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Pville_Piper wrote:Doom at 1440p with a 1060? I'd think you'd have to lower the eye candy quite a bit...
chuckula wrote:Pville_Piper wrote:Doom at 1440p with a 1060? I'd think you'd have to lower the eye candy quite a bit...
You might want to rethink that: http://techreport.com/review_full/30812 ... d-reviewed
2560x1440 at Ultra details. And this was at launch before a bunch of driver updates had been made.
Topinio wrote:Depends how much you want to spend. I'd go GTX 1070, personally.
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Edit: if you can stretch to it, and will be able to play sniping online retailers (as I had to with my RX Vega 56 !), the GTX 1070 Ti is apparently going to be launched at $430 in 12 days time. It's GP104, cut-down less than GTX 1070 is. https://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech ... TX-1070-Ti )
Voldenuit wrote:Having said that, all these cards are overkill for the OP @ 1440p60. Time to start saving for a 120 Hz monitor! They can be had without G-Sync for under $200 these days...
Concupiscence wrote:Looking over these, I really wish the GTX 1070 was closer to its pre-Ethereum $350 MSRP, because it would be a shoo-in. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a deal, and hope for product announcements that might nudge the price lower. Thank you, everyone.
Chrispy_ wrote:Otherwise, 1080. Miners have pushed the price of the 1070 up high enough that the 1080 is a better deal at ~$500. I'm assuming that the upcoming 1070Ti will also be price-jacked by the miners because it uses the mining-friendly regular GDDR5 instead of the 1080's GDDR5X.
Topinio wrote:Concupiscence wrote:Looking over these, I really wish the GTX 1070 was closer to its pre-Ethereum $350 MSRP, because it would be a shoo-in. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a deal, and hope for product announcements that might nudge the price lower. Thank you, everyone.
GTX 1070 Ti will be a mining card, people wanting it for "only" $430 will have to be ready and logged in at the on-sale time, not just on launch day, if the RX Vega launch is anything to go by.Chrispy_ wrote:Otherwise, 1080. Miners have pushed the price of the 1070 up high enough that the 1080 is a better deal at ~$500. I'm assuming that the upcoming 1070Ti will also be price-jacked by the miners because it uses the mining-friendly regular GDDR5 instead of the 1080's GDDR5X.
Mining isn't stopping, so I don't see GTX 1070 dropping below $400 until it can't cut the mustard there and everyone who wants a piece of that action, including newbies, gets that message into their heads. Realistically, I suspect that means what it did for the Radeon RX 580 -- no stock at sensible prices until it's obsolete.
Pville_Piper wrote:Doom at 1440p with a 1060? I'd think you'd have to lower the eye candy quite a bit...
End User wrote:I have a GTX 1080. I bought it at launch (well over a year ago). I can't recommend that you purchase a GTX 1080 now. Wait for the next generation of GPUs from Nvidia.
Chrispy_ wrote:I was fairly certain that Volta is not aimed at desktop gamers, but compute users.
The miners will lap up Volta, but don't expect massive gains in gaming performance like we had from Maxwell to Pascal.
End User wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:I was fairly certain that Volta is not aimed at desktop gamers, but compute users.
The miners will lap up Volta, but don't expect massive gains in gaming performance like we had from Maxwell to Pascal.
Volta is the replacement for Pascal. Volta will have a range of products, as did Pascal.
Krogoth wrote:End User wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:I was fairly certain that Volta is not aimed at desktop gamers, but compute users.
The miners will lap up Volta, but don't expect massive gains in gaming performance like we had from Maxwell to Pascal.
Volta is the replacement for Pascal. Volta will have a range of products, as did Pascal.
The architecture from what so far been we seen seems to indicate a heavier focus on general compute. Nvidia wants to cash on crypto-currency craze. I expect a 10-20% bump in gaming graphics from the architecture while Nvidia crams more blocks into it customer designs in reach the 30-50% generational gain at the expense of loaded power consumption.
End User wrote:We will find out sooner rather than later.
DancinJack wrote:Having said that, I do expect general compute to be more of a focus with Volta than Maxwell or Pascal. They've more or less said that.
Topinio wrote:End User wrote:We will find out sooner rather than later.
Poor Vega.