Upgrading to 1060 from 780ti

Sinat · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:13

Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my current gpu, so I think it's good time to upgrade. Will i see a nice performance increase by changing to a 1060? I'm also unsure about which brand to get, all I've been told is to the 6gb version. My budget is 250 I could probably push to 300, but obviously I would prefer to stay closer 250. Any help is appreciated.

StarShock · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:31

You won't really seem much of a boost, the 1060 and 780 ti are pretty evenly matched

imginy · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:37

I think the 1060 are overpriced for what performance you get.

I would wait and see if you can find a sale on 1070 for £300 now that new cards are coming out. Or just wait for the next gen 2060 card to come out.

Sinat · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:43

I'd wait but my Gpu keeps crashing 15 minutes into playing games, so I'd like to buy it this weekend.

nlel1975 · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:49

I'd get the Radeon RX 580 8GB about the same price or slightly cheaper than the 1060 6GB and roughly the same performance. All the review sites I have seen recommend the RX 580 8GB over 1060 6GB.

Tommy_Here · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:55

Would you not go 2nd hand? Can get a 980 Ti for £220 ish which is a great upgrade vs 780 Ti.

imginy · 7 Sep 2018 at 13:59

Sinat said:
I'd wait but my Gpu keeps crashing 15 minutes into playing games, so I'd like to buy it this weekend.

Oh right you want one asap then.

Do you have a freesync or gsync monitor?

imginy · 7 Sep 2018 at 14:03

Tommy_Here said:
Would you not go 2nd hand? Can get a 980 Ti for £220 ish which is a great upgrade vs 780 Ti.

You can get second hand 1070 also for £230 which I personally would take over 980ti as it's newer and uses less power etc...

Sinat · 7 Sep 2018 at 14:07

BenQ XL2411Z 24 inch 144 Hz e-Sports Gaming Monitor (1 ms Response Time, FPS Mode, Black eQualiser, Flicker-free, Height Adjustment Stand, HDMI x 2) - Black

That's my monitor I don't believe it has either of those

imginy · 7 Sep 2018 at 15:00

If you want it asap and it needs to be £250-300 then the only new options are the 1060 6gb or amd 580.

If going for 1060 I would just get the cheapest 6gb one you can find as they don't need good coolers and all overclock about the same.

This one looks best price ocuk have and I think it comes with destiny.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18k-gi.html

If you went for the AMD option of a 580 it does have the added benefit of supporting freesync which is great if you ever plan on upgrading your monitor.

The 1060 is better at vr if you ever plan on doing that.

Nasher · 7 Sep 2018 at 15:01

The 780 took a heavy gimping when dx12 came out. Since the 7xx didn't really support it.

MasterOC · 8 Sep 2018 at 08:22

Nasher said:
The 780 took a heavy gimping when dx12 came out. Since the 7xx didn't really support it.

Natural evolution ... Although even upto pascal DX 12 is hardly supported so I think its more natural aging of hardware and support rather than actual gimping

Nasher · 8 Sep 2018 at 11:50

MasterOC said:
Natural evolution ... Although even upto pascal DX 12 is hardly supported so I think its more natural aging of hardware and support rather than actual gimping

Thing is though, the old AMD cards (from 200 series on I think) worked fine with dx12 :/

But yea, I don't think geforce cards had proper async compute until the 10 series! I remember my 970 tanking in Hitman 2016 when dx12 was enabled. It was pretty bad.

~>Dg<~ · 8 Sep 2018 at 11:53

780ti is sorta 970ish performance which a 970 -980 = a 1060. i personally wouldnt update to that.also the 1060s been over priced since launch. only reason kept high was cause of mining. should realistically be 150-200 tops.

Lokken86 · 8 Sep 2018 at 16:12

imginy said:
You can get second hand 1070 also for £230 which I personally would take over 980ti as it's newer and uses less power etc...

There was even a 1080 that went on the members market for £240 recently.
Edit: sorry mistake, it was £340.

Rroff · 8 Sep 2018 at 16:23

Sinat said:
I'd wait but my Gpu keeps crashing 15 minutes into playing games, so I'd like to buy it this weekend.

Try dropping the core clock 5-10MHz and/or adjust the fan so it runs a bit faster than normal - might need to adjust VRAM clocks but if that has gone it has probably had it. Should buy you a bit more time and personally if I was spending money I'd want minimum of a 1070.

Sinat · 8 Sep 2018 at 17:33

I lowered the clocks and managed to get 40 minutes of gameplay before I had to leave. So I need to test it a bit more before I'm certain it's stopped the crashes for the time being. I just hope it's the Gpu that's died and not anything else making the Gpu shut down...

five8five · 8 Sep 2018 at 20:58

Rroff said:
........... and personally if I was spending money I'd want minimum of a 1070.

Have to agree.

Sinat said:
I lowered the clocks and managed to get 40 minutes of gameplay before I had to leave. So I need to test it a bit more before I'm certain it's stopped the crashes for the time being. I just hope it's the Gpu that's died and not anything else making the Gpu shut down...

Use Afterburner to monitor the GPU.

As the card is quite old, it may be worth replacing the thermal paste.

Sinat · 8 Sep 2018 at 21:25

Yeah the temps aren't too bad really it's hovering around 60 degrees under load, it gets close to 70 every now and then, but isn't that about normal?

arc@css · 8 Sep 2018 at 21:28

Temps sound fine to me. Nothing wrong with that.