be quieter + cooler

But I think the Vega 56 is a better deal - just would want to make sure it's quiet
 
I received the monitor yesterday, going to 1440P was a bigger improvement on image quality than I was expecting. Played 30/40mins of Diablo 3 and the jump in image quality was noticeable, icons and textures were a lot sharper. Tried BFV with Ultra settings, runs okay but drop in framerate is noticeable GSync really helps to smooth it out.

Before I got the monitor I decided to buy a 2080 anyway, received that this morning so will see how my 3770K handles it.
 
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