GeForce 1060 vs 1070

Qbert

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ok, here's the deal... I'm looking to "maybe" upgrade, even though I don't need to. I currently have a 770 and play most games at 1440p at max, or at high.
I'm looking ahead, and am thinking of getting BF1,but unsure of performance on my 770 at those high settings.

So....simply put...is the 1070 overkill over the 1060 (considering the cost)?
 
A friend has the 1070 although can't say he's really played anything to demand such unlimited power. We'll see with BF1. I have the RX 480 (think it's the top one in terms of OC action) and like it, but I'm also on an ancient as hell processor. I can play Doom at max 1080p thanks to Vulkan but BF1 is much more CPU intensive I think so even at medium settings I dip below 60, even with DX12 which looks to favor AMD at this point.

Anyways, only reason I went with the 480 (1060 was also a thought) was because I wanted something a little cheaper now before building my new PC early next year. Had I not been looking to build an entire new PC then a 1070 would have been more likely or even waiting until AMD's Vega next year. I'm coming from a GTX 670 though so either way I was going to get a huge boost.

My thought process is to buy a new GPU every two, possibly three years so if that was the case for me I would go with the 1070. I kind of got away from a lot of PC gaming so that's why I was on the 670 for so long. Plus with my current PC it was still doing a decent job with the games I was playing.
 
A friend has the 1070 although can't say he's really played anything to demand such unlimited power. We'll see with BF1. I have the RX 480 (think it's the top one in terms of OC action) and like it, but I'm also on an ancient as hell processor. I can play Doom at max 1080p thanks to Vulkan but BF1 is much more CPU intensive I think so even at medium settings I dip below 60, even with DX12 which looks to favor AMD at this point.

Anyways, only reason I went with the 480 (1060 was also a thought) was because I wanted something a little cheaper now before building my new PC early next year. Had I not been looking to build an entire new PC then a 1070 would have been more likely or even waiting until AMD's Vega next year. I'm coming from a GTX 670 though so either way I was going to get a huge boost.

My thought process is to buy a new GPU every two, possibly three years so if that was the case for me I would go with the 1070. I kind of got away from a lot of PC gaming so that's why I was on the 670 for so long. Plus with my current PC it was still doing a decent job with the games I was playing.

1070. That's what I have at 1440p. GTX 1060 is roughly as fast as GTX 980, GTX 1070 is as fast and a little faster in some cases than Titan X Maxwell.
 
I take back my interest in buying a new card. After BF1 finished loading yesterday, I played some....and quite honestly, I'm happy with what I see. At 1440p resolution, settings at mostly high, some medium and AA off (not needed at 1440p), I'm getting between 60-70 fps, sometimes higher. I'm going to add a FPS limit to 60 fps so it remains constant.

Honestly, I see no reason to spend $450 to run at ultra, when high settings look so damn good already at 1440p
 
The above is for sp. I get about 50 fps in mp. Can't complain.
 
Yeah, with the performance I'm getting, I'm happy, so I could wait until later.
 
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Spending more time in BF1 myself, I'm definitely being CPU constrained on the larger conquest matches. The intro single player mission and smaller rush matches aren't an issue but once the map grows and more people it starts to show, only running 1080 at medium to have a solid 60. Not bad I guess considering I don't technically meet the minimum settings. Hurry up Zen.
 
I want to pick up a 1070 but have heard that most of them are now shipping with Micron memory that requires you to download a new BIOS update. Seems like a pain in the ass. Anyone have any experience with it?
 
Not sure about that. Only thing I've heard recently is a driver update causing memory speed to drop.
 
I'm with VaL on this, if you've been able to patiently wait this long, you might as well wait for the next round of XX70/XX80 cards.